http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62012 2013-05-21T09:03:38Z 2013-05-21T09:03:38Z Hodson, Dermot http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61906 2012-01-30T12:27:05Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The exchange rate as an adjustment mechanism: a structural VAR approach to the case of Ireland Author: Hodson, Dermot Abstract: Ireland’s participation in stage three of Economic and Monetary Union precludes exchange rate adjustment in response to asymmetric shocks. A Structural VAR model is used to decompose the effects of asymmetric supply, demand and nominal disturbances on macroeconomic imbalances between Ireland and the UK and on the Irish pound-sterling exchange rate. The results indicate that supply shocks account for a significant degree of the fluctuation in both variables. This lends weight to the view that the loss of autonomous control over the nominal exchange rate in the face of asymmetric shocks is a significant one, thus increasing the importance of alternative adjustment mechanisms for the Irish economy.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Barrett, Alan Lucey, Brian M. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60946 2012-08-31T14:03:11Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists, 1970 to 2001 Author: Barrett, Alan; Lucey, Brian M. Abstract: This paper provides, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists over a thirty-year period. Using EconLit data, and supplementing where necessary, we provide details of the journals wherein Irish-based economists have published, provide details of the publishing histories of high volume publishers and discuss the evolving productivity profile of Irish-based economists. Our evidence shows that in general Irish-based economists have greatly increased the levels of output in the 1990s, but that this may have been at the expense of quality.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Coupé, Tom Walsh, Patrick Paul http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60945 2011-11-25T16:10:12Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Quality based rankings of Irish economists 1990-2000 Author: Coupé, Tom; Walsh, Patrick Paul Abstract: We use three different quality based rankings of the publishing record of Irish based economists in academic journals during the period 1990-2000 and 1995-2000. While individual rankings are sensitive to the range of journals sampled, the nature of the weights used in the ranking of the journals and the time span, a similar set of top economists are produced by the alternative rankings.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Honohan, Patrick Neary, J. Peter http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60362 2011-10-27T09:11:42Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: W. M. Gorman (1923–2003) Author: Honohan, Patrick; Neary, J. Peter Abstract: William Moore Gorman, known to all as Terence, died in Oxford on 12 January 2003. The greatest Irish economist since Edgeworth, he was, like Edgeworth, totally unknown to the general public, both in his native country and in Britain where he made his career. He was the purest of pure theorists, whose life was devoted to scholarship and teaching, and whose work of forbidding technical difficulty was incomprehensible to most of his contemporaries. Yet, paradoxically, he was always concerned with applied issues, and the tools and theorems he developed have had a lasting influence on empirical work.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Cerra, Valerie Soikkeli, Jarkko Saxena, Sweta C. http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59970 2011-10-07T13:28:49Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: How competitive is Irish manufacturing? Author: Cerra, Valerie; Soikkeli, Jarkko; Saxena, Sweta C. Abstract: Ireland experienced significant competitiveness gains in the 1990s on the basis of the standard manufacturing unit labour cost-based measure of the real effective exchange rate. A few sectors mostly dominated by multinational companies have accounted for the bulk of value added in production. Their productivity gains have greatly contributed to Ireland’s exceptional growth performance in the 1990s, which has earned it the nickname of “Celtic Tiger.” However, these sectors represent a disproportionately smaller share of manufacturing employment, and competitiveness in employment-intensive sectors has been much weaker. This paper thus explores Irish competitiveness from the viewpoint of risks to employment.

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