Walsh, Brendan M.(The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2008-01-24)
In the first half of this paper I summarise the trend in Irish deaths rates over the period 1973-2006. In the second half I discuss some possible explanations of these trends.
Following a preliminary discussion of various aspects of the Irish "regional problem", this paper examines the evolution of employment shares, unemployment rates, wage levels, and interregional commuting patterns in the ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-02-23)
This paper presents a general result for simultaneous reform of tariffs and quotas in a small open economy, where some of the quota rents do not accrue to domestic residents. Absent highly perverse income effects, welfare ...
Thede, Susanna(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-11)
In this paper, trade policy formation is incorporated into an economic geography model. The political setup used is a modified version of that introduced by Grossman and Helpman (1994) in which policy makers may be influenced ...
We present a new model of multi-product firms (MPFs) and flexible manufacturing and explore its implications in partial and general equilibrium. International trade integration affects the scale and scope of MPFs through ...
Vaz Silva, Luis(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2005-05)
Past population dynamics in Africa have remained largely elusive due to the lack of demographic data. Researchers are understandably deterred from trying to explain what is not known and African historical population ...
Bohn, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-05)
This paper analysis the intertemporal public finance decision under political
instability. The government’s choice between inflationary finance and foreign
debt is constrained by an interest rate, which is affected both ...
We introduce the concept of cooperative substitutes and complements, and use it to throw light on the conditions for a research joint venture to choose equal levels of R&D by all member firms. We show that the second-order ...