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Displaying Results 126 - 150 of 2044 on page 6 of 82
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Agricultural Biodiversity and Land Fragmentation: the case of Bulgaria
(2010)
van Rensburg, Thomas M.
Agricultural Biodiversity and Land Fragmentation: the case of Bulgaria
(2010)
van Rensburg, Thomas M.
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of the role of land fragmentation, crop biodiversity and their interplay with farm profitability. Original primary date are drawn from a survey conducted in Bulgaria. We present two different estimation methods: Seemingly Unrelated Regression and Three Stages Least Squares. The econometric results stress the ambiguous role of land fragmentation on farm profitability. One one hand, land fragmentation reduces farm profitability. On the other hand, land fragmentation fosters crop diversification. Biodiversity also plays a beneficial role in farm profitability. Policies that aim to reduce land fragmentation may overlook the positive link between diversity and plot heterogeneity.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/974
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Agricultural entrepreneurs as entrepreneurial partners in land use management: a policy-based characterization
(2010)
Steele, Scott R.
Agricultural entrepreneurs as entrepreneurial partners in land use management: a policy-based characterization
(2010)
Steele, Scott R.
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An organizational economic analysis of the agricultural enterprise illustrates that agricultural entrepreneurs are not the independent capitalist entrepreneurs they are often assumed to be. This paper offers an alternative characterization of agricultural entrepreneurs as entrepreneurial land-use managers in an (uneasy) partnership with the state to provide food and fiber and additional non-food based environmental products and services. Analysis of European and North American agricultural policy on market liberalization and the environment support this characterization. The partnership characterization is important for understanding current agricultural policies and the relationships between agricultural entrepreneurs, the state and the general populace.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1137
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Agricultural interests and Irish trade policy over the last half-century : a tale told without recourse to heroes
(2009)
Barry, Frank
Agricultural interests and Irish trade policy over the last half-century : a tale told without recourse to heroes
(2009)
Barry, Frank
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Irish accounts of the demise of protectionist thinking in the late 1950s and early 1960s emphasise the importance of the disastrous economic performance of the 1950s and the policy learning that it engendered. Other small peripheral European economies such as Finland and Portugal also abandoned protectionism at the same time however, despite much stronger economic performances over the decade. The present paper identifies the formation of EFTA as the common underlying factor, and traces how all the subsequent twists and turns in Irish trade policy can be understood as the playing out of dominant agricultural interests. Once Ireland joined the European Community, for example, it turned protectionist again. The analysis forces one to think more carefully about the role of leadership and ideas in economic policy-making.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2358
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Agricultural output, calories and living standards in England before and during the Industrial Revolution
(2012)
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac
Agricultural output, calories and living standards in England before and during the Industrial Revolution
(2012)
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac
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This paper surveys the results of four recent, separate attempts at estimating agricultural output and food availability in England and Wales at points between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. It highlights their contrasting implications for trends in economic growth and nutritional status over time. It also offers some suggestions aimed at narrowing gaps between the evidence and how it has been interpreted.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3723
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Agriculture, Rural Development and Potential for a ‘Middle Agriculture’ in Ireland
(2010)
Macken-Walsh, Aine
Agriculture, Rural Development and Potential for a ‘Middle Agriculture’ in Ireland
(2010)
Macken-Walsh, Aine
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This paper gives a brief overview of current farm viability in Ireland and summarises some of the main ‘barriers’ to farm families’ engagement in contemporary rural development programmes. Against this backdrop, the paper discusses the potential of a middle agriculture model for rural development. The capacity of such a model to address some of the economic, social and cultural predicaments of Irish family farms is outlined. The potential of the model is also discussed in terms of how it may respond to contemporary EC rural development policy priority objectives.
