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Quantitative Risk Estimation in the Credit Default Swap Market using Exteme Value Theory
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010)
This paper is motivated by empirical evidence illustrating the non-Gaussian nature of financial returns, (Jondeau et al 2007) and analyses extreme value theory, (EVT) as a proposed improvement (Embrechts et al., 2005) for ...
Captive Offshoring by U.S. Multinationals: Measuring the Domestic Employment Impacts of Vertical FDI
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2010)
The pervasive and complex nature of "international outsourcing" has hampered efforts to quantify the importance of this phenomenon for national economies. Indeed, available evidence on the extent of "offshoring" associated ...
Do Ordering Effects Matter in Willingness-to-pay Studies of Health Care?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000)
Willingness-to-pay studies are increasingly being used in the evaluation of health care programmes. There are, however, methodological issues that need to be resolved before the potential of willingness-to-pay can be fully ...
On the Axiomatic Approach to Freedom as Opportunity: A General Characterization Result
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2000)
The aim of this paper is to provide a different, somewhat more general, approach to the axiomatic ranking of opportunity sets in terms of freedom of choice. The opportunity ranking is defined axiomatically relative to some ...
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 ...
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) ...
Do farmers in Agri-Environmental schemes make appropriate ecological choices for the habitats on their farms? Modelling the biodiversity undertakings chosen within the Irish Rural Environment Protection Scheme
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-07)
Farmers participating in agri-environmental schemes (AESs) that are aimed at protecting biodiversity should ideally make decisions relating to the ecological management of their farms based on the habitat types found on ...
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 ...
U.S. Presidential Elections and the referendum paradox
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-02)
In the United States, the president is elected by the Electoral College (EC) and not directly by individual voters. This can give rise to a so-called 'referendum paradox' in which one candidate receives more popular votes ...
The Emerald or Yellow Isle? Estimating the welfare impacts of agricultural landscape change in Ireland
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2011-01)
In this paper we exploit a discrete choice modeling framework to estimate the potential non-market welfare impacts of alternative hypothetical rural Irish landscapes that could become real by the year 2030 depending both ...