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200840: The Effects of Uncertainty about Oil Prices in G-7

Don Bredin, John Elder and Stilianos Fountas

200839: Spectral Risk Measures: Properties and Limitations

Kevin Dowd, John Cotter and Ghulam Sorwar

200838: How Unlucky is 25-Sigma?

Kevin Dowd, Margaret Woods, John Cotter and Chris Humphrey

200837: Do private equity buyouts represent value for target shareholders? Premiums in the boom of the early 2000s

Elaine Hutson and Darragh Mahony

200836: Conundrum or Complication: A Study of Yield Curve Dynamics under Unusual Economic Conditions and Monetary Policies

Peter Cripwell and David Edelman

200835: The Non-Linear Evolution of High Frequency Short Term Interest Rates

Peter Cripwell and David Edelman

200834: THE EARLY CHILDHOOD DETERMINANTS OF TIME PREFERENCES

Liam Delaney and Orla Doyle

200833: Schools, Skills, and Synapses

James Heckman

200832: Identification of Treatment Effects Using Control Functions in Models with Continuous, Endogenous Treatment and Heterogeneous Effects

J.P. Florensy, J. Heckmanz, C. Meghirx and Edward Vytlacil

200831: EARNINGS FUNCTIONS AND RATES OF RETURN

James Heckman, Lance Lochner and Petra Todd

200830: INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES IN MODELS WITH MULTIPLE OUTCOMES: THE GENERAL UNORDERED CASE

James Heckman, Sergio Urzua and Edward Vytlacil

200829: Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out

James Heckman, Paul LaFontaine and Pedro Rodriguez

200828: THE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATE: TRENDS AND LEVELS

James Heckman and Paul LaFontaine

200827: The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

Lex Borghans, Angela Duckworth, James Heckman and Bas ter Weel

200826: Econometric Causality

James Heckman

200825: Administrative Reform in a Liberal Market Economy

Niamh Hardiman and Muiris Mac Carthaigh

200824: Regulating Everything

Colin Scott

200823: SHARE Ireland: First Results

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Cecily Kelleher and Jean Kennedy

200822: Some further evidence against the Trivers Willard hypothesis in homo sapiens

Kevin Denny

200821: “Breast is Best, But for How Long? Testing Breastfeeding Guidelines for Optimal Cognitive Ability

Orla Doyle and Lori Timmins

200820: The Labor Supply Effect of In-Kind Transfers

Paul Bingley and Ian Walker

200819: Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking

Liam Delaney, Michael Daly and Colm Harmon

200818: Smoking Intensity, Compensatory Behavior and Tobacco Tax Policy

Ian Irvine

200817: The College Wage Premium and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK

Ian Walker and Yu Zhu

200816: The Evolution of University Access Programmes in Ireland

Patricia O’ Reilly

200815: Handedness and depression, evidence from a large population survey

Kevin Denny

200814: The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes

James Smith

200813: Legitimating Fiscal Stabilization: Ireland in Comparative Perspective

Niamh Hardiman, Patrick Murphy and Orlaith Burke

200812: The Segmented State. Adaptation and Maladaptation in Ireland

Niamh Hardiman and Muiris MacCárthaigh

200811: Event-Related Potentials Reveal Differential Brain Regions Implicated in Discounting in Two Tasks

Liam Delaney, Caroline Rawdon, Kevin Denny, Wen Zhang and Richard A.P. Roche

200810: Why do some Irish drink so much?

Liam Delaney, Arie Kapteyn and James Smith

200809: A Model of Intervention in Childhood

James Symons and Leon Feinstein

200808: Optimal Patent Length

James Bergin

200807: Assessing the Impact of Public Transfers on Private Risk Sharing Arrangements. Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico

Marina Pavan and Aldo Colussi

200806: The Politics of Economic Adjustment in a Liberal Market Economy: the Social Compensation Hypothesis Revisited

Niamh Hardiman, Patrick Murphy and Orlaith Burke

200805: Cognitive ability and continuous measures of relative hand-skill. a note

Kevin Denny

200804: Understanding Variety in Public Agencies

Colin Scott

200803: Big and Tall Parents do not Have More Sons

Kevin Denny

200802: Beauty and intelligence may or may not- be related

Kevin Denny

200801: “Which Kind of Paddy?” A Survey of the Literature on the History, Sociology and Anthropology of Alcohol and the Irish

Dorren McMahon

200741: The Determinants of Self-Rated Health in the Republic of Ireland Further Evidence and Future Directions

Liam Delaney, Colm Harmon, Cecily Kelleher and Caroline Kenny

200740: Building Export Capabilities by promoting Inter-Firm Linkages: Ireland’s Industrial Policy Revisited

Oi Li, Patrick Walsh and Ciara Whelan

200739: Governing the Economy

Niamh Hardiman

200738: The Governance of the Environment in Ireland

Brigid Laffan and Jane O’Mahony

200737: Governance and Parliamentary Accountability

Muiris MacCarthaigh

200736: Regulatory Governance

Jonathan Westrup

200735: Creating Two Levels of Healthcare

Claire Finn and Niamh Hardiman

200734: E-Governance in Ireland: New Technologies, Local Government and Civic Participation

Lee Komito

200733: Governing the City: Institutional Innovation and its Consequences

Diane Payne and Peter Stafford

200732: The Governance of Crime and Security in Ireland

Aogan Mulcahy