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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 ... -
Financial Incentives in the Austrian PAYG-Pension System: Micro-Estimation
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)The scope of this paper is to investigate the impact of financial incentives on the retirement decision of private sector workers in Austria. How do financial incentives embedded in the Austrian pension system impact ... -
Redistributive Effect of Personal Income Taxation in Pakistan
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)This paper studies the redistribution effect of personal income tax in Pakistan. We decompose the overall tax system in order to evaluate the contribution of rate, allowances, deductions, exemptions and credits. The structure ... -
External Shocks in a Small Open Economy: A CGE-Microsimulation Analysis
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)This paper studies the impact of changes in the external balance of a developing economy (Pakistan). We explain that the economic growth achieved during the past decade is highly dependent on the improvements in external ... -
A methodological framework for the study of residential location and travel-to-work mode choice under central and suburban employment destination patterns
(2009)The aim of this paper is to contribute to the methodological questions that arise from the study of the simultaneous choice of residential location and travel-to-work mode under central and non-central or suburban employment ... -
Biodiversity Conservation in Managed Landscapes
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Conservation Research and Policy with Non-Trivial Transaction Costs and Incomplete Contracting
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Achieving conservation in the agricultural sector is difficult. The primary complicating factor is the large number of public-good environmental services that can potentially be provided by large numbers of individuals ... -
A Framework for Testing Algorithmic Trading Strategies
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Algorithmic trading and artificial stock markets have generated huge interest not only among brokers and traders in the financial markets but also across various disciplines in the academia. The emergence of algorithmic ... -
Agricultural Biodiversity and Land Fragmentation: the case of Bulgaria
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)This paper presents an empirical analysis of the role of land fragmentation, crop biodiversity and their interplay with farm profitability. Original primary date are drawn from a survey conducted in Bulgaria. We present ... -
New Estimates of the Cost of Disability in Ireland Using the Standard of Living Approach
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Addressing the extra economic costs of disability seems a logical step towards alleviating elements of social exclusion for people with disabilities. This paper estimates the economic cost of disability in Ireland in terms ... -
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 ... -
Farming on commonage is it a constraint to recreational access
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Commonage in the Republic of Ireland has traditionally been used for agricultural activity, mainly livestock grazing. In recent times due to its prevailing common property characteristics and upland landscape, this resource ... -
Kaldor on Debreu: The Critique of General Equilibrium Reconsidered
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)This paper revisits Kaldor's methodological critique of orthodox economics. The main target of his critique was the theory of general equilibrium as expounded in the work of Debreu and others. Kaldor deemed this theory to ... -
Factors influencing poverty levels in rural households in Southwest China
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)This paper examines factors behind poverty in Kelang and Haizi, rural villages in Yunnan province in the South West China. Determinants of household income per capita, off-farm employment choice and off-farm income levels ... -
Performance, Position and Competition between Places
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)The paper uses a finite mixture modelling approach to investigate the likely determinants of relative economic performance of Irish towns. The particular success factors that we focus on are measures of connectivity, ... -
Varieties of Mathematics in Economics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)Real analysis, founded on the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms, buttressed by the axiom of choice, is the dominant variety of mathematics utilized in the formalization of economic theory. The accident of history that led to this ... -
To Plough or Play? Modelling Recreational Pursuits on Irish Farm Commonage
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)In the last decade the demand for rural recreation has increased in Ireland as the population has become increasingly urbanised. Increased affluence, mobility and changing values have also brought new demands with respect ... -
A Stochastic Complexity Perspective of Induction in Economics and Inference in Dynamics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)Rissanen's fertile and pioneering minimum description length principle (MDL) has been viewed from the point of view of statistical estimation theory, information theory, as stochastic complexity theory - i.e., a computable ... -
Taming the Incomputable, Reconstructing the Nonconstructive and Deciding the Undecidable in Mathematical Economics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)It is natural to claim, as I do in this paper, that the emergence of non-constructivities in economics is entirely due to the formalizations of economics by means of 'classical' mathematics. I have made similar claims for ... -
Willingness-To-Pay and Consumer Versus Citizen Values: Evidence from Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)Environmental decision-making compares market and non-market outputs, often in terms of willingness to pay. In addition to personal, private `consumer¿ preferences, individuals may adopt a citizen perspective, judging ...