The paper analyses the impact of the relatively belated move to
professionalism in Rugby Union. We use data on match attendance for 3,667 fixtures
in European club Rugby over 15 seasons to estimate the effect of competitive ...
Are, Wasiu Adekunle(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-12)
The composition of tax revenue in Ireland had changed dramatically over the past decade, with indirect taxes accounting for a large share of total tax revenue. This shift towards indirect taxation more than direct taxation ...
Rugby union only went professional in 1995, much later than other major
team sports. League structures and arrangements regarding revenue sharing and salary
caps differ between the three main European leagues. We consider ...
In recent years, problems associated with automobile use have led to a marked shift in the orientation of transportation policy towards the promotion of more sustainable modes of transport. Central to this policy has been ...
This paper examines the implications of extending the Ahmad-Stern (1984) model of indirect tax reform to include labor supply. The inclusion of labor supply alters the basic measure of marginal revenue cost of indirect ...
Whelan, Ciara(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2003)
There is a long history of mapping market structure into market power in economic analysis. This paper addresses the validity of this principle for both homogenous and differentiated products industries. While mapping ...
Woodford (2001) has presented evidence that the new-Keynesian Phillips curve fits the empirical behavior of inflation well when the labor income share is used as a driving variable, but fits poorly when deterministically ...
Calvo-style models of nominal rigidities currently provide the dominant paradigm for understanding the linkages between wage and price dynamics. Recent empirical implementations stress the idea that these models link ...
Shared resource pools are facilities featuring a certain amount of resources which can be used by different applications. For managing resources in such pools, the demand of each application can be used. Such a demand, ...