Trinity Business School: Recent submissions

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    • Is Wine a Premier CRU Investment? 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (2011)
      We investigate the case for Bordeaux and Rhone wine as an investment. The raw data analysed comprises of approx. 335,000 observations of wine sales prices and is analysed using the repeat sales regression method. General ...

    • The Effect of Gender on Stock Price Reaction to the Appointment of Directors: The Case of the FTSE 100 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (2011)
      We examine the effect of the appointment of directors on the share price of FTSE companies. We find that the share price reaction to the appointment of Directors suggests that gender is not an issue in the appointment of ...

    • Gravity and Culture in Foreign Portfolio Investment 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL; KEARNEY, COLM (2011)
      Using panel regression estimates from the IMF?s CPIS survey of foreign debt and equity portfolios across 174 originating and 50 destination countries from 2001 to 2007, we clarify the role of culture and extend the set of ...

    • NAMA: An Institutional and Operational Failure that Keeps Expanding 

      GURDGIEV, CONSTANTIN (2011)
      The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 by the Irish authorities with the expressed objective of assisting in the process of repairing domestic Irish banking sector in the aftermath of the severe ...

    • Intellectual Property, the Banking Crisis and the Public Interest 

      KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Thomson Reuters / Sweet and Maxwell, 2011)
      The UK Hargreaves inquiry is one more testimony to the failure of intellectual property laws to deliver the innovation that is their only justification. This parallels numerous similar investigations of the worldwide banking ...

    • FDI Implications of Recent European Court of Justice Decisions on Corporation Tax Matters 

      BARRY, FRANK (2010)
      Corporation tax rates significantly influence the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as company decisions on corporate borrowing, transfer pricing, dividend and royalty payments, and research and development. ...

    • The Primitive, Technology and Horror: A Posthuman Biology 

      CAMPBELL, NORAH (University of London, 2010)
      Recent works have explored the concept of posthumanism as a radical decentring of the human, humanism and the humanities in the wake of the complexificaiton of technology and systems, and new insight into nonhuman life ...

    • International portfolio diversification, skewness and the role of gold 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (ESC Lille, 2007)
      The paper examines the optimal allocation of assets in well diversified equity based portfolio where the investor is concerned not only with mean and variance but also with the skewness of the returns.

    • Robust Global Stock Market Interdependencies 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (Elsevier, 2011)
      In this paper, we examine the scope for international stock portfolio diversification, from the viewpoint of a United States representative investor, in regard to both the Asian and the European stock markets. Our findings ...

    • International portfolio diversification: Is there a role for the Middle East and North Africa? 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (Elsevier, 2007)
      We examine the issue of possible portfolio diversification benefits into seven Middle East and North African (MENA) stock markets. We construct international portfolios in dollars and local currencies. Ex ante weights are ...

    • The Microstructure of the Irish Stock Market 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (Rutgers University, 2008)
      This is the first paper to examine the microstructure of the Irish Stock Market empirically and is motivated by the adoption, on June 7th of Xetra the modern pan European auction trading system. Prior to this the exchange ...

    • Determinants of capital structure in Irish SMEs 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (Springer, 2010)
      This paper presents an empirical examination of determinants of the capital structure of a sample of 299 Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Results suggest that age, size, level of intangible activity, ownership ...

    • What Can We Do About the Civil Service? 

      KINGSTON, WILLIAM (Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2001)
      An aspect of recent revelations from Tribunals and other enquiries is how badly the Civil Service has come out of them. The Department of Agriculture has been shown up by evidence at the Beef Tribunal, Health by Lindsay ...

    • The Irish Economy: Three Strikes and You're Out? 

      GURDGIEV, CONSTANTIN; LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (2011)
      We examine the three interlinked Irish crises : the competitiveness, fiscal and banking crises, showing how all three combined to lay a lethal trap for Ireland. Starting from a point of economic balance, a series of poor ...

    • Financial integration and emerging markets capital structure 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (2011)
      This paper investigates the impact of country-level financial integration on corporate financing choices in emerging economies. Examining 4477 public firms from 24 countries, we find that corporate leverage is positively ...

    • Employee Engagement: An overview of the literature on the proposed antithesis to burnout. 

      FREENEY, YSEULT; TIERNAN, JOAN (Psychological Society of Ireland, 2006)
      Two trends have emerged in burnout research that have resulted in a broadening of the topic. First, the concept of burnout has been expanded to embrace all professions, whereas it was previously considered to exist only ...

    • Using Conjoint Analysis to increase the Validity of Performance Measures and the Effectiveness of Performance Management in complex public services 

      RHODES, MARY LEE; DUNNE, JOHN (2010)
      This paper begins by considering the growing importance of Performance Measurement and Management Systems (PMMS) in the governance of complex public services and the theoretical and operational challenges this presents. ...

    • The Dogs that Didn't Bark: Auditors and the Banking Fiasco 

      KINGSTON, WILLIAM (2010-10)
      It was a mistake to allow dealers in money to escape from their traditional discipline of unlimited liability, and a further mistake to permit their auditors to have a quasi-legislative role in respect of standards.

    • Comovements in Government Bond Markets: A Minimum Spanning Tree Analysis 

      LUCEY, BRIAN MICHAEL (Elsevier, 2010)
      The concept of a minimum spanning tree (MST) is used to study patterns of comovements for a set of twenty government bond market indices for developed North American, European, and Asian countries. We show how the MST and ...

    • Firm-level internationalisation and the home bias puzzle 

      KEARNEY, COLM; BERRILL, JENNY (Elsevier, 2010)
      The extent to which internationalising MNEs create value, and the extent to which investors can reap the benefits of firm-level internationalisation remain controversial issues. Using a multi-country dataset with over 3 ...