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Displaying Results 151 - 175 of 1607 on page 7 of 65
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Anthropometric history : what's in it for Ireland?
(1994)
Ó Gráda, Cormac
Anthropometric history : what's in it for Ireland?
(1994)
Ó Gráda, Cormac
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1753
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Applying ant colony optimization metaheuristic to the DAG layering problem
(2007)
Andreev, Radoslav; Healy, Patrick; Nikolov, Nikola S.
Applying ant colony optimization metaheuristic to the DAG layering problem
(2007)
Andreev, Radoslav; Healy, Patrick; Nikolov, Nikola S.
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This paper 1 presents the design and implementation of an Ant Colony Optimization based algorithm for solving the DAG Layering Problem. This algorithm produces compact layerings by minimising their width and height. Importantly it takes into account the contribution of dummy vertices to the width of the resulting layering.
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/2362
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Approaches to learning of Irish students studying accounting
(1999)
Byrne, Marann; Flood, Barbara; Willis, Pauline
Approaches to learning of Irish students studying accounting
(1999)
Byrne, Marann; Flood, Barbara; Willis, Pauline
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Several reports on accounting education have identified the development of students' learning to learn as the primary objective of accounting education. Higher education research identifies the approach to learning as a significant factor in the overall student learning experience. If accounting educators are to find ways to improve the educational experience of their students, they must understand how students learn and the effects of the learning context on learning approaches. This study examines the approaches to learning adopted by first year students enrolled on the B.A. in Accounting and Finance and the BBS at Dublin City University and assesses the impact of a number of contextual variables on these learning approaches.
http://doras.dcu.ie/2222/
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Are Economic Growth and the Variability of the Business Cycle Related? Evidence from Five European Countries
(2002)
Fountas, Stilianos
Are Economic Growth and the Variability of the Business Cycle Related? Evidence from Five European Countries
(2002)
Fountas, Stilianos
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We use a long series of annual data that span over 100 years to examine the relationship between output growth and output growth uncertainty in five European countries. Using the GARCH methodology to proxy output growth uncertainty, we obtain two important results: First, more uncertainty about output growth leads to a higher rate of output growth in three of the five countries. Second, output growth reduces output growth uncertainty in all countries except one. Our results provide strong support to the view that macroeconomists should examine the theories of economic growth and the variability of the business cycle in tandem.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1286
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Are fund of hedge fund returns asymmetric?
(2004)
Lynch, Margaret; Hutson, Elaine; Stevenson, Max
Are fund of hedge fund returns asymmetric?
(2004)
Lynch, Margaret; Hutson, Elaine; Stevenson, Max
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We examine the return distributions of 332 funds of hedge funds and associated indices. Over half of the sample is significantly skewed according to the skewness statistic, and these are split 50/50 positive and negative. However, we argue that the skewness statistic can lead to erroneous inferences regarding the nature of the return distribution, because the test statistic is based on the normal distribution. Using a series of tests that make minimal assumptions about the shape of the underlying distribution, we find very little skewness in the returns of funds of funds, and when we do find evidence of asymmetry it is close to the mean rather than in the tails.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1124
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Are Greek budget deficits 'too large'?
(1995)
Fountas, Stilianos
Are Greek budget deficits 'too large'?
(1995)
Fountas, Stilianos
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We use a residual-based cointegration test suggested by Gregory and Hansen (1992) that allows for the determination of a structural break in the cointegrating vector to test for the sustainability of Greek fiscal deficits over the 1958-1992 period. This relatively recent test leads to a different result from that derived from standard Engle-Granger cointegration tests. The use of the conventional Engle-Granger test implies no cointegration between tax revenues and interestinclusive government expenditures. On the contrary, using the Gregory-Hansen test we conclude that tax revenues and interest-inclusive government expenditures are reintegrated and a structural break in the cointegrating vector took place in either 1981 or 1983. Our result of cointegration with a structural break is consistent with a strict interpretation of the government's intertemporal budget constraint since it implies a zero discounted value of the public debt. However, since the cointegration-regression s...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1361
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Are married women more deprived than their husbands?
(1996)
Cantillon, Sara; Nolan, Brian
Are married women more deprived than their husbands?
