Browsing Economic and Social Review by Subject "Quantitative methods"

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    • A MAIDS model of Irish meat demand 

      Boyle, G. E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      This paper estimates the demand for meats in Ireland using the newly developed Modified Almost Ideal Demand System or MAIDS model of Cooper and McLaren (1992). This model nests the Almost Ideal System as a special case and ...

    • An analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists, 1970 to 2001 

      Barrett, Alan; Lucey, Brian M. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      This paper provides, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the journal article output of Irish-based economists over a thirty-year period. Using EconLit data, and supplementing where necessary, we provide details ...

    • Approximating the distribution of the R/s statistic 

      Conniffe, Denis; Spencer, John E. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      The R/s statistic, used for many years in hydrology, is increasingly employed in economics, although deficiencies in knowledge about its exact distribution have inhibited progress. Harrison and Treacy (1997) described some ...

    • Are capital markets efficient? evidence from the term structure of interest rates in Europe 

      Hughes Hallett, Andrew; Richter, Christian R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 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 ...

    • Bootstrapping the small sample critical values of the rescaled range statistic 

      Izzeldin, Marwan; Murphy, Anthony (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Finite sample critical values of the rescaled range or R/S statistic may be obtained by bootstrapping. The empirical size and power performance of these critical values is good. Using the post blackened, moving block ...

    • Economic adjustment within EMU: Ireland?s experience 

      MacCoille, Conall; McCoy, Daniel (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper examines the contribution of Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) type effects to inflationary pressures in Ireland. Irish productivity measures are exaggerated by foreign multinationals engaged in high value-added activities. ...

    • Educational inequalities among school leavers in Ireland 1979-1994 

      Smyth, Emer (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      The extent to which inequalities in educational outcomes persist in modern Ireland has been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates whether the rapid expansion in educational participation rates over the 1980s ...

    • Estimating the demand for salmon angling in Ireland 

      Curtis, John A. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper reports the results of a count data travel cost model for estimating the demand and economic value of salmon angling in Co. Donegal, Ireland. Angling quality, age and nationality were found to affect angling ...

    • Estimating the rate of return to education using microsimulation 

      O'Donoghue, Cathal (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      This paper attempts to use microsimulation methods to compare returns to education in four European countries, Germany, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom. This paper broadens the type of measure used to measure the ...

    • Foreign ownership and wages in British establishments 

      Velde, Dirk Willem te (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      This paper uses the 1990-1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) panel data set to show that foreign establishments in Britain pay 13 per cent higher wages than domestic establishments. However, the differential ...

    • Geary's count of sign changes as a test of unit roots: some further evidence 

      Murphy, Anthony; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      In a recent issue of this journal, Honohan (1996) examined the perperformance of Geary's (1970) count of sign changes or x test as a test of unit roots. The test is based on counting the number of times the plot of a series ...

    • Gender and voter appeal in Irish elections, 1948-1997 

      O'Kelly, Michael (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      In general elections in the Republic of Ireland 1948-1997, female candidates have received on average a lower proportion of first-preference votes than males. This disparity between male and female candidates is worsening ...

    • Irish house price indices ? methodological issues 

      Conniffe, Denis; Duffy, David (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      This paper reviews the international literature on house price indices, looking at the basic methodologies employed, the variables chosen for the indices and the functional forms used. Ideas are sought for future improvements ...

    • Literacy and education in Ireland 

      Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; McMahon, Doreen; Redmond, Sandra (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      Recent media attention has focused on the low ranking of Ireland in a major international study on literacy. In this paper we examine the dataset used in these studies to consider the reason behind the low ranking. We find ...

    • Migration and the option value of waiting 

      Burda, Michael C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      Migration is an investment: it involves fixed, unrecoverable costs and uncertain future returns. If migration can be postponed, the option value of doing so may have positive value. Migration may not occur for a range of ...

    • On and off the frontier: the impact of taxes on growth 

      Boyle, G. E.; McCarthy, Thomas G. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1996)
      In the context of explaining inter-country growth rates, empirical work to date finds a negligible role for the parameters of a country's taxation system. In our opinion, part of the explanation for this result is that ...

    • On the small sample distribution of the R/S statistic 

      Harrison, Michael; Treacy, Glenn (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1997)
      This paper gives an account of the RlS statistic and its known properties. It assesses the adequacy of the asymptotic distribution of the statistic in the case of samples of small and moderate size, and suggests an improved ...

    • Poverty in Ireland, 1987-1994: a stochastic dominance approach 

      Madden, David; Smith, Fiona (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2000)
      Poverty dominance analysis uses stochastic dominance to provide rankings of distributions in terms of poverty which are not sensitive to the choice of poverty line. This analysis is carried out for Ireland using Household ...

    • Quality based rankings of Irish economists 1990-2000 

      Coupe, Tom; Walsh, Patrick Paul (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2003)
      We use three different quality based rankings of the publishing record of Irish based economists in academic journals during the period 1990-2000 and 1995-2000. While individual rankings are sensitive to the range of ...

    • Reassessing income and deprivation approaches to the measurement of poverty in the Republic of Ireland 

      Layte, Richard; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Christopher T. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2001)
      This paper reassesses the validity of a poverty measure combining relative income and non-monetary deprivation indicators, first developed and applied to Irish data for 1987, in the light of experience since then and ...