Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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Regional development in ireland - problems of goal formulation and objective specification
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1970)The establishment of a consistent set of goals and objectives is fundamental to the planning process since planning is concerned with attempting to realise predetermined results. Although specification of objectives is a ... -
Regional growth and income patterns, 1960-65
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)This study owes its origins to the earlier research of Ross and Baker into regional income and employment patterns in Ireland and to the appearance of the Buchanan Report in 1969. These works have laid much of the groundwork ... -
Regional planning in Ireland - case for concentration - reappraisal
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)Few development issues in Ireland have generated so much controversy and emotion as the concept of spatially polarised growth; yet the continuing discussion has often been confused by a notable failure to define terms and ... -
Regional problem in Ireland - some reflections upon development strategy
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)The current intense level of interest in regional development problems makes this an appropriate time to review certain aspects of Irish government strategy. The urgency of an appraisal is underlined by the fact that Irish ... -
Regional study of relative prosperity of irish farms of different sizes
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1969)In the course o f a study o f regional allocation in Irish agriculture it became necessary to attempt to estimate regional incomes by farm size for the base year of the study, 1960. The results afforded a considerable ... -
Regression and rate of change in economic time series
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)This note comments on Geary's (1972) use of regression to calculate the rate of change in economic time series. His paper refers to "the rate of change", but it does not distinguish between the instantaneous rate of change, ... -
Regulating late modern childrearing in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)Child Welfare agencies across the developed world have experienced an past twenty years or so. Almost all these changes have occurred under the heading of "Child Protection", a quite distinctive and identifiable way of ... -
Regulating unbundled network utilities
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)The new conventional wisdom is that network utilities should be unbundled, with the potentially competitive segments under separate ownership from the natural monopoly network. Regulation should provide the same incentives ... -
Reiers?l, Geary and the idea of instrumental variables
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)In the 1940s the method of instrumental variables was introduced for use in the Errors in Variables Model. According to ReierS0I, the "idea of using instrumental variables" was introduced independently by himself in 1941 ... -
Relative efficiency of RAS versus least squares methods of updating input-output structures - addendum
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1974)The following note is intended to clarify both the mathematical derivation of the Least-Squares minimum and its interpretation, as given in the author's paper, published in the October 1973 issue of this Review. I am ... -
Relative efficiency of RAS versus least squares methods of updating input-output structures, as adjudged by application to Irish data
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)The following paper is both theoretical and empirical, being concerned with RAS and Least Squares (LS) methods of updating Irish inter-industry structures from 1964 to 1968. Part 1 has a resume of the published papers [1] ... -
Relative efficiency of regression using original data or first differences - case of autocorrelated disturbances
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)In two recent articles, Geary and Tillman have compared the efficiency of using data in absolute form or in the form of first differences in regression analysis of economic time series. Both authors take a highly unfavourable ... -
Religion and occupational class in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)The author constructs economic profiles of Protestants and Catholics based upon an examination of occupational and, to a lesser extent, industrial characteristics. In this task the Hall-Jones scale is used as a guide to ... -
Religious vocation as a latent identity for school principals
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)Abstract: This paper is concerned with studying schools as organisations. The effects of religious vocation as a latent identity of school principals is central to the analysis. Some of the organisational processes of ... -
Resolving Ireland?s banking crisis
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2009)The Irish banking system has been, in effect, on a life-support system since September 2008. Complacency resulted in the banks fuelling the late stage of an obvious construction bubble with massive foreign borrowing, leaving ... -
Response of irish creamery milk supply to price changes
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: This article investigates the responsiveness of creamery milk supply to changes in the price of milk relative to agricultural materials. A basic model, which includes milk and livestock price variables and a Gini ... -
Retail interest rate pass-through: the Irish experience
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)In this paper, we examine the extent to which changes in the money market interest rate are passed through to a number of retail lending rates between 1980 and 2001. In addition, we analyse the speed of adjustment of these ... -
Review Symposium of 'Best of times? the social impact of the Celtic Tiger' / edited by Tony Fahey, Helen Russell, Christopher T. Whelan. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2007.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)Socio-economic change in Ireland has long been tracked by research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, and from time to time, has been punctuated by volumes from the ESRI that seek to review the evidence on the ... -
Ricardian Equivalence and the Irish consumption function - a comment
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Ricardian equivalence and the Irish consumption function: the evidence re-examined
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1991)The Ricardian Equivalence hypothesis states that economic agents perceive the future tax liabilities implicit in government debt issue and thus that increasing government expenditure partially crowds out private sector ...