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Displaying Results 101 - 125 of 2044 on page 5 of 82
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A theory of the impediments to environmental tax reform
(2001)
Clinch, J. Peter; Dunne, Louise
A theory of the impediments to environmental tax reform
(2001)
Clinch, J. Peter; Dunne, Louise
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Environmental Tax Reform (ETR) is widely accepted to be a policy with desirable environmental, and other economic effects. The question arises then as to why its implementation has been so patchy. There is a broad literature on the economic impact of ETR, however, there have been very few research efforts devoted to understanding the roles and imperatives of the public, policy-makers, businesses and other stakeholders who are addressed by ETR. This paper examines the impediments to environmental tax reform. Focus groups were formed comprising of members of the general public and these provided a forum for detailed reactions to the ETR concept. Interviews were conducted with policy makers and key business people in an attempt to identify both the patterns of thinking behind ETR and the main obstacles to its introduction. Having presented the results, a theory of the main impediments to ETR is developed. The principal potential impediments to ETR include: mistrust of the government, i...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/820
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Absolute return volatility
(2004)
Cotter, John
Absolute return volatility
(2004)
Cotter, John
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In recent years the finance industry from an academic and practitioner perspective has placed heavy emphasis on the analysis of volatility models. This is understandable given the importance that volatility plays for these agents and the fact that it is not directly observable representing somewhat of a holy grail. In particular, volatility modelling feeds directly into risk management practices.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1139
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Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers, and public policy
(2003)
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter
Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers, and public policy
(2003)
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter
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Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm’s "absorptive capacity" (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to profitability. We explore the theoretical implications of this. We specify a general model of the absorptive capacity process and show that costly absorption both raises the effectiveness of own R&D and lowers the effective spillover coefficient. This weakens the case for encouraging research joint ventures, even if there is complete information sharing between its members. It also implies an additional strategic pay-off to policies that raise the level of extra-industry knowledge.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1886
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Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers, and public policy
(2004)
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter
Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers, and public policy
(2004)
Leahy, Dermot; Neary, J. Peter
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Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm’s "absorptive capacity" (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to profitability. We explore the theoretical implications of this. We specify a general model of the absorptive capacity process and show that costly absorption both raises the effectiveness of own R&D and lowers the effective spillover coefficient. This weakens the case for encouraging research joint ventures, even if there is complete information sharing between its members. It also implies an additional strategic pay-off to policies that raise the level of extra-industry knowledge.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1312
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Accounting for Skill Levels in Recreational Demand Modelling using a Clustered RUM approach
(2010)
Garvey, Eoghan
Accounting for Skill Levels in Recreational Demand Modelling using a Clustered RUM approach
(2010)
Garvey, Eoghan
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We adapt the standard random utility model to take account of the heterogeneity of recreational preferences by using what we call a 'clustered conditional logit framework'. By separating out our sample of whitewater kayakers into two exogenously identifiable groups (based on their skill level) and running separate conditional logits for each group we are able to take account of the fact that kayakers of different skill levels are looking for different characteristics from the whitewater site they choose to visit. We find that not taking into account the differences in the skill of the kayakers and the grade of the river will result in an overestimation of the welfare estimates associated with improvements to lower grade whitewater sites (which are frequented by basic/intermediated proficiency level kayakers) and underestimating welfare estimates associated with changes in the attributes of higher grade whitewater sites (which are frequented by advanced proficiency level ka...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1080
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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries: stylized facts and evidence on their effectiveness
(2014)
Martin, John P.
Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries: stylized facts and evidence on their effectiveness
(2014)
Martin, John P.
