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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 ...
The Impact of Health Status on the Duration of Unemployment Spells and the Implications for Studies of the Impact of Unemployment on Health Status
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)
This paper examines the impact of health status on the duration of unemployment spells and finds that individuals with impaired health will have significantly longer unemployment spells. These longer unemployment spells ...
Winning Success in Aquaculture Marketing
(Dublin Institute of Technology, 1993)
A decade ago aquaculture in Ireland was essentially a cottage industry, fragmented, undercapitalised with uneven product quality and at the mercy of larger, often foreign owned distributors. Today, a rapidly growing ...
Ireland, peacekeeping and policing the 'new world order'.
(Centre for Research and Documentation, 1997)
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the 'Cold War' has given rise to a situation where there is in effect one world 'superpower', the United States of America (US). The so called 'new world order' was intended ...
The impact of the exchange rate regime on exports: evidence from the European Monetary System.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1999)
We employ the econometric techniques of multivariate cointegration and errorcorrection
models to investigate the impact of the creation of the European Monetary
System (EMS) on the volume of intra-European Union (EU) ...
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 ...
Has the European Monetary System Led to More Exports? Evidence from Four European Union Countries
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-10)
We attempt to investigate whether the ERM period has coincided with an increase in intra-EU exports. We conclude that this has not been the case but it is likely that the elimination of nominal exchange rate variability ...
Tests for Interest Rate Convergence
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-05)
We use a new test for cointegration that allows for structural breaks in the cointegrating relationship to test for bilateral interest rate convergence in the European Monetary System. Contrary to previous studies that ...