Browsing Economics (Theses and Dissertations) by Title

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    • Perspectives on bank competition and the real economy 

      Ryan, Robert M. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2014)
      The subject of this thesis is the empirical analysis of bank competition. An expanding collection of theoretical arguments suggests that the intensity at which banks compete with each other can influence their behaviour—and ...

    • Perspectives on social exclusion 

      Collins, Micheál L. (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 ...

    • Potent ingredients : understanding uncertainty, volatility and macroeconomic performance 

      Curran, Michael (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2015)
      This thesis comprises of three related essays in international financial macroeconomics. The research centers on the relation between the volatility of interest rates at which small open economies borrow internationally ...

    • Self-organising skew distributions in an agent-based model with applications to Gibrat's Law 

      Nelson, Ana (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 ...

    • Spatial networks, clustering and spillovers : lessons for development 

      Howard, Emma (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      The geographic clustering of manufacturing activity has long been recognised as facilitating the growth and prosperity of firms and regions alike. Empirical evidence however is limited, particularly in a developing country ...

    • Structural changes in agriculture : a critical analysis of Common Agricultural Policy reforms 

      Kažukauskas, Andrius (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis focuses on the impact of European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on structural change in the EU agricultural sector. The CAP is still the most integrated of all EU policies and consequently ...

    • Structural modeling of demand and supply : assessing collusion & tax reform impact on the Irish automotive market 

      Van Parys, Olivier (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)
      In this thesis the factors shaping the Irish automotive industry are analyzed using a unique dataset covering purchases of new cars in Ireland during the year 2003.

    • Studies in preferences for public goods in Ireland 

      Delaney, Liam (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)
      This dissertation is based on two studies conducted in 2002 and 2004 analysing preferences for non-marketed activity in Ireland. The first study applies the contingent valuation method (CVM) to Irish public service ...

    • Studies on the application of the alpha-stable distribution in economics 

      Frain, John C. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)
      Bubbles, booms and busts in asset prices give rise to a considerable misallocation of resources when they are growing and the subsequent adjustment can be very long and painful. Yet, there is no accepted diagnosis of a ...

    • Tax planning by firms and tax competition by goverments 

      Moore, Padraig J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)
      This thesis investigates tax planning by firms and tax com petition by governments. We begin in Chapter 1 by outlining the background, motivation and plan of the thesis. Chapter 2 reviews the relevant existing literature. ...

    • Taxation and political models 

      Yoder, Seán (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. Each essay deals with taxation policy directly or the expectation of future taxation by an electorate during a time of war. In terms of taxation, this essay generally ...

    • The 2003 mid term review of the Common Agricultural Policy : a computable general equilibrium analysis for Ireland 

      Dixon, Janine Margaret (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 ...

    • The bureaucrats's decision rule and government efficiency 

      Zhang, Mengyang (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2017)
      This thesis focuses on the decision problem of local bureaucrats and the impact on government performance. Chapter 1 outlines the context of the thesis and provide a description of the thesis structure. Chapter 2 investigates ...

    • The construction, calibration and interpretation of IMAGE, a CGE model of the Irish economy with particular focus on agriculture 

      O'Toole, Ronald Paul John (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2002)
      This thesis details the construction, calibration and interpretation of IMAGE, a CGE model of the hish economy. The name IMAGE is an acronym of “Irish Model of Agriculture, General Equilibrium”. This name captures the two ...

    • The determinants of repertoire diversity in non-profit theatre: an application to England and Germany 

      Neligan, Adriana Sonia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2004)
      This thesis studies repertoire diversity and its possible determinants in non-profit theatre for two European countries, namely England and Germany. For this, extensive econometric analysis is carried out using specifically ...

    • The economic effect of direct payment support of Irish agriculture 

      Keeney, Mary Josephine (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2000)
      The aim of this thesis is to investigate some of the microeconomic effects of the application of direct payments (DPs) to support Irish agriculture. Chapter 1 outlines the context of direct income support as it is applied ...

    • The economics of electricity storage 

      Nyamdash, Batsaikhan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis investigates the issues surrounding electricity storage systems from various perspectives. It assesses the impact on the power system operation and the resulting benefits for developers versus system operators. ...

    • The global return on capital, the Lucas Paradox and the Savings Glut 

      Daly, Kevin J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2010)
      This thesis is composed of three chapters related to the measurement, analysis and application of cross-country data on the return on physical capital. In Chapter 1, we derive a database of returns on physical capital that ...

    • The performance of diagnosis-related groups in Ireland & Europe, 2005-2008 

      O'Reilly, Jacqueline Michelle (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are designed to classify hospital output into a manageable number of groups, containing patients who were clinically homogeneous with similar levels of resource utilisation. Where DRGs are ...

    • The role of information in household energy decisions 

      Carroll, James (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2014)
      This dissertation explores the effects of various informational policy interventions in a number of energy markets. Using a number of trials and surveys, this research aims to highlight a household’s underlying energy-reducing ...