Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1980 by Date of Publication

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    • Productivity trends in Ireland - a rejoinder 

      Sapsford, D; Kelly, W (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      In his reply to our earlier note (Sapsford and Kelly , 1980) Katsiaouni (1980) puts forward a number of justifications for the particular choice of sub-periods in his analysis o f trend growth rates in output per man-hour ...

    • An analysis of the relative size of the government sector, Ireland 1926-52 

      O'Hagan, JW (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      Despite the proliferation of studies relating to the growth of the public sector, there has been limited discussion and analysis of this phenomenon in an historical setting. The present paper attempts to partly fill this ...

    • A portfolio balance approach to monetary and fiscal-policies in a small open-economy 

      Thom, Dr (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      Monetary and fiscal policies are examined in a steady-state small open economy model. Complete price taking behaviour implies that domestic output is supply determined and invariant to domestic shocks. Balanced budget ...

    • Productivity trends in Ireland - a statistical note 

      Sapsford, D; Kelly, W (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      In a recent study Katsiaouni (1979) presented, amongst other things, estimates of the trend rate of growth of labour productivity in manufacturing between 1953 and 1973. In this note we re-examine this aspect of Katsiaouni's ...

    • Macroeconomic policy in a small open-economy when government budget deficits are financed by printing money 

      Murray, S (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      This paper presents a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy (SOE) in which government budget deficits are financed by printing money, the dynamics arising from a stock-adjustment approach to capital movements ...

    • Productivity trends in Ireland - a reply 

      Katsiaouni, O (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      Sapsford and Kelly deal with that portion of my work which updated Kennedy's (1971) earlier study. Within this they focused on manufacturing productivity trends, in the post-war period, and not on productivity growth in ...