Economics: Recent submissions
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Self-organising skew distributions in an agent-based model with applications to Gibrat's Law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)Three models for the firm size distribution are implemented using an Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) framework, and a theory explaining the source of a skew firm size distribution in one of the models is proposed. The variable ... -
European multinational enterprises : a study of resource allocation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)The aims of this thesis are to investigate the short run dynamics of labour reallocation; profit switching and potential pull factors on capital allocation of EU parent multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their European ... -
Tax planning by firms and tax competition by goverments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This thesis investigates tax planning by firms and tax com petition by governments. We begin in Chapter 1 by outlining the background, motivation and plan of the thesis. Chapter 2 reviews the relevant existing literature. ... -
Industry mark-ups and structures : the role of macroeconomic and financial structures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This thesis is an empirical analysis of how macroeconomic and financial structures influence the performance and structure of industries, specifically manufacturing industries. It comprises of four chapters and follows a ... -
The State, the performing arts and the taxpayer : applied econometric essays on the German cultural sector
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This research work investigates the relation between the State, the performing arts organisations and the taxpayer. The overall area of interest is taxation and public policy, in the form of public support for the arts. ... -
Measuring the efficiency of multi-level healthcare facilities with stochastic demand : a labour requirements frontier approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This thesis is concerned with estimating efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It is argued that a classical SPA approach is the most appropriate technique for estimating efficiency scores for healthcare ... -
Essays on voting behaviour. A historical perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)The present thesis consists of two parts. The first part contains two essays that study voting behaviour in general elections that took place before turning points in trade policy. They aim to shed light on why European ... -
Export activity, specialisation and structural change
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This thesis examines the evolution of Ireland’s manufacturing exports. In particular, it focuses on the changing pattern of specialisation both of products and of destinations. The first two chapters examine specialisation ... -
Heterogeneity in Irish indigenous manufacturing export behaviour : a new conceptual framework
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis explores firm heterogeneity; in particular it focuses on exporter heterogeneity using a new conceptual framework which classifies firms on the basis of their exporting experience over the life of the firm or ... -
Choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)This thesis is a study of farm household choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru, for 1994. The study incorporates literature reviews of farm household models and the main results concerning off-farm participation ... -
Essays in international macroeconomics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This dissertation is a collection of three separate essays in the area of international macroeconomics. How does the history of a variable matter for its current state? Do current account reversals affect the persistence ... -
Essays in economics : the International Monetary Fund - history, institutional and legal structures, ethics, epistemology, International Law and the International Monetary Fund and Charles Davenant and the Great Recoinage of 1696
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This work is an exploration of the epistemology of economics which aims to analyse some of the wider teleological and ontological questions that arise from that investigation. This exploration is facilitated by the focus ... -
Characterisation of equilibrium in oligopoly with applications to trade and taxation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)This thesis is organized into four independent chapters. Chapter 1 is divided into two parts: part one is concerned with the characterization of optimal penal codes in presence of a n period detection lag, where n can be ... -
An economical-historical analysis of prominent artists geographic concentration and labour mobility patterns and an econometric analysis of contemporary artists initial migration decision
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)The purpose of this thesis is two fold: first to undertake an economical-historical analysis of the geographic concentration and labour mobility patterns of prominent artists; and secondly, to carry out an econometric ... -
An economic analysis of voting in Central and Eastern Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have now experienced fourteen years of democratic rule and a market economy. In this time they have participated in a variety of elections while undertaking a series of economic ... -
The 2003 mid term review of the Common Agricultural Policy : a computable general equilibrium analysis for Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the Irish economy is built and used to analyse the 2003 Mid Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy. The Mid Term review represents significant reform of agricultural ... -
Foot-and-mouth disease eradication strategies in Ireland : a cost comparison
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)FMD is a highly contagious livestock disease with significant repercussions for livestock producers particularly in terms of productivity and trade effects, with many other sectors also being negatively affected by the ... -
Studies in preferences for public goods in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This dissertation is based on two studies conducted in 2002 and 2004 analysing preferences for non-marketed activity in Ireland. The first study applies the contingent valuation method (CVM) to Irish public service ... -
Perspectives on social exclusion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)Over the last decade the term 'social exclusion' has entered the academic and political vernacular. There, it has been seen as a broad, somewhat undefined, concept which more comprehensively captures experiences of ... -
On the same boat: Three essays on the causes of pre-WWI Italian international migration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This thesis analyzes the causes of Italian mass international migration before the outbreak of WWI. While each chapter is a stand-alone paper that explores different motives and dynamics, there is a common quantitative ...
