This paper examines whether regional characteristics can have a significant impact on the
engine sizes of the car fleet in Ireland. Disposable income is found to be the dominant factor
in determining the purchase ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-05)
Relatively little attention has been paid to the issue of how individual regions will fare as a consequence of the national decision on whether or not to adopt the single European currency. Regional welfare is influenced ...
Whelan, Karl(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04)
Did global imbalances cause the financial crisis? A number
of influential figures have argued that inflows of foreign capital into
the US due to the current account deficit helped to trigger the crisis.
This paper argues ...
This study considers the accessibility of three locations that were identified for consideration by the Health Services Executive for locating a new national children’s hospital: The Mater, St. James’s and Tallaght. ...
Objective. To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health insurance in the nongroup market and their choice of plan.
Data Sources and Study Setting. Administrative ...
Objective. To estimate the effect of changes in premiums for individual insurance on decisions to purchase individual insurance and how this price response varies among subgroups of the population.
Data Source. Survey ...
Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has
induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs.
Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and ...
Dublin’s city centre is the primary destination in the Dublin region for shopping, employment and education. Public transport services in the area have experienced significant time delays throughout peak periods of the day ...
This paper presents a new approach to the modelling of congested traffic loading events on long span bridges. Conventional traffic load models are based on weigh-in-motion data of non-congested traffic, or something similar ...