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Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour market policies. Yet they are defined and implemented differently across OECD countries and their success rates vary too. The Great Recession has posed a severe stress test for these policies with some commentators arguing that they are at best 'fair weather' policies. This paper sheds light on these issues mainly via the lens of recent OECD research. It presents the stylized facts on how OECD countries have responded to the Great Recession in terms of ramping up their spending on active labour market policies (ALMPs), a key component in any activation strategy. It then reviews the macroeconomic evidence on the impact of ALMPs on employment and unemployment rates. This is followed by a review of the key lessons from recent OECD country reviews of activation policies. It concludes with a discussion of crucial unanswered questions about activation.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5674
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Active labour market programmes and poverty dynamics in Ireland
(2008)
Halpin, Brendan; Hill, John
Active labour market programmes and poverty dynamics in Ireland
(2008)
Halpin, Brendan; Hill, John
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Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs), which provide training and subsidised employment to the unemployed, are an important part of Ireland’s welfare state. While a good deal of existing research is concerned with the effect of these policies on employment chances and on wage rates, none addresses the connection between poverty and ALMPs.
Combat Poverty Agency
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/369
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Adam Smith and Amartya Sen : markets and famines in pre-industrial Europe
(2002)
Ó Gráda, Cormac
Adam Smith and Amartya Sen : markets and famines in pre-industrial Europe
(2002)
Ó Gráda, Cormac
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How markets perform during famines has long been a contentious issue. Recent research tends to associate famine with market segmentation and hoarding. The evidence of this paper, based on an analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of price movements during four famines in preindustrial Europe, is that markets functioned ‘normally’ in times of crisis.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/497
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Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution
(2015)
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac
Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution
(2015)
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac
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Although largely absent from modern accounts of the Industrial Revolution, watches were the first mass produced consumer durable, and were Adam Smith’s pre-eminent example of technological progress. In fact, Smith makes the notable claim that watch prices may have fallen by up to 95 per cent over the preceding century; a claim that this paper attempts to evaluate. We look at changes in the reported value of over 3,200 stolen watches from records of criminal trials in the Old Bailey court in London from 1685 to 1810. Before allowing for quality improvements we find that the real price of watches in nearly all categories falls steadily by 1.3 per cent per year, equivalent to a fall of 75 per cent over a century, a rate considerably above the growth rate of average labour productivity in British industry in the early nineteenth century.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6439
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Adam Smith's labour command measure of value
(1984)
O'Donnell, Rory
Adam Smith's labour command measure of value
(1984)
O'Donnell, Rory
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1410
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Adapting consociation to Northern Ireland
(2010)
Coakley, John
Adapting consociation to Northern Ireland
(2010)
Coakley, John
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This paper looks at the concept of consociational government (or the principle of fully-fledged power sharing) as it has evolved in recent comparative studies of the politics of divided societies. It describes the stages through which this concept moved to the centre of the political agenda in Northern Ireland, based on contributions by policy makers, academics, journalists and others. It reviews the difficult history of efforts to translate this principle into practice, noting the challenge posed by strong political cultural resistance to any principle other than the majoritarian, Westminister model. It looks at the stages by which powerful objections to consociation—in particular from unionists—gave way to a more matter-of-fact acceptance of this principle, and considers the factors which lay behind this transition.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2367
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Add women and hope? Assessing the gender impact of EU common security and defence policy missions: a policy report
(2017)
McDonagh, Kenneth; Deiana, Maria-Adriana
Add women and hope? Assessing the gender impact of EU common security and defence policy missions: a policy report
(2017)
McDonagh, Kenneth; Deiana, Maria-Adriana
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This project bridges the divide between policy makers and critical approaches to gender by engaging with both the quantitative (number of women) and qualitative (shifts in underlying social power structures) aspects of gender in the context of CSDP. To do so it examined the policy documents and secondary literature on women, peace and security and the EU. We also conducted interviews with key personnel in Brussels and in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina to examine the planning, practice and impact of EU crisis management missions in the field. The Project makes the following recommendations based on this research: • Greater commitment to the Women, Peace & Security (WPS) agenda is required at the very top-level, both within EU planning offices such as the CMPD & CPSS, and within Member States at the highest political level and in addressing institutional cultures within personnel contributing agencies. • Better resourcing for Gender planning and Gender Focal point staff, double...
http://doras.dcu.ie/21744/
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Addiction as a Disease State
(2012)
Regan, Ciaran M.
