Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 09, No. 4, 1978 by Title

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    • Interpretations of the Northern Ireland problem - appraisal 

      Whyte, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      The most useful contribution to be made at this point, then, seems to lie not in adding to the innumerable theories in the field, but rather in assessing those theories already proposed. This paper is an attempt to fulfil ...

    • Quantitative analysis of degree of integration between the Irish and U.K. financial markets 

      Browne, Francis X.; O'Connell, Thomas (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      In this paper, we investigate the quantitative relationship between Irish and U.K. interest rates. With varying degrees of emphasis, it is frequently stated that Irish interest rates mirror U.K. rates and can be treated, ...

    • Single transferable vote and the Irish general election of 1977 

      Mair, Peter; Maguire, Maria (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      In an STV contest, too many names on a ballot paper can confuse voters and compound vote leakage (Mair and Laver, 1975), and we can assume that this did happen in the case of the Coalition. Whereas Fianna Fail nominated ...

    • Social areas in Dublin 

      Hourihan, Kevin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      The primary purpose of the paper is not to examine Dublin's factorial ecology (even with different variables and methods), but rather to identify social areas in the city and examine their interrelationships and implications. ...

    • Substituting means for missing observations in regression 

      Conniffe, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      This note examines why the simple method of substituting means seems to give good results in certain circumstances. The objective is not to promote this simple approach instead of more sophisticated methods - no one has ...