Economics (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)This report – funded by the Community Foundation for Ireland – explores the issue of energy poverty and deprivation in Ireland, once again to the forefront of the policy debate given recent increases in energy prices. Chapter ... -
Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: Second annual report
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)This report is the second from an ESRI research programme funded by The Community Foundation for Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards ... -
Earnings-related benefits in Ireland: rationale, costs and work incentives
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)Ireland is an outlier among EU countries as it does not have a strong link between previous earnings and the level of payment provided to those who have recently lost their job or are on leave from work for the short- ... -
Future trends in housing tenure and the adequacy of retirement income
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)In recent years, Ireland has experienced a notable decline in homeownership and a rise in the proportion of households in private rental accommodation. Concurrently, the cost of both rents and house prices have risen ... -
Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland
(ESRI and Community Foundation Ireland, 2023)This report is the third from an ESRI research programme funded by Community Foundation Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland. ... -
The political economy of food system transformation in the European Union
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An ambitious CAP is needed to underpin the green transition
(2023)This paper provides a critical appraisal of the main characteristics of EU agricultural policy as it now stands following agreement on the regulations for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2021 for the programming ... -
A Match Made in Maastricht: Estimating The Treatment Effect of the Euro On Trade
(2023)Why do estimates of the European Monetary Union (EMU) effect on trade vary so greatly? Rose (2017) shows that the largest factor determining the size of EMU trade estimates is the choice of sample, with studies using only ... -
Many Unions, One Estimate? Disaggregating the Currency Union Effect on Trade
(2023)A large literature estimates the impact of currency unions on trade. Often ignored in these estimates are the dramatic differences in the characteristics of countries adopting common currencies, hidden by aggregation ... -
Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war
(2023)This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S. across industries and districts ... -
Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade
(2023)Purpose This paper explores the empirical relationship between population age structure and bilateral trade. Design/methodology/approach The author includes age structure in both log and Poisson pseudo-maximum ... -
Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data
(2023)A large literature has reopened the secular stagnation hypothesis, first proposed near the end of the great depression as a warning for anemic growth resulting from long run trends in population aging. In this paper, I ... -
Okay Boomer... Excess Money Growth, Inflation, and Population Aging
(2022)What determines the strength of the relationship between money growth and inflation? A large literature suggests that it has weakened since the 1980s, without a definitive explanation of the cause. I explore how population ... -
The Age for Austerity? Population Age Structure and Fiscal Consolidation Multipliers
(2022)Advanced economies face two important trends: population aging and rising debt. In the coming years, it will be critical to understand how policies undertaken by governments interact with their changing age structures. In ... -
The deep roots of rebellion
(2022)This paper analyzes the triggers of rebellion and documents the historical roots of conflict using a unique dataset at the individual level. Drawing on evidence from the Famine (1845–1850) and its effect on the Irish ... -
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia
(2022)Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations ... -
Capital misallocation, agricultural subsidies and productivity: A European perspective. Trinity Economic Papers TEP 0221.
(2021)Resource misallocation has been identified as an important source of aggregate pro- ductivity loss, yet to date there is a notable dearth of studies exploring the nature and extent of misallocation in the agricultural ... -
Assessing Price Sensitivity of Forest Recreational Tourists in a Mountain Destination
(2019)Despite the large use of the travel cost method as estimation technique for the demand for forest recreation, information on price elasticity is only seldom reported. In this way, it is hard to understand if a large consumer ... -
Housing and Austerity: A Two-Way Street
(Royal Irish Academy, 2017)Simon Wren-Lewis’s chapter in this volume outlines a general theory of austerity. Underpinning it is a desire for policymakers – as well as the social sciences – to learn from the experience of austerity over the last ... -
Linked in by FDI: The role of firm level relationships for knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia.
(2020)This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms ...