(1996)
Cantillon, Sara; Nolan, Brian
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Conventional methods of analysis of poverty assume resources are shared so that each individual in a household/family has the same standard of living. This paper measures differences between spouses in a large sample in indicators of deprivation of the type used in recent studies of poverty at household level. The quite limited overall imbalance in measured deprivation in favour of husbands suggests that applying such indicators to individuals will not reveal a substantial reservoir of hidden poverty among wives in non-poor households, nor much greater deprivation among women than men in poor households. This points to the need to develop more sensitive indicators of deprivation designed to measure individual living standards and poverty status, which can fit within the framework of traditional poverty research using large samples. It also highlights the need for clarification of the underlying poverty concept.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1053
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Are some forecasters really better than others?
(2010)
D'Agostino, Antonello; McQuinn, Kieran; Whelan, Karl
Are some forecasters really better than others?
(2010)
D'Agostino, Antonello; McQuinn, Kieran; Whelan, Karl
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In any dataset with individual forecasts of economic variables, some forecasters will perform better than others. However, it is possible that these ex post differences reflect sampling variation and thus overstate the ex ante differences between forecasters. In this paper, we present a simple test of the null hypothesis that all forecasters in the US Survey of Professional Forecasters have equal ability. We construct a test statistic that reflects both the relative and absolute performance of the forecaster and use bootstrap techniques to compare the empirical results with the equivalents obtained under the null hypothesis of equal forecaster ability. Results suggests limited evidence for the idea that the best forecasters are actually innately better than others, though there is evidence that a relatively small group of forecasters perform very poorly.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2645
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Are the marketed services more labour-intensive than industry?
(1985)
O'Riordan, William K.
Are the marketed services more labour-intensive than industry?
(1985)
O'Riordan, William K.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1422
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Are the US current account deficits really sustainable?
(1998)
Fountas, Stilianos
Are the US current account deficits really sustainable?
(1998)
Fountas, Stilianos
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We have tested for a long-run relationship between four US export measures and analogous import measures (measured in nominal and real terms, levels and deflated by GNP) in the 1967-1994 period using quarterly data. Using various econometric tests that include standard Engle-Granger cointegration tests and two tests that allow for test-determined breaks in the cointegrating relationship, we have shown that the hypothesis of no long-run relationship between exports and imports cannot be rejected. This finding contrasts sharply with earlier literature and carries the important policy implication that US current account deficits are not sustainable.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1373
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Around the European periphery 1870-1913 : globalization, schooling and growth
(1995)
O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G.
Around the European periphery 1870-1913 : globalization, schooling and growth
(1995)
O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G.
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On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to the First World War. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a spectacular convergence on the leaders, especially in real wages and living standards. Some, like Ireland, seemed to do it without industrialization. Some, like Italy, underwent a less spectacular catch-up, and it was limited to the industrializing North. Some, like Iberia, actually fell back. What accounts for this variety? What role did trade and tariff policy play? What about emigration and capital flows? What about schooling? We offer a tentative assessment of these contending explanations and conclude that globalization was by far the dominant force accounting for convergence (and divergence) around the periphery. Some exploited it well, and some badly.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1783
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Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity
(2009)
Duddy, Conal; Piggins, Ashley
Arrow's theorem and max-star transitivity
(2009)
Duddy, Conal; Piggins, Ashley
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In the literature on social choice and fuzzy preferences, a central question is how to represent the transitivity of a fuzzy binary relation. Arguably the most general way of doing this is to assume a form of transitivity called max-star transitivity. The star operator in this formulation is commonly taken to be a triangular norm. The familiar max-min transitivity condition is a member of this family, but there are infinitely many others. Restricting attention to fuzzy aggregation rules that satisfy counterparts of unanimity and independence of irrelevant alternatives, we characterise the set of max-star transitive relations that permit preference aggregation to be non-dictatorial. This set contains all and only those triangular norms that contain a zero divisor.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/994
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Artificial regression based LM test of mis-specification for ordered logit models
(1994)
Murphy, Anthony
Artificial regression based LM test of mis-specification for ordered logit models
(1994)
Murphy, Anthony
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Lagrange Multiplier tests for omitted variables , heteroscedasticity, incorrect functional form and asymmetry in the ordered logit model may be readily calculated using an artificial regression. The proposed artificial regression is both convenient and likely to have better small sample properties than the more common outer product gradient based artificial regression.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1769
