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    • The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy 

      FITZGERALD, JOHN (2010)
      Banks within Europe have become larger and more international. We use a micro data set to investigate the impact of size on banks Net Interest Margin and show larger banks lower borrowing costs for firms which raises ...

    • The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy 

      FITZGERALD, JOHN (ESRI, 2011)
      The financial crisis of the last three years has seen a dramatic change in the EU financial sector. Since the early 1990s, with the completion of the internal market, there had been a growing trend towards an EU financial ...

    • Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics 

      Romelli, Davide (2020)
      This paper investigates the role of external auditors in banking sector supervision from a theoretical, institutional and empirical perspective. We first present a simple principal-agent framework that highlights the ...

    • Base-load Cycling on a System with Significant Wind Penetration 

      Denny, Eleanor (2010)
      Certain developments in the electricity sector may result in suboptimal operation of base-load generating units in countries worldwide. Despite the fact they were not designed to operate in a flexible manner, increasing ...

    • Behavioural Economics and Policymaking: Learning from the Early Adopters 

      LUNN, PETE (ESRI, 23/02/2012)
      This paper critically examines initial applications of Behavioural Economics (BE) to policymaking. It focuses primarily but not exclusively on what can be learnt from the early adopters of policies inspired by BE, notably ...

    • A bibliographic review of Fagel pamphlets as presented in the online version of the TCD 1872 printed catalogue 

      BYRNE, JOHN GABRIEL (2010)
      In 1962 E. Braches identified the following series of papamphlets, in 235 volumes, as being in the TCD Printed Catalogue: Fag. H. 1. 1-93, Fag. H. 2. 1-89 and Fag. H. 3. 1-53. H indicates the bay, 1,2,3 the shelf number ...

    • Broad shoulders and tight belts, options for taxing the better-off 

      Roantree, Barra (The Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2013)

    • Budget 2019: tax and welfare changes 

      Roantree, Barra (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2018)
      In his budget delivered to the Dáil on 9 October, the Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform announced an increase in General Government expenditure for 2019 of €4.2 billion, an increase of 5.1 per cent from ...

    • Budget 2022 

      Roantree, Barra (The Economic and Social Research Institute, 2021)
      This Article outlines and assesses changes to the tax and welfare system announced as part of Budget 2022. It first looks at the main taxation measures announced before turning to employment, education and social welfare ...

    • Budget Perspectives 2012 

      CALLAN, TIM (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 ...

    • Budget Perspectives 2013 

      CALLAN, TIM (ESRI, 27/09/2012)
      Welcome: Frances Ruane, Director, ESRI Macroeconomic Context for Budget 2013 David Duffy (ESRI) Fiscal Policy for 2013 and Beyond John FitzGerald (ESRI ) Benefit Integration in the UK: An Ex Ante Analysis ...

    • Building a Fairer Taxation System: The Working Poor and the Cost of Refundable Tax Credits 

      COLLINS, MICHEAL (Social Justice Ireland, 2010)
      This study addresses two key issues in Irish social and economic policy. These are: (i) the need to reform and develop our taxation system so that it becomes fairer and; (ii)the need to address the issue of the `working ...

    • Capital misallocation, agricultural subsidies and productivity: A European perspective. Trinity Economic Papers TEP 0221. 

      Newman, Carol (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 ...

    • Carbon energy taxation and revenue recycling : an applied general equilibrium analysis for the Irish economy 

      Wissema, Wiepke Wendela (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 

      DI COSMO, VALERIA; HYLAND, MARIE (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 

      Roantree, Barra (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 

      Roantree, Barra (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 ...

    • Central bank reforms and institutions 

      Romelli, Davide; Peia, Oana (IFO Institute, 2019)

    • Central Bankers as Supervisors: Do Crises Matter? 

      Romelli, Davide (2018)

    • Challenges of Increased Wind Energy Penetration in Ireland 

      Denny, Eleanor (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 ...