Browsing Economics (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin"
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Ageing and the balance of care: an investigation into the relationship between and determinants of acute hospital bed and long -term care utilisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)The central theme of this thesis is the effect of ageing on the balance between acute and long-term care (LTC). The thesis comprises two separate but related enquiries. The first enquiry is an econometric analysis of the ... -
An econometric analysis of Irish households' Food Away From Home (FAFH) expenditure patterns 1994-2000
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)In this thesis, the factors shaping Irish households’ Food-Away-From-Home (FAFH) expenditure decisions are analysed using the 1994/5 and 1999/2000 Irish Household Budget Survey datasets. Chapter 1 outlines why FAFH is ... -
An econometric analysis of Irish households' food expenditure patterns : Tobit, double-hurdle and infrequency of purchase approaches
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2002)In this thesis, the factors shaping Irish households’ meat and prepared meals expenditure decisions are analysed using the 1987/8 and 1994/5 Irish Household Budget Survey datasets. In Chapter 1 of this thesis, the changing ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
An examination of regional disparity in the Republic of Ireland 1926-1996
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2000)Regional disparity has long been a feature of the Irish economy and the thesis accordingly attempts to provide a comprehensive understanding of its nature and causes. First of all, the nature of regional disparity is ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Downward nominal wage rigidity and macroeconomic adjustment in a monetary union
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2014)The core of this thesis consists of three papers. Although independent, a common theme running through the papers is the macroeconomic adjustment of an open economy in a monetary union. In particular, we look at how ... -
Empirical essays in international macroeconomics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)This thesis is composed of three essays. The first one examines cases in which there is a large shift in a country's net foreign asset position due to the re-valuation of its foreign assets and / or foreign liabilities. ... -
Equity in Irish health care financing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)Equity is a central principle in Irish health policy and there is increasing political interest in altering the health financing structures in order to improve equity in the system. However, investigations of equity in ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics : smart networks and behaviour of households and firms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2016)This dissertation explores a number of aspects related to the roll-out of network infrastructure. The focus is on the integration of electricity networks and ICT, and the interaction of these technologies with the behaviour ... -
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 economics : the International Monetary Fund - history, institutional and legal structures, ethics, epistemology, International Law and the International Monetary Fund and Charles Davenant and the Great Recoinage of 1696
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This work is an exploration of the epistemology of economics which aims to analyse some of the wider teleological and ontological questions that arise from that investigation. This exploration is facilitated by the focus ... -
Essays in intenational macroeconomics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2014)This thesis comprises three essays on topics in international macroeconomics. In particular, the research conducted in this thesis focuses on the dynamics of real exchange rates and external imbalances, and is predominantly ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Essays in quantitative economic history
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2014)The thesis explores three historical questions using novel datasets and the most up to date econometric methods available. The thesis is motivated by the growing success of economic history in addressing a range of issues ...