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Now showing items 1303-1322 of 1939
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-04)This paper reviews the issue, first considered by J. L. Ford of the observational (as opposed to the logical) equivalence of the Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin explanations of trade patterns. A necessary and sufficient ...
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(Blackwell, 2002)Many economics theories suggest that the assignment of workers to occupations changes over the business cycle: expansions allow workers to upgrade to occupations that pay higher wages and require more skill. This paper ...
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(Econometrics Society Australasian Meeting (ESAM) (Melbourne, Monash, July 2004), 2004-05-27)Terrorist attacks such as the attacks on the World Trade Centre in September 2001 have generated new interest in the debate on capital punishment. It has been suggested that support for the death penalty could be higher ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-12-11)I take the publication of The Spatial Economy by Fujita, Krugman and Venables as an opportunity to expound and assess the "new economic geography". I use a simple diagram to show how the basic model works; give a ...
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(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2007-08)While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children’s outcomes such as education and earnings, the evidence on the effects of birth order on IQ is decidedly mixed. This paper uses a large dataset ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-07)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-08)This note examines the sensitivity of tests for homogeneity in demand systems to such factors as omitted variables and dynamic and stochastic specification. It estimates demand systems for Ireland using time-series data ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 1995-10)Examines the sensitivity of tests for homogeneity in Ireland's demand systems on various economic factors. Use of time series data for unconditional demand systems in differentiating dynamic and stochastic specifications; ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-10-21)Kanazawa (2007) offers an explanation for the variation across countries of average intelligence. It is based on the idea human intelligence is a domain specific adaptation and that both temperature and the distance from ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991-03)
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(Elsevier Science B.V., 1992-10)Recent evidence on output convergence across economies has been widely interpreted as falsifying the predictions of endogenous growth theory. This paper shows, however, that nonconvergence is an artifact of the deterministic ...
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(Bilkent University. Department of Economics, 2000)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991)Ireland's state lottery, established in 1987 and modelled on revenue-raising counterparts in operation in North America since the 1960s, has recently attracted interest in the UK. Although the Irish lottery agent is secretive ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-09)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-08)Discrete choice models of labor supply easily account for nonlinearity and nonconvexity in budget sets caused by tax-benefit systems. As a result, they have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms. ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-10)
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(Blackwell, 1995-02)This paper provides a review of some recent results on implementation in incomplete information environments. This literature is concerned with characterizing the class of social choice functions that can be implemented ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991-01)This paper attempts to account for the rise in Irish unemployment between 1970 and 1987. To this end a fully articulated medium-term model of the economy is employed, in contrast to the four equation model of the labour ...
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(Queen’s University. Department of Economics, 1997-08)Consider the set of probability measures on a product space with the property that all have the same marginal distributions on the coordinate spaces. This may be viewed as a correspondence, when the marginal distributions ...
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(Springer, 1999-02)Consider the set of probability measures on a product space with the property that all have the same marginal distributions on the coordinate spaces. This set may be viewed as a correspondence, when the marginal distributions ...
Now showing items 1303-1322 of 1939