Carol Newman

Publication List Details

Period

1969 - 2009

Number

29

Co-Authors

Infrequency of purchase and double-hurdle models of Irish households' meat expenditure (2001)

Newman, Carol, Henchion, Maeve, Matthews, Alan

This paper examines the effect of households' socio‐economic characteristics, which are assumed to underpin preferences, on the pattern of consumers' meat expenditure at a disaggregated level....

A Double-Hurdle Model of Irish Household Expenditure on Prepared Meals

Carol Newman, Maeve Henchion, Alan Matthews

In this paper, Irish households' expenditure on prepared meals for home consumption is analysed using the 1987 and 1994 Irish Household Budget Survey datasets. The aim of the paper is to analyse the...

Reference Dependent Financial Satisfaction over the Course of the Celtic Tiger: A Panel Analysis Utilising the Living in Ireland Survey 1994-2001

Liam Delaney, Carol Newman, Brian Nolan

The link between income and subjective satisfaction with one’s financial situation is explored in this paper using a panel analysis of 4,000 individuals tracked through the course of the ‘Celtic...

A Tobit Model of Quick Service Expenditure in Ireland: Parametric vs Semiparametric Estimation

Conor Keelan, Carol Newman, Maeve Henchion

The aim of this study is to identify the economic and socio-economic factors influencing Irish households’ expenditure on Food-Away-From-Home (FAFH). The main objective is to estimate a tobit model...

A Comparison of Stochastic Frontier Approaches to Estimating Inefficiency and Total Factor Productivity: An Application to Irish Dairy Farming

James Carroll, Carol Newman, Fiona Thorne

This paper compares standard stochastic frontier models for panel data with a number of recently developed models designed to remove unobserved heterogeneity from the inefficiency component. Results...

The impact of globalisation and trade on the productivity performance of the Irish food manufacturing sector

Carol Newman

Globalisation and international integration can yield efficiency gains through the promotion of competition and trade in markets for internationally traded goods. At the firm level, exposure to...

Land Titles and Rice Production in Vietnam

Carol Newman, Finn Tarp

In most of the empirical literature on land titling, the household is regarded as unitary, and land rights are found to have ambiguous effects on land allocation, investment and productivity. Using...

Sector Switching: An Unexplored Dimension of Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp

Much of the literature on industry evolution has found firm dynamics to be an important source of sector-level productivity growth. In this paper, we ask whether the delineation of entry and exit...

Land Titles and Rice Production in Vietnam

Carol Newman, Finn Tarp

In most of the empirical literature on land titling, the household is regarded as unitary, and land rights are found to have ambiguous effects on land allocation, investment and productivity. Using...

Sector Switching: An Unexplored Dimension of Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp

Much of the literature on industry evolution has found firm dynamics to be an important source of sector-level productivity growth. In this paper, we ask whether the delineation of entry and exit...

Understanding Production in the Performing Arts: A Production Function for German Public Theatres

Marta Zieba, Carol Newman

The production structure for the performing arts is complicated by a number of factors making it difficult to estimate production technologies using a theoretical framework built for standard...

A Tobit Model of Quick Service Expenditure in Ireland: Parametric vs Semiparametric Estimation

Conor Keelan, Carol Newman, Maeve Henchion

The aim of this study is to identify the economic and socio-economic factors influencing Irish households’ expenditure on Food-Away-From-Home (FAFH). The main objective is to estimate a tobit model...

A Tobit Model of Quick Service Expenditure in Ireland: Parametric vs Semiparametric Estimation

Conor Keelan, Carol Newman, Maeve Henchion

The aim of this study is to identify the economic and socio-economic factors influencing Irish households’ expenditure on Food-Away-From-Home (FAFH). The main objective is to estimate a tobit model...

Sector Switching: An Unexplored Dimension of Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp

Much of the literature on industry evolution has found firm dynamics to be an important source of sector-level productivity growth. In this paper, we ask whether the delineation of entry and exit...

A double-hurdle model of Irish household expenditure on prepared meals

Carol Newman, Maeve Henchion, Alan Matthews

In this paper, Irish households' expenditure on prepared meals for home consumption is analysed using the 1987 and 1994 Irish Household Budget Survey datasets. The aim of the paper is to analyse the...

Household Characteristics of Higher Education Participants

Martin Ryan, Siobhan McCarthy, Carol Newman

The aim of this paper is to analyse the characteristics of Irish households that have a member participating in higher education, using surveys of Irish households collected in 1994-95 and 1999-2000....

An Econometric Analysis of Charitable Donations in the Republic of Ireland

James Carroll, Siobhan McCarthy, Carol Newman

This paper explores the variables that affect the probability of donating to charity and those that affect the size of donations by Irish households. The dataset employed is the Irish Household...

A Dynamic Model of the Relationship Between Income and Financial Satisfaction: Evidence from Ireland

Carol Newman, Liam Delaney, Brian Nolan

The link between income and subjective satisfaction with one’s financial situation is explored in this paper using a panel analysis of 1,998 individuals tracked through the course of the boom...

Eating Out in the British Isles

Keelan, Conor, Henchion, Maeve, Newman, Carol

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the foodservice industries in both Ireland and the UK. Each industry is analysed separately using the most recently available Household Budget Survey...

Quick-service expenditure in Ireland: parametric vs. semiparametric analysis

Conor Keelan, Carol Newman, Maeve Henchion

The aim of this study is to identify the economic and socio-economic factors influencing Irish households' expenditure on quick-service meals, a particularly dynamic component of the foodservice...

The Role of Technology, Investment and Ownership Structure in the Productivity Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in Vietnam

Carol Newman, Gaia Narciso, Finn Tarp

This paper explores the productivity performance of the manufacturing sector in Vietnam between 2001 and 2007. Total Factor Productivity indices are computed using an index number approach and the...