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Are the US current account deficits really sustainable?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-03)We have tested for a long-run relationship between four US export measures and analogous import measures (measured in nominal and real terms, levels and deflated by GNP) in the 1967-1994 period using quarterly data. ... -
Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)In the literature on social choice and fuzzy preferences, a central question is how to represent the transitivity of a fuzzy binary relation. Arguably the most general way of doing this is to assume a form of transitivity ... -
Assessing the Empirical Performance of the DSGE models in the lead up to the Crisis
(2013)The global financial crisis has sparked renewed debate over the state of macroeconomic modeling, particularly in the lead up to the 2008/2009 Great Recession. The standard workhorse of macroeconomic modeling, the Dynamic ... -
Assessing the Impact of Pensions Policy Reform in Ireland: the Case of Increasing the Pension Age
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)Although demographic ageing will affect Ireland later than many EU countries, by 2050 it will result in significant pressures on the public pension system. Recent reform in Ireland has attempted to address these pressures ... -
Austerity and Irish local government expenditure since the Great Recession
(Sciendo, 2018-12-31)This paper sets out to establish the extent of austerity in the Irish local government system during and after the Great Recession. Austerity is measured by the adjusted change in local government expenditure from peak to ... -
Benefits and Costs of Methane Emission Reduction in the Irish National Herd
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)In this paper, we compare many of the widely available estimated global benefits of abatement with the costs to Irish agriculture, as estimated by the CAPRI model. We apply the model to Ireland only, in a simple comparative ... -
Bilateral FDI and Canadian Export Activity
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010)This study examines how Canadian exports to a specific trading partner are influenced by outward and inward direct investment flows to/from that country. A gravity-type empirical model guides a dynamic panel analysis which ... -
Biodiversity Conservation in Managed Landscapes
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Cambridge Distribution in a World Economy
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)The paper outlines a two-country Cambridge model of growth and distribution. The condition for the Cambridge equation to apply to the world economy is outlined. When this is satisfied, a dual theorem holds in one of the ... -
Captive Offshoring by U.S. Multinationals: Measuring the Domestic Employment Impacts of Vertical FDI
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010)The pervasive and complex nature of "international outsourcing" has hampered efforts to quantify the importance of this phenomenon for national economies. Indeed, available evidence on the extent of "offshoring" associated ... -
Caring and disability in long-stay institutions
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-09)The paper investigates the empirical relationship between the dependency characteristics of elderly residents and the amount of care provided by health care professionals in a selected number of long-stay institutions in ... -
Caring and Theories of Welfare Economics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-11)This paper explores the relationship between theories of welfare economics and our understanding of the care of old people within families. It is difficult to make sense of family care relationships within the framework ... -
A choice experiment versus a contingent valuation approach to agri-environmental policy valuation
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)The non-market value accruing from an agri-environmental scheme can be examined by assessing the public's willingness to pay for the policy outputs as a whole or by modelling the preferences of society for the component ... -
Cohabitation in Ireland: evidence from survey data
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)Cohabitation has grown strongly in Ireland over the last decade. We use large-scale surveys to characterise its extent and nature. We find it has almost tripled in incidence between 1994 and 2002. It is associated with ... -
Cointegration Tests of the Profit-maximising Equilibrium in Greek Manufacturing 1958-1991
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-05)This paper applies the recently developed cointegration techniques to test for a long-run equilibrium among real wages and the average productivity of labour as implied by profit maximisation in the Greek manufacturing ... -
Cold water coral ecosystems and their biodiversity: a review of their economic and social value
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Despite the growing scientific literature on cold-water corals (CWC) there appears to be no research of an economic nature applied to the resource. This paper presents an overview of the goods and services of CWC and their ... -
Combining actual and contingent behaviour data to estimate the value of coarse fishing in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2019-03-15)The use of contingent behaviour style questions enables the presentation of scenarios that extended beyond previous experience, making it a valuable tool for the examination of a change in policy or management practices. ... -
Common Property Resource Management and REPS Uptake in Ireland: the case of Irish Commonage
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2006)This paper looks at the factors determining REPS participation among commonage farmers in the West of Ireland and on the impact REPS has had on participating farmers¿ income and on their environmental practices and attitudes. ... -
Commuting Distances and Labour Market Areas: Some Preliminary Insights from a Spatial Model of Job Search
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A comparative examination of healthcare use related to hearing impairment in Europe
(2016)Impaired health resulting from whatever source presents challenges to individuals and societies. These challenges can be presented in terms of an economic burden - costs and dis-utilities - that arise from the experience ...