Ireland has experienced the largest destruction of wealth of any developed country during the 2007–10 economic crisis. Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis brings together policy makers, union representatives and internationally recognised academics to examine Ireland's crisis from many different angles. The objective of this book is to provide an understanding of what caused the crisis and to develop a set of key recommendations to guide Ireland's policy makers into a post-crisis era. Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis is written for a general audience, and should be of great interest to policy makers, researchers and students. Contributors: Stephen Kinsella (UL), Anthony Leddin (UL), Colm McCarthy (UCD), Brendan Walsh (UCD), Michael O'Sullivan (Credit Suisse), Ronan Lyons (University of Oxford, Daft.ie), Eoin Gahan (Forfás), Morgan Kelly (UCD), Michael Taft (UNITE), Edward Nell (New School for Social Research), K.P.V. O'Sullivan (London School of Economics) and K. Vela Velupillai (University of Trento).

This is a guide to the EC Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation. The approach is practical; the author guides the reader through the answers to questions such as: does a licensing agreement raise competition issues?, and does it benefit under the terms of the Block Exemption?

Let's talk about the future...How old will you be in 2050, and how old will your children, or nephews and nieces, be? What will you be doing, and where will you be living? How much will a cup of coffee cost? And will you be able to afford it? --

QUICK WIN ECONOMICS is aimed at practical people who understand that economics is important, because economic models inform the most powerful people in the world, who make decisions based on the advice of economists. Those decisions affect the daily lives of millions of people, for better and for worse. The mistakes of economists can have serious consequences. It pays to know what they are talking about. QUICK WIN ECONOMICS will help you decode economic phenomena - for example, you'll find out exactly why a change in central bank lending rates will change your mortgage, making you richer, or poorer; why Big Macs don't cost the same in every country; and how economists would deal with pollution. QUICK WIN ECONOMICS is designed to let you dip in and out as you'd like, looking for answers to questions you might have, or just for a place to start to understand the theory. Each entry is tagged by one of five subject areas: Economics Essentials; Micro-economics; Macro-economics; Economic Policy; Applied Economics. You also can use the grid system in the contents section to search for questions and answers across a range of topics or use the thread of cross-references provided at the end of each Q&A.

This paper presents a research framework for studying peer effects in the diffusion of innovations. The underlying mechanisms of peer effects are generally under-discussed in existing studies. By investigating diffusion processes in the real world and reviewing previous studies, we find that information transmission, experience sharing and externalities are the basic mechanisms through which peer effects occur. They are termed as information effect, experience effect and externality effect, respectively. The three effects could occur through different types of relationships in a social network. Each of them plays a different role at different stages of a diffusion process. A simulation model incorporating multiple effects in a multiplex network is developed to provide a theoretical study. We simulate the experience effect and the externality effect in a context of rural diffusion. It generates the widely acknowledged pattens of diffusion in various scenarios. The experiments conducted using the model show that peer effects as a whole can be substantially misestimated if the underlying mechanisms are ignored.