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Lack of critical slowing down suggests that financial meltdowns are not critical transitions, yet rising variability could signal systemic risk
(Public Library of Science, 2016-01-13)Complex systems inspired analysis suggests a hypothesis that financial meltdowns are abrupt critical transitions that occur when the system reaches a tipping point. Theoretical and empirical studies on climatic and ecological ... -
Leadership in the Irish Civil Service: A 360° Assessment of Senior Management Capability
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Limits to Exhilarationism: Revisiting Kaldorian Dynamics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)It has been argued, in the context of modern economies that there are many margins of compensation that could serve to mask the demand side impact of the deteriorated income distribution. Investment Exhilarationism was ... -
Making the Commons Work: Conservation and Cooperation in Common Property Resources. The Case of Irish Commonage
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)Commonage represents land held under common property which incorporates a system of local cooperative arrangements and rules to conserve and manage the Irish uplands. We analyse the institutional and economic factors which ... -
Manipulating an ordering
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)It is well known that many social decision procedures are manipulable through strategic behaviour. Typically, the decision procedures considered in the literature are social choice correspondences. In this paper we investigate ... -
Many-valued judgment aggregation: characteriing the possibility/impossibility boundary for an important class of agendas
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009-11)A general model of judgment aggregation is presented in which judgments on propositions are not binary but come in degrees. The primitives of the model are a set of propositions, an entailment relation, and a "triangular ... -
The Market for Financial Services in Rural Mongolia. Rural Finance and Sustainable Livelihoods
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A measure of distance between judgment sets (Working paper no. 169)
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-02)In the literature on judgment aggregation, an important open question is how to measure the distance between any two judgment sets. This is relevant for issues of social choice: if two individuals hold different beliefs ... -
Measuring public preferences for the conservation of the traditional farm landscape
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)This paper explores individuals' attitudes towards the traditional farm landscape. Results from a Generalised Tobit Interval model of willingness to pay for traditional farm landscape protection suggest that individuals ... -
Measuring the Employment Effects of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2003)This paper presents evidence on the effectiveness of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme introduced by the Irish Government in 1998. The rationale for the scheme puts the emphasis on new economic activity and economic growth in ... -
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 ... -
Measuring Trends in Male Mortality by Socio-Economic Group in Ireland: A Note on the Quality of Data
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)The objective of this paper is to examine measurement issues and data problems in the analysis of trends in male mortality differentials by socio-economic group in Ireland between 1981 and 1991. The study is based on ... -
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 ... -
Minimum Wages and Employment: a critical appraisal of two theoretical frameworks
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2006)This paper addresses the theoretical fallout from empirical studies published in the 1990s that showed no negative relationship between the introduction of minimum wages and employment. The theoretical developments have ... -
A Model for Regulatory Intervention in Irish Banking
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)The banking system is currently experiencing an unprecedented phase of regulatory transition in order to address persistent market failures. This paper documents the need for better regulation in Irish banking and presents ... -
A model of deliberative and aggregative democracy
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-02)We present a model of collective decision making in which voting and deliberation are treated simultaneously. Political theorists argue that public discussion can lead individuals to change their preferences. This aspect ... -
Modelling access to the Irish Coastline: a contingent behavioural approach.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)This paper measures willingness to pay (WTP) for public access and trail improvements to a coastal recreational site in the west of Ireland. The Contingent Behaviour model is used to measure the increased number of trips ... -
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: Evidence and Implications for European Monetary Union
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)We provide some evidence consistent with a heterogeneous credit channel of monetary policy transmission in the European Union. Using the techniques of cointegration and Error Correction Models, we have shown that the ... -
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: evidence and implications for European monetary union.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999-06)We provide some evidence consistent with a heterogeneous credit channel of monetary policy transmission in the European Union. Using the techniques of cointegration and Error Correction Models, we have shown that the ... -
Morishima's Nonlinear Model of the Cycle: Simplifications and Generalizations
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)Michio Morishima's nonlinear model of the trade cycle (Morishima, 1958) is simplified and generalized to show, by means of the Andronov-Hopf bifurcation theorem, the existence of a periodic orbit. In addition, an attempt ...