Economics (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Essays in Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation is a collection of three essays in empirical macroeconomics. Chapter 1 examines the long-run effects of central bank independence on inflation. Applying a dynamic panel strategy to account for the ... -
Essays in Political Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics. First, it studies how changes in the electoral design affect politicians and voters alike. Second, it studies the impact of criminal organisations on both ... -
Essays on Applied Microeconomics: the Impacts of Internal Displacement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of applied microeco- nomics and development economics. It tackles questions on the consequences of internal displacement on intra-household and intra-community ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is a collection of three essays in Development Economics. In 2022, 685 million people globally lived in extreme poverty, the rate of decline in poverty is at a paltry rate of 2 percent per year (World bank, ... -
Essays in financial and behavioural economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis comprises three essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) describe randomised controlled trials which experimentally test interventions to arm consumers with informational tools to navigate the promise ... -
Consolidated Foreign Wealth of Nations: Initial steps and novel estimates
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is made of three essays in International Macroeconomics. The central question these essays focus on is how to assess the international exposure of countries. The conventional approach uses the residence of the ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Intrahousehold Decision Making in Developing Countries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)Providing insights into mechanisms through which households manage resources, this thesis aims to add to the empirical evidence on strategic decision-making among spouses using experimental and survey data. While the ... -
Topics in Urban and Transport Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of urban and transport economics. While they do not use common data or methods, they all tackle fundamental issues concerning the effects of transport on ... -
Three Essays in Labor and Regional Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 uses the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and granular data on Mexican municipalities to study the local effects of trade liberalization on college ... -
Essays in Macroeconomics: An Analysis of the South African Financial System
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis consists of three empirical essays analyzing the financial systems in South Africa. Chapter 1 constructs a financial conditions index (FCI) for South Africa, over the period January 2000 to April 2017, that can ... -
Essays in Productivity
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation is a collection of three essays linked through the common theme of the aggregation of productivity in motion. The first essay examines productivity trends in European Manufacturing through the movement ... -
Essays on Financial Globalisation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)This dissertation is a collection of three essays on financial globalisation. A common theme running through the essays in this dissertation is the importance of global factors shaping national macro-financial outcomes ... -
Essays in international economics
This dissertation is a collection of three independent essays in the field of international economics. A common theme running through the dissertation is that each essay touches upon a key question that central bankers ... -
Environmental Behaviour and Decision Making - Evidence from Laboratory, Online and Natural Experiments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)Tackling climate change and keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is one of the major and most challenging issues that our societies are facing. Households are among the ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics: Representation and Weighting of Numerical Information
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)This thesis consists of four essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) present experimental tests of how numerical information is represented in the brain, and the implications of this representation for economic ... -
Exchange rates, global value chains, market structure and trade restrictions as determinants of international prices
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of exchange rate pass-through into international prices. It examines the effect of strategic competition in the destination market and the use of foreign inputs in production ... -
Essays in Labour Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This dissertation consists of three essays in labour economics. Its primary focus is labour supply and individual preferences for labour in European countries during recessions. The first essay (Chapter 2) documents ... -
Essays in Macro and Labor Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. It covers three different topics at this intersection, the concern of labor market outcomes and the empirical approach ... -
Essays on the Economics of Energy Efficiency: Evidence from residential dwellings and commercial data centres
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)Global economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been facilitated, in large part, by the increased use of natural resources as energy in the production process. This has revolutionised how society functions. ... -
Essays in Industrial Organisation: Market Structure, Non-Price Strategies and Welfare.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This dissertation consists of three essays in industrial organisation theory. It examines the relationship between market structure, welfare and firms' non-price strategies. The first essay discusses the impact of the level ...
