Economics: Recent submissions

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    • Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2023)
      Purpose This paper explores the empirical relationship between population age structure and bilateral trade. Design/methodology/approach The author includes age structure in both log and Poisson pseudo-maximum ...

    • Essays in Productivity 

      Kreuser, Carl Friedrich (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays linked through the common theme of the aggregation of productivity in motion. The first essay examines productivity trends in European Manufacturing through the movement ...

    • Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2023)
      A large literature has reopened the secular stagnation hypothesis, first proposed near the end of the great depression as a warning for anemic growth resulting from long run trends in population aging. In this paper, I ...

    • Okay Boomer... Excess Money Growth, Inflation, and Population Aging 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2022)
      What determines the strength of the relationship between money growth and inflation? A large literature suggests that it has weakened since the 1980s, without a definitive explanation of the cause. I explore how population ...

    • The Age for Austerity? Population Age Structure and Fiscal Consolidation Multipliers 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2022)
      Advanced economies face two important trends: population aging and rising debt. In the coming years, it will be critical to understand how policies undertaken by governments interact with their changing age structures. In ...

    • The deep roots of rebellion 

      Narciso, Gaia (2022)
      This paper analyzes the triggers of rebellion and documents the historical roots of conflict using a unique dataset at the individual level. Drawing on evidence from the Famine (1845–1850) and its effect on the Irish ...

    • Essays on Financial Globalisation 

      Emter, Lorenz (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays on financial globalisation. A common theme running through the essays in this dissertation is the importance of global factors shaping national macro-financial outcomes ...

    • Essays in international economics 

      Faccia, Donata
      This dissertation is a collection of three independent essays in the field of international economics. A common theme running through the dissertation is that each essay touches upon a key question that central bankers ...

    • Environmental Behaviour and Decision Making - Evidence from Laboratory, Online and Natural Experiments 

      Ceolotto, Stefano (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)
      Tackling climate change and keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is one of the major and most challenging issues that our societies are facing. Households are among the ...

    • Essays in Behavioural Economics: Representation and Weighting of Numerical Information 

      McGowan, Féidhlim (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)
      This thesis consists of four essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) present experimental tests of how numerical information is represented in the brain, and the implications of this representation for economic ...

    • Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia 

      Newman, Carol (2022)
      Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations ...

    • Capital misallocation, agricultural subsidies and productivity: A European perspective. Trinity Economic Papers TEP 0221. 

      Newman, Carol (2021)
      Resource misallocation has been identified as an important source of aggregate pro- ductivity loss, yet to date there is a notable dearth of studies exploring the nature and extent of misallocation in the agricultural ...

    • Exchange rates, global value chains, market structure and trade restrictions as determinants of international prices 

      Firanchuk, Aleksandr (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)
      This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of exchange rate pass-through into international prices. It examines the effect of strategic competition in the destination market and the use of foreign inputs in production ...

    • Essays in Labour Economics 

      Tuda, Dora (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)
      This dissertation consists of three essays in labour economics. Its primary focus is labour supply and individual preferences for labour in European countries during recessions. The first essay (Chapter 2) documents ...

    • Essays in Macro and Labor Economics 

      Hennig, Jan-Luca (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)
      This dissertation consists of three essays at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. It covers three different topics at this intersection, the concern of labor market outcomes and the empirical approach ...

    • Essays on the Economics of Energy Efficiency: Evidence from residential dwellings and commercial data centres 

      Coyne, Bryan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)
      Global economic growth since the Industrial Revolution has been facilitated, in large part, by the increased use of natural resources as energy in the production process. This has revolutionised how society functions. ...

    • Essays in Industrial Organisation: Market Structure, Non-Price Strategies and Welfare. 

      Voudon, Benoit (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)
      This dissertation consists of three essays in industrial organisation theory. It examines the relationship between market structure, welfare and firms' non-price strategies. The first essay discusses the impact of the level ...

    • Three Essays on Money and Monetary Policy 

      Browne, Frank (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)
      This thesis deals with money and monetary policy in the context of the US economy. My focus is on the rapidly evolving financial market landscape in the US. This has been instigated by financial market liberalisation, which ...

    • Essays in Development Economics 

      MORANDO, BRUNO (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)
      This dissertation is a collection of three essays with a geographical and thematic common denominator. The broad objective of the thesis is to study how the Ugandan agricultural sector is affected by the country'

    • Essays in Economic History 

      VARDANYAN, GAYANE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)
      This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of economic history and economics of migration. It consists of introduction, literature review, three empirical research chapters on Irish Migration to the United States ...