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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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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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 ... -
Investigating the Determinants of Banking Coexceedances in Europe in the Summer of 2008
(2010)We examine the nature, extent and possible causes of bank contagion in a high frequency setting. Looking at six major European banks in the summer and autumn of 2008, we model the lower coexceedances of these banks returns. ... -
Irish migration: the search for the efficiency and equity basis of a European regional policy
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)In the US and Canada a federal system of government is used, i.e., there exist a number of tiers of government with different functions assigned to each level. Government intervention in these countries, as in many other ... -
Irish migration: the search for the efficiency and equity basis of a European regional policy: a comment
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1989)This paper focuses on aspects of migration which have received limited attention in the Irish literature. The latter has by and large been concerned with the causes of migration, to the near exclusion of its consequences ... -
Post-2013 EU Common Agricultural Policy, Trade and Development
(International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), 2011)The European Commission forwarded legislative proposals for reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to the European Council and the European Parliament in October 2011. These proposals, which build on an earlier ... -
Radiotherapy staffing in the European countries: final results from the ESTRO-HERO survey.
(2014)Abstract Background The ESTRO Health Economics in Radiation Oncology (HERO) project has the overall aim to develop a knowledge base of the provision of radiotherapy in Europe and build a model for health economic ... -
Spain [stet] accession to the EMU: a long and hilly road
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2002)Europe has been the driving force of economic policy in Spain over the last four decades and the key factor behind the modernisation and globalisation of the Spanish Economy. Being a founding member of the Economic and ... -
The challenge of urban regeneration in deprived European neighbourhoods: a partnership approach
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2006)This paper sets out to critically examine the adoption of a partnership approach to urban regeneration at neighbourhood level across eight European cities. While all of the cities were committed to the idea of the socially ... -
The emergence of the entrepreneurial society
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)The topic of my talk today is what I term the entrepreneurial society or the emergence of the entrepreneurial society, which suggests that something has changed. The Director and I were speaking on the way here about the ...
