This paper provides the first comprehensive baseline profile of the Irish economics profession, broadly defined, over a number of metrics. The questions fall into three broad categories: the first category relates to the attitudes of the respondents to issues relating to the economy and the role...

A central aspect of historical research is to provide explanations for the causes and effects of events that occurred in the past, in particular the Second World War. History can be analyzed and explained from different perspectives. Two such perspectives are considered, the first being the...

Recently, the problems associated with the existing journal review process aroused discussions from seasoned management researchers, who have also made useful suggestions for improving the process. To complement these suggestions, we propose a more radical change: a manuscript should be reviewed...

The terms of reference for the inquiry on First Home Ownership asked the Commission to evaluate the affordability and availability of housing for first home buyers.The Commission's preliminary findings were released for public comment in December.In its final assessment, the Commission...

Recently many editors try to reduce the turnaround times of academic journals. Shorter turnaround times, however, will induce many additional submissions of low-quality papers, increasing significantly the workload of editors and referees, and the number of rejections prior to publication. I...

This paper studies the role played by several bank specific financial indicators in determining the process of bank failure in Argentina after the Mexican crisis known as the quot;tequila effectquot;. Due to the relative scarcity of previous studies, this paper priorizes the use of...

The research paper discusses variations in house price patterns for homes with different types of financing and borrower characteristics. The analysis finds that price declines have been greater for homes with riskier mortgages

This short essay takes stock of H.L. Mencken's portrayal of Samuel Johnson as the quot;first Rotarianquot; and as nothing more than a mouthpiece for the prejudices and defender of the authorities of his time. I suggest by contrast that Johnson was fully appreciative of the need for the writer to...

In this paper I would like to establish the priority of Aristotle in the thought of George Frederick Holmes (1820-1897), the South's leading philosopher of the nineteenth century. Accompanying this aim is the possibility of an improved understanding of the historical quot;Mind of the Southquot;...