The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 26, No. 3, April, 1995: Recent submissions

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    • Testing the permanent income hypothesis: the Irish evidence 

      Roche, Maurice J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      We investigate whether the permanent income hypothesis (PIH) is consistent with Irish data and find that it holds for about 50 per cent of consumers. We hypothesise that worsening borrowing conditions lead agents to consume ...

    • Target audience penetration by a healthy lifestyle promotion programme: results from the Kilkenny Health Project 

      Murray, Peter; Shelley, Emer; Daly, Leslie; Collins, Claire; Conroy, Ronan; Graham, Ian (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      Between 1985 and 1992 County Kilkenny was the site of an evaluated programme of community intervention which aimed to reduce the population's heart disease burden by promoting the adoption of a healthy lifestyle. This ...

    • Measuring railway productivity in Ireland: a reply 

      McGeehan, Harry (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      Barrett's (1995) comments raise several issues which are readily addressed.

    • Measuring railway productivity in Ireland: a comment 

      Barrett, Sean D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      The McGeehan (1995) article has three sections. They deal respectively with railway labour productivity, overall railway productivity, and a methodology which is claimed to indicate that the total productivity of CIE ...

    • Measuring rail productivity in Ireland: a note 

      McGeehan, Harry (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      This note is concerned with comparing partial and total measures of productivity as they apply to Irish railways. A comparison of a partial exercise undertaken by Barrett and a total productivity approach confirms that ...

    • Devaluation and competitiveness in a small open economy: Ireland 1987-1993 

      Bartolini, Leonardo (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      This paper studies market expectations of a devaluation of the Irish pound from 1987 to 1993, and relates them to the evolution of Ireland's competitiveness over the same period. Much of the volatility of expectations of ...

    • Manufacturing productivity in Northern Ireland: a re-examination 

      Roper, Stephen (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      This paper considers the influence of plant-level productivity and industry-mix/plantsize structure on manufacturing productivity in Northern Ireland. It demonstrates that from 1981-91 around two-thirds of the productivity ...