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A Stochastic Complexity Perspective of Induction in Economics and Inference in Dynamics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)
Rissanen's fertile and pioneering minimum description length principle (MDL) has been viewed from the point of view of statistical estimation theory, information theory, as stochastic complexity theory - i.e., a computable ...
Decomposition Methods in Analyzing Intra-regional and Inter-regional Income Distribution
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2006)
In this paper we propose to study the world income distribution in the framework of Richard Stone-Richard Goodwin decomposition method [Goodwin, EJ 1949 and JPKE 1980, Stone¿s foreword to Pyatt-Roe, 1977]. The objective ...
Delineating Daily Activity Spaces in Rural Areas
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
The new relational geography challenges notions of inherently coherent, integrated `territory-based' systems of relations. This paper uses network methods and correspondence analysis to try and describe some of the spatial ...
Cost of Living Indices and Flexible Consumption Behaviour: A partial critique
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
This paper questions the alleged superiority of superlative prices indices (like the Fisher index) over more standard base year indices (like the Laspeyre index) as measures of changes in the 'cost of living' (COL). The ...
Cohabitation in Ireland: evidence from survey data
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
Cohabitation has grown strongly in Ireland over the last decade. We use large-scale surveys to characterise its extent and nature. We find it has almost tripled in incidence between 1994 and 2002. It is associated with ...
Using CGE and Microsimulation Models for In come Distribution Analyses: A Survey.
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005)
This paper carries out a survey of CGE and Microsimulation models used in
the evaluation of issues related directly or indirectly to incomes distribution.
Different model structures are discussed which have been employed ...
Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2009)
In the literature on social choice and fuzzy preferences, a central question is how to represent the transitivity of a fuzzy binary relation. Arguably the most general way of doing this is to assume a form of transitivity ...
Taming the Incomputable, Reconstructing the Nonconstructive and Deciding the Undecidable in Mathematical Economics
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)
It is natural to claim, as I do in this paper, that the emergence of non-constructivities in economics is entirely due to the formalizations of economics by means of 'classical' mathematics. I have made similar claims for ...
Agricultural Biodiversity and Land Fragmentation: the case of Bulgaria
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the role of land fragmentation, crop biodiversity and their interplay with farm profitability. Original primary date are drawn from a survey conducted in Bulgaria. We present ...
Hicksian Visions and Vignettes on (Non-Linear) Trade Cycle Theories
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)
Hicks theorized about the trade cycle, from many perspectives,
over the whole span of his long, fertile and distinguished profes-
sional life. Beginning with thoughts on an equilibrium approach
to the problem of the ...