The recent literature on path dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article identifies path dependent patterns ...
Hardiman, Niamh(University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change, 2003-11)
Ireland's rate of growth and employment creation during the 1990s far outstripped performance in the rest of the OECD. To what degree is this attributable to chance fluctuations in the international economy, the coincidental ...
Since the onset of the sovereign debt crisis, the crisis-stricken countries in Europe have been pushed to take drastic steps to consolidate their finances and reduce their budget deficits. Despite strong public opposition ...
The global financial crisis opened large budget deficit and public debt problems in the countries of the Eurozone periphery - Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain. All have been required to adopt budget retrenchment measures, ...
The global financial crisis opened large budget deficit and public debt problems in the countries of the Eurozone periphery –Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain. All have been required to adopt budget retrenchment measures, ...
The decade of the 1990s saw the beginning of a new phase of globalisation and
continuing European integration, the collapse of socialism and the triumph
of neo-liberalism, the mainstreaming of cultural postmodernism and ...
We use rich brand level retail data to demonstrate that the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is mainly an outcome of the degree to which firms own a portfolio of brands across segments of the market, and ...
This paper empirically analyses price dispersion between brand within product catgories in the Independent grocery sector. The methodology adopted allows us to discriminate between the impact which various structural demand ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2003)
This paper outlines the process by which an archive of audio-taped interviews with participants in the multi-party negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement was collected. It outlines some of the difficulties ...
Using brand level retail data, the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, ...
Whelan, Ciara; Walsh, Patrick P.(Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2002-08)
Using brand level retail data, the firm size distribution in Carbonated Soft Drinks is shown to be an outcome of the degree to
which firms have placed brands effectively (store coverage) across vertical (flavour, packaging, ...
Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies over the period ...
Little attention has been paid in the recent scholarly literature to Europe's old religious conflicts - particularly those that stem from the Reformation. Yet for a long time religiously informed conflict was the principal ...
Europe’s traditional ethnic minorities and the conflicts over their place in the state and nation are the focus of continuing comparative research. In contrast, little attention is paid to Europe’s older religious conflicts, ...
Todd, Jennifer(University College Dublin. Institute for British-Irish Studies, 2006)
State borders are typically held to shape categories of national identification. This
paper explores this interrelationship in the light of empirical evidence drawn from
research in the Irish border area. It begins by ...
We use three different quality based rankings of the publishing record of Irish based economists in academic journals during the period 1990-2000 and 1995-2000. While individual rankings are sensitive to the range of ...