Browsing Barrington Lectures by Title
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Housing supply in Ireland since 1990: The role of costs and regulation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Statistical Society of Ireland, 2015)Housing has been central to both global and Irish economic fortunes in the past generation and was a major contributory factor in the Great Recession. Recently, greater attention has been paid around the world to the ... -
Hysteresis and the natural rate of unemployment in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1990)Conventional Keynesian or Classical macroeconomic theories must be considered inadequate to explain unemployment experiences such as the Irish one. Rigidities that one might associate with fixed contracts, or even adjustment ... -
The impact of the war upon Irish economy
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)The European war has given rise to many speculations, generally vague but almost always gloomy, upon its probable effects on Irish economic life. It is certain that the war has already brought about changes in our trade; ... -
Industrial policy, employment policy and the non-traded sector
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1995)This paper will critically examine the assumptions on which their [Irish policy makers] policies have been based, and suggest a more constructive role for government intervention. There are three quite distinct sections. ... -
Innovation policy in Ireland: economic ideas and institutional diversity
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1999)For academic economists, the questions `what are the sources of technological progress?? and `to what extent can policy assist innovation?? appear now to be increasingly almost co-extensive with the central question of ... -
Institutional Investment in Housing: Financialisation 2.0 in the Case of Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2023)This paper examines the growth of institutional housing investment in Ireland, part of a global phenomenon known as “Financialisation 2.0”. Using a unique Institutional Investment Database (IID) produced specifically for ... -
Ireland's recent productivity performance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2005)This paper examines the reasons for the recent divergence in US and European productivity performance. The paper shows that the structure of European industry is ill suited to the challenge of innovation which has to be ... -
Is equating market share to market power a sound economic principle?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2003)There is a long history of mapping market structure into market power in economic analysis. This paper addresses the validity of this principle for both homogenous and differentiated products industries. While mapping ... -
National transport problems
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1930)The object of this Paper is to direct attention to certain important economic facts affecting our transport system, and provide where possible a statistical measurement of those facts. The treatment is neither comprehensive ... -
Preliminary notes on the Census of Population in Northern Ireland, 1937
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1937)The second Census of the Six Counties of Northern Ireland was taken on February 28th, 1937. The preliminary figures of that Census have now been published, and it will be of some interest to discover how far they disclose ... -
Price, Size and Density: Dublin Housing in an EU Context
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2022)The current discussions and analysis around housing in Ireland lack a detailed analysis of the relationship between house size and prices in Ireland. Related to house size is the density of an area. In this paper I contribute ... -
Profits and wages in Ireland, 1987-1996
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1998)A striking feature of the Irish economic resurgence since 1987 has been a major factor income shift away from labour and towards capital. (The profit share has increased from 25.1 per cent in 1987 to 34.8 per cent in 1996.) ... -
Profits, efficiency and Irish banks
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1994)This paper looks at the interaction between profits and efficiency in a sample of 17 Irish banks, for the years 1988 - 1991 inclusive. By contrast with previous techniques used for assessing economic models of efficiency, ... -
Progress and the Lack of Progress in Addressing Infant Health and Infant Health Inequalities in Ireland during the 20th Century
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2016)There is a growing literature which documents the importance of early life environment for outcomes across the life cycle. Research, including studies based on Irish data, demonstrates that those who experience better ... -
Reconciling rapid economic growth with environmental sustainability in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2001)The extraordinarily rapid rate of growth of the Irish economy in the past decade has provided many benefits in terms of increased living standards and higher employment levels. However, economic growth has also resulted ... -
The revealed comparative advantage of Irish exports of manufactures 1969-1982
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1988)This paper outlines the results of an empirical study of the repealed comparative advantage of Irish exports of manufactures during the period 1969-1982. The concept of comparative advantage is central to the theory of ... -
Schooling returns, schooling decisions and educational finance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2002)Given the presence of significant returns to education, it would seem logical to query why individuals choose to leave school early. This paper examines the evidence on this issue, dealing with both methodological and ... -
Seventy Years of Personal Disposable Income and Consumption in Ireland
(SSISI, 2017)This paper compiles annual data on personal consumption and personal disposable income for Ireland over the period 1944 to 2014 and goes on to estimate consumption functions. Having established that the series are cointegrated, ... -
Sustainable development - the challange for Irish economic policy-makers
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1993)Sustainable development has become a key phrase during the last decade in development and environmental literature. Governments and international bodies have adopted the goal of sustainable development with surprising ... -
Taxation, work and gender equality in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2018)In most developed countries, economies are facing population ageing, falling fertility rates and stagnating labour force participation. The ability of governments to fund future pension and health-care expenditure relies ...
