Economics: Recent submissions
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Essays in development economics: the role of property rights on labour supply and land markets
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)The process of economic development requires that an economy moves from an agriculture-intensive setting to a more industrialized situation. It is then essential that agricultural productivity increases and shifts to a ... -
Assessing Price Sensitivity of Forest Recreational Tourists in a Mountain Destination
(2019)Despite the large use of the travel cost method as estimation technique for the demand for forest recreation, information on price elasticity is only seldom reported. In this way, it is hard to understand if a large consumer ... -
Housing and Austerity: A Two-Way Street
(Royal Irish Academy, 2017)Simon Wren-Lewis’s chapter in this volume outlines a general theory of austerity. Underpinning it is a desire for policymakers – as well as the social sciences – to learn from the experience of austerity over the last ... -
Linked in by FDI: The role of firm level relationships for knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia.
(2020)This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Competitive Business Environment
(2020)Using a representative sample of more than 5,000 Vietnamese enterprises, we explore the firm-level productivity effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The data enables us to create 12 quantitative CSR measures, ... -
Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics
(2020)This paper investigates the role of external auditors in banking sector supervision from a theoretical, institutional and empirical perspective. We first present a simple principal-agent framework that highlights the ... -
Central bank reforms and institutions
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Did Bank Lending Stifle Innovation in Europe During the Great Recession?
(2019)Using the 2008-09 Global financial crisis and the 2012 Euro area sovereign debt crisis as natural experiments, we investigate the effects of contractions in credit supply on R&D spending in a large sample of European firms. ... -
European pharmaceutical industry : a micro-econometric analysis of growth dynamics and production location
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the industry dynamics of expansion and the location pattern of the European pharmaceutical industry in the Single Market Programme era using micro-econometric approaches. -
Taxation and political models
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. Each essay deals with taxation policy directly or the expectation of future taxation by an electorate during a time of war. In terms of taxation, this essay generally ... -
Economic implications of the Doha development agenda for China
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of my PhD thesis is to assess the consequences of possible Doha Round outcomes for China. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis and outlines its structure. Chapter 2 ... -
Essays on applied microeconomics and development income risk, income shocks and household financial decisions : evidence from rural Vietnam
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Income risk remains a significant obstacle to rural development. Even within a transitioning economy such as Vietnam which has a significant social safety-net, income shocks (for example, natural disasters, illness, pest ... -
Essays on carbon taxation and food demand in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is the collection of three applied studies, two of which deal with distributional effects of carbon taxation in the Irish economy and one, the third, which estimates a microeconometric model for food demand in ... -
Structural modeling of demand and supply : assessing collusion & tax reform impact on the Irish automotive market
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)In this thesis the factors shaping the Irish automotive industry are analyzed using a unique dataset covering purchases of new cars in Ireland during the year 2003. -
Essays on migration and risk aversion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)In this thesis I develop the theoretical and empirical literature linking risk aversion and migration. The thesis consists of three chapters exploring this theme from a variety of perspectives. The first chapter looks at ... -
Essays in development economics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is motivated by research questions faced by policy makers in developing country governments and donor agencies. In particular, it deals with the appropriate measurement of foreign aid and its possibly pernicious ... -
Analysing financial globalisation : cross-border investment, international risk sharing, and financial reforms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)The research topic of this thesis lies in the area of international macroeconomics. In particular, key aspects of financial globalisation are analysed empirically. In the first essay, analysis of 21 industrial countries ... -
International perspectives on investment and financing constraints : microeconometric evidence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is composed of four essays, providing insights and perspectives on the topic of access to credit and firm-level investment. It covers two subfields in economics: finance in developing countries and financing ... -
The performance of diagnosis-related groups in Ireland & Europe, 2005-2008
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are designed to classify hospital output into a manageable number of groups, containing patients who were clinically homogeneous with similar levels of resource utilisation. Where DRGs are ... -
Electricity markets and renewables : emissions, costs and fuel diversity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)As energy consumption has risen steadily over the past century, so too have emissions, contributing to climate change. Energy consumption is a necessary aspect of economic growth - it is an input into the production of ...
