Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004)
This paper empirically analyses risk in the Euro relative to other currencies.
Comparisons are made between a sub period encompassing the final transitional stage
to full monetary union with a sub period prior to this. ...
This paper measures and compares the tail risks of limit and market orders using Extreme Value Theory. The analysis examines realised tail outcomes using the Dealing 2000-2 electronic broking system based on completed ...
Cotter, John; Dowd, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2007-05-18)
This paper measures and compares the tail risks of limit and market orders using Extreme Value Theory. The analysis examines realised tail outcomes using the Dealing 2000-2 electronic broking system based on completed ...
This paper examines the relationship between the price bid for a takeover target, the probability of the bid succeeding and the target's price over the course of the bid. We test and reject Samuelson and Rosenthal's (1986) ...
The excess returns earned by takeover targets raises questions of efficiency in the market
for corporate control. Brown and Raymond and Samuelson and Rosenthal explain the target
share pricing process as a function of ...
Individuals experiencing poor health are less likely to vote at election time, despite being the ones most affected by health policies implemented by the successful party. This paper investigates the relationship between ...
Denny, Kevin; Doyle, Orla(Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association, 2007)
In most countries health policy is an important part of the political agenda. Yet few studies have examined the relationship between the two. This study investigates the association between health and voter turnout in ...
We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing
requirements to determine whether raising the diffculty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED ...
The task of identifying sentiment trends in the popular media has long been of interest to analysts and pundits. Until recently, this task has required professional annotators to manually inspect individual articles in ...
Whelan, Karl(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-11)
The Eurosystem’s TARGET2 payments system has featured heavily in academic and
popular discussions in recent years. Much of this commentary had described the system as being responsible for a “secret bailout” of Europe’s ...
Urgent transformation is required in Ireland to divert biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) from landfill and prevent increases in overall waste generation. When BMW is optimally managed, it becomes a resource with value ...
In 1997 the Irish government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is ...
In 1997 the Irish Government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is ...
Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-α is a pro-inflammatory cytokine, which is synthesised and released in the brain by astrocytes, microglia and neurons in response to numerous internal and external stimuli. It is involved in ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1987-03)
This paper begins by reexamining the equivalence of tariffs and quantitative trade restrictions. It is argued that equivalence holds in extremely general circumstances but that this fact must be interpreted with care, since ...
The debate over the use of tariffs or value added taxes in developing countries has
focused on the difficulty of collecting VAT from the informal sector of the economy. This
paper contributes by considering this issue ...
In this article, I evaluate the hypothesis that firms respond to negative demand shocks by assigning workers to tasks that require less skill than the tasks they normally carry out. Using changes in employment in state-industry ...