The paper examines the impact of economic integration on enterprise in a small open economy. The paper analyses large, small and total new company registrations in Ireland. It examines the impact of spill-overs from the United Kingdom labour market and product market on Irish firm formation. The...

We analyze the production factor which is behind the phenomenon of the de-materialization of advanced economies: synergic combinations of electronic hardware and software, which are capable of manipulating symbols autonomously and modifying themselves - forms of 'intelligent' capital because...

In this paper we analyse a railroad cartel run by the Joint Executive Committee (JEC) in the United States in the nineteenth century. The JEC was a cartel whose members anticipated a periodic fall in demand due to competition from the Great Lakes. In a simplified situation we model the optimal...

In this paper, we analyse the effects of multinational companies on wage inequality in the host country, studying the case of the Irish economy. Based on a model developed by Aghion and Howitt (1998), in which the introduction of new technologies leads to increasing demand for skilled labour...

This paper examines new record company formation by musicians. In particular, it addresses the decision by composers to release a record i.e. either to contract their music to record companies or to start their own company. In so doing, the research entails the collection and analysis of new...

We estimate the factors that affect the life expectancy of plants operating in the manufacturing sector of Ireland over the period 1980-1994. Our results suggest that real exchange rate appreciations have caused a great number of infant mortalities in domestic plants both in the traditional and...

The initial years of transition in the Russian federation have been characterised by relatively smaller falls in employment than observed in other reform- orientated countries of Eastern Europe. We show that for many Russian workers, the dominant form of labour market adjustment is instead the...

The paper conducts a statistical analysis of the dynamics of new music (product differentiation innovation) in the record industry. In pursuing this goal the paper generates new data and analyses a previously unutilized data set. The paper finds that there is a strong correlation between new...

This paper looks at issues surrounding the testing of fractional integration and nonlinearity in relation to the forward exchange rate anomaly of Fama (1984). Recent tests for fractional integration and nonlinearity are discussed and used to investigate the behaviour of three exchange rates and...

In this paper we provide empirical evidence on the determinants of firm start-up size using data for the manufacturing sector in Ireland, and compare our results with recent findings for Portuguese manufacturing industries (Mata and Machado, 1996). To allow for firm heterogeneity between firm...