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The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy
(2010)Banks within Europe have become larger and more international. We use a micro data set to investigate the impact of size on banks Net Interest Margin and show larger banks lower borrowing costs for firms which raises ... -
The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy
(ESRI, 2011)The financial crisis of the last three years has seen a dramatic change in the EU financial sector. Since the early 1990s, with the completion of the internal market, there had been a growing trend towards an EU financial ... -
Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics
(2020)This paper investigates the role of external auditors in banking sector supervision from a theoretical, institutional and empirical perspective. We first present a simple principal-agent framework that highlights the ... -
Base-load Cycling on a System with Significant Wind Penetration
(2010)Certain developments in the electricity sector may result in suboptimal operation of base-load generating units in countries worldwide. Despite the fact they were not designed to operate in a flexible manner, increasing ... -
Behavioural Economics and Policymaking: Learning from the Early Adopters
(ESRI, 23/02/2012)This paper critically examines initial applications of Behavioural Economics (BE) to policymaking. It focuses primarily but not exclusively on what can be learnt from the early adopters of policies inspired by BE, notably ... -
Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
(2017)Berkeley’s immaterialism aims to undermine Descartes’s skeptical arguments by denying that the connection between sensory perception and reality is contingent. However, this seems to undermine Berkeley’s (alleged) defense ... -
Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion
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A bibliographic review of Fagel pamphlets as presented in the online version of the TCD 1872 printed catalogue
(2010)In 1962 E. Braches identified the following series of papamphlets, in 235 volumes, as being in the TCD Printed Catalogue: Fag. H. 1. 1-93, Fag. H. 2. 1-89 and Fag. H. 3. 1-53. H indicates the bay, 1,2,3 the shelf number ... -
Bochenski and Balance: System and History in Analytic Philosophy
(Academia, 2011)This paper praises, upholds and justifies the balance found in Bochenski's philosophical writings between a systematic interest in theoretical questions and a purely historical approach to philosophy. The drawbacks of the ... -
Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism : a case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis presents a sociological case study of Bosnian migrants in Ireland who are involved in post-refugee transnationalism. The focus of the thesis is on a group of programme refugees who arrived in Ireland two decades ... -
British Jewish opposition to Israel : the relationship between local and distant fields of contention in a social movement
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Budget Perspectives 2012
(ESRI, 13/10/2011)Over the last decade Irish tax policy has undergone dramatic shifts. As the economy boomed in the early 2000s, income tax rates were reduced, tax credits were increased and the standard rate band was widened. Social welfare ... -
Budget Perspectives 2013
(ESRI, 27/09/2012)Welcome: Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI Macroeconomic Context for Budget 2013 David Duffy (ESRI) Fiscal Policy for 2013 and Beyond John FitzGerald (ESRI ) Benefit Integration in the UK: An Ex Ante Analysis ... -
Building a Fairer Taxation System: The Working Poor and the Cost of Refundable Tax Credits
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)This study addresses two key issues in Irish social and economic policy. These are: (i) the need to reform and develop our taxation system so that it becomes fairer and; (ii)the need to address the issue of the `working ... -
Building counter culture : the radical praxis of social movement milieux
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2000)This thesis falls into two parts. The first (chapters one to three) states the problematic of the research, develops a critique of the dominant "social movements" literature as unhelpful for understanding the counter culture ... -
Campaign Spending and Electoral Integrity: Assessing the Plausibility of the Challenger Spending Efficacy Advantage in Irish & British Elections
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)Do incumbents lose ground to challengers even when their spending is evenly matched? Much of the literature points to a spending efficacy advantage for challengers (i.e. non-incumbents glean more from spending than ...
