This paper suggests that the process of economic integration can generate positive effects for peripheral economies by increasing their attractiveness as a production base for multinational companies. Such investment is likely in the case of goods for which transportation costs are relatively...

This paper presents a methodology for estimating technical efficiency levels for individual farms using both a fixed effects panel model and a stochastic production frontier approach. It tests whether the estimated technical efficiency levels are associated with measures of contact with the...

This paper responds to the editorial in European Competition Law Review, Issue 3, 1998 (The E.C. Green Paper on Vertical Restraints: An Economic Comment). Contrary to the views expressed in that editorial, it is argued that an evaluation of the potentially anti-competitive effects of exclusive...

In recent years, a vast literature on the links between inequality and growth has flourished. The emerging consensus is that equality enhances growth, but disagreement exists on the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we aim to provide the reader with new empirical evidence from a cross...

Using a range of data on population, the labour force, employment, unemployment and incomes, Section 1 of this paper outlines the changing nature of the "regional problem" and offers an assessment of regional performance in Ireland over the last 25 years. In 1971 there was some justification for...