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    • Hall-Roeger tests of market power in Irish manufacturing industries 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      The Hall-Roeger methodology for the testing of market power is applied to Irish manufacturing industries for the period 1991-1999. The paper adapts their methodology to permit discrimination between input and output-price-based ...

    • Health and wealth in the North of Ireland: is there a ?social gradient? to health outcomes? 

      Borooah, Vani K. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      This paper investigates using data on 2,700 persons in the North of Ireland, whether there is a social gradient to health, both with respect to general health (self-assessed health status; long-term limiting illness; the ...

    • Health insurance reform in the Netherlands: assessing the progressivity consequences 

      Janssen, Richard; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Wagstaff, Adam (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1994)
      This paper examines the effects of the proposed Health Insurance Reform in The Netherlands on the incidence of the burden of health care finance. The focus of attention is on the measurement of the degree of progressivity ...

    • Health-education and the demand for tobacco in ireland, 1953-76 - note 

      Walsh, BM (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1980)
      THE publication of the report by the Royal College of Physicians in 1962 linking cigarette smoking and lung cancer led throughout the western world to mounting pressure to curb the smoking habit. In Ireland the cancer scare ...

    • Hedging with the IFOX Long Gilt Future: A note 

      Hogan, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1990)
      Traditional theory emphasises the risk avoidance potential of futures. An alternative hypothesis (Working's hypotheses) emphasised expected profit maximisation. Portfolio theory is a combination of the first two hypothesis, ...

    • Hirschman and Irish industrial policy 

      Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      In this article we examine the origins of Whitaker?s export oriented industrial policy and the political management of its implementation. Whitaker appointed academic economic advisors, including Louden Ryan, to a Capital ...

    • House prices in the measurement of inflation: an application using Irish data 

      O'Sullivan, Roisin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2005)
      This paper illustrates the impact on Irish inflation of including a house-price series with the current components of the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP). We construct a dynamic factor index of inflation that ...

    • House prices, inflation and the mortgage market 

      Thom, Dr (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
      Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of house prices using quarterly Irish data over the period 1971-1980. Evidence is provided to support the hypotheses that real house prices are significantly influenced by the cost ...

    • Household consumption patterns, indirect tax structures and implications for indirect tax harmonisation: a three country perspective 

      Kaplanoglou, Georgia (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      The paper compares the indirect tax structures and consumption patterns of three European countries (the UK, Greece and Hungary) and studies the likely distributional impact of a potential convergence of their indirect ...

    • Housing Bubbles and Monetary Policy: A Reassessment 

      O'Meara, Graeme (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2015)

    • Housing requirements for Northern-Ireland 

      Roche, D.J.D.; Murie, A.; Birrell, W.D.; Hillyard, P.A. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1972)
      This article summarises an extensive analysis of housing statistics based on Census data and the Northern Ireland quarterly Housing Returns - an analysis which allows us to assess the adequacy of the proposed programme.

    • Housing tenure in Ireland 

      Somerville, R. A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      This paper investigates the sources of the extremely high level of owner occupation in Ireland. After using census data to explore the evolution of this phenomenon, the paper makes a cross-country comparison of owner ...

    • How are Irish households coping with their mortgage repayments? information from the Survey on Income and Living Conditions 

      McCarthy, Yvonne; McQuinn, Kieran (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2011)
      This paper uses information contained within the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) to examine the ability of Irish households to sustain their mortgage repayments. We calculate mortgage repayment to income ...

    • 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 ...

    • How reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for migration research? 

      Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2008)
      Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the ...

    • How useful is core inflation for forecasting headline inflation? 

      Bermingham, Colin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2007)
      The paper constructs various core inflation measures. These include various trimmed means using disaggregated data and a structural VAR estimate of core inflation for Ireland. The ability of these core inflation measures ...

    • Human capital and economic growth - United Kingdom, 1951-1961 

      Moreh, J (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      In recent years, economists have been turning their exploratory energies in increasing measure towards investment in human-beings, such as formal education, post-school training, health, migration and information. Of these, ...

    • Identification of cause and effect in simple least squares regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1973)
      Given data ( X , Yt, t=i, z, . . . , T, can we distinguish which variable is causal?

    • Identification of individual aberrations in least squares regression 

      Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1971)
      In single equation LS regression the common practice is. to test goodness-of- fit by the standard error o f estimate s and probable absence, of residual autoregression by the Durbin-Watson d, or the more recent count Of ...

    • Identifying economically vulnerable groups as the economic crisis emerged 

      Whelan, Christopher T.; Maitre, Bertrand (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2010)
      A frequent refrain during recent debates on welfare cuts and tax increases has related to the need to ?protect the vulnerable?. However, it is far from clear that a consensus exists on which individuals or groups are to ...