ESRI Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Public Policy Towards the Sale of State Assets in Troubled Times: Lessons from the Irish Experience 

      TOL, RICHARD S. J.; GORECKI, PAUL K.; LYONS, SEAN (ESRI, 10/10/2010)
      Governments throughout the western world and beyond are in the midst of a severe financial crisis and emerging from a sharp recession. Ireland is no exception. One of the options for strengthening public finances is the ...

    • An Estimate of the Value of Lost Load for Ireland 

      LEAHY, EIMEAR; TOL, RICHARD S. J. (ESRI, 2010)
      This paper estimates the value of short term lost load in the all island electricity market which includes the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The value of lost load, also known as the value of security of ...

    • Research and Policy Making 

      RUANE, FRANCES (ESRI, 24/09/2010)
      I am delighted to have the opportunity to present a lecture on Research and Policy Making. This topic is widely discussed internationally with an extensive international literature drawing on a range of different perspectives. ...

    • A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the EU 20/20/2020 Package 

      TOL, RICHARD S. J. (ESRI, 2011)
      The European Commission did not publish a cost-benefit analysis for its 2020 climate package. This paper fills that gap, comparing the marginal costs and benefits of greenhouse gas emission reduction. The uncertainty about ...

    • The Distributional Effects of Value Added Tax in Ireland 

      LEAHY, EIMEAR; LYONS, SE?N; TOL, RICHARD S. J. (ESRI, 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 ...

    • Shapley Values for Assessing Research Production and Impact of Schools and Scholars 

      TOL, RICHARD S. J. (ESRI, 2011)
      Performance measures of individual scholars tend to ignore the context. I introduce contextualised metrics: cardinal and ordinal pseudo-Shapley values that measure a scholar??s contribution to (perhaps power over) her own ...

    • The Research Output of Business Schools and Business Scholars in Ireland 

      TOL, RICHARD S. J. (ESRI, 2010)
      The research performance of business scholars on the island of Ireland is evaluated based on their number of publication, number of citations, h-index and the same divided by the numbers of years since the first publication. ...

    • The Effects of the Internationalisation of Firms on Innovation and Productivity 

      SIEDSCHLAG, IULIA; ZHANG, XIAOHENG (KEVIN) (2010)
      This paper examines the effects of the internationalisation of firms via foreign direct investment and trade on their innovation and productivity performance. Our econometric results suggest that foreign affiliates and ...

    • Modified Ramsey Discounting for Climate Change 

      TOL, RICHARD S. J. (ESRI, 2011)
      The Ramsey rule for the consumption rate of discount assumes a transfer of money of a (representative) agent at one point in time to the same agent at another point in time. Climate policy (implicitly) transfers money not ...

    • The macro-economic impact of changing the rate of corporation tax 

      Conefrey, Thomas; Fitz Gerald, John D. (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2009-01-06)
      This paper considers the impact of changes in the rate of corporation tax in Ireland affecting the services sector. A model is estimated that relates services exports and output to world activity, competitiveness and the ...