Thom, Rodney(University College Dublin. Department of Economics, 1997-04)
Empirical research on interest rate linkages within the European Monetary System (EMS) has concentrated on the concepts of asymmetry and German dominance. Asymmetry is usually taken to mean that German monetary policy is ...
Interferometric methods are widely used in surface metrology. A question that arises is how much information about the surface can be extracted from a given interferogram. For examination of the resolution limit ...
In a recent contribution to this Journal, Imanuel Wexler and Stephen M. Miller (1975) analyse the appropriate policy measures by which a country can correct an external imbalance while adhering to a predetermined mix of ...
This paper studies the welfare losses from tariff protection in a general model of a small open economy where some factors are internationally mobile. It is show that, as long as the economy remains incompletely specialised, ...
The idea that democracy is contagious, that democracy diffuses across the world map, is now well established among policy makers and political scientists alike. The few theoretical explanations of this phenomenon focus ...
We examine the relationship between the Irish, German, UK and U.S. equity markets. Our main finding is that the Irish equity market depends heavily on trading activity in the other markets but not vice versa. Significant ...
Bredin, Donal; Hyde, Stuart(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-03)
We examine the influence of US and UK macroeconomic and financial variables on Irish stock returns in a nonlinear framework. We allow for time variation via regime switching using a smooth transition
regression (STR) ...
McCann, Fergal(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)
This paper analyses how international outsourcing affects plant productivity, with the major contribution lying in the identification of heterogeneous effects for firms with differing internationalisation status. The results ...
We investigate the influence of international interest rate changes on the Dublin inter bank money market rates (Dibor). Specifically, we analyse the impact of (un)expected changes in German(Euro) area and US policy rates ...
We examine optimal industrial and trade policies in a series of dynamic oligopoly games in which a home and a foreign firm compete in R&D and output. Alternative assumptions about the timing of moves and the ability of ...
We examine optimal industrial and trade policies in a series of dynamic oligopoly games in which a home and a foreign firm compete in R&D and output. Alternative assumptions about the timing of moves and the ability of ...
Guelke, Adrian(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)
The paper examines the impact of two major events in the international system on the peace process: the end of the Cold War and the attack on America on 11 September 2001. The thesis first advanced by Michael Cox that ...
This policy brief identifies the major elements that determine the trade and competitiveness effects of the introduction
of an emission-trading regime. These effects depend most of all on the breadth of the emissions ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-06-23)
I review and extend three approaches to trade and environmental policies: competitive general equilibrium, oligopoly and monopolistic competition. The first two have surprisingly similar implications; deviation deviations ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-10)
Following a brief historical introduction and a discussion of different types of
commercial policy, this paper reviews the arguments for and against trade protection. In the bench-mark case of a competitive, small, open ...