This paper considers the problem of comparing real incomes across countries. The available methods are reviewed and their performance is compared using the raw data underlying the Penn World Table. The results throw light ...
MacMillan, Euan(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-10)
The beleaguered progress of the Doha Development Agenda of the WTO presents something of a puzzle for economic theory: if multilateralism is an effective forum for liberalisation (as it has been in the past), then why have ...
MacMillan, Euan(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)
The beleaguered progress of the Doha Development Agenda of the WTO presents something of a puzzle for economic theory: if multilateralism is an effective forum for liberalisation (as it has been in the past), then why have ...
Recent theoretical work suggests that the presence of foreign direct investment
(FDI) lowers a country’s noncooperative Nash tariff. To test this hypothesis, we first
adapt the theoretical model formulated by Blanchard ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1997-09-24)
This paper explores the links between international trade theory and the practice of trade and industrial policy in open economies, with special attention to three areas where theoretical lessons have been misunderstood ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-01-18)
This paper provides a centenary review of the method of calculating real incomes
and purchasing power parities proposed by Roy Geary. This method is the most widely
used in major international comparisons, but it is often ...
MANOVA and Roy-Bose simultaneous confidence intervals when combined with distribution matrices of ordered differences and ordered difference component vectors define the he Roy Bose simultaneous confidence interval approach ...
The one-dimensional diffusion equation governing holographic grating formation in photopolymers, which includes both nonlocal material response and generalized dependence of the rate of polymerization on the illuminating ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-10-21)
Kanazawa (2007) offers an explanation for the variation across countries of average intelligence. It is based on the idea human intelligence is a domain specific adaptation and that both temperature and the distance from ...
This is a comparative study of the levels of government subvention in urban public transport in European cities. It was carried out by the Department of Economics in University College Dublin for the Department of Public ...