Economics: Recent submissions

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    • The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumption and indirect tax in Ireland 

      Roantree, Barra (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2020)
      Using micro data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) Household Budget Survey (HBS), we assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumption and its implications for indirect tax receipts in 2020. We show that ...

    • Options for increasing tax 

      Roantree, Barra (The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2015)
      The UK’s public finances are still in a weakened state. In 2015–16, the government expects to borrow 3.6% of national income over and above the borrowing that can be expected to disappear as the economy recovers, leading ...

    • Carbon taxes, poverty and compensation options 

      Roantree, Barra (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2020)
      This paper examines how the Irish carbon tax can be raised without increasing poverty and disproportionately affecting low-income households. It shows that poverty can in fact be reduced and the lowest-income fifth of ...

    • Distributional impact of tax and welfare policies: COVID-related policies and Budget 2021 

      Roantree, Barra (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2020)
      In this article, we assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment in Ireland and estimate how family incomes have changed as a result of increased unemployment, calibrated to administrative sources for ...

    • ESRI Poverty, Income Inequality and Living Standards Spreadsheet 

      Roantree, Barra; Redmond, Paul (Economic and Social Research InstituteIreland, 2022)

    • Inequality in Ireland: 1987-2019 

      Roantree, Barra (Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2023)
      This report provides an in-depth analysis of wage, earnings and income trends and inequalities in Ireland over a three-decade period, spanning from 1987 to 2019. One of the significant findings of this research is the ...

    • Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland: Second annual report 

      Roantree, Barra (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)
      This report is the second from an ESRI research programme funded by The Community Foundation for Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards ...

    • Earnings-related benefits in Ireland: rationale, costs and work incentives 

      Roantree, Barra (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)
      Ireland is an outlier among EU countries as it does not have a strong link between previous earnings and the level of payment provided to those who have recently lost their job or are on leave from work for the short- ...

    • Future trends in housing tenure and the adequacy of retirement income 

      Roantree, Barra (Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)
      In recent years, Ireland has experienced a notable decline in homeownership and a rise in the proportion of households in private rental accommodation. Concurrently, the cost of both rents and house prices have risen ...

    • Poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland 

      Roantree, Barra; Doorley, Karina (ESRI and Community Foundation Ireland, 2023)
      This report is the third from an ESRI research programme funded by Community Foundation Ireland, which seeks to address gaps in our knowledge and understanding of poverty, income inequality and living standards in Ireland. ...

    • The political economy of food system transformation in the European Union 

      Matthews, Alan; Candel, Jeroen; de Mûelenaere, Nel; Scheelbeek, Pauline (Oxford University Press, 2023)

    • An ambitious CAP is needed to underpin the green transition 

      Matthews, Alan (2023)
      This paper provides a critical appraisal of the main characteristics of EU agricultural policy as it now stands following agreement on the regulations for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in 2021 for the programming ...

    • Essays in Development Economics: Poverty, Religion and Mental Health 

      Us-Salam, Danish (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 Macroeconomics: An Analysis of the South African Financial System 

      Mbelu, Asithandile Thando (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
      This thesis consists of three empirical essays analyzing the financial systems in South Africa. Chapter 1 constructs a financial conditions index (FCI) for South Africa, over the period January 2000 to April 2017, that can ...

    • Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2023)
      Purpose This paper explores the empirical relationship between population age structure and bilateral trade. Design/methodology/approach The author includes age structure in both log and Poisson pseudo-maximum ...

    • Population age structure and secular stagnation: Evidence from long run data 

      Kopecky, Joseph (2023)
      A large literature has reopened the secular stagnation hypothesis, first proposed near the end of the great depression as a warning for anemic growth resulting from long run trends in population aging. In this paper, I ...