Browsing Trinity Business School (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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Investigating the Determinants of Banking Coexceedances in Europe in the Summer of 2008
(2010)We examine the nature, extent and possible causes of bank contagion in a high frequency setting. Looking at six major European banks in the summer and autumn of 2008, we model the lower coexceedances of these banks returns. ... -
Determinants of capital structure in Irish SMEs
(Springer, 2010)This paper presents an empirical examination of determinants of the capital structure of a sample of 299 Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Results suggest that age, size, level of intangible activity, ownership ... -
A Comparison of the Appraisal Process for Auction and Private Treaty Residential Sales
(Elsevier, 2010)This paper examines residential sale mechanisms from an appraisal perspective and empirically tests for differences in the valuation process for auctioned and private treaty sales. We test the hypothesis that agents use ... -
The Primitive, Technology and Horror: A Posthuman Biology
(University of London, 2010)Recent works have explored the concept of posthumanism as a radical decentring of the human, humanism and the humanities in the wake of the complexificaiton of technology and systems, and new insight into nonhuman life ... -
High Performance Computing Instrumentation and Research Productivity in U.S. Universities
(JITI, 2010)This paper studies the relationship between investments in High-Performance Computing (HPC) instrumentation and research competitiveness. Measures of institutional HPC investment are computed from data that is readily ... -
Using Conjoint Analysis to increase the Validity of Performance Measures and the Effectiveness of Performance Management in complex public services
(2010)This paper begins by considering the growing importance of Performance Measurement and Management Systems (PMMS) in the governance of complex public services and the theoretical and operational challenges this presents. ... -
Mutuals and Alternative Banking: A Solution to the Financial and Economic Crisis in Ireland
(Carnegie Trust, 2010)This paper looks at the financial crisis in Ireland and the state?s responses, and considers the role of civil society institutions operating in the financial sector in Ireland, and how their role might be expanded. -
Firm-level internationalisation and the home bias puzzle
(Elsevier, 2010)The extent to which internationalising MNEs create value, and the extent to which investors can reap the benefits of firm-level internationalisation remain controversial issues. Using a multi-country dataset with over 3 ... -
Comovements in Government Bond Markets: A Minimum Spanning Tree Analysis
(Elsevier, 2010)The concept of a minimum spanning tree (MST) is used to study patterns of comovements for a set of twenty government bond market indices for developed North American, European, and Asian countries. We show how the MST and ... -
Managing customer-centric information
(IGI Global, 2010)Despite many years of business-orientated information and communication technology (ICT) deployment, contemporary organisations continue to struggle with customer-centric implementation of new technologies that are profitable ... -
FDI Implications of Recent European Court of Justice Decisions on Corporation Tax Matters
(2010)Corporation tax rates significantly influence the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as company decisions on corporate borrowing, transfer pricing, dividend and royalty payments, and research and development. ... -
Does cultural distance matter in international stock market comovement? Evidence from emerging economies around the world
(2010)Prior research suggests an inverse relationship between geographic distance and financial market linkages. In this paper, we examine whether and how cultural distance between countries mitigates this finding. We find that ... -
The Dogs that Didn't Bark: Auditors and the Banking Fiasco
(2010-10)It was a mistake to allow dealers in money to escape from their traditional discipline of unlimited liability, and a further mistake to permit their auditors to have a quasi-legislative role in respect of standards. -
Intellectual Property, the Banking Crisis and the Public Interest
(Thomson Reuters / Sweet and Maxwell, 2011)The UK Hargreaves inquiry is one more testimony to the failure of intellectual property laws to deliver the innovation that is their only justification. This parallels numerous similar investigations of the worldwide banking ... -
What is the Real Price of Gold and How Would We Know?
(2011)We survey, very briefly, some conceptual and empirical issues that bedevil the identification of a fundamental price for gold and consequently the identification of a real gold price. -
Financial integration and emerging markets capital structure
(2011)This paper investigates the impact of country-level financial integration on corporate financing choices in emerging economies. Examining 4477 public firms from 24 countries, we find that corporate leverage is positively ... -
NAMA: An Institutional and Operational Failure that Keeps Expanding
(2011)The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 by the Irish authorities with the expressed objective of assisting in the process of repairing domestic Irish banking sector in the aftermath of the severe ... -
Euro Crisis: From the Sovereigns to the Banks and Back to the Sovereigns
(Emerald, 2011)The global financial crisis of 2007-2009 crystallized the underlying imbalances that are currently acting to tear apart the Euro area monetary and fiscal systems by focusing markets and public attention on the core cause ...