http://hdl.handle.net/11019/690
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Air quality and MOLAND : description of a methodology to determine emissions output and affected populations
(2008)
Casey, Edward; Twumasi, Bright Osei
Air quality and MOLAND : description of a methodology to determine emissions output and affected populations
(2008)
Casey, Edward; Twumasi, Bright Osei
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In recent years, awareness of air quality issues in urban areas has increased significantly. The negative consequences for human health as a result of poor air quality have resulted in numerous laws being enacted both in Ireland and around the world, in an attempt to limit exposure. Within the urban environment, motor vehicles are one of the most significant contributors to pollution. As a result, constant monitoring takes place but little work is done on predicting likely changes in air quality, for better or worse, as a result of changes in landuse or transport. The MOLAND model can provide the basis for an emissions estimation methodology to predict changes in vehicular emissions, and consequently air quality, both now and in the future, enabling policy makers and planners to examine the air quality implications of their decisions.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2509
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All around the garden: a review of Irish local government policy on the built environment for children and young people in social housing
(2011)
Kerrins, Liz; Fahey, Caroline; Greene, Sheila
All around the garden: a review of Irish local government policy on the built environment for children and young people in social housing
(2011)
Kerrins, Liz; Fahey, Caroline; Greene, Sheila
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The Irish National Children‟s Strategy (NCS, 2000) includes the goal that children will receive quality supports and services. Fourteen objectives were developed in pursuit of this goal, including „that children will benefit from a built and natural environment that supports their physical and emotional well-being‟. It was envisaged in the NCS that policy implementation would happen locally. This paper assesses how this objective has been articulated in local policy on the urban built environment and how it supports children‟s and young people‟s play, recreation and mobility in their communities, particularly for those children living in social housing. A case study approach is adopted, exploring the policies of two Irish local authorities – Galway City Council and South Dublin County Council – and interviewing key stakeholders in both locations. After a discussion of the findings, implications for current policy, at national and local levels, are outlined.
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/219851
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All change but no change : can we learn the lessons from the past?
(2010)
Kennaway, Brian
All change but no change : can we learn the lessons from the past?
(2010)
Kennaway, Brian
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This paper looks at the broad history of Orangeism and Unionism from the beginning of the Orange tradition at the end of the seventeenth century, to the present issues facing us today at the beginning of the twenty-first century. I look at some of the major events in this period to see how they were understood then and how they are received now.[Extract from introduction]
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2359
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All Change or Small Change? Reflections on Women's studies
(1987)
Smyth, Ailbhe
All Change or Small Change? Reflections on Women's studies
(1987)
Smyth, Ailbhe
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5719
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All-pay contests with constraints
(2012)
Pastine, Ivan; Pastine, Tuvana
All-pay contests with constraints
(2012)
Pastine, Ivan; Pastine, Tuvana
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This paper provides simple closed form formulae for players’ expected payoffs in a broad class of all-pay contests where players may have constraints on their actions.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3526
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Allocating allowances in greenhouse gas emissions trading
(2003)
Bohm, Peter; Convery, Frank J.
Allocating allowances in greenhouse gas emissions trading
(2003)
Bohm, Peter; Convery, Frank J.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/832
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Alternative instruments for institutional quality and the effect of european settlements on economic development
(2004)
Silva, Luis Vaz
Alternative instruments for institutional quality and the effect of european settlements on economic development
(2004)
Silva, Luis Vaz
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The study of the effect of institutional quality on economic performance has a long tradition in economic development. Considering the problems of reverse causality in the link between economic development and institutions, most recent research employs instrumental variables for the measurement of this effect. The present paper explores the impact of European settlements on economic development. These settlements are explained as a function of climate, disease environment, and availability of land. Here these variables are found to determine to a great extent European settlements in Africa and the Americas. Consequently, these variables are used as instruments for institutional quality and the large effect of institutions on income per capita documented by previous studies is through them confirmed. This study finds evidence that limitations of other instruments are overcome using these variables as instruments.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1297
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Amity and enmity : variety in Ulster protestant culture
(2010)
Buckley, Anthony D.
Amity and enmity : variety in Ulster protestant culture
(2010)
Buckley, Anthony D.
