http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62012 Fri, 03 Nov 2017 02:44:46 GMT 2017-11-03T02:44:46Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61906 The exchange rate as an adjustment mechanism: a structural VAR approach to the case of Ireland Hodson, Dermot 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61906 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60946 An analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists, 1970 to 2001 Barrett, Alan; Lucey, Brian M. 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60946 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60945 Quality based rankings of Irish economists 1990-2000 Coupe, Tom; Walsh, Patrick Paul 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60945 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60362 W. M. Gorman (1923?2003) Honohan, Patrick; Neary, J. Peter 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. Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60362 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z