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Browsing Economics Working Papers & Policy Papers, 1982 -- August 2011 by Title
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-05)Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm’s "absorptive capacity" (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to profitability. We explore the theoretical ...
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(University College Dublin, School of Economics, 2002-08)How markets perform during famines has long been a contentious issue. Recent research tends to associate famine with market segmentation and hoarding. The evidence of this paper, based on an analysis of the spatial and ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1984-03)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-07)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2003-05)
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(University College Dublin; Centre for Economic Research, 2004-05)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1990-07)This paper aims, firstly, to present an overview of the causes of Ireland's poor employment performance in recent decades by drawing together the results of existing empirical research and secondly, to pinpoint some ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1988-06)
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(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, ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2007-08)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 ...
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(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2007-08)To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-07)This paper applies the Ahmad-Stern model of indirect tax reform to the Irish economy for two different years, 1980 and 1987. It introduces a modification to the traditional marginal social cost measure used in these studies, ...
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(University College Dubin; School of Economics, 2007-08)The General Health Questionnair(GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-06)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04)In any dataset with individual forecasts of economic variables, some forecasters will perform better than others. However, it is possible that these ex post differences reflect sampling variation and thus overstate the ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1985-07)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995-12)On average, the poor European periphery converged on the rich industrial core in the four or five decades prior to the First World War. Some, like the three Scandinavian economies, used industrialization to achieve a ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-12)Lagrange Multiplier tests for omitted variables , heteroscedasticity, incorrect functional form and asymmetry in the ordered logit model may be readily calculated using an artificial regression. The proposed artificial ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-10)Lagrange Multiplier (LM) tests for omitted variables, heteroscedasticity, incorrect functional form, and non-normality in the ordered probit model may be readily calculated using an artificial regression. The proposed ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-07)LM tests for omitted variables, neglected heteroscedasticity and other mis-specifications in general discrete choice models may be simply and conveniently calculated using an artificial regression. This artificial regression ...
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