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Artificial regression based LM tests of mis-specification for ordered probit models
(1994)
Murphy, Anthony
Artificial regression based LM tests of mis-specification for ordered probit models
(1994)
Murphy, Anthony
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Lagrange Multiplier (LM) tests for omitted variables, heteroscedasticity, incorrect functional form, and non-normality in the ordered probit model may be readily calculated using an artificial regression. The proposed artificial regression is both convenient and likely to have better small sample properties than the more common outer product gradient (OPG) form.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1763
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Artificial regression based mis-specification tests for discrete choice models
(1994)
Murphy, Anthony
Artificial regression based mis-specification tests for discrete choice models
(1994)
Murphy, Anthony
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LM tests for omitted variables, neglected heteroscedasticity and other mis-specifications in general discrete choice models may be simply and conveniently calculated using an artificial regression. This artificial regression approach is likely to have better small sample properties than the more common outer product gradient (OPG) form of LM test.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1760
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Ascribed Versus Achieved Social Status of CEOs and its Relationship with M&A Activities
(2011)
LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL
Ascribed Versus Achieved Social Status of CEOs and its Relationship with M&A Activities
(2011)
LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL
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Using a sample of CEOs of FTSE companies during a ten-year period from 2001 to 2010, we explore merger and acquisition activities from the perspective of social status theory. It investigates the influence of CEO social status on the likelihood to conduct mergers and acquisitions, distinguishing between ascribed and achieved social status. Three proxies of ascribed social status are employed based on the level of prestige of secondary schools and universities attended by the CEO. The analysis of achieved social status involves three measures based on UK Honours and Britain’s Most Admired Companies awards. The empirical results provide strong evidence of a negative relationship between CEO ascribed and achieved social status and his or her acquisitiveness. However, the influence of achieved status appears to be more consistent and significant than that of the ascribed status, indicating its dominant role in determining overall attained status.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/59294
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Assessing co-ordinated Asian exchange rate regimes
(2010)
Aggarwal, Raj; Muckley, Cal
Assessing co-ordinated Asian exchange rate regimes
(2010)
Aggarwal, Raj; Muckley, Cal
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This study assesses prospective Asian exchange rate regimes and finds short- and longrun currency dynamics more conducive to the introduction of a common peg based on a basket of the European euro, the United States dollar and the Japanese yen than the alternative of a United States dollar peg exchange rate regime. Exchange rate systems of 3- 4- and 5- Asian currencies are considered and the dynamics in a set of four European currencies prior to the introduction of the Euro provides benchmark evidence. The evidence for an Asian basket peg exchange rate regime is strengthened when, unlike prior studies, estimates of the long-run parameters account for time-varying volatility effects.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2567
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Assessing co-ordinated Asian exchange rate regimes
(2007)
Aggarwal, Raj; Muckley, Cal
Assessing co-ordinated Asian exchange rate regimes
(2007)
Aggarwal, Raj; Muckley, Cal
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This study assesses alternative Asian exchange rate regimes and finds short- and long-run currency dynamics more conducive to the possibility of introducing a common peg based on a basket of the European euro, the United States dollar and the Japanese yen than the alternative of re-introducing a United States dollar peg exchange rate regime. Exchange rate systems of 3- 4- and 5- Asian currencies are examined and the dynamics in a set of 4 European currencies prior to the introduction of the Euro provides benchmark evidence. The evidence for an Asian basket peg regime is strengthened when, unlike in prior studies, the long-run parameters are estimated while accounting for generalised autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity effects.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1180
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Assessing the Impact of Pensions Policy Reform in Ireland: the Case of Increasing the Pension Age
(2004)
O'Donoghue, Cathal
Assessing the Impact of Pensions Policy Reform in Ireland: the Case of Increasing the Pension Age
(2004)
O'Donoghue, Cathal
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Although demographic ageing will affect Ireland later than many EU countries, by 2050 it will result in significant pressures on the public pension system. Recent reform in Ireland has attempted to address these pressures by increasing the incentive to save for retirement and by introducing partial funding for existing Pay As You Go (PAYG) public servant and state pension schemes. Attempts have also been made to improve the poverty effectiveness of public policy instruments. Although there have been substantial policy interventions to increase the labour supply of groups such as married women, lone parents and the long-term unemployed, there has been little emphasis on increasing the labour supply of older workers. This paper uses a new dynamic microsimulation model to simulate life-course demographic and labour market histories for a cross-section of the Irish population. These simulated life-histories are then been used to simulate pension and other public policy at the micro-leve...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/1036
