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Tourism is characterized for being a sector that has been highlighted as one of the activities with greatest potential …, tourism accepts the prominence role of being a strategy for local development. In this context the search for competitiveness …, in regional development and in countries’ competitiveness, it is important to analyze its potential in tourism. This …
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degree of uncertainty. The results are also consistent with previous research in the Central Bank of Ireland which stresses a …
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in Ireland are recipients of local R&D spillovers. Foreign affiliates do, however, gain from the size of the R&D stock in …
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In Ireland the link between real disequilibrium (such as the unemployment gap) and inflation (either price or wage) is …
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This new analysis of Ireland’s Balance of International Payments (BOP) shows a surprisingly large net contribution from …
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This paper examines alternative statistically-based measures of core inflation in Ireland over the period 1976-1999. A …
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This paper examines social security increases in Ireland as a case study of the existence of political budget cycles in … European countries. Ireland is an appropriate country to examine, first because it has a system of proportional representation … Ireland in relation to social security expenditure. It draws a number of conclusions as to the existence and incidence of …
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We examine whether hedging effectiveness is affected by asymmetry in the return distribution by applying tail specific metrics to compare the hedging effectiveness of short and long hedgers using Oil futures contracts. The metrics used include Lower Partial Moments (LPM), Value at Risk (VaR) and...
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Using data from the International Social Survey Programme 2008 this paper tests empirically the effects of network social capital on Irish employment outcomes, while controlling for possible endogeneity. We allow the effects of social networks to vary for different groups and across different...
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Purpose Eco-innovation is any form of product, process or organisational innovation that contributes towards sustainable development. Firms can eco-innovate in a variety of ways. In this paper we identify nine different eco-innovation activities - including such items as reducing material use...
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