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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 ...
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 ...
An empirical analysis of inward foreign direct investment flows in the European Union with emphasis on the market enlargement hypothesis
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-09)
We use a cross-section, time-series approach to study the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the European union with particular emphasis on the expectations of a Single Market following the Single European ...
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 ...
Some evidence on the export-led growth hypothesis for Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-12)
The objective of this paper is to test, for the export-led growth hypothesis in Ireland over the last 40 years using the modern econometric analysis of nonstationary
time series. We find that over the 1950-1990 period ...
Are Greek budget deficits 'too large'?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-09)
We use a residual-based cointegration test suggested by Gregory and Hansen
(1992) that allows for the determination of a structural break in the cointegrating
vector to test for the sustainability of Greek fiscal deficits ...
Testing for the sustainability of the current account deficit in two industrial countries
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1996-07)
The objective of this paper is to test for the sustainability of the current account
deficits in the U.S. and Canada over the 1973-1994 period. Using various unit
root and cointegration tests some of which allow for ...
Uncertainty in 'A Treatise on Probability' and the 'General Theory'
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1996-02)
This paper is concerned with the relationship between Keynes's theory of probability
and his later work on macroeconomics. It suggests that while the General
Theory deals again with the subject of the Treatise on ...
Production, information and property regimes : efficiency implications in the case of economies of scope
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-04)
A conceptual model and numerical example are used to show that private
property regimes are not necessarily preferable to common property regimes
on efficiency grounds when: (1) agents are risk averse; (2) exogenous ...
Technology and Intermediation: the Case of Banking
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-04)
The aim of this paper is to look at ways in which the contribution of investment
in technology to consumer welfare might be measured. One useful
approach to this question is demonstrated by means of a simple spatial
model ...