Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI): Recent submissions
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The Uncertainty about the Social Cost of Carbon: A Decomposition Analysis Using FUND
(ESRI, 01/09/2011)We report the results of an uncertainty decomposition analysis of the social cost of carbon as estimated by FUND, a model that has a more detailed representation of the economic impact of climate change than any other ... -
Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(ESRI, 2011)Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under ... -
The Macro-economic Impact of Changing the Rate of Corporation Tax
(ESRI, 2011)The size and importance of the market services sector within the Irish economy has increased dramatically since the mid 1990s and the sector now accounts for a significant share of overall exports. The rise in output and ... -
The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy
(ESRI, 2011)The financial crisis of the last three years has seen a dramatic change in the EU financial sector. Since the early 1990s, with the completion of the internal market, there had been a growing trend towards an EU financial ... -
Climate Policy Under Fat-Tailed Risk: An Application of Dice
(ESRI, 2011)Uncertainty plays a significant role in evaluating climate policy, and fat-tailed uncertainty may dominate policy advice. Should we make our utmost effort to prevent the arbitrarily large impacts of climate change under ... -
How reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for migration research?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the ... -
Making globalisation work
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2008)My topic for this Geary lecture is `Making Globalisation Work. A question I am often asked is ? how did I come to write my book entitled Making Globalisation Work? It was said: ?You have complained enough. What would you ... -
The emergence of the entrepreneurial society
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2009)The topic of my talk today is what I term the entrepreneurial society or the emergence of the entrepreneurial society, which suggests that something has changed. The Director and I were speaking on the way here about the ... -
Decomposing the Impacts of Overeducation and Overskilling on Earnings and Job Satisfaction: An Analysis Using REFLEX data
(ESRI, 05/07/2011)This paper uses the REFLEX dataset to test the hypothesis that the generally observed negative impacts of overeducation and overskilling on both job satisfaction and earnings can be attributed to under-utilisation in ... -
Decomposition of Sectoral Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Subsystem Input-Output Model for the Republic of Ireland
(2011)The analysis of gas emissions by an input-output subsystem approach provides detailed insights into pollution generation in an economy by revealing the channels by which the environmental burdens are caused and transmitted ... -
The Impact of Government Policy on Private Car Ownership in Ireland
(2011)We construct a model of the stock of private cars in the Republic of Ireland. The model distinguishes cars by fuel, engine size and age. The modelled car stock is built up from a long history of data on sales, and calibrated ... -
The Distributional Effects of Value Added Tax in Ireland
(2011)In this paper we examine the distributional effects of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Ireland. Using the 2004/2005 Household Budget Survey, we assess the amount of VAT that households pay as a proportion of weekly disposable ... -
The challenge of tax reform and expanding the tax base
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)My topic today is the design of tax policy, and in particular the role of socalled ?tax expenditures? in income tax systems. It is a topic that is important not just in Ireland but in many other nations ? including the ... -
Inequality and the crisis: the distributional impact of tax increases and welfare and public sector pay cuts
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)The economic crisis impacts directly on the distribution of income via unemployment and private sector wages, but the way policy responds in seeking to control soaring fiscal deficits is also central to its distributional ... -
Social mobility and equality of opportunity
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2010)The idea of social mobility is closely linked to the concept of equality of opportunity: it is widely held that if there were greater equality of opportunity there would be more social mobility and, conversely, that more ... -
What have we learnt about pay for performance?
(Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 2011)Governance is a central concern of economics. In much of economic activity, relevant principals (firms, voters, government agencies, and so on) delegate decisions to agents who may not have the interests of those ... -
Checking the Price Tag on Catastrophe: The Social Cost of Carbon Under Non-linear Climate Response
(ESRI, 29/06/2011)Research into the social cost of carbon emissions ? the marginal social damage from a tonne of emitted carbon ? has tended to focus on ?best guess? scenarios. Such scenarios generally ignore the potential for low-probability, ... -
Economic Costs of Ocean Acidification: A Look into the Impacts on Shellfish Production
(ESRI, 15/06/2011)Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial ... -
Schelling's Conjecture on Climate and Development: A Test
(ESRI, 10/06/2011)We use the integrated assessment model FUND to compute the income elasticities of climate change impacts for different world regions over time. We find limited support for Schelling?s Conjecture that development might be ... -
The Changing Workplace
(ESRI, 2011)How are Irish workplaces changing? Recent reports give a detailed picture, based on two nationally representative surveys ? one of employers and another of employees ? carried out in 2009. These surveys replicate many ...
