Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 25, No. 1, October, 1993 by Subject "Ireland"

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    • Competition policy and employment: an application to Ireland 

      Fingleton, John (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)
      This paper models an open economy with a competitive traded sector and a monopolistic non-traded sector. Competition policy in the non-traded sector can reduce the price of traded goods and increase welfare but only if the ...

    • Elections and macroeconomic outcomes in Ireland, 1948-91 

      Annett, Anthony M. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)
      This paper tests the main politico-economic theories of the relationships between elections and macroeconomic outcomes using Irish data over the period 1948-91. The results suggest that Fianna Fail governments have been ...

    • Quantifying the non-stationarity in Irish real exchange rates 

      Wright, Jonathan H. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1993)
      Empirical work, both in Ireland and elsewhere, has found little evidence for the proposition that log-real exchange rates are stationary, implying that the purchasing power parity (PPP) relation cannot hold, not even in a ...