Economics (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Essays on the macroeconomic impact of financial openness
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis uses new data to examine the impact of a quantitative measure of international financial integration on various indicators of macroeconomic performance. Proponents of greater openness to financial flows maintain ... -
Estimating the income and socio-economic determinants of the demand for transport using household micro-data
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the income and socio-economic determinants of transport demand, using Dublin as a case study. Chapter 1 sets the context by discussing the problem of excessive car use in urban ... -
The determinants of repertoire diversity in non-profit theatre: an application to England and Germany
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2004)This thesis studies repertoire diversity and its possible determinants in non-profit theatre for two European countries, namely England and Germany. For this, extensive econometric analysis is carried out using specifically ... -
Essays on international capital flows
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis is a collection of essays on international capital flows. The main motivation for this work was to address a number of relatively unexplored issues within this subject. Four topics were empirically analyzed ... -
Essays on regional restructuring and the Polish labour market
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2002)The fall of the iron curtain and the transition shock that Poland faced in the early 1990s necessitated substantial adjustments throughout the economy. Planners no longer dictated prices, trade, financial allocations or ... -
Essays on financial development and economic growth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis is a collection of essays on the relationship between financial development and economic growth. The thesis is introduced in Chapter One, which talks about the motivation for the thesis and outlines the structure ... -
Essays on international capital markets
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis concentrates on the macroeconomic effects of increased capital mobility in international capital markets. The focal points of attention encompass the relationship between capital flows and infrastructure, ... -
Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ... -
Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ... -
Export characteristics of Irish manufacturing enterprises
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2004)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the export characteristics of enterprises, using the manufacturing sector of Ireland between 1991 and 1998 as a case study. The growth of Irish merchandise exports is considered to ... -
Estimation of production and demand functions for German, Austrian and Swiss non-profit theatres
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the production technology and the economic determinants of demand for the performing arts. Both the demand and the production function are estimated using econometric linear regression ... -
Carbon energy taxation and revenue recycling : an applied general equilibrium analysis for the Irish economy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)The rapid changing of the climate globally is a pressing problem. In Ireland, the average annual temperature has increased by 0.5 degrees Celsius over the course of the twentieth century, most significantly in the last ... -
Industrial structures and labour market outcomes : an examination of Poland in transition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This Thesis presents three papers. In our first paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in ... -
Essays in applied time series econometric methodology : the role of random field regression
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis is a collection of essays in applied time series econometrics, focusing particularly on the role of random field regression. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis ... -
Self-organising skew distributions in an agent-based model with applications to Gibrat's Law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)Three models for the firm size distribution are implemented using an Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) framework, and a theory explaining the source of a skew firm size distribution in one of the models is proposed. The variable ... -
European multinational enterprises : a study of resource allocation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)The aims of this thesis are to investigate the short run dynamics of labour reallocation; profit switching and potential pull factors on capital allocation of EU parent multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their European ... -
Tax planning by firms and tax competition by goverments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This thesis investigates tax planning by firms and tax com petition by governments. We begin in Chapter 1 by outlining the background, motivation and plan of the thesis. Chapter 2 reviews the relevant existing literature. ... -
Industry mark-ups and structures : the role of macroeconomic and financial structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This thesis is an empirical analysis of how macroeconomic and financial structures influence the performance and structure of industries, specifically manufacturing industries. It comprises of four chapters and follows a ... -
The State, the performing arts and the taxpayer : applied econometric essays on the German cultural sector
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This research work investigates the relation between the State, the performing arts organisations and the taxpayer. The overall area of interest is taxation and public policy, in the form of public support for the arts. ... -
Measuring the efficiency of multi-level healthcare facilities with stochastic demand : a labour requirements frontier approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This thesis is concerned with estimating efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It is argued that a classical SPA approach is the most appropriate technique for estimating efficiency scores for healthcare ...
