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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 ... -
Capital misallocation, agricultural subsidies and productivity: A European perspective. Trinity Economic Papers TEP 0221.
(2021)Resource misallocation has been identified as an important source of aggregate pro- ductivity loss, yet to date there is a notable dearth of studies exploring the nature and extent of misallocation in the agricultural ... -
Capital, Capabilities and Culture: A Human Development Approach to Student and School Transformation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2018)The aim of this research is to apply the capability approach as an evaluative lens through which to explore the range of capabilities that emerged over a three-year period, through a longitudinal study with a group of ... -
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 ... -
Carbon Tax Scenarios and their Effects on the Irish Energy Sector
(ESRI, 20/09/2011)In this paper we use annual time series data from 1960 to 2008 to estimate the long run price and income elasticities underlying energy demand in Ireland. The Irish economy is divided into five sectors: residential, ... -
Carbon taxes and compensation options
(The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2019)This paper examines the effects an increase in the Irish carbon tax would have on households’ incomes, and assesses potential options for compensating households. While a carbon tax rise would disproportionately affect ... -
Carbon taxes, poverty and compensation options
(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 ... -
The Case for 'Trust' as a Key Soft Skill for Peacekeepers
(2019)This article uses the case study of the unifil mission in South Lebanon to explore the role of trust in facilitating or obstructing inter-organizational cooperation and local ownership in a traditional UN peacekeeping ... -
Causation: Further Themes
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Central bank reforms and institutions
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The Challenge of Migration and Europeanisation: A Comparison of Citizenship Education in Britain, Germany, Greece and Ireland
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The Challenge of Migration: Schooling the Second Generation in Europe
(2010)In several European countries, 10% or more of the student population now has a migrant background; and some countries are facing this phenomenon for the very first time. There is growing concern that students with an ... -
Challenges of Increased Wind Energy Penetration in Ireland
(2004)Ireland is a facing a critical time in the formation of a robust renewable energy (RE) policy, due to its size, relative isolation, grid infrastructure, and fuel import dependency. The inherent intermittency and unpredictability ... -
The Changing Workplace
(ESRI, 2011)How are Irish workplaces changing? Recent reports give a detailed picture, based on two nationally representative surveys ? one of employers and another of employees ? carried out in 2009. These surveys replicate many ... -
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 ... -
Checking the Price Tag on Catastrophe: The Social Cost of Carbon Under Non-linear Climate Response
(ESRI, 29/06/2011)Research into the social cost of carbon emissions ? the marginal social damage from a tonne of emitted carbon ? has tended to focus on ?best guess? scenarios. Such scenarios generally ignore the potential for low-probability, ... -
Chieftains delivering : political determinants of capital spending in Ireland 2001-07
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This is a study about the allocation of resources in Ireland. It asks to what extent capital expenditure is allocated according to geopolitical or to policy considerations. In other words, to what extent do electoral ... -
Child and adolescent digital use and well-being outcomes: evidence from an Irish birth-cohort study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2024)The rapid digitalization of society over the past decades has fundamentally changed how people socialize, work, and play. Subsequently, children and adolescents’ use of digital technologies has increased rapidly, facilitated ...