Articles and publications by Indecon Staff

Examples of Publications by Indecon's Consultancy Staff

• McCloughan, P., 'Construction Sector Concentration: Evidence from Britain', forthcoming in Construction Management and Economics, 2004.
• McCloughan, P. and Abounoori, E., "How to Estimate Market Concentration Given Grouped Data", Applied Economics, Vol. 35, 2003, pp. 973-83.
• Abounoori, E. and McCloughan, P., "A Simple Way to Calculate the Gini Coefficient for Grouped as well as Ungrouped Data, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 10, 2003, pp. 505-09.
• McCloughan, P., "Construction Sector Concentration: Evidence from Britain", London Economics Working Paper No. 4, 2003.
• McCloughan, P., "Business Support Lessons from the 1994-99 Objective One Programme on Merseyside", Merseyside Economic Prospect, Vol. 15, No. 2, January 2001, pp. 28-31.
• Swinand, G. and Swinand, P., "Real Options: Creating and Capturing the Option Value in Regulated Assets," Bridge Strategy Quarterly, Spring 2000.
• McCloughan, P., "Lognormality of the Size Distribution of Firms: Review and New Evidence from Computer Simulations", in The Current State of Economic Science (Vol. 4), pp. 2,135-2,155, ed. Professor Shri Bhagwan Dahiya, Spellbound Publications, 1999.
• Swinand, G., et al. "Role of Vibrant Retail Electricity Markets in Assuring that Wholesale Power Markets Operate Effectively, Electricity Journal, December 1999.
• Ball, E., Gollop, F., Kelly-Hawke, A. and Swinand, G. (Indecon), "Patterns of State Productivity Growth in U.S. Farm Sector: Linking the State and Aggregate Models," American Journal Of Agricultural Economics 81, Feb. 1999, pp. 164-179.
• Gray, A.W. & R. Clarke, Sharing the Benefits of Economic Growth, Irish Banking Review, 1998.
• Lyons, B. R., and McCloughan, P., "Uncle Sam's Ireland: The Nature and Impact of Foreign Multinationals in the Irish Economy", Chapter 6 in Inward Investment, Business Finance and Regional Development, pp. 100-115, eds. Hill, S. and Morgan, B., Macmillan, 1998.
• Swinand, G., "Incorporating Changing Water Quality Measures of Farm Sector Productivity Growth," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, proceedings: Agricultural Productivity and the Environment, January 1998.
• Lyons, B. R., and McCloughan, P., "The Case of Ireland", Chapter 4 in Dynamic Interdependence Between Foreign Direct Investment and Foreign Trade in the Context of the European Integration Process with Special Reference to ECE: Comparative Aspects, pp. 107-127, eds. Janina Witkowska and Zofia Wysokinska, University of Lodz Press, 1998.
• McCloughan, P., "More on the Economic Consequences of the Northern Irish Peace Process", Quarterly Economic Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 1998, pp. 22-27.
• McCloughan, P. and Stone, I., "Life Duration of Foreign Multinational Subsidiaries: Evidence from UK Northern Manufacturing Industry 1970-93", International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Vol. 16, No. 6, November 1998, pp. 719-47.
• Gray, A.W., "Challenges for Ireland in the Integrated European Union", in Ireland in the Coming Times, Essays to Celebrate T. K. Whitaker's 80 Years, IPA, 1997.
• Cullinan, J, "Self-employment income under-reporting and estimates of the black-economy: Britain - 1987 and 1992", Economics Department Working Paper Series, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, 1997.
• Swinand, G., "A Welfare-based Measure of Productivity Growth," Working Paper #392. Boston College Dept. of Economics, with Richard Arnott and Kelly Chaston, October 1997.
• Gray, A.W., (ed.) - International Perspectives on the Irish Economy, Indecon Public Policy Series, October 1997.
• O'Donnell, R. (UCD) & C. O'Reardon (Indecon) "Ireland's Experiment in Social Partnership 1987-96" in Fajertag, G. & P. Pochet (Eds.) Social Pacts in Europe, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute, 1997.
• Lyons, S. (Indecon), Richards, E. and Wilsdon, T., Paying for Long Term Care, IPPR, 1996.
• Gray, A.W., - Appraisal of EU and Other Public Sector Investments, Gill and MacMillan, March 1995.
• McCloughan, P., "Simulation of Concentration Development from Modified Gibrat Growth-Entry-Exit Processes", The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. XLIII, No. 4, December 1995, pp. 405-33.
• Gray, A.W., - Economic Consequences of Peace in Ireland, Indecon Public Policy Series, 1995.
• McCloughan, P., "On the Political Economy of the Peace Process", Political Agenda, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1995, pp. 25-8 (Invited Article).
• Gray, A.W., - Responses to Irish Unemployment - the views of four economists, Alan Gray, Kieran Kennedy, Brendan Walsh and Dermot McAleese, Indecon Policy Services.
• McCloughan, P., "The Economic Consequences of the Irish Peace", Quarterly Economic Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 1, March 1995, pp. 33-40.
• Gray, A.W., - Employment Potential in Manufacturing, An Bord Trachtala, 1994.
• Gray, A.W., - Industry and Trade, in Ireland and Europe: A Shared Challenge, Economic Co-operation on the island of Ireland in an Integrated Europe, Stationery Office, Dublin 1992.
• Gray, A.W., - An Analysis of the Structure of Industrial Production in Ireland, Irish Goods Council, 1990.
• Gray, A.W. and Scott, Y., 1992 and the Tourism Sector, A Report for the Europen Bureau, Department of the Taoiseach, Stationery Office, Dublin, 1990.
• Gray, A.W., 1992 and the Financial Services Sector, A Report for the Europen Bureau, Department of the Taoiseach, Stationery Office, Dublin, 1990.
• Gray, A.W., The Impact of European Integration, finance, Journal of Ireland's Money and Capital Markets, November 1990.
• Gray, A.W., the Competitive Implications of 1992 for the Financial Services Sector, The Irish Institutional Investment Reference Journal, 1990.
• Gray, A.W., Cost Competitiveness and How to Improve It, in Competition and Industry, The Irish Experience, Edited by McAleese, D., Gill and MacMillan, 1989.
• Gray, A.W., (Indecon) and Kemp, A. G., (University of Aberdeen), An Economic Analysis of Petroleum Exploitation Terms in Ireland, the U.K., Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands, Price Waterhouse, 1988.
• Gray, A.W., The Impact of De-Regulation, Proceedings of 1988 National Tourism and Transport Conference.
• Gray, A.W., (Indecon) and Kelly, J.H., (Central Bank), The Import Dependence of the Irish Economy, Implications for Industrial Policy, in Perspectives on Irish Industry, Edited by Fitzpatrick, J. and Kelly, J., Irish Management Institute, 1985.
• Gray, A.W., A Re-examination of Industrial Competitiveness, Export Review, Journal of Irish export Board, Volume 3, October 1984.
• O'Reilly, L., (Central Bank), and Gray, A.W., (Indecon), Seasonality and Other Components in Irish Unemployment Series, Quarterly Economic Commentary, The Economic and Social Research Institute, April 1980.