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Ulster Protestant attitudes to, for example, history, religion or territory, have been portrayed by scholars as full of animosity towards Catholics. In fact, Protestant culture, like any other, is enabling, giving people the ability to act in whatever manner seems appropriate. This paper explores the fact that, throughout Ulster's Troubles, there has been cooperation as well as conflict between the ethnic groups and that this flexibility reflects itself in the culture available to Protestants.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2341
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An analysis of indirect tax reform in Ireland in the 1980s
(1993)
Madden, David (David Patrick)
An analysis of indirect tax reform in Ireland in the 1980s
(1993)
Madden, David (David Patrick)
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This paper applies the Ahmad-Stern model of indirect tax reform to the Irish economy for two different years, 1980 and 1987. It introduces a modification to the traditional marginal social cost measure used in these studies, identify welfare-improving, revenue-neutral tax changes at the margin and examines their sensitivity to such issues as inequality aversion and consumer preferences. It also estimates the implied degree of inequality aversion for Ireland for these two years. Results suggest that the government's social welfare function, as implied by the indirect tax system, has become less inequality averse.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1729
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An analysis of mental stress in Ireland, 1994-2000
(2007)
Madden, David (David Patrick)
An analysis of mental stress in Ireland, 1994-2000
(2007)
Madden, David (David Patrick)
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The General Health Questionnair(GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels across populations may then be sensitive to the chosen threshold. This paper uses stochastic dominance techniques to show that mental stress fell in Ireland over the 1994 to 2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that changes in the proportion unemployed and in the protective effect of income, education and marital status upon mental health were the principal factors underlying this fall.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/45
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An analysis of the EU Emission Trading Scheme
(2009)
Bredin, Donal; Muckley, Cal
An analysis of the EU Emission Trading Scheme
(2009)
Bredin, Donal; Muckley, Cal
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The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is the key policy instrument of the European Commission's Climate Change Program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions to eight percent below 1990 levels by 2012. A critically important element of the EU ETS is the establishment of a market determined price for EU allowances. This article examines the extent to which several theoretically founded factors including, economic growth, energy prices and weather conditions determine the expected prices of the European Union CO2 allowances during the 2005 through to the 2009 period. The novel aspect of our study is that we examine the heavily traded futures instruments that have an expiry date in Phase 2 of the EU ETS. Our study adopts both static and recursive versions of the Johansen multivariate cointegration likelihood ratio test as well as a variation on this test with a view to controlling for time varying volatility effects. Our results are indicative of a new prici...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2568
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An analysis of the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme
(2010)
Hynes, Stephen; Murphy, Eithne
An analysis of the Rural Environmental Protection Scheme
(2010)
Hynes, Stephen; Murphy, Eithne
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The Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) was introduced under Council Regulation 2078/92 in order to encourage farmers to carry out their activities in a more extensive and environmentally friendly manner. This paper looks at the general design of REPS and its uptake by farmers. It evaluates the obligations that REPS places on farmers and the penalties for non-compliance. The paper also examines, using National Farm Survey data, the extent to which farming activities that can help or hinder the environment have changed at a national level due to the REPS scheme. The analysis shows that REPS has had an impact on machinery & building investment and on land & building maintenance. Fertiliser and pesticide use have fallen marginally as a result of the scheme. However, the impact of REPS on the production of organic nitrogen and on the use of chemical nitrogen has been negligible.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1283
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An econometric analysis of burglary in Ireland
(2004)
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; Lydon, Reamonn
An econometric analysis of burglary in Ireland
(2004)
Denny, Kevin; Harmon, Colm; Lydon, Reamonn
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This paper outlines an econometric model of the level of burglary in Ireland between 1952 and 1998. We explain the evolution of the trend in Burglary in terms of demographic factors: in this case the share of young males in the population, the macro-economy in the form of consumer expenditure and two characteristics of the criminal justice system : the detection rate for these crimes and the size of the prison population. The share of young males is associated with higher levels of these crimes. Imprisonment and detection act as powerful forces for reducing crimes, the effects of aggregate consumption are more difficult to pin down but we show that higher spending is associated with more lucrative but probably fewer crimes. One somewhat surprising result is that we were unable to find any robust effect from direct measures of labour market activity such as unemployment rates or wage levels.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/941
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An econometric analysis of burglary in Ireland
