The national non-domestic rate was introduced in 1990 to replace a system of locally varying business rates which had lasted for almost four centuries. Five years after the 1990 reforms, this report evaluates the operation ...
This note shows a very simple way to incorporate the effects of uncertainty about the accuracy of present value estimates into the firm's option to delay irreversible investment. It is shown that, if the firm's priors about ...
For policy intervention to be effective, we need to know where such intervention is likely to have most effect. There is literature emerging on this from a variety of sources. This paper synthesises some of this information ...
O'Sullivan, Conall(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-12)
A model is developed that can price path dependent options when the underlying
process is an exponential Lévy process with closed form conditional characteristic
function. The model is an extension of a recent quadrature ...
The urban fabric of the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years. In an effort to coordinate development across the region the “Strategic Planning Guidelines for the Greater Dublin Area” were ...
In this paper, preliminary analysis of research by the author in the area of relative care is presented. Four main areas relevant to the family : state discourse with respect to relative foster care are examined : The ...
Sterling's departure from the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) in September 1992 precipitated a crisis for Irish exchange rate policy that was resolved, for the time being at least, by the decision to devalue at the end of ...