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    • How competitive is Irish manufacturing? 

      Cerra, Valerie; Soikkeli, Jarkko; Saxena, Sweta C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      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 ...
    • Quality based rankings of Irish economists 1990-2000 

      Coupe, Tom; Walsh, Patrick Paul (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      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 ...
    • The exchange rate as an adjustment mechanism: a structural VAR approach to the case of Ireland 

      Hodson, Dermot (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      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 ...
    • W. M. Gorman (1923?2003) 

      Honohan, Patrick; Neary, J. Peter (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      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 ...