(2004)
Denny, Kevin; Lydon, Reamonn; Harmon, Colm
An econometric analysis of burglary in Ireland
(2004)
Denny, Kevin; Lydon, Reamonn; Harmon, Colm
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This paper outlines an econometric model of the level of burglary in Ireland between 1952 and 1998. We explain the evolution of the trend in Burglary in terms of demographic factors: in this case the share of young males in the population, the macro-economy in the form of consumer expenditure and two characteristics of the criminal justice system : the detection rate for these crimes and the size of the prison population. The share of young males is associated with higher levels of these crimes. Imprisonment and detection act as powerful forces for reducing crimes, the effects of aggregate consumption are more difficult to pin down but we show that higher spending is associated with more lucrative but probably fewer crimes. One somewhat surprising result is that we were unable to find any robust effect from direct measures of labour market activity such as unemployment rates or wage levels.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/157
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An Effective Theory of Superfluid Turbulence from Local Scale Invariance
(2011)
SEN, SIDDHARTHA
An Effective Theory of Superfluid Turbulence from Local Scale Invariance
(2011)
SEN, SIDDHARTHA
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An effective locally scale invariant model is constructed using Weyl?s method starting from a free Schroedinger equation. The model requires additional gauge and gravitational degrees of freedom. It is suggested that this scale invariant model is an effective theory for superfluid turbulence. The additional degrees of freedom introduced can then be identified with filament excitations or zeros of a Gross-Pitaevski equation which are used to describe superfluid turbu- lence. Qualitative estimates of the way filaments separate after collision are made which agree with observations.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60105
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An empirical analysis of exchange rate and interest rate shocks in a small economy : Ireland 1979 to 1991
(1993)
Thom, Rodney
An empirical analysis of exchange rate and interest rate shocks in a small economy : Ireland 1979 to 1991
(1993)
Thom, Rodney
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1733
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An empirical analysis of inward foreign direct investment flows in the European Union with emphasis on the market enlargement hypothesis
(2010)
Fountas, Stilianos
An empirical analysis of inward foreign direct investment flows in the European Union with emphasis on the market enlargement hypothesis
(2010)
Fountas, Stilianos
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We use a cross-section, time-series approach to study the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the European union with particular emphasis on the expectations of a Single Market following the Single European Act of 1987. Using annual data from the 1980s and early 1990s, we investigate the determinants of US and Japanese FDI in the EU by pooling the data by the host country. We find strong evidence in favour of a Single Market effect where the anticipation of a larger market size due to a barriers-free European market leads to an increase in the inflows of FDI. In addition, our estimation results show that FDI flows in the EU also depend on market size and the real exchange rate (as a proxy of relative labour costs).
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1363
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An empirical analysis of nominal exchange rate shocks in a small economy : Ireland 1960 to 1983
(1985)
Thom, Rodney
An empirical analysis of nominal exchange rate shocks in a small economy : Ireland 1960 to 1983
(1985)
Thom, Rodney
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1942
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An empirical analysis of short-run and long-run Irish export functions : does exchange rate volatility matter?
(2010)
Fountas, Stilianos; Murphy, Eithne
An empirical analysis of short-run and long-run Irish export functions : does exchange rate volatility matter?
(2010)
Fountas, Stilianos; Murphy, Eithne
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We analyse the long-run and short-run relationship between merchandise export volume and its determinants, foreign income, relative prices and exchange rate variability, using the techniques of cointegration and error correction. The model was estimated for Irish exports and sectoral exports SITC 0-4 and SITC 5-8 to the European Union using quarterly data for the period 1979-1992. The sectoral classification corresponds to the exports of mainly indigenous Irish firms and multinationals, respectively. We find that exchange rate volatility has a negative effect on the exports of the multinational sector but no effect on the exports of the indigenous sector in the short run. In contrast, exchange rate volatility has no effect on the exports of the multinational sector but a positive effect on the exports of the indigenous sector and overall exports in the long run. This last result implies that Ireland's participation in the single European currency might have a negative impact on...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1374
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An equilibrium search model of the informal sector
(2006)
Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank
An equilibrium search model of the informal sector
(2006)
Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank
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We use an equilibrium search framework to model a formal- informal sector labour market where the informal sector arises endogenously. In our model large firms will be in the formal sector and pay a wage premium, while small firms are characterised by low wages and tend to be in the informal sector. Using data from the South African labour force survey we illustrate that the data is consistent with these predictions.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/955
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