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(Irish Bankers' Federation, 2003)Recent accounting scandals are the product of multiple failings of auditing, accounting, corporate governance and of the market. In discussing the many factors that led to failure, this paper attempts to provide insights ...
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(University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-08)
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(Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association, 2002-09)How—and how well—do food markets function in famine conditions? The controversy surrounding this question may benefit from historical perspective. Here we study two massive famines that struck France between 1693 and 1710, ...
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(Royal Irish Academy, 2010-12)Although peat slope failures have occurred in Ireland for many thousands of years their causal factors and the triggering mechanisms involved are poorly understood. A particular barrier to quantitative assessment of the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-11)
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(Taylor & Francis, 1999)This paper begins with a commentary on the unfolding of the Asian crisis, and includes summary information on the effect of the crisis on the rate of economic growth and unemployment in the region. A review of current ...
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(European University Institute, 2012-09)In a set of papers published in his final years, Peter Mair expressed strong and ever more urgent concerns over the state of party politics and the future of representative politics itself . The aim of this paper is to ...
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(Geological Society of London, 2008-02)Recent peat failures in Ireland in the autumn of 2003 at Pollatomish, County Mayo and Derrybrien, County Galway have focused attention on such events. However, peat failures are not a recent phenomenon with possible ...
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(Institution of Engineers, 2011-07)Detailed analysis of potential water chemistry and settlement issues associated with the installation of open-loop geothermal systems is infrequently carried out. This has led to the failure of several previously installed ...
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(Elsevier, 2008-08)What causes poverty and how does an individual escape it? Factors such as intelligence and social class background are thought to be important. However, a number of economists have argued that an individual’s profile of ...