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A Primer on the Tools and Concepts of Comutable Economics.?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)Computability theory came into being as a result of Hilbert s attempts to meet Brouwer s challenges, from an intuitionistc and constructive standpoint, to formalism as a foundation for mathematical practice. Viewed this ... -
Postponing Maternity in Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)As in many other developed countries, Ireland in recent decades has experienced a postponement of maternity. In this paper we consider the main trends in this phenomenon, considering changes in first and later births ... -
Conflict between Commercial and Recreational Activities on Irish Rivers: Estimating the Economic Value of Whitewater Kayaking in Ireland using Mixed Data Sources
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper's contribution to the understanding of outdoor recreational pursuits in Ireland comes from the estimation of the first whitewater kayaking demand function. This paper is also unique in that it combines data ... -
Current Account Deficit Sustainability: A Panel Approach
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)In this paper we attempt to examine the issue of sustainability of current account imbalances in eight East Asia countries using the latest developments in nonstationary panel data analysis. The methods of nonstationary ... -
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 ... -
Hicksian Visions and Vignettes on (Non-Linear) Trade Cycle Theories
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)Hicks theorized about the trade cycle, from many perspectives, over the whole span of his long, fertile and distinguished profes- sional life. Beginning with thoughts on an equilibrium approach to the problem of the ... -
Measuring the opportunity cost of time in recreation demand modelling: an application to a random utility model of whitewater kayaking in Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)The treatment of the opportunity cost of travel time and the measurement of travel costs in recreational demand modelling has been a contentious issue for many decades. This paper demonstrates how a potential wage rate ... -
Quantifying the Effects of Decoupling on Agriculture in Ireland s NUTS 3 Regions
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)In this paper we adapt the CAPRI model to facilitate an analysis of CAP reform on agriculture in Ireland's NUTS 3 regions. We make assumptions about how the Luxembourg Agreement will be implemented in the Member States ... -
Preferences and Multiple Use Forest Management
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper offers evidence relevant to the debate regarding the use of stated willingnessto- pay as a guide to public preferences about environmental management, and the possibility that individuals have distinct preferences ... -
Crop Biodiversity, Risk Management and the Implications of Agricultural Assistance
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of financial assistance to farms on crop biodiversity in an uncertain setting. The findings reveal that risk aversion is an important driving force ... -
Farm Income Mobility and Inequality in Ireland 1994-2001
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper uses eight years of data of the National Farm Survey (NFS) to analyse the statics and dynamics of the farm earnings distribution in the period 1994 to 2001, and asks the question: is the Irish farming sector ... -
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 ... -
The Rural Economy in China and Russia - What is Different? Is there a Lesson for Russia?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)A question frequently posed in Russia amid the economic and social anarchy of the post socialist period is whether it might not be better off if it followed the Chinese model of transition. This latter might be described ... -
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in Economics.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)In this paper I attempt to show that mathematical economics is unreasonably ineffective. Unreasonable, because the mathematical assumptions are economically unwarranted; ineffective because the mathematical formalizations ... -
A Disequilibrium Macrodynamic Model of Fluctuations
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)A nonlinear disequilibrium macrodynamic model of uctuations in the labour and product markets, mediated by variations in factor shares, is developed and the exis- tence of a periodic orbit is proved using the Hopf ... -
Review of the empirical literature on factors affecting the supply of off-farm labour
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)The objective of this paper is to assess the currently available literature relating to the labour allocation of farm households. An overview of the theoretical model relating to joint participation and hours of labour ... -
On Uncertainty Aversion under Complete Ignorance: Some Further Observations on the Impossibility Results
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)The paper claims that the Monotone Consistency condition utilized by Baigent in his proof of the impossibility theorem is too strong. We factorize this condition into two different weaker conditions and show that they are ... -
Delineating Daily Activity Spaces in Rural Areas
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)The new relational geography challenges notions of inherently coherent, integrated `territory-based' systems of relations. This paper uses network methods and correspondence analysis to try and describe some of the spatial ... -
Cost of Living Indices and Flexible Consumption Behaviour: A partial critique
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)This paper questions the alleged superiority of superlative prices indices (like the Fisher index) over more standard base year indices (like the Laspeyre index) as measures of changes in the 'cost of living' (COL). The ... -
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 ...