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Displaying Results 201 - 225 of 2044 on page 9 of 82
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Balanced growth revisited : a two-sector model of economic growth
(2000)
Whelan, Karl
Balanced growth revisited : a two-sector model of economic growth
(2000)
Whelan, Karl
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The one-sector Solow-Ramsey model is the most popular model of long-run economic growth. This paper argues that a two-sector approach, which distinguishes the durable goods sector from the rest of the economy, provides a far better picture of the long-run behavior of the U.S. economy. Real durable goods output has consistently grown faster than the rest of the economy. Because most investment spending is on durable goods, the one-sector model's hypothesis of balanced growth, so that the real aggregates for consumption, investment, output, and the capital stock all grow at the same rate in the long run, is rejected by U.S. data. In addition, to model these aggregates as currently constructed in the U.S. National Accounts, a two-sector approach is required. Implications for empirical macroeconomics are explored.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/247
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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 Empirical Performance of the DSGE models in the lead up to the Crisis
(2013)
Ashe, Sinead; Raghavendra, Srinivas
Assessing the Empirical Performance of the DSGE models in the lead up to the Crisis
(2013)
Ashe, Sinead; Raghavendra, Srinivas
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 The global financial crisis has sparked renewed debate over the state of macroeconomic modeling, particularly in the lead up to the 2008/2009 Great Recession. The standard workhorse of macroeconomic modeling, the Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model, has been subject to intensive scrutiny. Over the past decade, there has been significant increase in the use of DSGE models by central banks for policy analysis, forecasting and prescriptions. The majority of central banks from developed countries have established DSGE models, including the Federal Reserve Bank, the European Central Bank, the IMF and the Bank of England. Given their prevalence among central banks coupled with their use by policy makers for analysis and forecasting, the objective of this research paper is to assess the behavior and forecasts made by these DSGE models in the run up to a financial crisis. A DSGE model is estimated for the United States for the pre-crisis period Q1.1947 to Q4.2007. An empir...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/3831
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Assessing the Impact of Pensions Policy Reform in Ireland: the Case of Increasing the Pension Age
(2010)
O'Donoghue, Cathal
Assessing the Impact of Pensions Policy Reform in Ireland: the Case of Increasing the Pension Age
(2010)
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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Asset Price Keynesianism, Regional Imbalances and the Irish and Spanish Housing Booms and Busts
(2015)
Norris, Michelle; Byrne, M. (Michael)
Asset Price Keynesianism, Regional Imbalances and the Irish and Spanish Housing Booms and Busts
(2015)
Norris, Michelle; Byrne, M. (Michael)
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Ireland and Spain were amongst the European countries which experienced the most severe economic and fiscal problems following the global financial crisis. The proximate causes of these economic crashes have been explored in-depth by researchers and governments, who have highlighted strong parallels between the policy, regulatory and economic factors which underpinned them. In both countries residential property price inflation increased dramatically from the late 1990s driven by increased availability of cheap mortgages but unusually was accompanied by marked growth in new house building. Thus, following the international credit crunch in 2008, a simultaneous contraction in both mortgage credit and house building occurred in Ireland and Spain, which precipitated a marked knock-on decline in the employment, tax revenue and consumer spending which the housing boom had underpinned. This paper argues that the Irish and Spanish housing booms and busts are similar not just in terms of sc...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6872
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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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Auction versus private treaty
(2003)
Parlane, Sarah
Auction versus private treaty
(2003)
Parlane, Sarah
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/679
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Auctioning horizontally differentiated items
(2005)
Parlane, Sarah
Auctioning horizontally differentiated items
(2005)
Parlane, Sarah
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This paper analyses strategic market allocation by two auctioneers holding substitutes. It characterizes both the cooperative and competitive outcomes. Under cooperation or competition with close substitutes, bidders are allocated according to the expected total surplus each generates. This market division is efficient if and only if the distribution of bidders' tastes is not skewed. If skewed, reserve prices distort participation towards the least preferred item. For greater degrees of product differentiation competition leads to multiple equilibria. Finally, competition with close substitutes sellers leave participation rents to their weakest bidder. They do not in other cases, whether they compete or cooperate.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/682
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Austerity in the European periphery: the Irish experience
(2016)
Hardiman, Niamh; Blavoukos, Spyros; Dellepiane, Sebastian; Pagoulatos, George
Austerity in the European periphery: the Irish experience
(2016)
Hardiman, Niamh; Blavoukos, Spyros; Dellepiane, Sebastian; Pagoulatos, George
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Ireland has come to be seen as an exemplary case of the successful practice of austerity, both economically and politically. But these inferences would be misleading. The real story about fiscal adjustments in Ireland is more problematic, the reasons for recovery are more complex, and the political consequences are a good deal more nuanced. This paper sets the Irish experience alongside that of the other Eurozone periphery countries. It argues that these countries' recovery prospects depend on the EU economic policy framework, but that Ireland’s connections to non-Eurozone economies also shape its growth prospects. Political stability is problematic in all the periphery countries, with the rise of challenger parties articulating values and priorities that may be difficult to accommodate within the current European policy regime. This is connected to a wider problem of the decay of older political identities and loyalties and the emergence of a new legitimation gap for EU member...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7648
