Browsing Economics (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Essays in applied microeconomics and development: an examination of micro, small and medium enterprises in Vietnam
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)This thesis contains three essays that analyse and provide insight into the topics of social capital and political connections, access to finance and domestic exporting spillovers. For each topic, this thesis considers ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics. Research collaboration and dissemination in economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)This dissertation studies the production and dissemination of economic research in three essays. The chapters explore data on economic research articles and their authors to study, first, the effect of national borders ... -
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 ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics: Representation and Weighting of Numerical Information
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)This thesis consists of four essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) present experimental tests of how numerical information is represented in the brain, and the implications of this representation for economic ... -
Essays in central bank communication and bank lending conditions for firms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This dissertation is composed of three independent essays in the broad fields of central bank communication and the transmission of changes in bank lending conditions to firms. The first two essays examine the transmission ... -
Essays in cross-border asset allocation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2015)The core of this thesis consists of three papers. Although independent, a common theme in each of the papers is the bilateral variation of cross border positions across countries, sectors and banks during the recent boom ... -
Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ... -
Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ... -
Essays in Development and Gender Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)This thesis consists of three essays at the intersection of development and gender economics. Each chapter addresses significant questions that aim to understand the origins of harmful practices and norms that impact girls ... -
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 ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is a collection of three essays in Development Economics. In 2022, 685 million people globally lived in extreme poverty, the rate of decline in poverty is at a paltry rate of 2 percent per year (World bank, ... -
Essays in Development Economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)This dissertation is a collection of three essays with a geographical and thematic common denominator. The broad objective of the thesis is to study how the Ugandan agricultural sector is affected by the country' -
Essays in Development Economics, International Trade and Industrial Organisation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)This thesis examines questions in the areas of development economics, international trade and industrial organisation in both empirical and theoretical settings. It consists of an introduction, two empirical research ... -
Essays in Development Economics. The impact of investment promotion on attracting foreign direct investment in developing countries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)The importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in economic development is increasingly acknowledged. FDI not only brings additional capital to the host economy, but foreign-invested enterprises also play a part in the ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Intrahousehold Decision Making in Developing Countries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)Providing insights into mechanisms through which households manage resources, this thesis aims to add to the empirical evidence on strategic decision-making among spouses using experimental and survey data. While the ... -
Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation includes three standalone chapters, each focused on augmenting our knowledge of three issues in the literature on asset transfers, religion, and mental health. The first essay (Chapter 1) investigates ... -
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 ... -
Essays in developmental economics: The role of information and access to financial services in changing financial and employment behaviour and the resulting impact on household welfare
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)This thesis contains three essays that analyse the financial access and information awareness constraints faced by individuals and household in developing countries for managing income uncertainty and income shocks. The ... -
Essays in Economic History
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of economic history and economics of migration. It consists of introduction, literature review, three empirical research chapters on Irish Migration to the United States ... -
Essays in economic policy analysis using simulation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)Economic simulation approaches still receive little recognition in the mainstream economic community. On the one hand, this is due to the non-conformity of simulations with the traditional economic paradigm which relies ...
