This paper presents how to use EnergyPlus to model a complex building by describing in detail EnergyPlus input parameters of a designing factory. It reports energy consumption, energy operation cost and environment impact of a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system used for...

Reveals that Ireland has experienced six major changes in exchange rate regimes over the period 1797 to today. Provides a historical perspective on this experience. Indicates that Irish nominal variables have been affected by the exchange rate regime and that membership of exchange rate regimes...

A three-country model is used to analyze how country size affects inflation under different exchange rate regimes. Two countries, an anchor country (leader) and a pegging country (follower), are examined where the latter differs in size. We find that the leader's preference for floating over...

This paper investigates the source of Irish real and nominal exchange rate movements during the ERM period. A restricted VAR is employed to decompose Irish pound exchange rate movements into changes due to real and nominal factors, for three bilateral exchange rates--sterling-Irish pound,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an in-depth, context rich, and stakeholder-focused perspective on the legitimation dynamics surrounding the initiation and evolution of one of the key financial sector environmental and social responsibility initiatives in recent years, the...

Holderness (1990) suggests that directors' and officers' (Damp;O) insurance has an important governance role in publicly owned companies. This article empirically tests Holderness's monitoring hypothesis by examining the association between board composition, managerial ownership, external...

We examine the role of liquidity risk, both as a stock characteristic as well as systematic liquidity risk, in UK mutual fund performance for the first time. We find that on average UK mutual funds are tilted towards liquid stocks (except for small stock funds as might be expected) but that,...