Emigration was a crucial element in Irish population change during the half century before the Great Famine. The size and composition of the outward flow worried some, and caused considerable debate. Majority opinion held ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1982-10)
This paper presents a theoretical analysis of some of the issues raised by the "Dutch Disease": the phenomenon whereby a boom in one traded goods sector squeezes profitability in other traded goods sectors.
UK data is used to test the hypothesis that non-interest terms adjust to clear the mortgage market when the mortgage rate is sluggish in adjusting to its market equilibrating level. This hypothesis is not supported by the ...
The four papers in this symposium were originally presented at the Fifth Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Dublin Economics Workshop held in Killarney on October 15-17 1982 and are published together in this Policy ...
Ó Gráda, Cormac(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-04)
This note reports the results of estimating a four-input translog production function for the mid-nineteenth century British cotton industry. It establishes the direction of technical change, and produces new estimates of ...
Moore, Michael J.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-06)
This paper examines the impact of monetary and fiscal policies in both the Barro-Grossman model and a neo-Keynesian model which incorporates a bond market. It is shown that there is a unique demand management policy for ...
This paper introduces the concepts of direct and indirect factor trade utility functions and uses them to derive Marshallian and Hicksian factor content functions, which express the quantities of factors embodied in ...
Barry, Frank(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-09)
This paper presents a two-sector model of a small open economy with wage rigidities and capital accumulation. The short- and medium-run effects of government expenditure policies are analysed and the results are contrasted ...
Moore, Michael J.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1983-11)
The Barro-Grossman/Malinvaud model is extended to include two factors of production: skilled labour with a flexible price and unskilled labour with an exogenously determined money wage. A number of simple diagrams are ...