Browsing Economics (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Regional and Sectoral Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon: An Application of FUND
(ESRI, 2011)The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the benefit of reducing CO2 emissions by one ton today. As such it is a key input into cost-benefit analysis of climate policy and regulation. We provide a set of new estimates ... -
The Regional Dimension of the Unemployment Crisis
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Research and Policy Making
(ESRI, 24/09/2010)I am delighted to have the opportunity to present a lecture on Research and Policy Making. This topic is widely discussed internationally with an extensive international literature drawing on a range of different perspectives. ... -
The Research Output of Business Schools and Business Scholars in Ireland
(ESRI, 2010)The research performance of business scholars on the island of Ireland is evaluated based on their number of publication, number of citations, h-index and the same divided by the numbers of years since the first publication. ... -
Restoring Credibility in Policy Making in Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)This paper first considers the origins of the Irish economic crisis. It discusses where the policy failures occurred, to what extent they were foreseeable, and how certain key financial institutions performed in the run ... -
A Review of Irish Energy Policy
(ESRI, 2011)This paper reviews the considerable body of economic research on energy in Ireland and elsewhere. It draws out the implications of this research for Irish energy policy, and also some of the implications for EU energy ... -
Revising Merger Guidelines: Lessons from the Irish Experience
(ESRI, 07/03/2011)Competition authorities typically issue Merger Guidelines setting out the framework within which merger assessment is conducted. Ireland is no exception. The Competition Authority is currently in the process of revising ... -
The Role of Technology, Investment and Ownership Structure in the Productivity Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in Vietnam
(2009)This paper explores the productivity performance of the manufacturing sector in Vietnam between 2001 and 2007. Total Factor Productivity indices are computed using an index number approach and the productivity performance ... -
Schelling's Conjecture on Climate and Development: A Test
(ESRI, 10/06/2011)We use the integrated assessment model FUND to compute the income elasticities of climate change impacts for different world regions over time. We find limited support for Schelling?s Conjecture that development might be ... -
Selling State Assets: Three Options
(ESRI, 2011)Under the EU/IMF Programme for Financial Support for Ireland, the government undertook to consider the potential for disposing of State assets. In the 2011 Programme for Government a target of up to ?2 billion was set for ... -
Sentencing in Criminal Cartel Cases in Ireland: the Duffy Judgment
(ESRI, 03/12/2012)Despite 33 convictions of individuals and firms for criminal cartel offences in Ireland since 1996, there is only one reported judgment. The paper examines the Duffy judgment concerning a member of the Citroen motor vehicle ... -
Shapley Values for Assessing Research Production and Impact of Schools and Scholars
(ESRI, 2011)Performance measures of individual scholars tend to ignore the context. I introduce contextualised metrics: cardinal and ordinal pseudo-Shapley values that measure a scholar??s contribution to (perhaps power over) her own ... -
Should Coal Replace Coal? Options for the Irish Electricity Market
(ESRI, 20/03/2012)The Moneypoint coal plant is nearing the end of its useful life and will need to be replaced. For Moneypoint's replacement, we consider different types of baseload technologies: coal plants with and without carbon capture, ... -
Simulating Demand for Electrical Vehicles using Revealed Preference Data
(2012)We have modelled the market for new cars in Ireland with the aim of quantifying the values placed on a range of observable car characteristics. Mid-sized petrol cars with a manual transmission sell best. Price and perhaps ... -
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia
(2022)Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations ... -
A Smart Integrated Network for an Offshore Island
(2013)This article examines the potential to create an energy independent smart network for an island community utilizing ocean and wind energy. The analysis involves the simulation of an extensive electrification of the heat ... -
Social Capital and Savings Behaviour: Evidence from Vietnam
(2011-05-29)We explore the extent to which social capital can play a role in imparting information about the returns to saving where potential knowledge gaps and mistrust exists. Using data from Vietnam we find strong evidence to ... -
The Social Cost of Carbon
(ESRI, 28/02/2011)This paper surveys the literature on the economic impact of climate change. Different methods have been used to estimate the impact of climate change on human welfare. Studies agree that there are positive and negative ...
