Economics (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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From Data to Policy Analysis: Tax-Benefit Modelling using SILC 2008
(2010)Policy makers and the body politic have a strong interest in ensuring that the tax transfer system functions well. This common interest in policies that are efficient in achieving their objectives ? including economic ... -
Quarterly Economic Commentary, Winter 2010
(ESRI, 20/01/2011)The forecasts in this Commentary see GDP growing by 1? per cent in real terms in 2011 and by 2? per cent in 2012. The corresponding figures for GNP are ? per cent in 2011 and 1? per cent in 2012. Following the pattern ... -
The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants
(ESRI, 29/09/2010)In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but also in response to its decision to allow full access to its labour market when EU expansion occurred in ... -
Public Policy Towards the Sale of State Assets in Troubled Times: Lessons from the Irish Experience
(ESRI, 10/10/2010)Governments throughout the western world and beyond are in the midst of a severe financial crisis and emerging from a sharp recession. Ireland is no exception. One of the options for strengthening public finances is the ... -
An Estimate of the Value of Lost Load for Ireland
(ESRI, 2010)This paper estimates the value of short term lost load in the all island electricity market which includes the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The value of lost load, also known as the value of security of ... -
Research and Policy Making
(ESRI, 24/09/2010)I am delighted to have the opportunity to present a lecture on Research and Policy Making. This topic is widely discussed internationally with an extensive international literature drawing on a range of different perspectives. ... -
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the EU 20/20/2020 Package
(ESRI, 2011)The European Commission did not publish a cost-benefit analysis for its 2020 climate package. This paper fills that gap, comparing the marginal costs and benefits of greenhouse gas emission reduction. The uncertainty about ... -
The Distributional Effects of Value Added Tax in Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)In this paper we examine the distributional effects of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Ireland. Using the 2004/2005 Household Budget Survey, we assess the amount of VAT that households pay as a proportion of weekly disposable ... -
Shapley Values for Assessing Research Production and Impact of Schools and Scholars
(ESRI, 2011)Performance measures of individual scholars tend to ignore the context. I introduce contextualised metrics: cardinal and ordinal pseudo-Shapley values that measure a scholar??s contribution to (perhaps power over) her own ... -
The Research Output of Business Schools and Business Scholars in Ireland
(ESRI, 2010)The research performance of business scholars on the island of Ireland is evaluated based on their number of publication, number of citations, h-index and the same divided by the numbers of years since the first publication. ... -
The Effects of the Internationalisation of Firms on Innovation and Productivity
(2010)This paper examines the effects of the internationalisation of firms via foreign direct investment and trade on their innovation and productivity performance. Our econometric results suggest that foreign affiliates and ... -
Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change
(ESRI, 2011)The Ramsey rule for the consumption rate of discount assumes a transfer of money of a (representative) agent at one point in time to the same agent at another point in time. Climate policy (implicitly) transfers money not ... -
How Might the EU's Common Agricultural Policy Affect Trade and Development After 2013?
(International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2010)The Commission?s Communication on the CAP post 2013 published in November 2010 sets out three options for the future shape of Europe?s Common Agricultural Policy. This paper explains the background and rationale for ... -
Probability theory and the Fagel collection at Trinity College Dublin - Newstalk 'Talking History' 05.09.10
(2010-09-05)Charles Larkin and Jacco Thijessen discuss probability theory and Trinity College Library's Fagel Collection -
The long or short of it: Determinants of foreign currency exposure in external balance sheets
(Elsevier, 2009)A major focus of the recent literature on the determination of optimal portfolios in open-economy macroeconomic models has been on the role of currency movements in determining portfolio returns that may hedge various ... -
Irish Education Policy for a Globalised World: A Policy for Chasing Black & White Swans.
(The Swan Group, 2009)The record decline of over 9% in Irish GDP in 2009 provides the backdrop to this important study. Government expenditure has grown rapidly in the Celtic Tiger era without much evidence of a value for money culture in any ... -
The Role of Technology, Investment and Ownership Structure in the Productivity Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in Vietnam
(2009)This paper explores the productivity performance of the manufacturing sector in Vietnam between 2001 and 2007. Total Factor Productivity indices are computed using an index number approach and the productivity performance ... -
Partial Credit Guarantees: Principles and Practice
(2009)Partial credit guarantee schemes have experienced renewed interest from governments keen to promote financial access for small enterprises, not least as a response to the credit crunch in advanced economies. While the ... -
Finance for All? Policies and pitfalls in expanding access
(World Bank, 2008)This volume reviews research evidence on the outreach of financial sectors in developing countries, and on the role of financial access in boosting economic performance. Failure to provide more households and small and ... -
Ireland in EMU: More Shocks, Less Insulation?
(2006)Despite anchoring the Irish monetary system to a single currency, EMU has triggered sizable exchange rate and especially interest rate shocks to the Irish economy (albeit not appreciably greater than under previous regimes). ...
