Unlike most prior literature in finance and economics, this paper focuses on events in the political economy and examines the integration of European equity markets over the 1988 through 2002 period using three innovative ...
Burke, Andrew E.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-03)
The paper sets out to examine format innovation in a market with product differentiation where industry are divided between hardware and software producers. To this end we examine the Music Recording Industry [extract from ...
This paper explores integration and contagion among US metropolitan housing markets. The analysis applies Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) house price repeat sales indexes from 384 metropolitan areas to estimate a ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-05)
The aim of this paper is to review, in a broad historical context, what we know about the behaviour of Irish wage rates relative to those in Britain. Attention will be focused on the long-run effects of emigration and the ...
Geographic diversification is fundamental to risk mitigation among investors and insurers of housing, mortgages, and mortgage-related derivatives. To characterize diversification potential, we provide estimates of integration, ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-05)
This paper extends the theory of multinational corporations, identifying three distinct influences of internal trade liberalisation by a group of countries on the level and pattern of inward foreign direct investment (FDI). ...
The paper offers a simple test of spatial integration in food markets during famines. It applies the test to data from India between the 1860s and the 1910s.