Williams, Brendan(University College Dublin. Planning and Environmental Policy, 2006-10)
Urban development policies have major and immediate impacts on the development and construction processes and have been the subject of major initiatives in recent years particularly in the housing and urban regeneration ...
Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the critical role fiscal incentives have played in urban regeneration in Ireland since 1986, focusing on the role of such incentives, their impact on development and implications for ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-09)
This paper presents a two-sector model of a small open economy with wage rigidities and capital accumulation. The short- and medium-run effects of government expenditure policies are analysed and the results are contrasted ...
The comparative study of debt and fiscal consolidation has acquired a new focus in the wake of the global financial crisis. This leads us to re-evaluate the literature on fiscal consolidation that flourished during the ...
Estimates of the J-curve that do not explicitly account for feedback effects may give misleading results. In the absence of a structural model, a VAR approach is recommended to solve this problem.
This paper is a contribution to the research on Irish unemployment which for the first time models the flows into and out of the Live Register. Using the quarterly flow data contructed by the authors (see A Flow Analysis ...
This article works with in-depth interviews from research projects in Northern Ireland to show different processes of choice and change in national identity. It argues that situational variation in identity is quite ...
Focus group research is rarely used for examining environmental discourses other than when conflict arises. This study looks at local citizen perceptions in relation to mined (or 'cutaway') industrial peatland landscapes ...
In recent years there has been an increase in the use of qualitative data collection techniques in research with children. Among the most common of these methods are focus groups and individual interviews. While many authors ...
This article highlights the need to recognize that the post-treatment phase of the cancer journey requires attention and that there is a need to develop survivorship services. As a first step, cancer survivors need information ...
This paper develops a simple "instant-response" model of strategic behavior where players can react instantly to changing circumstances, but at the same time face some inertia after changing action. The framework is used ...
This paper presents a simple model to illustrate the following idea: domestic rivals may be motivated to setup foreign
production in the same country because the replication of each other’s foreign direct investment (FDI) ...
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A.(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-11)
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? In an important article, Oreopoulos (2006) studied the 1947 British compulsory schooling law change and found large returns to schooling of about 15% using the General Household ...
Do students benefit from compulsory schooling? Researchers using changes in compulsory schooling laws as instruments have typically estimated very high returns to additional schooling that are greater than the corresponding ...