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The Determinants of Residential Gas Demand in Ireland
(Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2014)
This paper examines the determinants of residential gas demand in Ireland using a microeconometric analysis of the daily gas consumption panel data from Ireland's Smart Metering Gas Consumer Behavioural Trial. It also ...
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 ...
Subsidies in Irish fisheries: saving rural Ireland? (
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-12)
Subsidies in the world's fishing industry have long been considered to have
harmful effects on fish stocks. The fishing industry has suffered from overcapacity
for many years, and subsidies encourage investment, leading ...
Analyzing gender-based differential advantage: a gendered model of emerging and constructed opportunities.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-10)
This paper develops and uses the Model of Emerging and Constructed Opportunities
(MECO) to analyze the emergence of systematic institutional
and gender-based differential advantage. Using an evolutionary process ...
The impacts of transition on the household in the provinces of Kazakhstan: the case of Atyubinsk Oblast.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-09)
This paper discusses the main economic and social changes that have affected
the well-being of households in Akytubinsk Oblast in Kazakhstan and
describes the general responses of the households to these changes. ...
A comparison of the effects of decommissioning, catch quotas and mesh regulation in restoring a depleted fishery.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-07)
Possible means of rehabilitating the manY depleted fisheries in European
waters now form a topic of great interest and relevance. This paper uses
bioeconomic analysis to predict returns for the Irish Sea Nephrops ...
Real interest-rate parity under regime shifts: evidence for industrial countries.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-10)
We use recently developed cointegration tests that determine endogenously
the regime shift to test for bilateral real interest rate convergence (real interest
rate parity) in the G7 against the US in the 1974-1995 period. ...
The sensitivity of UK agricultural employment to macroeconomic variables 1960-1966
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-07)
In the UK agriculture continues to have a major impact on the landscape,
occupying 77% of the total land area, but its direct contribution to national
enlployment is rIlarginal. In 1996 the agricult ural sector accounted
for ...
Cost per unit abated for selected nitrogen mitigation strategies on Irish farms
(NUI Galway, 2018)
With the initial deadline identified by the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC) has passed in 2015 and new one set out in 2027, policymakers face increasing pressure to introduce new regulations to achieve ...
Common Property Resource Management and REPS Uptake in Ireland: the case of Irish Commonage
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2006)
This paper looks at the factors determining REPS participation among commonage farmers in the West of Ireland and on the impact REPS has had on participating farmers¿ income and on their environmental practices and attitudes. ...