Browsing Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969- by Title
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Bi-confessionalism in a confessional party system - the Northern Ireland alliance party
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)In a comparative context a bi-polar conflict is rare, especially when it takes the form of a conflict between two intractably opposed and self-sufficient communities ranged around a single, all-pervasive, cleavage. As ... -
Binomial option pricing and the conditions for early exercise: An example using foreign exchange options
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)In this paper arc derived simple and general conditions under which the value of an American option will exceed that of its European counterpart. These conditions are developed using the binomial option pricing framework. ... -
Birth under-registration in the republic-of-ireland during the 20th-century
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1982)Precis: The efficiency of birth registration in Ireland is investigated in this article by comparing the number of registered births with Census age-distributions in the period 1916-1971. It is argued that there was a ... -
Bishops and bailiwicks - obstacles to women's political-participation in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1987)Women are a small minority of political office-holders in Ireland as elsewhere. The authors first provide details of women's representation in different political arenas, before proceeding to identify the principal ... -
Blowing the Bubble: The Global Funding of the Irish Credit Boom
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)European global banks played a significant role in the international transmission of liquidity during the period prior to the global financial crisis. This paper examines how European global banks channelled finance, raised ... -
Book review: A sociology of Ireland / by Hilary Tovey and Perry Share. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2000.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)According to its authors, this book has two aims. The first is to offer an interpretation of the development of Irish society. The second is to provide an introduction to the discipline of sociology. Underpinning both of ... -
Book review: Interrogating Irish policies / by William Kingston. Dublin: Dublin University Press, 2007.
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Book review: The politics of high-tech growth: developmental network states in the global economy / by Sean O Riain. Cambridge University Press. 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)?Sticky places in slippery space? is one of the best-known phrases from the literature on economic geography. The ?slippery space? is the globalised world of highly mobile capital, labour and technology. The ?sticky places? ... -
Book review: An introduction to Irish planning law / by Berna Grist. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 1999.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)This slim volume (93 pages) is a very lucidly written overview of the planning system in Ireland, directed at the non-specialist. It is of particular value for those who wish to understand the evolution of the planning ... -
Book review: Cottage to creche: family change in Ireland / by Finola Kennedy. Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2001.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)Officially, huge importance was attached to the family in twentieth century Ireland, the most obvious manifestation of this is in the Constitution of 1937 where it is afforded the status of a moral institution with inalienable ... -
Book review: Garret Fitzgerald: all in a life: an autobiography / by Michael Gallagher. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1991.
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Book review: Preventing the future: why was Ireland so poor for so long? / by Tom Garvin. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)In the last year of peace before the First World War, Ireland had (though this book does not make any such comparison) reached a level of per capita income roughly comparable with that of Swaziland today, while the remainder ... -
Book review: Selling out? ? privatisation in Ireland / by Paul Sweeney. Dublin: TASC/New Island, 2004.
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)Over the last fourteen years the Irish government has withdrawn entirely from direct public provision in sectors such as banking, food, insurance and telecommunications. The wave of privatisation and rationalisation that ... -
Book review: The growth illusion / by Richard Douthwaite. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 1992."
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Bootstrapping the small sample critical values of the rescaled range statistic
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)Finite sample critical values of the rescaled range or R/S statistic may be obtained by bootstrapping. The empirical size and power performance of these critical values is good. Using the post blackened, moving block ... -
Brokerage or friendship? politics and networks in Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1992)Studies of Irish politics have often emphasised clientelist relations between voters and politicians. A survey carried out in the 1970s indicates that the importance of politicians has been overstated. A significant ... -
Built-in flexibility of Irish taxes
(Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)In this article we develop a small model of the Irish economy with a view to obtaining measurements of the built-in flexibility of the prevailing tax structure in Ireland. By the built-in flexibility of a tax/expenditure, ... -
Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1975)Given tax rates, tax revenues rise as income rises. This property of a tax system is known as 'built-in flexibility of taxation' and it is widely regarded as a stabilising force. The present paper analyses a model in which ... -
Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag .1. Comment
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)In the October 1975 issue of The Economic and Social Review, D. J . Smyth examined the built-in stability of a system when tax liabilities are a lagged function of income. Taking an unlagged and a distributed lag consumption ... -
Built-in flexibility of taxation and stability when tax liabilities respond with a time lag .2. Reply
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1976)In my earlier paper (Smyth, 1975b) I combined a distributed lag or permanent income consumption function with a lagged tax function. Bradley (1976) disputes my finding that short, two-period, oscillations may result and ...