Browsing Economics (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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Export activity, specialisation and structural change
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This thesis examines the evolution of Ireland’s manufacturing exports. In particular, it focuses on the changing pattern of specialisation both of products and of destinations. The first two chapters examine specialisation ... -
Essays in macroeconomic theory
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This thesis is a collection of essays on macroeconomic theory, broadly consisting of two topics. The first topic, covering Chapters 1-2, deals with the issues of repudiation risk and limited liability. The second topic ... -
Industrial structures and labour market outcomes : an examination of Poland in transition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This Thesis presents three papers. In our first paper we estimate the impact of transition on earnings inequality using data across Polish regions 1994-1997. Our central result is that earnings inequality is higher in ... -
An economic analysis of voting in Central and Eastern Europe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have now experienced fourteen years of democratic rule and a market economy. In this time they have participated in a variety of elections while undertaking a series of economic ... -
Chinese state-owned enterprises
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)The focus of this thesis is an empirical analysis of the process of operational reform and restructuring in Chinese state-owned enterprises, with a view to examining associated effects on performance, as well as the ... -
Choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)This thesis is a study of farm household choices, constraints and welfare in rural Peru, for 1994. The study incorporates literature reviews of farm household models and the main results concerning off-farm participation ... -
An economical-historical analysis of prominent artists geographic concentration and labour mobility patterns and an econometric analysis of contemporary artists initial migration decision
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)The purpose of this thesis is two fold: first to undertake an economical-historical analysis of the geographic concentration and labour mobility patterns of prominent artists; and secondly, to carry out an econometric ... -
Perspectives on social exclusion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)Over the last decade the term 'social exclusion' has entered the academic and political vernacular. There, it has been seen as a broad, somewhat undefined, concept which more comprehensively captures experiences of ... -
The 2003 mid term review of the Common Agricultural Policy : a computable general equilibrium analysis for Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the Irish economy is built and used to analyse the 2003 Mid Term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy. The Mid Term review represents significant reform of agricultural ... -
Characterisation of equilibrium in oligopoly with applications to trade and taxation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2006)This thesis is organized into four independent chapters. Chapter 1 is divided into two parts: part one is concerned with the characterization of optimal penal codes in presence of a n period detection lag, where n can be ... -
Foot-and-mouth disease eradication strategies in Ireland : a cost comparison
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)FMD is a highly contagious livestock disease with significant repercussions for livestock producers particularly in terms of productivity and trade effects, with many other sectors also being negatively affected by the ... -
Self-organising skew distributions in an agent-based model with applications to Gibrat's Law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)Three models for the firm size distribution are implemented using an Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) framework, and a theory explaining the source of a skew firm size distribution in one of the models is proposed. The variable ... -
Essays on investment : cycles, imbalances and convexity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis is a collection of essays on public investment. The thesis is introduced in Chapter One which addresses the motivation for the thesis and outlines the structure of the document. Chapter Two addresses the topic ... -
Essays on the measurement and implications of trade liberalisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis is an empirical analysis of the measurement and implications of trade liberalisation. Four core chapters cover the following areas: (i) the modelling of agricultural trade policy instruments; (ii) the determinants ... -
Essays in international macroeconomics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This dissertation is a collection of three separate essays in the area of international macroeconomics. How does the history of a variable matter for its current state? Do current account reversals affect the persistence ... -
A theoretical and empirical analysis of bequest motives
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Institutional and empirical essays on regulatory impact assessment
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis is concerned with institutional arrangements and empirical tools that may be used to assess the impact of regulation on the economy, and thereby improve regulatory policymaking. We start in Chapter 2 with a ... -
Carbon energy taxation and revenue recycling : an applied general equilibrium analysis for the Irish economy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)The rapid changing of the climate globally is a pressing problem. In Ireland, the average annual temperature has increased by 0.5 degrees Celsius over the course of the twentieth century, most significantly in the last ... -
Modelling the Dublin housing market : A time series analysis
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Essays in applied time series econometric methodology : the role of random field regression
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis is a collection of essays in applied time series econometrics, focusing particularly on the role of random field regression. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis ...
