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The observational equivalence of the Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin explanations of trade patterns

Neary, J. Peter (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 ...
Of hype and hyperbolas : introducing the new economic geography

Neary, J. Peter (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 ...
The old poor law : resource constraints and demographic regimes

Kelly, Morgan ; Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-07)
Omitted variables, dynamic specification and tests for homogeneity

Madden, David (David Patrick) (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 ...
On a dubious theory of cross-country differences in intelligence

Denny, Kevin (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 ...
On demand and supply side policies in an open economy, 1960-2000

Norton, Desmond (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991-03)
On Ireland's national lottery

Norton, Desmond (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 ...
On Lord Palmerston and the Irish famine emigration by Tyler Anbinder

Norton, Desmond (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-09)
On modeling household labor supply with taxation

Bargain, Olivier (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. ...
On some demographic aspects of the Great Famine

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1996-10)
On the causes of Ireland's unemployment

Barry, Frank ; Bradley, John (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 ...
On the economic theory of smuggling

Norton, Desmond (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1985-01)

Earlier models of smuggling are deficient in their treatment of risk and transport costs. A model of smuggling of agricultural goods in an intra-EEC context is constructed, with due regard to such costs. Smuggling of ...
On the impact of labor market matching on regional disparities

Tharakan, Joe ; Tropeano, Jean-Philippe (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-11)

We propose a model where imperfect matching between firms and workers on local labor markets leads to spatial agglomeration. We show that the occurrence of spatial agglomeration depends on initial size differences in terms ...
On the likely extent of falls in Irish house prices

Kelly, Morgan (University College Dublin; School of Economics, 2007-02)

Looking at house price cycles across the OECD since 1970, we find a strong relationship between the size of the initial rise in price and its subsequent fall. Were this relationship to hold for Ireland, it would predict ...
On the road again with Arthur Young : English, Irish, and French agriculture during the Industrial Revolution

Allen, Robert C. ; Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1986-10)
On the Sherlocks, Jane Coleman and County Kildare in the Eighteen Forties

Norton, Desmond (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2002-03)
On two aspects of post-war Irish emigration

Ó Gráda, Cormac (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1985-01)
Open economy forces and late 19th century Scandinavian catch-up

O'Rourke, Kevin H. ; Williamson, Jeffrey G. (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995-04)
Openness, the Phillips Curve and the cost of relinquishing the currency

Barry, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2001-03)

For a given degree of wage stickiness, there is an inverse relationship between the price-level and employment effects of a nominal shock. Various contributors to the literature on optimal currency areas have extrapolated ...
Optimal factor and production subsidies under classical unemployment

Barry, Frank (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1991-01)

This paper appraises and compares the macroeconomic effects of three supply-side policies - namely employment, investment and production subsidies - within the context of a multisectoral two-period model of a small open ...