School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Inquiry into economic aspects of tobacco control in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)The harmful effects of smoking on population health have long been shown. More recently, the exposure to second hand smoke (SHS) has also been proved to have detrimental health effects (U.S.DHHS, 2006). In order to improve ... -
Macroeconomic risk and international financial markets
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2010)This thesis is composed of three essays addressing the use of financial markets to hedge or gain exposure to macroeconomic risk. The first essay examines the question of consumption risk sharing between countries. Theory ... -
Exploring cultural goods : new perspectives on consumer behaviour in Italy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)The socioeconomic composition of attendance at the arts has interested researchers and policy-makers for decades and re-emerges as an issue every few years. This thesis studies cultural attendance in Italy and its main ... -
Empirical essays in fiscal policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we introduce fiscal policy of trading partners in the study of the effect of fiscal policy on the domestic growth rate. The effects of economic ... -
Essays in financial economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This thesis comprises five papers in Financial Economics. The first part contains three essays in International Finance followed by two essays in Empirical Banking. The International Finance chapter focuses on the determinants ... -
Ireland: Something for almost everyone
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Money demand, network effects and self-selection : essays in development economicss
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)This thesis is comprised of three essays. The first one examines money demand and aid shocks in Zimbabwe, using a new dataset. Zimbabwe has recently experienced record hyperinflation of 80 billion percent a month. This ... -
Lobbying Brussels : interest groups' demands and networks in EU Environmental policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis examines interest groups' partieipation in environmental policymaking in the European Union. It investigates two fundamental questions that are essential to understanding the EU's policymaking system: first, ... -
The effectiveness of foreign aid : the role of political institutions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2012)This thesis investigates the effect of political institutions on the effectiveness of aid. More specifically, the thesis examines the use of aid under different political institutional frameworks. This thesis aims to fill ... -
Essays in economic policy analysis using simulation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)Economic simulation approaches still receive little recognition in the mainstream economic community. On the one hand, this is due to the non-conformity of simulations with the traditional economic paradigm which relies ... -
Essays on classical composers' productivity, migration and war
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)This thesis is based on a unique data set that contains records for prominent classical composers. The novelty of these data allows for the overcoming of methodological challenges of previous studies as well as data ... -
Possible transitional arrangements related to agriculture in the light of the future EU - UK relationship: institutional issues
(European Parliament, Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies,, 2017)There is the potential for severe disruption of agri-food trade between the UK and the EU27 as the UK prepares to leave the EU. This study reviews the additional trade costs that might arise and how they might be avoided ... -
Women's descriptive representation in national parliaments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This dissertation studies the descriptive (i.e. numeric) representation of women in national parliaments in three related but independent papers. The empirical analysis presented in the papers is based on two original data ... -
Infinite emotion : Matte Blanco's bi-logic in psychoanalytic context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2010)This thesis attempts to outline and assess Matte Blanco's theory of bilogic, and place it in psychoanalytic context using comparative analysis. Bilogic is studied in relation to Freud, Klein and Bion. These particular ps ... -
Explaining the new regionalism : the political economy of trade agreements
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)The overarching research question defining this project is the following one: How do domestic politics affect the formation of trade blocs in the current wave of regionalism? This general question is divided into two more ... -
The unfaithful Irish voter
(2019)Local and European elections have been held simultaneously since 1999. These offer an interesting context to look at the importance of party, both across each pair of elections and across these elections and future voting ... -
Essays in International Macroeconomics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This dissertation consists of three essays in international macroeconomics. It lies at the intersection of balance of payments analysis and sectoral financial analysis. In particular, it makes use of newly available financial ... -
Voter preferences and party loyalty under cumulative voting: political behaviour after electoral reform in Bremen and Hamburg
(2018)Many electoral systems constrain voters to one or two votes at election time. Reformers often see this as a failing because voters' preferences are both broader and more varied than the number of choices allowed. New ... -
The European Union policy process : policy making in the Community pillar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2003)This thesis examines the policy making process of the European Union (EU), an entity whose reach and depth is in constant evolution. More specifically, it evaluates the degree to which two competing theories - liberal ...
