The aim of this Paper is to demonstrate that advertising can have an important function in markets with consumption externalities, apart from its persuasive and informative roles. We show that advertising may function as ...
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that advertising can have an important function in markets with consumption externalities apart from its persuasive and
informative roles. We show that advertising may function ...
O'Brien, Valerie(International Foster Care Association, 2009-07-12)
Contact or contact is seen as an integral part of foster care. It is generally seen as a key barometer of the state of relationships between all the parties involved. It is accepted that while there are rewards, albeit ...
Whelan, Karl(European Parliament. Policy Department Economic and Scientific Policies, 2009-11)
Systemic risk refers to the risk of financial system breakdown due to linkages
between institutions. This risk cannot be assessed by looking at how individual
institutions manage risks but instead requires a full ...
Whelan, Karl(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)
Systemic risk refers to the risk of financial system breakdown due to linkages between institutions. This risk cannot be assessed by looking at how individual institutions manage risks but instead requires a full understanding ...
Dixon, Paul(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2002)
This paper emphasises the importance of the political context for shaping unionist tactics for defending the Union and resisting Irish unity. Some draw a sharp dichotomy between “constitutional” and “unconstitutional” ...
Hayward, Katy(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper analyses three local newspapers in the Derry-Donegal region for their presentation of cross-border issues in a two year period (2004-5). The border is portrayed in all three papers as a locus of political ...
There is growing recognition of the key role that social and informal learning play in Higher Education. There is also increasing interest in technologies that enable, capture and channel this type of learning to students ...
In this paper we propose a powerful ontology driven method that eases the browsing of any repository of information resources described by an ontology: we provide a flexible semantic granularity method for the navigation ...
In the recent Computer Science literature, contexts have been proposed mainly to formalize context dependent background knowledge. In this paper we discuss the importance of the application of contexts as explicit ...
This paper reports results from a study of the economic value of the conservation benefits of Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESAs) in Scotland. The main novelty of the approach taken is in comparing two direct valuation ...
Howard, Kevin(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
This paper revisits John Whyte’s seminal 1983 article “The permeability of the United Kingdom-Irish border: a preliminary reconnaissance” (Whyte, 1983). The objective
is to explore hypotheses Whyte put forward as to why ...
In this paper we develop a model of strategic behaviour in continuous time
games of complete information, which includes conventional repeated games
in discrete time as a special case. The model developed here admits a ...
Bergin, James(Queen’s University. Department of Economics, 1987)
This paper provides a formulation of continuous time repeated games of complete information. A substantial part of the paper is concerned with the definition of a continuous time strategy and the association of outcomes ...
This paper characterizes the optimal and efficient mechanisms to allocate simultaneously two substitute tasks to two suppliers. Two main results emerge from this analysis. First, even under some regularity conditions ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-05)
Following an account of the perceptions of the contribution of education to economic development among Irish policy-makers since the second world war, this paper examines the performance of the Irish economy in the framework ...
Howlin, Niamh(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009-12-02)
Difficulties in securing convictions in nineteenth-century Ireland led the authorities
to resort to various methods of ensuring that petty juries delivered guilty verdicts in
cases where this was clearly warranted by the ...