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Irish and British Historical Electricity Prices and Implications for the Future
(ESRI, 10/04/2013)This paper compares retail and wholesale electricity prices in SEM, the market of the island of Ireland, and BETTA in Great Britain. Wholesale costs are much lower in BETTA. We show that this is mostly because the wholesale ... -
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 ... -
Climate policy, interconnection and carbon leakage: the effect of unilateral UK policy on electricity and GHG emissions in Ireland
(ESRI, 10/06/2013)This paper examines the effect on Ireland?s Single Electricity Market (SEM) of the UK?s unilateral policy to implement a carbon price floor for electricity generation based on fossil-fuel. We simulate electricity markets ... -
Public Policy Towards the Sale of State Assets in Troubled Times: Lessons from the Irish Experience
(ESRI, 10/10/2010)Governments throughout the western world and beyond are in the midst of a severe financial crisis and emerging from a sharp recession. Ireland is no exception. One of the options for strengthening public finances is the ... -
Timing and Determinants of Local Residential Broadband Adoption: Evidence from Ireland
(ESRI, 12/11/2010)This paper tests whether households that are offered broadband service for the first time tend to delay in taking it up. Using cross-sectional data on broadband take-up and socioeconomic characteristics of small areas in ... -
Telecommunications Consumers: A Behavioural Economic Analysis
(ESRI, 12/12/2011)This paper argues that telecommunications markets present the consumer with a decision-making environment that is particularly likely to be prone to established biases in consumer decision-making. The analysis identifies ... -
Trends in Air Pollution in Ireland: A Decomposition Analysis
(ESRI, 13/02/2012)Trends in the emissions to air of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, and ammonia in Ireland are analysed with a logarithmic mean Divisia index decomposition for the period of ... -
Younger and Older Households in the Crisis
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Measuring Credit Constraints for Irish SMEs
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Economic Regulation: Recentralisation of Power or Improved Quality of Regulation?
(Economic and Social Studies, 13/07/2011)The October 2009 Government Statement on Economic Regulation proposes a number of sensible reforms that are likely to improve regulatory performance in energy, airports, telecommunications, postal services and transport. ... -
Budget Perspectives 2012
(ESRI, 13/10/2011)Over the last decade Irish tax policy has undergone dramatic shifts. As the economy boomed in the early 2000s, income tax rates were reduced, tax credits were increased and the standard rate band was widened. Social welfare ... -
The Uncertainty about the Total Economic Impact of Climate Change
(ESRI, 14/04/2011)This paper uses a vote-counting procedure to estimate the probability density function of the total economic impact as a parabolic function of global warming. There is a wide range of uncertainty about the impact of climate ... -
The effect of unemployment, arrears and negative equity on consumption: Ireland in 2009/10
(ESRI, 14/05/2013)Since the onset of the financial crisis, income and consumption have fallen sharply in Ireland, particularly for young households. This paper shows that young households are more likely than older ones to be exposed to ... -
Choice, Price and Service Characteristics in the Irish Broadband Market
(ESRI, 15/05/2012)Using detailed plan-level data, this paper examines the choice, price and quality of broadband services available to consumers in Ireland over time. We find modest geographical (county level) variation in broadband services. ... -
Economic Costs of Ocean Acidification: A Look into the Impacts on Shellfish Production
(ESRI, 15/06/2011)Ocean acidification is increasingly recognized as a major global problem. Yet economic assessments of its effects are currently almost absent. Unlike most other marine organisms, mollusks, which have significant commercial ... -
Towards a Better and Sustainable Health Care System Resource Allocation and Financing Issues for Ireland
(ESRI, 15/10/2010)The key to any efficient and sustainable system is coherence ? the various elements must lead in the same direction so that actions do not conflict and mixed signals are avoided. In the context of a complex system, such ... -
Currency intervention and the global portfolio balance effect: Japanese lessons
(ESRI, 15/10/2012)This paper shows that the Japanese foreign exchange interventions in 2003/04 seem to have lowered long-term interest rates in a wide range of countries, including Japan. It seems that this decline was triggered by the ... -
The Effect of Re-domiciled Plcs on Irish Output Measures and the Balance of Payments
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Labour Relations and Modes of Employment
(NEUJOBS, an European Research Consortium, 16/07/2013)This Policy Brief contains policy implications on labour relations and modes of employment (Work Package 6), a collaborative EU-funded research project. -
Merger Control in Ireland: Too Many Unnecessary Merger Notifications?
(ESRI, 18/04/2011)The market for corporate control plays an important role in ensuring that assets are deployed in an efficient and effective manner. However, on occasion, mergers might lead to a reduction in competition and a consequent ...