This article, via the analysis of stated preferences from a nationwide representative survey of 1149 adults, examines the determinants of preferences for overall government expenditure and estimates a Seemingly Unrelated ...
Deforestation primarily affects developing
countries. Most developing countries share two characteristics: (1) trade liberalization reforms in the last two decades, and (2) weak property rights and limited rule of law. ...
This paper is primarily an attempt to estimate econometric demand equations for beer and spirits in Ireland, but it is hoped that it also sheds light on some of the general considerations involved in empirical demand ...
This article presents estimates of the elasticity of demand for lottery tickets using time series data in which there is variation in the expected value of a lottery ticket induced by rollovers. An important feature of our ...
Moore, Michael J.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-06)
This paper examines the impact of monetary and fiscal policies in both the Barro-Grossman model and a neo-Keynesian model which incorporates a bond market. It is shown that there is a unique demand management policy for ...
The main purpose of this paper is to address the question of whether the world can feed itself during the 21st Century. We start with a brief review of the chief
demographic effects of famines - with special reference to ...
This study has a double focus, substantive and methodological. Substantively, it attempts to apply and test a fairly well known model of labour supply. From a methodological point of view, it shows how the Linear Probability ...
Most theories of involuntary unemployment predict that the equilibrium wage in the labor market will be greater than the reservation wage of the unemployed. These theories concentrate on explaining why the labor market ...