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A needs and resources assessment of fiscal equalisation in the Irish local government system
(Economic and Social Studies, 2015)
In 2000 the central government in Ireland introduced a formula-based needs and resources
equalisation model in its local government system to ensure that the allocation
of general purpose grants to local authorities was ...
The spatial impact of commuting on income: a spatial microsimulation approach
(Springer Verlag, 2016-08-24)
The Irish economic boom resulted in a substantial increase in car-ownership and commuting. These trends were particularly noticeable in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA), with an unprecedented increase in employment levels and ...
Deprivation and access to work in Dublin city: the impact of transport disadvantage
(Elsevier, 2016-09-29)
Ireland's economy underwent a period of rapid expansion between 1995 and 2007, accompanied by a boom in construction. The subsequent decade saw a rapid decline in construction as Ireland went through an unprecedented ...
The Rise and Fall of the Irish Orange Roughy Fishery: An Economic Analysis
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-04)
An Irish commercial fishery for orange roughy began in the Northeast Atlantic in 2001 with the assistance of government grants. The fishery began as an open access, non-quota fishery. The rapid boom and bust of many deep ...
Sustainable fishing in Irish waters: assessment of current practices, policies and alternative approaches (Economics Working Paper no. 165)
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)
Irish fishing waters are currently governed as part of the Common Fisheries Policy of
the European Union. Under this regime, policies of strict regulation are employed to
provide both an ecologically sustainable resource ...
Income Security Programmes and Retirement Behaviour in Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010)
This paper gives a first-time assessment of the interaction between income security programmes (public and private) and the labour force behaviour of older people in Ireland. Workers close to retirement age face a trade-off ...
A stimulating annealing approach to non-market environmental benefit aggregation.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)
This paper considers the use of a 'combinatorial optimization' technique in the
aggregation of environmental benefit values. Combinatorial optimization is used to
statistically match population census data to a Contingent ...
Personal versus societal preferences in contingent valuation assessments
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010-12)
Contingent valuation has been used extensively in estimating the value of
environmental goods. One criticism of this approach, however, is that respondents in
referendum-style contingent valuation surveys may express ...
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 ...
Economics, politics and democracy in the age of credit-rating capitalism
(Sameeksha Trust, 2013-02-02)
Unlike in earlier major economic crises, the current turmoil in the global economy has seen the consolidation of orthodoxy as the dominant paradigm. This essay traces the political economy of change in the current situation ...