Roper, Stephen(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
Cross-border and local cooperation can foster local learning and contribute positively to business performance and social cohesion. This paper considers firms’
economic motivation for both types of cooperation around the ...
Tannam, Etain(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2004)
This paper re-visits the theme of the reasons for economic co-operation between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and whether economic co-operation spills over to political co-operation. The article examines the ...
This paper is based on a set of case studies of cross-border co-operation, and focuses
in particular on four of these: youth training, health, economic development
and electricity generation. While each sector raises ...
Ahern, Bertie(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2005)
This paper emphasises the central role of the Good Friday Agreement as the continuing blueprint for future political developments. The North-South bodies established under its auspices have worked quietly but efficiently ...
This paper characterizes long-run outcomes for broad classes of symmetric games, when players select actions on the basis of average historical performance. Received wisdom is that when agent’s interests are partially ...
We introduce the concept of cooperative substitutes and complements, and use it to throw light on the conditions for a research joint venture to choose equal levels of R&D by all member firms. We show that the second-order ...
This paper reconsiders the literature on non-cooperative foundations of cooperative solutions. The goal of non-cooperative foundations is to provide credible non-cooperative models of negotiation and coalition formation ...
This paper examines the impact of the Belfast Agreement on north-south economic
cooperation in Ireland, using the tourism industry as a case study. The first part of
the paper sets out the suggested benefits that may ...
The goal of non-cooperative foundations is to provide credible non-cooperative models of negotiation and coalition formation whose equilibrium outcomes agree with a given cooperative solution. Here we argue that this goal ...