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  • Essays in central bank communication and bank lending conditions for firms 

    Parle, Conor (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2024)
    This dissertation is composed of three independent essays in the broad fields of central bank communication and the transmission of changes in bank lending conditions to firms. The first two essays examine the transmission ...
  • Essays in cross-border asset allocation 

    Mehigan, Caroline (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2015)
    The core of this thesis consists of three papers. Although independent, a common theme in each of the papers is the bilateral variation of cross border positions across countries, sectors and banks during the recent boom ...
  • Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics 

    SINGH, ANUJ PRATAP (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)
    The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ...
  • Essays in Development and Behavioural Economics 

    SINGH, ANUJ PRATAP (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)
    The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. Although on distinct topics, these chapters relate to vulnerability and financial decision making of households in Rwanda, Viet Nam and Ireland. Chapter 2 investigates ...
  • Essays in development economics 

    Talbot, Theodore Purnendu Blaquière (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
    This thesis is motivated by research questions faced by policy makers in developing country governments and donor agencies. In particular, it deals with the appropriate measurement of foreign aid and its possibly pernicious ...
  • Essays in Development Economics 

    MORANDO, BRUNO (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)
    This dissertation is a collection of three essays with a geographical and thematic common denominator. The broad objective of the thesis is to study how the Ugandan agricultural sector is affected by the country'
  • Essays in Development Economics 

    Mahar, Hamad Sikandar (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
    This thesis is a collection of three essays in Development Economics. In 2022, 685 million people globally lived in extreme poverty, the rate of decline in poverty is at a paltry rate of 2 percent per year (World bank, ...
  • Essays in Development Economics, International Trade and Industrial Organisation 

    KLYMAK, MARGARYTA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2019)
    This thesis examines questions in the areas of development economics, international trade and industrial organisation in both empirical and theoretical settings. It consists of an introduction, two empirical research ...
  • Essays in Development Economics. The impact of investment promotion on attracting foreign direct investment in developing countries 

    LE, VAN THI HAI (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)
    The importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in economic development is increasingly acknowledged. FDI not only brings additional capital to the host economy, but foreign-invested enterprises also play a part in the ...
  • Essays in Development Economics: Intrahousehold Decision Making in Developing Countries 

    Puthenmadathil Jose, Anu (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
    Providing insights into mechanisms through which households manage resources, this thesis aims to add to the empirical evidence on strategic decision-making among spouses using experimental and survey data. While the ...
  • 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 development economics: the role of property rights on labour supply and land markets 

    AYALA-CANTU, LUCIANO (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)
    The process of economic development requires that an economy moves from an agriculture-intensive setting to a more industrialized situation. It is then essential that agricultural productivity increases and shifts to a ...
  • Essays in developmental economics: The role of information and access to financial services in changing financial and employment behaviour and the resulting impact on household welfare 

    BEDI, TARA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)
    This thesis contains three essays that analyse the financial access and information awareness constraints faced by individuals and household in developing countries for managing income uncertainty and income shocks. The ...
  • Essays in Economic History 

    VARDANYAN, GAYANE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2020)
    This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of economic history and economics of migration. It consists of introduction, literature review, three empirical research chapters on Irish Migration to the United States ...
  • Essays in economic policy analysis using simulation 

    Boysen, Ole (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)
    Economic simulation approaches still receive little recognition in the mainstream economic community. On the one hand, this is due to the non-conformity of simulations with the traditional economic paradigm which relies ...
  • Essays in economics 

    McGuinness, Anne (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
    This Ph.D thesis examines the following societal issues: the shortfall in Irish pension funding, households' decisions to provide for retirement, households' decision to own a home, and total factor productivity convergence ...
  • 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 

    Larkin, Charles J. (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 Energy Finance 

    Ren, Boru (Trinity College Dublin. School of Business. Discipline of Business & Administrative Studies, 2023)
    This dissertation is composed of three main chapters related to energy finance, where the first two chapters each contain one essay and the third chapter contains two essays. In the first chapter (published in the Economic ...
  • Essays in Family Economics and Gender 

    Jacob, George (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
    This dissertation consists of three essays on family economics and gender. It delves into the problems families face with an emphasis on women. The first essay looks at how parents with different preferences take joint ...
  • Essays in financial and behavioural economics 

    Byrne, Shane Ronan (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)
    This thesis comprises three essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) describe randomised controlled trials which experimentally test interventions to arm consumers with informational tools to navigate the promise ...