Whelan, Karl(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-11)
The Eurosystem’s TARGET2 payments system has featured heavily in academic and
popular discussions in recent years. Much of this commentary had described the system as being responsible for a “secret bailout” of Europe’s ...
This paper examines factors influencing voluntary forecast disclosure by target companies, whether good/bad news forecasts are disclosed and the influence of forecasts on the outcome of hostile bids. Disclosure was ...
We use bivariate ARCH specifications to model the conditional mean and stock price volatility
for 56 takeover bids from January 1985 and July 1994. Using daily data from one year prior to the
takeover announcement until ...
The excess returns earned by takeover targets raises questions of efficiency in the market
for corporate control. Brown and Raymond and Samuelson and Rosenthal explain the target
share pricing process as a function of ...
Sequencing by hybridisation is an effective method for obtaining large amounts of
DNA sequence information at low cost. The efficiency of SBH depends on
the design of the probe library to provide the maximum information ...
Hickey, Tina(University of Toronto Press, 2001-03)
The mixing of L1 speakers with L2 learners occurs regularly in immersion situations where a minority language is the target language. This study looks at early immersion in Irish among children from diverse language ...
This paper presents a re-formulated version of a canonical sticky-price model that has been extended to account for variations over time in the central bank's inflation target. We derive a closed-form solution for the ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1992-05)
Internal and external balance are the twins goals of traditional Keynesian macroeconomic policy. New classical economists question whether either of these are related to welfare, since employment fluctuations may be ...
In 1997 the Irish Government adopted the National Anti-Poverty Strategy (NAPS), a global target for the reduction of poverty which illuminates a range of issues relating to official poverty targets. The Irish target is ...