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Assessing the impact of public transfers on private risk sharing arrangements : evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico
(2008)
Pavan, Marina; Colussi, Aldo
Assessing the impact of public transfers on private risk sharing arrangements : evidence from a randomized experiment in Mexico
(2008)
Pavan, Marina; Colussi, Aldo
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We adopt a structural approach to studying the effects of public transfers on consumption smoothing, risk sharing and welfare in small village economies. We calibrate the key parameters of a dynamic limited commitment model using data gathered as part of the Mexican Progresa program, and take advantage of the randomized experimental design of the data to validate the model using the treatment sample. The limited commitment model enriched to allow for unobserved heterogeneity in preferences can reasonably well explain consumption dynamics and cross-sectional distributions. The calibrated model correctly predicts the increase in consumption smoothing of transfers’ recipients, and the decrease in risk sharing between beneficiaries and non beneficiaries of the program. Progresa transfers are found to crowd-out between 3% and 10% of the pre-existing private transfers, but the overall direct effect of the subsidy on consumption is welfare improving for all households. Last, we use our str...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1931
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Assessing the importance of multi-dimensional commitment to international HRM: evidence from employees in the Irish financial services industry
(2003)
Conway, Edel; Monks, Kathy
Assessing the importance of multi-dimensional commitment to international HRM: evidence from employees in the Irish financial services industry
(2003)
Conway, Edel; Monks, Kathy
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A key feature of the HRM literature in recent years has concerned the identification of HR practices associated with high performance or high commitment management. Despite references to 'high commitment' in this literature, little research has examined the impact of these practices on the attitudes and commitment of employees. This is despite claims that commitment is best viewed as a multidimensional construct, with different outcomes for both individuals and for organisations pursuing high commitment strategies. This pursuit of two disparate research agendas makes it difficult to add sense to what might represent best practice from an employee perspective, and what might constitute high commitment HR practices. This paper extends both HRM and commitment research perspectives by examining employee experiences of HR practices and linking these experiences to multiple dimensions of commitment. Findings are based on a survey of employees (N = 288) within three multinational...
http://doras.dcu.ie/2405/
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Asymmetric labor markets and the location of firms: Are multinationals attracted to weak labor standards?
(2003)
Naghavi, Alireza
Asymmetric labor markets and the location of firms: Are multinationals attracted to weak labor standards?
(2003)
Naghavi, Alireza
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This paper studies the strategic behavior of multinationals towards weak labor standards in developing countries (South). Without a marginal cost pricing policy, abundant labor in the South gives firms the power to set wages through their choice of output. A strategic reduction in output offsets or weakens direct gains from lower wages. In an open economy, it also increases output and profits of a competitor that operates in a perfect labor market. These effects lower profitability of locating in the South casting doubts on traditional beliefs that multinationals are always attracted to lower wages. Adopting standards enhances Southern welfare unambiguously.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1787
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Attitudes and behaviour of the Irish electorate in the first referendum on the Treaty of Nice
(2002)
Sinnott, Richard
Attitudes and behaviour of the Irish electorate in the first referendum on the Treaty of Nice
(2002)
Sinnott, Richard
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1825
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Attitudes and behaviour of the Irish electorate in the second referendum on the Treaty of Nice
(2003)
Sinnott, Richard
Attitudes and behaviour of the Irish electorate in the second referendum on the Treaty of Nice
(2003)
Sinnott, Richard
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/1917
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Attitudes to and visions of civil society/state relations in Central America: implications for sustainable development
(2010)
Cannon, Barry; Hume, Mo
Attitudes to and visions of civil society/state relations in Central America: implications for sustainable development
(2010)
Cannon, Barry; Hume, Mo
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This paper will present results of a research project on civil society held in three Central American states, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras, in July and August, 2009, as part of the Irish Aid funded and DCU led Active Citizenship in Central America project. The paper is based on a wide range of events and interviews held in these three countries, with five distinct populations, many of them involved in the Active Citizenship Project: students of NGO Management and Municipal Leadership Diplomas funded by the project; university staff from the three partner and associate universities giving these courses; local NGO directors; local community groups; government officials. The main question framing these activities was: what is the current relation between the state and civil society in the three project countries in the context of the move to the left in Latin America? Results are examined in terms of future trends for civil society/state relations in these countries and their im...
http://doras.dcu.ie/15101/
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