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Towards a Better and Sustainable Health Care System Resource Allocation and Financing Issues for Ireland
(ESRI, 15/10/2010)The key to any efficient and sustainable system is coherence ? the various elements must lead in the same direction so that actions do not conflict and mixed signals are avoided. In the context of a complex system, such ... -
Trade Liberalisation and Climate Change: A CGE Analysis of the Impacts on Global Agriculture
(ESRI, 2011)Based on predicted changes in the magnitude and distribution of global precipitation, temperature and river flow under the IPCC SRES A1B and A2 scenarios, this study assesses the potential impacts of climate change and CO2 ... -
Trade, Energy, and Carbon Dioxide: An Analysis for the Two Economies of Ireland
(ESRI, 2012)In this paper we use a subsystem input?output decomposition analysis to examine the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions in the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland. We use a bi?regional input?output analysis to look ... -
Trends in Air Pollution in Ireland: A Decomposition Analysis
(ESRI, 13/02/2012)Trends in the emissions to air of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and ammonia in Ireland are analysed with a logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition for the period of ... -
UK Tourists, The Great Recession and Irish Tourism Policy
(ESRI, 27/10/2011)Inbound tourism to Ireland fell sharply in 2009 and 2010. Visits to Ireland from the UK, the dominant country of origin of visitors to Ireland, did not fall faster than UK visits elsewhere. We use micro-data for UK travellers ... -
The Uncertainty about the Social Cost of Carbon: A Decomposition Analysis Using FUND
(ESRI, 01/09/2011)We report the results of an uncertainty decomposition analysis of the social cost of carbon as estimated by FUND, a model that has a more detailed representation of the economic impact of climate change than any other ... -
The Uncertainty about the Total Economic Impact of Climate Change
(ESRI, 14/04/2011)This paper uses a vote-counting procedure to estimate the probability density function of the total economic impact as a parabolic function of global warming. There is a wide range of uncertainty about the impact of climate ... -
The US and Ireland Approach to Sentencing in Cartel Cases: the Citroen Case
(ESRI, 29/01/2013)Developing a coherent evidence based methodology for determining sanctions in cartel cases is vitally important for robust cartel enforcement in Ireland. This methodology should take into account aggravating/mitigating ... -
User Cost of Debt-Financed Capital in Irish Manufacturing Industry: 1985 2011
(ESRI, 07/02/2013)This paper provides estimates of the cost of debt-financed capital to Irish manufacturing industry over the period 1985 to 2011. The estimates are provided for two types of capital assets, machinery and equipment and ...