Leahy, Dermot(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-03)
The import protection as export promotion thesis is examined from a positive and normative perspective in a series of two-stage games in which firms choose R&D and capacity in the first stage and quantity or price in the ...
Murphy, Anthony(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-07)
A convenient artifical regression based LM test of non-normality in the probit model is derived using a Gram Charlier type A alternative. The test is simply derived and may be extended to the bivariate probit case. The ...
Murphy, Anthony(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-11)
A simple artificial regression based on Lagrange Multiplier (LM) test for zero correlation in the censored bivariate probit model is derived. The outer product gradient form of the LM test is not used so the proposed test ...
Walsh, Brendan M.(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-05)
The aim of this paper is to review, in a broad historical context, what we know about the behaviour of Irish wage rates relative to those in Britain. Attention will be focused on the long-run effects of emigration and the ...
The problems and challenges addressed in the Commission's White Paper on "Growth, Competitiveness, Employment" affects the peripheral member states acutely, and in a way that differs considerably from how the richer, more ...