Economics (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Three Essays on Money and Monetary Policy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This thesis deals with money and monetary policy in the context of the US economy. My focus is on the rapidly evolving financial market landscape in the US. This has been instigated by financial market liberalisation, which ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)This dissertation is a collection of three essays with a geographical and thematic common denominator. The broad objective of the thesis is to study how the Ugandan agricultural sector is affected by the country' -
Essays in Economic History
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of economic history and economics of migration. It consists of introduction, literature review, three empirical research chapters on Irish Migration to the United States ... -
Essays in development economics: the role of property rights on labour supply and land markets
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)The process of economic development requires that an economy moves from an agriculture-intensive setting to a more industrialized situation. It is then essential that agricultural productivity increases and shifts to a ... -
European pharmaceutical industry : a micro-econometric analysis of growth dynamics and production location
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the industry dynamics of expansion and the location pattern of the European pharmaceutical industry in the Single Market Programme era using micro-econometric approaches. -
Taxation and political models
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. Each essay deals with taxation policy directly or the expectation of future taxation by an electorate during a time of war. In terms of taxation, this essay generally ... -
Economic implications of the Doha development agenda for China
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of my PhD thesis is to assess the consequences of possible Doha Round outcomes for China. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis and outlines its structure. Chapter 2 ... -
Essays on applied microeconomics and development income risk, income shocks and household financial decisions : evidence from rural Vietnam
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Income risk remains a significant obstacle to rural development. Even within a transitioning economy such as Vietnam which has a significant social safety-net, income shocks (for example, natural disasters, illness, pest ... -
Essays on carbon taxation and food demand in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is the collection of three applied studies, two of which deal with distributional effects of carbon taxation in the Irish economy and one, the third, which estimates a microeconometric model for food demand in ... -
Structural modeling of demand and supply : assessing collusion & tax reform impact on the Irish automotive market
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)In this thesis the factors shaping the Irish automotive industry are analyzed using a unique dataset covering purchases of new cars in Ireland during the year 2003. -
Essays on migration and risk aversion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)In this thesis I develop the theoretical and empirical literature linking risk aversion and migration. The thesis consists of three chapters exploring this theme from a variety of perspectives. The first chapter looks at ... -
Essays in development economics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is motivated by research questions faced by policy makers in developing country governments and donor agencies. In particular, it deals with the appropriate measurement of foreign aid and its possibly pernicious ... -
Analysing financial globalisation : cross-border investment, international risk sharing, and financial reforms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)The research topic of this thesis lies in the area of international macroeconomics. In particular, key aspects of financial globalisation are analysed empirically. In the first essay, analysis of 21 industrial countries ... -
International perspectives on investment and financing constraints : microeconometric evidence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is composed of four essays, providing insights and perspectives on the topic of access to credit and firm-level investment. It covers two subfields in economics: finance in developing countries and financing ... -
The performance of diagnosis-related groups in Ireland & Europe, 2005-2008
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are designed to classify hospital output into a manageable number of groups, containing patients who were clinically homogeneous with similar levels of resource utilisation. Where DRGs are ... -
Electricity markets and renewables : emissions, costs and fuel diversity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)As energy consumption has risen steadily over the past century, so too have emissions, contributing to climate change. Energy consumption is a necessary aspect of economic growth - it is an input into the production of ... -
The economics of electricity storage
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)This thesis investigates the issues surrounding electricity storage systems from various perspectives. It assesses the impact on the power system operation and the resulting benefits for developers versus system operators. ... -
Economy-wide modelling focused on the agricultural and food sectors : an Irish case
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of four essays. The first one describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year 2005. The SAM includes 55 activities, 55 commodities, two factors of production ... -
Essays in cross-border asset allocation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2015)The core of this thesis consists of three papers. Although independent, a common theme in each of the papers is the bilateral variation of cross border positions across countries, sectors and banks during the recent boom ... -
Empirical essays in international macroeconomics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)This thesis is composed of three essays. The first paper examines private credit growth in Europe between 1999 and 2007. The results highlight the importance of external liabilities in facilitating the credit boom. Although ...