Addiction as a Disease State
(2012)
Regan, Ciaran M.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3956
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Administrative reform in a liberal market economy
(2008)
Hardiman, Niamh; MacCarthaigh, Muiris
Administrative reform in a liberal market economy
(2008)
Hardiman, Niamh; MacCarthaigh, Muiris
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1865
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Advanced Computational Complexity Theory from an Elementary Standpoint
(2010)
Velupillai, K. Vela
Advanced Computational Complexity Theory from an Elementary Standpoint
(2010)
Velupillai, K. Vela
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A computable economist's view of the world of computational complexity theory is described. This means the model of computation underpinning theories of computational complexity plays a central role. The emergence of computational complexity theories from diverse traditions is emphasised. The unifications that emerged in the modern era was codified by means of the notions of efficiency of computations, non-deterministric computations, completeness, reducibility and verifiability - all three of the latter concepts had their origins on what may be called 'Post's Program for Research for Higher Recursion Theory'. The recent real model of computation as a basis for studying computational complexity in the domain of the reals is also presented and discussed, albeit critically. A brief sceptical section on algorithmic complexity theory is included in an appendix.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/952
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Affective Equality as a Key Issue of Justice : A Comment on Fraser’s 3-Dimensional Framework
(2012)
Lynch, Kathleen
Affective Equality as a Key Issue of Justice : A Comment on Fraser’s 3-Dimensional Framework
(2012)
Lynch, Kathleen
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The relational realities of nurturing constitute a discrete site of social practice within and through which inequalities are created. The affective worlds of love, care and solidarity are therefore sites of political import that need to be examined in their own right while recognizing their inter-relatedness with economic, political and cultural systems in the generation of injustice. Drawing on extensive sociological research undertaken on care work, paid work and on education in a range of different studies, this paper argues that Fraser’s three-dimensional framework for analyzing injustice needs to expanded to include a fourth, relational dimension.The affective relations within which caring is grounded constitute a discrete field of social action within and through which inequalities and exploitations can occur. Social justice issues are not confined to questions of redistribution, recognition or representation therefore; they also involve discrete sites of relational practice ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/4400
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Affluence versus Equality? A critique of Wilkinson and Pickett’s book ‘The Spirit Level’
(2010)
O'Connell, Michael F.
Affluence versus Equality? A critique of Wilkinson and Pickett’s book ‘The Spirit Level’
(2010)
O'Connell, Michael F.
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The Spirit Level made strong claims that in developed countries, income growth was no longer important and the focus should turn to income differentials within society. Putting affluence before parity and solidarity led to the rise of widespread anxiety, insecurity and social dysfunction. In this paper, six problems are identified with the argument made in the Spirit Level: 1. There is no conflict between wealth and equality. In fact they tend to be highly correlated (i.e. wealthy societies are far more egalitarian than poorer societies); 2. Correlational data are relied upon to imply causal direction; 3. The focus on income inequality ignores the role of savings and state services; 4. There is no evidence that people are systematically stigmatised by buying ‘second-class’ goods; 5. Investment in ‘luxuries’ in wealthy countries have unforeseen consequences in raising living standards in poorer countries, e.g. the mobile phone; 6. The status of women is far more highly associated wit...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2475
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After conflict - placing the Sinn Féin party in a comparative politics context
(2006)
Doyle, John
After conflict - placing the Sinn Féin party in a comparative politics context
(2006)
Doyle, John
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Sinn Féin, the party most associated with the in public discourse with the term ‘republican’ in Ireland, is a party undergoing a process of development. It has been suggested that its recent electoral success would result in Sinn Féin moving to the centre and abandoning the civic republican focus on equality, political participation/activism and a national political project with a strong internationalist context – with which it has identified. However while aspects of Sinn Féin policy remain fluid and can lack clarity the evidence surveyed for this paper suggests that the party is not moving to the political centre on issues of social and economic equality, but is retaining a strong leftist, pro-equality agenda. Post Good Friday Agreement Sinn Féin is in its rhetoric keeping the issue of Irish unity strongly to the fore, in its manifestos both North and South. In an era of globalisation it has placed itself with the anti-corporate globalisation groupings and against right-wing natio...
