Economics: Recent submissions

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    • The economics of electricity storage 

      Nyamdash, Batsaikhan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis investigates the issues surrounding electricity storage systems from various perspectives. It assesses the impact on the power system operation and the resulting benefits for developers versus system operators. ...

    • Economy-wide modelling focused on the agricultural and food sectors : an Irish case 

      Miller, Ana Corina (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      This thesis is a collection of four essays. The first one describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year 2005. The SAM includes 55 activities, 55 commodities, two factors of production ...

    • Essays in cross-border asset allocation 

      Mehigan, Caroline (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2015)
      The core of this thesis consists of three papers. Although independent, a common theme in each of the papers is the bilateral variation of cross border positions across countries, sectors and banks during the recent boom ...

    • Empirical essays in international macroeconomics 

      McQuade, Peter Edward (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis is composed of three essays. The first paper examines private credit growth in Europe between 1999 and 2007. The results highlight the importance of external liabilities in facilitating the credit boom. Although ...

    • Economic adjustments to globalisation in a small open economy 

      Murphy, Gavin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. We examine how a small open economy adjusts to a number of challenges posed by globalisation. We also analyse the effect of employment constraints on an economy's ability ...

    • Essays on the political economy of development 

      McGuirk, Eoin F. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      The core of this thesis explores three issues at the intersection of political and development economics. In Chapter 2, I demonstrate how ethnic divisions can undermine the provision of an important public good: teacher ...

    • Essays in economics 

      McGuinness, Anne (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This Ph.D thesis examines the following societal issues: the shortfall in Irish pension funding, households' decisions to provide for retirement, households' decision to own a home, and total factor productivity convergence ...

    • Essays on environmental amenities and on taxation in Ireland 

      Mayor, Karen Danielle (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      This thesis is a collection of essays on household-level tax and environmental issues in an Irish context. The main motivation for this work was to address a number of relatively unexplored policy issues that have arisen ...

    • Economics of the family : theory and applications in developing countries 

      Matz, Julia Anna (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      This thesis is a collection of three research papers on different aspects of the economics of the family in developing countries. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the power structures and bargaining processes between ...

    • Essays on globalisation, inflation and monetary policy 

      Mc Inerney, Niall (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      This thesis comprises three essays. The first examines the impact of factor, product and financial market integration on the labour share of income. In particular, we investigate how the changing composition of international ...

    • Access to banking services in Sub-Saharan Africia : essays in development economics 

      King, Michael (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      Access to formal financial services has the potential to help transform the lives of low income individuals in Sub-Saharan African. Access and usage of saving, transaction and credit services can play a central role in ...

    • Structural changes in agriculture : a critical analysis of Common Agricultural Policy reforms 

      Kažukauskas, Andrius (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis focuses on the impact of European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on structural change in the EU agricultural sector. The CAP is still the most integrated of all EU policies and consequently ...

    • Spatial networks, clustering and spillovers : lessons for development 

      Howard, Emma (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      The geographic clustering of manufacturing activity has long been recognised as facilitating the growth and prosperity of firms and regions alike. Empirical evidence however is limited, particularly in a developing country ...

    • Peaks and Troughs: Economics and Political Economy of Central Bank Independence Cycles 

      Romelli, Davide (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      This chapter investigates the endogenous evolution of central bank institutional design over the past four decades. From a theoretical perspective, it employs a stylized political economy model to highlight some key ...

    • Essays in option pricing 

      Delaney, Laura (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      In this thesis I explore option valuation from a theoretical standpoint and also from an empirical perspective. In particular, I address the issue of irreversible decision making under uncertainty (real options) applied ...

    • The global return on capital, the Lucas Paradox and the Savings Glut 

      Daly, Kevin J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2010)
      This thesis is composed of three chapters related to the measurement, analysis and application of cross-country data on the return on physical capital. In Chapter 1, we derive a database of returns on physical capital that ...

    • Inquiry into economic aspects of tobacco control in Ireland 

      Cornelsen, Laura (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 

      Corcoran, Aidan (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 

      Castiglione, Concetta (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 

      Calò, Silvia (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 ...