Browsing Economics (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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A theoretical and empirical analysis of bequest motives
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Access to banking services in Sub-Saharan Africia : essays in development economics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)Access to formal financial services has the potential to help transform the lives of low income individuals in Sub-Saharan African. Access and usage of saving, transaction and credit services can play a central role in ... -
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 ... -
Analysing financial globalisation : cross-border investment, international risk sharing, and financial reforms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)The research topic of this thesis lies in the area of international macroeconomics. In particular, key aspects of financial globalisation are analysed empirically. In the first essay, analysis of 21 industrial countries ... -
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 ... -
Consolidated Foreign Wealth of Nations: Initial steps and novel estimates
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This thesis is made of three essays in International Macroeconomics. The central question these essays focus on is how to assess the international exposure of countries. The conventional approach uses the residence of the ... -
Contestability and European Community Air Transport Policy : Lessons from the US
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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 ... -
Economic adjustments to globalisation in a small open economy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. We examine how a small open economy adjusts to a number of challenges posed by globalisation. We also analyse the effect of employment constraints on an economy's ability ... -
Economic implications of the Doha development agenda for China
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)The aim of my PhD thesis is to assess the consequences of possible Doha Round outcomes for China. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis and outlines its structure. Chapter 2 ... -
Economics of the family : theory and applications in developing countries
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of three research papers on different aspects of the economics of the family in developing countries. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the power structures and bargaining processes between ... -
Economy-wide modelling focused on the agricultural and food sectors : an Irish case
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)This thesis is a collection of four essays. The first one describes the construction of a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Ireland for the year 2005. The SAM includes 55 activities, 55 commodities, two factors of production ...