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This paper studies the effects of spatial concentration of innovation activity on local production of patents in the US. In doing so, we augment the standard knowledge production function with a structure that allows for spatial effects, accounting along with bilateral also for multilateral...
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In this paper, we examine how children care for their elderly parents and the motives of these family transfers …, accounting for interactions between parents and their different children. We study a theoretical model of intergenerational … transfers based on altruism, where siblings care for their parents (a public good). Decisions of upstream assistance are …
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investigate parents' expectations towards the implementation. To gather data, semi-structured interviews are deployed to seven … teaches and five parents while questionnaires are given to 17 teachers and 26 parents. The findings show that parents are … the teachers. These results mean that misunderstanding could surface between both the teachers and parents. Therefore …
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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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