RSS 1.0Economics (Theses and Dissertations)
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Wealth Inequality
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2025)This dissertation consists of three essays studying the dynamics of wealth inequality as it relates to different macroeconomic developments. In the three essays, I employ a range of different methods used in macroeconomics, ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Financial Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2025)This thesis consists of three essays on behavioral and financial economics. Each chapter provides insights into how consumers interact with various financial products, and offers policy recommendations related to consumer ... -
Essays in the Economic History of Labour Market Institutions and Industry Location
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, School of Social Science, 2025)This thesis explores the role of institutions, labour relations, and economic geography in shaping long-term economic outcomes. It comprises three essays that empirically analyse how organisational structures respond to ... -
Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2025)This thesis is a collection of three independent essays. The objective of the research is to answer three major questions faced by Central Banks and policymakers in Europe that have arisen since the Global Financial ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics and Economic Inequality
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2025)This thesis consists of four essays at the intersection of international macroeconomics and economic inequality. Each chapter tackles important questions aimed at understanding the relevant macroeconomic dynamics between ... -
The impact of international trade on informality and wages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2016)This thesis examines the links between trade and two main outcomes: informality and wages. It contributes to a wide strand of literature examining the impacts of globalization, particularly trade. Our first chapter is ... -
Essays on synergies from the geographic clustering of literary artists
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2017)This thesis consists of five chapters on synergies from the geographic clustering of literary artists. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the thesis. Chapter 2 utilises a unique, purpose built panel dataset on prominent ... -
Essays on the transmission channels of macroeconomic policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2016)This thesis consists of three empirical essays, examining the channels through which macroeconomic policy variables can affect the domestic economy. The essays analyse monetary and fiscal policy, identifying dimensions ... -
Essays on bank development, income inequality and human capital inequality
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2016)The core of the thesis consists of three empirical papers. The first one is about the link between bank development, corruption and economic growth. The second and the third both talk about inequality and how it relates ... -
Essays in macroeconomics and finance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2017)This dissertation consists of three essays, which deal with issues relating to the financial sector. Although the three chapters are independent, a common underlying theme is financial crises. The first essay studies the ... -
Essays in Urban and Housing Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of urban economics and the economic effects of affordable housing policy. While they do not use common data or methods, they all tackle fundamental issues ... -
Essays in Development and Gender Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of development and gender economics. Each chapter addresses significant questions that aim to understand the origins of harmful practices and norms that impact girls ... -
Essays in central bank communication and bank lending conditions for firms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This dissertation is composed of three independent essays in the broad fields of central bank communication and the transmission of changes in bank lending conditions to firms. The first two essays examine the transmission ... -
Human Mobility In Developing Countries: Evidence From Mobile Phone Data
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis examines human mobility patterns in developing countries. It leverages different types of mobile phone data enabling the observation of individuals' movements and locations at spatio-temporal scales which are ... -
Essays in Urban and Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of urban, environmental, transport, development and labour economics. Each chapter tackles important questions regarding the role of new active mobility transport ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis comprises three essays. The first essay (Chapter 2) analyzes the shock absorption role of external positions by looking at the relation between external stock imbalances and their currency of denomination. The ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation includes three standalone chapters, each focused on augmenting our knowledge of three issues in the literature on asset transfers, religion, and mental health. The first essay (Chapter 1) investigates ... -
Essays in Political Economics and Political Communication
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics with a particular focus on the effect of political communication. First, it studies how politicians way of speaking reacts in the aftermath of a salient ... -
Essays in Family Economics and Gender
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on family economics and gender. It delves into the problems families face with an emphasis on women. The first essay looks at how parents with different preferences take joint ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)The first essay studies the effects of access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) on fertility and labor market outcomes. Drawing on quasi-experimental variation in expected costs for ARTs and data from the German ...
