Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Essays in International Macroeconomics 

      Demirölmez, Beren (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)
      This thesis comprises three essays. The first essay (Chapter 2) analyzes the shock absorption role of external positions by looking at the relation between external stock imbalances and their currency of denomination. The ...

    • The political economy of food system transformation in the European Union 

      Matthews, Alan; Candel, Jeroen; de Mûelenaere, Nel; Scheelbeek, Pauline (Oxford University Press, 2023)

    • An ambitious CAP is needed to underpin the green transition 

      Matthews, Alan (2023)
      This paper provides a critical appraisal of the main characteristics of EU agricultural policy as it now stands following agreement on the regulations for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2021 for the programming ...

    • Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health 

      Us-Salam, Danish (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation includes three standalone chapters, each focused on augmenting our knowledge of three issues in the literature on asset transfers, religion, and mental health. The first essay (Chapter 1) investigates ...

    • Essays in Political Economics and Political Communication 

      Barilari, Francesco (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics with a particular focus on the effect of political communication. First, it studies how politicians way of speaking reacts in the aftermath of a salient ...

    • Essays in Family Economics and Gender 

      Jacob, George (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation consists of three essays on family economics and gender. It delves into the problems families face with an emphasis on women. The first essay looks at how parents with different preferences take joint ...

    • Essays in applied microeconomics 

      Kleis, Mischa (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      The first essay studies the effects of access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) on fertility and labor market outcomes. Drawing on quasi-experimental variation in expected costs for ARTs and data from the German ...

    • Essays in Macroeconomics 

      Athanasopoulos, Angelos (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays in empirical macroeconomics. Chapter 1 examines the long-run effects of central bank independence on inflation. Applying a dynamic panel strategy to account for the ...

    • Essays in Political Economics 

      Frattini, Federico Fabio (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation consists of three essays on political economics. First, it studies how changes in the electoral design affect politicians and voters alike. Second, it studies the impact of criminal organisations on both ...

    • A Match Made in Maastricht: Estimating The Treatment Effect of the Euro On Trade 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2023)
      Why do estimates of the European Monetary Union (EMU) effect on trade vary so greatly? Rose (2017) shows that the largest factor determining the size of EMU trade estimates is the choice of sample, with studies using only ...

    • Essays on Applied Microeconomics: the Impacts of Internal Displacement 

      Muñoz Blanco, Laura (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of applied microeco- nomics and development economics. It tackles questions on the consequences of internal displacement on intra-household and intra-community ...

    • Essays in Development Economics 

      Mahar, Hamad Sikandar (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This thesis is a collection of three essays in Development Economics. In 2022, 685 million people globally lived in extreme poverty, the rate of decline in poverty is at a paltry rate of 2 percent per year (World bank, ...

    • Essays in financial and behavioural economics 

      Byrne, Shane Ronan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This thesis comprises three essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) describe randomised controlled trials which experimentally test interventions to arm consumers with informational tools to navigate the promise ...

    • Consolidated Foreign Wealth of Nations: Initial steps and novel estimates 

      Sanchez Pacheco, Andre (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This thesis is made of three essays in International Macroeconomics. The central question these essays focus on is how to assess the international exposure of countries. The conventional approach uses the residence of the ...

    • Essays in Development Economics: Intrahousehold Decision Making in Developing Countries 

      Puthenmadathil Jose, Anu (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      Providing insights into mechanisms through which households manage resources, this thesis aims to add to the empirical evidence on strategic decision-making among spouses using experimental and survey data. While the ...

    • Many Unions, One Estimate? Disaggregating the Currency Union Effect on Trade 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2023)
      A large literature estimates the impact of currency unions on trade. Often ignored in these estimates are the dramatic differences in the characteristics of countries adopting common currencies, hidden by aggregation ...

    • Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war 

      Narciso, Gaia (2023)
      This paper investigates the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on trade diversion and the labor market in a third country, Vietnam. We exploit variation in Vietnamese exports to the U.S. across industries and districts ...

    • Topics in Urban and Transport Economics 

      Tirindelli, Elisa Maria (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of urban and transport economics. While they do not use common data or methods, they all tackle fundamental issues concerning the effects of transport on ...

    • Three Essays in Labor and Regional Economics 

      Duran Vanegas, Juan David (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 uses the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and granular data on Mexican municipalities to study the local effects of trade liberalization on college ...

    • Essays in Macroeconomics: An Analysis of the South African Financial System 

      Mbelu, Asithandile Thando (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This thesis consists of three empirical essays analyzing the financial systems in South Africa. Chapter 1 constructs a financial conditions index (FCI) for South Africa, over the period January 2000 to April 2017, that can ...