The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, 1979
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Extensions to a quantitative analysis of the degree of integration between Irish and UK financial markets
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)In a recent issue of this Review, Browne and O'Connell (1978) find a close relationship between the Irish and the UK interest rates simultaneous in time with the magnitudes of the UK fluctuation "completely transmitted ... -
Regional development and spatial equity in Northern Ireland
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)The paper examines Northern Ireland's `regional strategy? programme, assessing its successes and failures in reducing spatial inequalities in overall social well-being throughout the province. Social well-being is calculated ... -
Psychological disturbance in Ireland, in England and in Irish emigrants to England - comparative study
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)A community survey involving 200 Irish emigrants to England, 200 natives of England and 200 residents of the Republic of Ireland was conducted to test a number of hypotheses drawn from mental hospital admission statistics. ... -
Cost of capital to Irish industry - revised estimates
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)Cost of capital indices, based on those of Geary, Walsh and Copeland (1975), are revised and updated to 1975. The revisions involve the use of different series for the price of new capital goods and the borrowing rate of ... -
Information theoretic approach to measurement of spatial inequality
(Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)In this paper we present some quantitative indices for measuring and comparing levels of inequality in discrete spatial distributions. The indices presented are based on the Kullback Information Measure which we consider ...