Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1979 by Title

Now showing items 2-6 of 6

    • Inflation and consumption in Ireland 

      Honohan, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In inflationary times, consumers have limited, mainly out-of-date, information on the general level of prices. Consequently, when the general rate of inflation accelerates unexpectedly, consumers tend to mistakenly regard ...

    • Irish aggregate import demand equation - optimal functional form 

      Boylan, T.; Cuddy, M.; Ó'Muircheartaigh, I. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      A more general approach than that of `best fit? for choosing empirically the appropriate formulation of the aggregate import demand function for Ireland is presented. This approach leads to the choice of a particular form, ...

    • Preliminary-study of credit rationing in Ireland 

      Browne, Francis X.; O'Connell, Thomas (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      In their seminal study of credit rationing, Jaffee and Modigliani (1969) hypothesised that an intensification of the extent of credit rationing will manifest itself in a movement in banks' loan portfolios toward prime ...

    • Ransam - random sample design for Ireland 

      Whelan, Brendan J. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      The purpose of this paper is to describe RANSAM , the computer-based system for drawing random samples from the Electoral Register, which has been developed over the past few years at ESRI. This system, which is updated ...

    • Unmarried mothers - comparative study 

      Kirke, Deirdre (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1979)
      This study was designed to identify factors which might be associated with unmarried motherhood in Ireland. One hundred unmarried mothers and a control group of the same number of married mothers were interviewed by the ...