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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 ...
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 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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Exchange Rate Volatility and Exports: The Case of Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-05)
We use the techniques of cointegration and error-correction models to estimate long-run and short-run export demand functions for Ireland using quarterly data for the 1979-1993 period. We consider three determinants of ...
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 ...
Estimation of the impact of CAP reform on the structure of farming in the disadvantaged areas of Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-09)
In this paper the Johansen model was used to examine the impact of
CAP Reform on the structure of farming in the Disadvantaged Areas of
Ireland. The model is essentially a policy impact model using an elasticity
set. ...
New fields of employment: problems and possibilities in local and community economic development
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-09)
There has been a renewal of interest in the possibilities for new local employment
in the social economy and this may be a suitable area where community initiative
and effort can be concentrated. The literature suggests ...
Testing for monetary policy convergence in european countries
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-12)
The paper tests for long-run monetary policy convergence and short-run
policy interactions in seven ERM countries over the 1979-1992 period using
the approach of multivariate cointegration and Granger-causality tests. ...