Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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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 ... -
Ricardian model and structure of Irish trade
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)In a recent article J. McGilvray and D. Simpson (1973) examined the commodity structure of trade between the Irish Republic and the United Kingdom in the light of international trade theory. Their investigation was partly ... -
Ricardian model and structure of Irish trade - comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)Our choice of a value rather than a physical measure of labour productivity was a conscious decision, not an 'error'. The reasons for this choice were clearly stated on pp. 451-452, footnote 2, o f the article. The weakness ... -
Rich trades, scarce capabilities: industrial development revisited
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)In the last decade of the sixteenth century, the Dutch republic underwent a dramatic economic transformation that laid the foundation of the country?s Golden Age. At the heart of this process was the rise of the ?rich ... -
Riots and rioters in Belfast - demographic analysis of 1,674 arrestees in a 2-year period
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)Rioting has been a feature of Belfast life for the past 150 years. Prior to 1832, civil disturbances were commoner in rural areas (Broeker 1970). Severe rioting has occurred in the years 1832; 1835; 1843; 1852; 1857; 1864; ... -
Rising house prices in an open labour market
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)We explore the consequences of rising house prices for the openness of the Irish labour market. Since many immigrants are in the household formation age group, and tend to be highly skilled, we argue that the boom in house ... -
Role of full-time union officer
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)Many commentators on industrial relations postulate a more ambitious and elaborate role for the trade unions. Leading figures within the movement itself hold similar views. Such developments might be expected to place ... -
Role-imposition or role-improvisation - some theoretical principles
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1981)Two assumptions are made. First, role-improvisation and structural determination of role content are viewed as opposing processes inherent in all situations. Second, the relative importance of these processes is assumed ... -
Roman Catholic Church and economic growth in 19th-century Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)It has been claimed in both historical and contemporary writings that the activities of the Roman Catholic Church inhibited economic development in nineteenth-century Ireland. One specific line of reasoning has been that ... -
Rotterdam system and irish models of consumer demand
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)The form of Rotterdam (ROS) model previously applied to Irish data did not impose all the constraints on parameters suggested by Demand Theory. In this paper a method of estimating the ROS, subject to symmetry and negativity, ...