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The Macro-economic Impact of Changing the Rate of Corporation Tax
(ESRI, 2011)The size and importance of the market services sector within the Irish economy has increased dramatically since the mid 1990s and the sector now accounts for a significant share of overall exports. The rise in output and ... -
Macroeconomic risk and international financial markets
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2010)This thesis is composed of three essays addressing the use of financial markets to hedge or gain exposure to macroeconomic risk. The first essay examines the question of consumption risk sharing between countries. Theory ... -
Makers and Models: Two Approaches to truth, and their Merger
(de Gruyter, 2015) -
Making homeworking work: preferences and experiences of homeworkers during COVID-19
(2020)The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a large section of the global labour force who were working in centralised locations to suddenly switch to homeworking. This report uses primary longitudinal data from two surveys of 808 ... -
Making the World Safe for Methods
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Managing the Immigration and Employment of Non-EU Nationals in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin, 2005)Ireland's recent transformation into a country of immigration has raised new and important policy issues. Rapid economic growth and relatively liberal policies toward the admission of migrant workers have resulted in a ... -
Many Unions, One Estimate? Disaggregating the Currency Union Effect on Trade
(2023)A large literature estimates the impact of currency unions on trade. Often ignored in these estimates are the dramatic differences in the characteristics of countries adopting common currencies, hidden by aggregation ... -
The Marginal Damage Costs of Different Greenhouse Gases: An Application of FUND
(ESRI, 2011)We use FUND 3.5 to estimate the social cost of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur hexafluoride emissions. We show the results of a range of sensitivity analyses, focusing on the impact of carbon dioxide ... -
A Match Made in Maastricht: Estimating The Treatment Effect of the Euro On Trade
(2023)Why do estimates of the European Monetary Union (EMU) effect on trade vary so greatly? Rose (2017) shows that the largest factor determining the size of EMU trade estimates is the choice of sample, with studies using only ... -
Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic Against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues
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Me too: victimhood and the proliferation of cultural claims in Ireland
(LIT Verlag, 2004) -
Meaning and Dummett's Austrians
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Measurement Invariance of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index: Evidence from 15 European Countries
(2022)Background: The World Health Organization (WHO)-5 Well-Being Index has been used in many epidemiological studies to assess adolescent mental well-being. However, cross-country comparisons of this instrument among adolescents ... -
Measurement issues in the comparative manifesto project data set and effectiveness of representative democracy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)In this dissertation I focus on the very widely used Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) as the source of measurements of the policy positions of political parties. The CMP data confuse the separable notions of party's ... -
Measuring Credit Constraints for Irish SMEs
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Measuring Fiscal Stance
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Measuring the efficiency of multi-level healthcare facilities with stochastic demand : a labour requirements frontier approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)This thesis is concerned with estimating efficiency using stochastic frontier analysis (SFA). It is argued that a classical SPA approach is the most appropriate technique for estimating efficiency scores for healthcare ... -
Media agendas, public opinions and elections : evidence from Ireland and the United Kingdom
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2010)This dissertation analyses the news media coverage of the 2005 general election campaign in the United Kingdom and the 2007 general election campaign in Ireland. The study also investigates the public opinion in those ... -
Media and their Emergence: the Ontology
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Media Ownership, Differential Coverage, and Effects on Public Attitudes : The Case of News Coverage of Labour Unions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2018)This dissertation examines the relationship between media ownership structures, the influence ownership has on news content and the effects of differential coverage on citizens who consume this content. It examines the ...
