This paper tests whether households that are offered broadband service for the first time tend to delay in taking it up. Using cross-sectional data on broadband take-up and socioeconomic characteristics of small areas in Ireland, linked to GIS data on ADSL availability, I find that local...

This paper provides updated estimates for the scale of fuel poverty in the Republic of Ireland using two measures: one based on fuel expenditure as a share of income and the other based on self-reported deprivation. It also presents modelling results as to the characteristics of households most...

The link between aggregate profits and investment has been widely analysed through the impact of profits on net worth and therefore the firm's ability to borrow, in the presence of credit market imperfections. How the business cycle is affected if profits also affect investment through an impact...

Since 1999 an increase in magnitude and volatility of the credit spread is observable in the German bond market. This paper analyses the credit spread of German industrial bonds focussing on the one hand on the recent period of high volatility of the credit spread and on the other hand on...

In diesem Beitrag möchten wir zeigen, wie Fragen der Preispolitik mit Excel modelliert und gelöst werden können. Durch diese Herangehensweise werden die theoretischen Grundlagen der Analyse von Preispolitiken geschärft und Modellierungstechniken vermittelt, die für eigene und weitergehende...

Die Gewerbeimmobilienmärkte stehen angesichts der konjunkturellen Lage, aber auch angesichts struktureller Umbrüche vor großen Herausforderungen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird in dem vorliegenden Report die Mietpreisentwicklung bei Einzelhandels- und Büroobjekten untersucht. Betrachtet wird...

Die Preise für wissenschaftliche, technische und medizinische (WTM) Fachzeitschriften sind in den letzten 20 Jahren dramatisch gestiegen. Die unterschiedlichen Preisentwicklungen zwischen kommerziellen und nichtkommerziellen Verlagen ist dabei nicht durch unterschiedliche Kostenentwicklungen zu...

This paper investigates the economic implications of disruptions of one to ninety days to the supply of natural gas in Ireland. We assess the impact of a hypothetical gas supply disruption in both winter and summer in 2008 (with observed market characteristics) and in 2020 (with projected market...

This paper examines the international transmission effects that a positive supply shock in emerging economies may have on inflation in developed economies. We construct a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for three countries and analyze the impact of a supply shock in an...

The paper shows how aggregate AS-AD can be derived within the standard neoclassical dynamic setting known as the Ramsey-Cass- Koopmans (RCK) model. AS-AD is the stationary equilibrium of the deterministic dynamic general equilibrium framework. The derivation builds a permanent income type...