This paper surveys the results of four recent, separate attempts at estimating agricultural output and food availability in England and Wales at points between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution. It highlights ...
Le débat sur les incitations financières à la reprise d’une activité ne s’est pas éteint avec l’instauration de la Prime pour l’emploi. Notamment, le traitement de la dimension familiale dans les aides à l’emploi est un ...
This paper reviews proposals contained in the Commission of the European Communities (CEC) Consultation Paper of 1995 and Draft Directive of 1997 on Airport Charges. Economic and practical problems associated with the CEC ...
The changing pattern of consumption of alcoholic beverages in Ireland and the association between this and the trend in alcohol-related problems are examined. As a result of a relatively low price and high income elasticities ...
This paper provides simple closed form formulae for players’ expected payoffs in a broad class of all-pay contests where players may have constraints on their actions.
This paper uses data from the Survey of Consumer Finances to assess how well mean-variance efficiency describes the portfolio diversification of US households. It does not seem to work well. The median stockholder owns a ...
Silva, Luis Vaz(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-06)
The study of the effect of institutional quality on economic performance has a long tradition in economic development. Considering the problems of reverse causality in the link between economic
development and institutions, ...
Three distinct strands can be identified in the literature on seasonality. Economists have long been interested in removing high-frequency "noise" from individual economic time series, or "deseasonalizing the data" in ...
We model a standard competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of
workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of
production has no impact on hours per worker, then the ...
This paper applies a unified methodology to multiple data sets to estimate both the levels and trends
in U.S. high school graduation rates. We establish that (a) the true high school graduation rate is
substantially lower ...
The economic literature on professional sports leagues suggests supporters’
utility depends on uncertainty of outcome (competitive balance) and the quality of
play. Unlike soccer, where the Champions League is dominated ...