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Cointegration Tests of the Profit-maximising Equilibrium in Greek Manufacturing 1958-1991
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1997-05)This paper applies the recently developed cointegration techniques to test for a long-run equilibrium among real wages and the average productivity of labour as implied by profit maximisation in the Greek manufacturing ... -
Cold water coral ecosystems and their biodiversity: a review of their economic and social value
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Despite the growing scientific literature on cold-water corals (CWC) there appears to be no research of an economic nature applied to the resource. This paper presents an overview of the goods and services of CWC and their ... -
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. ... -
Commuting Distances and Labour Market Areas: Some Preliminary Insights from a Spatial Model of Job Search
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A comparative examination of healthcare use related to hearing impairment in Europe
(2016)Impaired health resulting from whatever source presents challenges to individuals and societies. These challenges can be presented in terms of an economic burden - costs and dis-utilities - that arise from the experience ... -
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 ... -
Conflict between Commercial and Recreational Activities on Irish Rivers: Estimating the Economic Value of Whitewater Kayaking in Ireland using Mixed Data Sources
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper's contribution to the understanding of outdoor recreational pursuits in Ireland comes from the estimation of the first whitewater kayaking demand function. This paper is also unique in that it combines data ... -
Conservation Research and Policy with Non-Trivial Transaction Costs and Incomplete Contracting
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2008)Achieving conservation in the agricultural sector is difficult. The primary complicating factor is the large number of public-good environmental services that can potentially be provided by large numbers of individuals ... -
Controlling Agricultural Emissions of Nitrates: Regulation versus Taxes
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2007)Two policy instruments, input taxes and regulations, can be used to deal with nitrate pollution. However, in practice command and control (CAC) measures such as input regulations and management practices, as outlined in ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Critical transitions in Eurozone sovereign bond markets
(Department of Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2013)In this paper we present empirical evidence that the sovereign bond markets may have undergone a catastrophic transition during the Eurozone debt crisis. We find evidence of a phenomenon called critical slowing down that ... -
Crop Biodiversity, Risk Management and the Implications of Agricultural Assistance
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of financial assistance to farms on crop biodiversity in an uncertain setting. The findings reveal that risk aversion is an important driving force ... -
Current Account Deficit Sustainability: A Panel Approach
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)In this paper we attempt to examine the issue of sustainability of current account imbalances in eight East Asia countries using the latest developments in nonstationary panel data analysis. The methods of nonstationary ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Disequilibrium Macrodynamic Model of Fluctuations
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)A nonlinear disequilibrium macrodynamic model of uctuations in the labour and product markets, mediated by variations in factor shares, is developed and the exis- tence of a periodic orbit is proved using the Hopf ... -
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 ... -
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 ...