Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 39, No. 1, Spring, 2008 by Date of Publication
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Identity, collective beliefs, and the allocation of resources
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)Humans are social creatures that interact in a number of different and at least partially independent social settings, such as work, home, social and political organisations, and church. In each setting one has an identity, ... -
Opening and closing asymmetry: empirical analysis from ISE Xetra
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)Overnight news yields difficulties for price discovery at market opening culminating in additional return volatility. Biais et al. (2007) show opening prices are sensitive to order flow from the pre-trading session. We ... -
Centres of research excellence in economics in the Republic of Ireland - correction of an erratum
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)In transcription Professor Donal O'Neill of NUI Maynooth was omitted from Table 5 of Ruane and Tol (2007) ???Centres of Research Excellence in the Republic of Ireland??, The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. ... -
The distribution of productivity in Irish manufacturing between 1995 and 2004 : determinants, changes and implications
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)Using plant level data from the Irish Census of Industrial Production, this paper documents the extent of the productivity spread in Irish manufacturing industries and its determinants. It looks at changes in the distribution ... -
Generalised means of simple utility functions with risk aversion
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)The paper examines the properties of a generalised mean of simple utilities each displaying risk aversion, that is, with first derivative positive and second derivative negative. It shows the mean is itself a valid utility ...
