Economic and Social Review Archive: Complete Collection 1969-: Recent submissions
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Econometric-model of television ownership
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)A Modified Log-Reciprocal model is proposed for time-series television ownership and is found to describe closely the British and Irish data. A similar model also fits the British time-series on the percentage of colour ... -
Method of path coefficients and OLS regression
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)Some time ago Sir Maurice Kendall suggested to the writer that a study of the theory and practice of path coefficients might be rewarding as shedding light on the still dark patches in the theory of relationship between ... -
Scientific work of Geary, R.C.
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1976)Roy Geary is eighty this year and for almost half a century he has enjoyed a major international reputation in mathematical statistics. In the course of a long and varied career he has been Director of both the Central ... -
Information about income from interviews
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1979)At the core of continuing debate in social research is the question, posed succinctly by Bynner and Stribley (1979), 'How can we formulate a rigorous strategy for investigating social phenomena and how can we implement ... -
Measurement of capacity utilisation in Irish manufacturing-industry
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1979)This paper estimates capacity output for Irish manufacturing industry using the Wharton School linked-peaks method, updating an index produced in McMahon and Smyth (1974). It then presents a capacity output series using a ... -
Econometric-model of building society behaviour in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1979)This paper presents a quarterly model of Irish building society behaviour over the period 1973-78. The model attempts to explain the major variables in the incremental balance sheet with special emphasis on the relationships ... -
Impact of lower preference votes on Irish parliamentary elections, 1922-1977
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1979)This paper examines the electoral impact of the counting and transfer of lower preference votes on Dail elections since 1922. The relationship between transfers and constituency size is assessed, and it is shown that a ... -
Analysis of the distribution of wealth in Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1979)Lyons' (1972) data on the distribution of Irish wealth are considered and the appropriateness of the lognormal and Pareto models for this data are assessed using relatively sophisticated statistical methods. Allowance is ... -
Productivity trends in Ireland - a rejoinder
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)In his reply to our earlier note (Sapsford and Kelly , 1980) Katsiaouni (1980) puts forward a number of justifications for the particular choice of sub-periods in his analysis o f trend growth rates in output per man-hour ... -
Productivity trends in Ireland - a reply
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)Sapsford and Kelly deal with that portion of my work which updated Kennedy's (1971) earlier study. Within this they focused on manufacturing productivity trends, in the post-war period, and not on productivity growth in ... -
Productivity trends in Ireland - a statistical note
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)In a recent study Katsiaouni (1979) presented, amongst other things, estimates of the trend rate of growth of labour productivity in manufacturing between 1953 and 1973. In this note we re-examine this aspect of Katsiaouni's ... -
A portfolio balance approach to monetary and fiscal-policies in a small open-economy
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)Monetary and fiscal policies are examined in a steady-state small open economy model. Complete price taking behaviour implies that domestic output is supply determined and invariant to domestic shocks. Balanced budget ... -
An analysis of the relative size of the government sector, Ireland 1926-52
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)Despite the proliferation of studies relating to the growth of the public sector, there has been limited discussion and analysis of this phenomenon in an historical setting. The present paper attempts to partly fill this ... -
Macroeconomic policy in a small open-economy when government budget deficits are financed by printing money
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)This paper presents a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy (SOE) in which government budget deficits are financed by printing money, the dynamics arising from a stock-adjustment approach to capital movements ... -
Notes on aggregation
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)Brown and Chang(1976) consider questions of output and capital aggregation in the context of a neo-classical general equilibrium model. Inter alia, they derive a condition, using Hicks' composite commodity theorem, for ... -
The use of the irish electoral register for population estimation
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1980)A strong relationship is shown to exist between the number of registered electors in a county and the county's population in census years. This relationship can be used to estimate county populations in intercensal years. ... -
Method of evaluating company employment policies based on national preferences
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)In the course of preparing a cost/benefit analysis of Irish Shipping Ltd., it was necessary to attempt an evaluation of the employment policy pursued by the company. This paper describes the method employed in making the ... -
Economic aspects of alcohol consumption in Republic of Ireland
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)Considerable difficulties beset international comparisons of the incidence and prevalence of 'alcoholism'. This reflects the absence of a universally accepted definition of the illness and of a yardstick by which its ... -
Further analysis of Irish expenditure functions, 1965-1966
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 1970)This paper is concerned with a closer examination of the interaction between household size and composition and household expenditures, using, as in the previous study, data collected by the Central Statistics Office and ... -
Regional development in ireland - problems of goal formulation and objective specification
(Economic & Social Studies, DUBLIN, 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 ...
