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Factors Influencing the Performance of Non-Economics Majors in an Introductory Economics Course
(2014)This research compares factors which influence success for economics and non-economics majors in an introductory economics course. Results show economics majors achieve 5% higher grades which may indicate increased motivation ... -
Fagel Pamfletten
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Finance for All? Policies and pitfalls in expanding access
(World Bank, 2008)This volume reviews research evidence on the outreach of financial sectors in developing countries, and on the role of financial access in boosting economic performance. Failure to provide more households and small and ... -
Financial Incentives to Work: Comparing Ireland and the UK
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Fiscal policy for 2013 and beyond
(ESRI, 27/09/2012) -
Food Security and WTO Domestic Support Disciplines post-Bali
(International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2014) -
Foot-and-mouth disease eradication strategies in Ireland : a cost comparison
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)FMD is a highly contagious livestock disease with significant repercussions for livestock producers particularly in terms of productivity and trade effects, with many other sectors also being negatively affected by the ... -
A Framework for Pension Policy Analysis in Ireland: PENMOD, a Dynamic Simulation Model
(2011)This paper describes a structural dynamic microsimulation model of the household that has been developed to explore behavioural responses to pensions policy counterfactuals in Ireland. The model is based upon the life-cycle ... -
From Data to Policy Analysis: Tax-Benefit Modelling using SILC 2008
(2010)Policy makers and the body politic have a strong interest in ensuring that the tax transfer system functions well. This common interest in policies that are efficient in achieving their objectives ? including economic ... -
The Future of the Welfare State
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)The welfare state is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end ? the wellbeing of all people. The future of the welfare state has been a topic of discussion and argument for more than 30 years on issues ranging from ... -
Future trends in housing tenure and the adequacy of retirement income
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2022)In recent years, Ireland has experienced a notable decline in homeownership and a rise in the proportion of households in private rental accommodation. Concurrently, the cost of both rents and house prices have risen ... -
Globalisation and Ireland s Export Performance
(ESRI, 26/03/2013)This paper provides empirical evidence on Ireland?s export performance in the context of increased globalisation over the past ten years. Using insights from recent contributions to international trade and economic growth ... -
Goldilocks and the Three Electricity Prices: Are Irish Prices "Just Right"?
(2011)In this paper we analyse the 2008 electricity price in the Irish All-Island Market. We test whether this price is `efficient? by comparing it to the electricity price in Great Britain. This analysis suggests that around ... -
Greener Homes: An Ex-Post Estimate of the Cost of Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction using Administrative Micro-Data from the Republic of Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)We assess the subsidy for the installation of biomass boilers and wood gasification boilers under the Greener Homes Scheme in Ireland. We find that the (implicit) subsidy per tonne of carbon dioxide avoided varies hugely ... -
Growing older and growing apart? Population age structure and trade
(2023)Purpose This paper explores the empirical relationship between population age structure and bilateral trade. Design/methodology/approach The author includes age structure in both log and Poisson pseudo-maximum ... -
Heterogeneity in Irish indigenous manufacturing export behaviour : a new conceptual framework
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)This thesis explores firm heterogeneity; in particular it focuses on exporter heterogeneity using a new conceptual framework which classifies firms on the basis of their exporting experience over the life of the firm or ... -
Household Formation and Tenure Choice
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Housing and Austerity: A Two-Way Street
(Royal Irish Academy, 2017)Simon Wren-Lewis’s chapter in this volume outlines a general theory of austerity. Underpinning it is a desire for policymakers – as well as the social sciences – to learn from the experience of austerity over the last ...