ESRI Working Papers: Recent submissions
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Poverty Traps and Climate Change
(ESRI, 09/11/2011)We use a demo-economic model to examine the question of whether climate change could widen or deepen poverty traps. The model includes two crucial mechanisms. Parents are risk averse when deciding how many children to have; ... -
UK Tourists, The Great Recession and Irish Tourism Policy
(ESRI, 27/10/2011)Inbound tourism to Ireland fell sharply in 2009 and 2010. Visits to Ireland from the UK, the dominant country of origin of visitors to Ireland, did not fall faster than UK visits elsewhere. We use micro-data for UK travellers ... -
Disasters and Development: Natural Disasters, Credit Constraints and Economic Growth
(ESRI, 06/10/2011)We demonstrate, using a simple two-period equilibrium model of the economy, the potential effects of extreme event occurrences - such as natural or humanitarian disasters - on economic growth over the medium- to long-term. ... -
Carbon Tax Scenarios and their Effects on the Irish Energy Sector
(ESRI, 20/09/2011)In this paper we use annual time series data from 1960 to 2008 to estimate the long run price and income elasticities underlying energy demand in Ireland. The Irish economy is divided into five sectors: residential, ... -
Internationalisation and the Innovation Activities of Services Firms
(ESRI, 19/09/2011)This paper examines the relationship between the internationalisation of firms in services and their innovation performance. We use firm?level data over the period 2004? 2006 and estimate an augmented structural model ... -
Estimating Historical Landfill Quantities to Predict Methane Emissions
(ESRI, 2009)We estimate Irish historical landfill quantities from 1960 -2008 and Irish methane emissions from 1968-2006. A model is constructed in which waste generation is a function of income, price of waste disposal and, household ... -
A Critique of The Economics of Climate Change in Mexico
(ESRI, 20/09/2011)This paper revises some relevant aspects of The Economics of Climate Change in Mexico (ECCM), one of the most important documents for supporting national decisionmaking regarding the climate change international negotiations. ... -
The Time Evolution of the Social Cost of Carbon: An Application of FUND
(ESRI, 05/09/2011)We estimate the growth rate of the social cost of carbon. This is an indication of the optimal rate of acceleration of greenhouse gas emission reduction policy over time. We find that the social cost of carbon increases ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Equality and Discrimination: Lessons from a Research Programme and a Conference
(ESRI, 2011)Despite legislation outlawing discrimination across the EU, inequalities between groups appear to be an enduring feature of Irish and European societies. The extent to which inequality is due to discrimination is a matter ... -
Goldilocks and the Three Electricity Prices: Are Irish Prices "Just Right"?
(2011)In this paper we analyse the 2008 electricity price in the Irish All-Island Market. We test whether this price is `efficient? by comparing it to the electricity price in Great Britain. This analysis suggests that around ... -
Economic Regulation: Recentralisation of Power or Improved Quality of Regulation?
(ESRI, 02/02/2011)The October 2009 Government Statement on Economic Regulation issued proposes a number of sensible reforms that are likely to improve regulatory performance in energy, airports, telecommunications, postal services and ... -
Greener Homes: An Ex-Post Estimate of the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction using Administrative Micro-Data from the Republic of Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)We assess the subsidy for the installation of biomass boilers and wood gasification boilers under the Greener Homes Scheme in Ireland. We find that the (implicit) subsidy per tonne of carbon dioxide avoided varies hugely ...
