Browsing by Subject "Europe"
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Active case finding of tuberculosis in Europe: a Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (TBNET) survey
(2008)Tuberculosis control depends on successful case finding and treatment of individuals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Passive case finding is widely practised: the present study aims to ascertain the consensus and ... -
After the party's over: The Irish employment model and the paradoxes of non-learning.
(European Trade Union Institute, 2012)The chapter describes the 'bubble labour market' of the final years of the Celtic Tiger. It argues that the road to the Irish crisis was prepared by four core features of the Irish model: the veto-power of Foreign Direct ... -
All Welcome Here? Studies on Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Discriminatory Behaviour towards Ethnic Minorities in Irish and European Contexts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)The main aim of this thesis is to examine prejudice, via anti-immigration sentiment, and discriminatory behaviour in Ireland and other European countries. The thesis consists of four separate papers which constitute four ... -
Are capital markets efficient? evidence from the term structure of interest rates in Europe
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)This paper investigates the uncovered interest parity hypothesis in an unusual way. We provide empirical evidence on the efficiency of capital markets using a time domain approach. However, a common prediction from theoretical ... -
Binomial option pricing and the conditions for early exercise: An example using foreign exchange options
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)In this paper arc derived simple and general conditions under which the value of an American option will exceed that of its European counterpart. These conditions are developed using the binomial option pricing framework. ... -
The Challenge of Migration: Schooling the Second Generation in Europe
(2010)In several European countries, 10% or more of the student population now has a migrant background; and some countries are facing this phenomenon for the very first time. There is growing concern that students with an ... -
Climatic and Societal Impacts of a "Forgotten" Cluster of Volcanic Eruptions in 1108-1110 CE
(2020)Recently revised ice core chronologies for Greenland have newly identified one of the largest sulfate deposition signals of the last millennium as occurring between 1108 and 1113 CE. Long considered the product of the 1104 ... -
Debt Overhang in Emerging Europe?
(2011)This paper assesses the extent to which debt overhang poses a constraint to economic activity in Emerging Europe, as the region emerges from the recent financial and economic crisis. At the macroeconomic level, it ... -
The determinants of IPO withdrawal - Evidence from Europe
(2019)Why do companies not follow through with an IPO after filing for one? This question is investigated by examining common stock IPOs for the largest countries in Europe.We cover 80% of the Western European ... -
Did Bank Lending Stifle Innovation in Europe During the Great Recession?
(2019)Using the 2008-09 Global financial crisis and the 2012 Euro area sovereign debt crisis as natural experiments, we investigate the effects of contractions in credit supply on R&D spending in a large sample of European firms. ... -
Ecological globalisation, serial depletion and the medieval trade of walrus rostra
(2020)The impacts of early ecological globalisation may have had profound economic and environmental consequences for human settlements and animal populations. Here, we review the extent of such historical impacts by investigating ... -
Europe's Crisis: Market competition instead of social bonds
(Tasc, 2013)Europe's crisis is not just an economic crisis, but a crisis of social inclusion and social cohesion. This is in turn the result of the failure of the European Union to live up to the promise of the European Social Model -
The European Statistics Code of Practice as a pillar to strengthen public trust and enhance quality in official statistics
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European Universities in an Age of Pandemic: Ireland
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Genetic effects influencing risk for major depressive disorder in China and Europe
(2017)Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, complex psychiatric disorder and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Despite twin studies indicating its modest heritability (~30–40%), extensive heterogeneity and a complex ... -
The giants of education in geriatric medicine and gerontology
(2022)In 2014, the European undergraduate curriculum in Geriatric Medicine was published to cover the minimum requirements that a medical student should achieve by the end of medical school. In 2019, the European postgraduate ... -
Informational efficiency in distressed markets: The case of European corporate bonds
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2014)This paper investigates the effect of the 2008 financial crisis on informational efficiency by carrying out a long-memory analysis of European corporate bond markets. We compute the Hurst exponent for fifteen sectorial ... -
An inquiry into the foreign systems of registering dealings with land by means of maps and indexes
(Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1852)The objects of registration are stated by Lord Langdale's Commission to be, "to provide for a purchaser a ready mode of assuring himself, that no document is in existence which can defeat or alter the title offered to ... -
Inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap: evidence from European countries
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2007)This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set, the 1995 European Structure of ...