Economics (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Providing Quality Pharmacy Services: Good Intentions Are Not Enough
(ESRI, 2010)Elected representatives, like consumers, want reliable good quality medical services. Pharmacy services are no exception. Providing sound advice on which drug to take for a minor ailment, or the common side effects of a ... -
International Transmission of Business Cycles
(ESRI, 2010)Increased international economic integration over the past two decades has stimulated a growing academic and policy interest in the analysis of the international transmission of business cycles. There has been renewed ... -
On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change
(ESRI, 2011)Climate change is a moral problem. The main reason to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a concern for faraway lands (Schelling 2000), distant futures (Nordhaus 1982), and remote probabilities (Weitzman 2009). The people ... -
Unit Commitment for Systems with Significant Wind Penetration
(2009)The stochastic nature of wind alters the unit commitment and dispatch problem. By accounting for this uncertainty when scheduling the system, more robust schedules are produced, which should, on average, reduce expected ... -
An Agenda for a New Ireland
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)This Review presents a narrative outlining what happened over recent decades to bring Ireland to where it is today, where exactly Ireland finds itself now, where Ireland should go into the future and what it needs to do ... -
The Future of the Welfare State
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)The welfare state is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end ? the wellbeing of all people. The future of the welfare state has been a topic of discussion and argument for more than 30 years on issues ranging from ... -
Ireland's Tax Expenditure System: International Comparisons and a Reform Agenda - Studies in Public Policy No. 24
(Policy Institute, Trinity College Dublin, 2010)Tax Expenditures, also known as tax incentives or tax breaks, represent an infrequently explored and little understood area of Irish public policy. Despite this, they account for more than ?11 billion per annum in ... -
Building a Fairer Taxation System: The Working Poor and the Cost of Refundable Tax Credits
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)This study addresses two key issues in Irish social and economic policy. These are: (i) the need to reform and develop our taxation system so that it becomes fairer and; (ii)the need to address the issue of the `working ... -
Social Capital and Savings Behaviour: Evidence from Vietnam
(2011-05-29)We explore the extent to which social capital can play a role in imparting information about the returns to saving where potential knowledge gaps and mistrust exists. Using data from Vietnam we find strong evidence to ... -
The Energy and Environment Review 2010
(ESRI, 2010)The Energy and Environment Review 2010 reviews trends in energy use and emissions to the environment for the period 1990-2008 and projects these trends for the period 2009-2025. We show results for two alternative ... -
Goldilocks and the Three Electricity Prices: Are Irish Prices "Just Right"?
(2011)In this paper we analyse the 2008 electricity price in the Irish All-Island Market. We test whether this price is `efficient? by comparing it to the electricity price in Great Britain. This analysis suggests that around ... -
Economic Regulation: Recentralisation of Power or Improved Quality of Regulation?
(ESRI, 02/02/2011)The October 2009 Government Statement on Economic Regulation issued proposes a number of sensible reforms that are likely to improve regulatory performance in energy, airports, telecommunications, postal services and ... -
Inequality and the Crisis: The Distributional Impact of Tax Increases and Welfare and Public Sector Pay Cuts
(2010)The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ... -
A Review of Irish Energy Policy
(ESRI, 2011)This paper reviews the considerable body of economic research on energy in Ireland and elsewhere. It draws out the implications of this research for Irish energy policy, and also some of the implications for EU energy ... -
Greener Homes: An Ex-Post Estimate of the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction using Administrative Micro-Data from the Republic of Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)We assess the subsidy for the installation of biomass boilers and wood gasification boilers under the Greener Homes Scheme in Ireland. We find that the (implicit) subsidy per tonne of carbon dioxide avoided varies hugely ... -
Does the housing market reflect cultural heritage? A case study of Greater Dublin
(ESRI, 2011)Does the housing market reflect cultural heritage? We estimate several specifications of a hedonic price equation to establish whether distance to cultural heritage site is capitalised into housing prices in Greater Dublin, ... -
Credit Where Credit's Due: Accounting for Co-Authorship in Citation Counts
(2011)I propose a new method (Pareto weights) to objectively attribute citations to co-authors. Previous methods either profess ignorance about the seniority of co-authors (egalitarian weights) or are based in an ad hoc way on ... -
The Uncertainty about the Total Economic Impact of Climate Change
(ESRI, 14/04/2011)This paper uses a vote-counting procedure to estimate the probability density function of the total economic impact as a parabolic function of global warming. There is a wide range of uncertainty about the impact of climate ... -
Merger Control in Ireland: Too Many Unnecessary Merger Notifications?
(ESRI, 18/04/2011)The market for corporate control plays an important role in ensuring that assets are deployed in an efficient and effective manner. However, on occasion, mergers might lead to a reduction in competition and a consequent ... -
The Irish Economy Today: Albatross or Phoenix?
(2011)In 2001 the policy issues facing Ireland were very different than they are today. Growth had surpassed expectations and the high level of unemployment of the 1980s and early 1990s had been eliminated. Instead of ...