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Austin Clarke at the Poetry Ireland Library
(2010)
Collins, Lucy
Austin Clarke at the Poetry Ireland Library
(2010)
Collins, Lucy
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This paper reports on research into Austin Clarke’s personal library which was conducted as part of the UCD Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA) series of demonstrator research projects. Austin Clarke (1896-1974) was a major Irish poet and his personal library forms a large part of the 5,000 volumes that comprise the Poetry Ireland Library which is now housed in UCD Library Special Collections. Clarke’s library offers fascinating insights into the intellectual life of mid-twentieth-century Ireland and into specific textual influences on Clarke’s own work. The research project focused on the issue of cultural production and the influence of international literature and literary criticism on such production. The remit of the IVRLA demonstrator projects was to provide digital research resources and to show how digital repositories could not only provide access to archival research materials but could also present material in new ways and suggest themes for further resear...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2419
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Back to the future - decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations
(2010)
Bargain, Olivier
Back to the future - decomposition analysis of distributive policies using behavioural simulations
(2010)
Bargain, Olivier
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For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are motivated by work incentives, it is also crucial to evaluate behavioural responses and the distributional consequences thereof. For that purpose, we embed counterfactual simulations in a formal framework based on the Shapley value decomposition and quantify the relative roles of (i) tax-benefit policy changes (direct policy effect), (ii) labour supply responses to the policy reforms (in- direct effect) and (iii) all other factors affecting income distribution over time. An application to the UK shows that the redistributive reforms of the 1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount poverty redu...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2666
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Ballot order effects : an analysis of Irish general elections
(2012)
Regan, John
Ballot order effects : an analysis of Irish general elections
(2012)
Regan, John
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This paper presents evidence of ballot order effects in Irish General Elections, where candidates are listed in alphabetical order. Data relating to elections from 1977 to 2011 suggest the effect is significant in a statistical sense and in magnitude. The nature of the Irish electoral system sees voters cast preferences for candidates, and as a result a greater level of information regarding voters becomes available. Various fixed effects are added to control for constituencies, candidates and political parties.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3774
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Bananas Ethical Quality: Multi-stakeholders, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
(2012)
Gonzalez-Perez, Maria-Alejandra; McDonough, Terrence
Bananas Ethical Quality: Multi-stakeholders, Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Governance
(2012)
Gonzalez-Perez, Maria-Alejandra; McDonough, Terrence
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This paper examines a recent and very specific development in the field of corporate governance. The regulation of "corporate social responsibility," that is corporate compliance with society's expectations in regard to issues like working conditions and environmental impact has shifted from government agencies to civil society organizations, more specifically NGOs or Non Governmental Organizations. This means that standards are more often negotiated and the subject of voluntary agreements. Since corporations enter into these agreements on a voluntary basis, the enforcement of these arrangements must be at least partially carried out through internal corporate mechanisms. We examine these issues using the example of the banana industry.
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2472
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Banking Union and the ECB as Lender of Last Resort
(2016)
Whelan, Karl
Banking Union and the ECB as Lender of Last Resort
(2016)
Whelan, Karl
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This paper focuses on how the lender of last resort function works in the euro area. It argues that the Eurosystem does not provide a clear and transparent lender of last resort facility and discusses how this has promoted financial instability and has critically undermined free movement of capital in the euro area. Until this weakness in the euro area’s policy infrastructure is fixed, it will be difficult to have a truly successful banking union.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7860
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Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?
(2006)
Orsini, Kristian; Bargain, Olivier
Beans for breakfast? How exportable is the British workfare model?
(2006)
Orsini, Kristian; Bargain, Olivier
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Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour has triggered a growing interests in instruments capable of combining the promotion of responsibility and self-sufficiency with solidarity with less skilled workers. Making-work-pay (MWP) policies, consisting of transfers to households with low earning capacity, have quickly emerged as the most politically acceptable instruments in tax-benefit reforms of many Anglo Saxon countries. This chapter explores the impact of introducing the British Working Families' Tax Credit in three EU countries with rather different labor market and welfare institutions: Finland, France and Germany. Simulating the reform reveals that, while first round effects on income distribution is considerable, the interaction of the new instrument with the structural characteristics of the economy and the population may lead to counterproductive...
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/557
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