Economics: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays on the macroeconomic impact of financial openness
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis uses new data to examine the impact of a quantitative measure of international financial integration on various indicators of macroeconomic performance. Proponents of greater openness to financial flows maintain ... -
Estimating the income and socio-economic determinants of the demand for transport using household micro-data
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the income and socio-economic determinants of transport demand, using Dublin as a case study. Chapter 1 sets the context by discussing the problem of excessive car use in urban ... -
The determinants of repertoire diversity in non-profit theatre: an application to England and Germany
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2004)This thesis studies repertoire diversity and its possible determinants in non-profit theatre for two European countries, namely England and Germany. For this, extensive econometric analysis is carried out using specifically ... -
Essays on international capital flows
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis is a collection of essays on international capital flows. The main motivation for this work was to address a number of relatively unexplored issues within this subject. Four topics were empirically analyzed ... -
Essays on regional restructuring and the Polish labour market
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2002)The fall of the iron curtain and the transition shock that Poland faced in the early 1990s necessitated substantial adjustments throughout the economy. Planners no longer dictated prices, trade, financial allocations or ... -
Essays on financial development and economic growth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis is a collection of essays on the relationship between financial development and economic growth. The thesis is introduced in Chapter One, which talks about the motivation for the thesis and outlines the structure ... -
Essays on international capital markets
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis concentrates on the macroeconomic effects of increased capital mobility in international capital markets. The focal points of attention encompass the relationship between capital flows and infrastructure, ... -
Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ... -
Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ... -
Export characteristics of Irish manufacturing enterprises
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2004)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the export characteristics of enterprises, using the manufacturing sector of Ireland between 1991 and 1998 as a case study. The growth of Irish merchandise exports is considered to ... -
Estimation of production and demand functions for German, Austrian and Swiss non-profit theatres
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the production technology and the economic determinants of demand for the performing arts. Both the demand and the production function are estimated using econometric linear regression ... -
Carbon energy taxation and revenue recycling : an applied general equilibrium analysis for the Irish economy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)The rapid changing of the climate globally is a pressing problem. In Ireland, the average annual temperature has increased by 0.5 degrees Celsius over the course of the twentieth century, most significantly in the last ... -
Industrial structures and labour market outcomes : an examination of Poland in transition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This Thesis presents three papers. In our first paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in ... -
Essays in applied time series econometric methodology : the role of random field regression
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis is a collection of essays in applied time series econometrics, focusing particularly on the role of random field regression. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis ...