http://doras.dcu.ie/2136/
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After the 'War on Terror': regulatory states, risk bureaucracies and the risk-based governance of terror
(2010)
Heng, Yee-Kuang ; McDonagh, Kenneth
After the 'War on Terror': regulatory states, risk bureaucracies and the risk-based governance of terror
(2010)
Heng, Yee-Kuang ; McDonagh, Kenneth
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In March 2009, the Obama administration sent a message to senior Pentagon staff instructing them to refrain from using either of the terms ‘Long War’ or ‘Global War on Terror’ and to replace these terms with ‘Overseas Contingency Operations’. Similarly, the 2009 UK Strategy for Countering International Terrorism eschews military terminology, preferring instead National Risk Assessments whose overall aim is ‘to reduce the risk to the UK’. This paper seeks to explore what it terms an emerging risk-based approach being deployed by states. Such an approach has already played a significant role in the ‘War on Terror’ to date, particularly in relation to Anti-Terrorist Financing and Aviation security guidelines. The change in tone and, potentially, substance from the Obama White House may however create the opportunity for risk-based approaches to move further onto the centre stage in the war on terror, just as it has in the wider Risk Society. This paper argues that the end of the ‘War o...
http://doras.dcu.ie/15435/
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Agency and famine relief : Enniskillen workhouse during the Great Irish Famine
(2003)
Guinnane, Timothy; McCabe, Desmond; Ó Gráda, Cormac
Agency and famine relief : Enniskillen workhouse during the Great Irish Famine
(2003)
Guinnane, Timothy; McCabe, Desmond; Ó Gráda, Cormac
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/937
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Agency and famine relief : Enniskillen Workhouse during the Great Irish Famine
(2004)
Ó Gráda, Cormac; Guinnane, Timothy; McCabe, Desmond
Agency and famine relief : Enniskillen Workhouse during the Great Irish Famine
(2004)
Ó Gráda, Cormac; Guinnane, Timothy; McCabe, Desmond
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/476
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Agency, allocation and distribution - evidence on the motivation of central to local transfers
(1988)
McDowell, Moore
Agency, allocation and distribution - evidence on the motivation of central to local transfers
(1988)
McDowell, Moore
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1453
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Aggregate-supply, aggregate-demand, and structural factors in recent Irish unemployment
(1990)
Barry, Frank
Aggregate-supply, aggregate-demand, and structural factors in recent Irish unemployment
(1990)
Barry, Frank
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This paper aims, firstly, to present an overview of the causes of Ireland's poor employment performance in recent decades by drawing together the results of existing empirical research and secondly, to pinpoint some deficienceis in the empirical approaches adopted to date.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1384
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Aggregating partitions
(2011)
Duddy, Conal; Piggins, Ashley
Aggregating partitions
(2011)
Duddy, Conal; Piggins, Ashley
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Consider the following social choice problem. A group of individuals seek to partition a finite set X into two subsets. The individuals may disagree over the partition and an aggregation rule is applied to determine a compromise outcome. We permit collective indifference and so the outcome is a pair of disjoint subsets of X which may or may not partition X. Critically, neither subset can contain all of the elements in X. We present four normatively desirable properties that identify one aggregation rule uniquely. These properties are similar to those Young (J. Econ. Theory 9 (1974) 43-52) used in his characterization of the Borda rule.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2308
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Agribusiness and idle land theory, with special reference to Guatemala
(1988)
Barry, Frank
Agribusiness and idle land theory, with special reference to Guatemala
(1988)
Barry, Frank
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1452
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