Using survey data for 220 traditional manufacturing firms over 7 years of transition and 4 Central Eastern Europe (CEE) countries, we find firms that produced for the EU market under planning
consistently outperform those ...
Erne, Roland(UCD Dublin European Institute, 2011-05)
The economic and financial crisis has discredited the idea of a self-regulating market.Yet, it remains to be seen what measures society will be taking to protect itself against future fallouts of global markets. There is ...
The massification of education in European countries over the last 100 years has produced cultures and societies that have benefited greatly from state investment in education. However, to maintain this level of social and ...
Using survey data for 220 traditional manufacturing firms over 7 years of transition and 4 CEE countries, we find firms that produced for the EU market under planning consistently outperform those that produced for the ...
The airline segment of Europe's aviation sector has gone through a sweeping process of liberalisation. Change has been slower in the airports business. Europe's airports are shielded from competition by a structure that ...
This paper examines the everyday lives of Northern Irish evangelicals since the Belfast Agreement of 1998. Drawing on more than 100 semi-structured interviews with evangelicals (conducted between 2002-2007), we explore the ...
We estimate the productivity dynamics of 680 industrial Chinese State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) between 1980 and 1994. During this time managerial autonomy over factor markets was introduced. The timing of autonomy varied ...
Dunne, Louise(University College Dublin. Department of Planning and Environmental Policy, 2004-07)
This paper reviews the potential for problems regarding public acceptability of environmental taxes with: a review of waste charges literature; a review of the literature on environmental attitudes; and a case study - the ...