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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 ... -
Self-organising skew distributions in an agent-based model with applications to Gibrat's Law
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2007)Three models for the firm size distribution are implemented using an Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) framework, and a theory explaining the source of a skew firm size distribution in one of the models is proposed. The variable ... -
Selling State Assets: Three Options
(ESRI, 2011)Under the EU/IMF Programme for Financial Support for Ireland, the government undertook to consider the potential for disposing of State assets. In the 2011 Programme for Government a target of up to ?2 billion was set for ... -
Sentencing in Criminal Cartel Cases in Ireland: the Duffy Judgment
(ESRI, 03/12/2012)Despite 33 convictions of individuals and firms for criminal cartel offences in Ireland since 1996, there is only one reported judgment. The paper examines the Duffy judgment concerning a member of the Citroen motor vehicle ... -
Shapley Values for Assessing Research Production and Impact of Schools and Scholars
(ESRI, 2011)Performance measures of individual scholars tend to ignore the context. I introduce contextualised metrics: cardinal and ordinal pseudo-Shapley values that measure a scholar??s contribution to (perhaps power over) her own ... -
Should Coal Replace Coal? Options for the Irish Electricity Market
(ESRI, 20/03/2012)The Moneypoint coal plant is nearing the end of its useful life and will need to be replaced. For Moneypoint's replacement, we consider different types of baseload technologies: coal plants with and without carbon capture, ... -
Simulating Demand for Electrical Vehicles using Revealed Preference Data
(2012)We have modelled the market for new cars in Ireland with the aim of quantifying the values placed on a range of observable car characteristics. Mid-sized petrol cars with a manual transmission sell best. Price and perhaps ... -
Site-specific agronomic information and technology adoption: A field experiment from Ethiopia
(2022)Smallholder farmers in Africa typically only have access to blanket fertilizer recommendations which are defined over very broad areas and may not be optimal for local production conditions. The response to such recommendations ... -
A Smart Integrated Network for an Offshore Island
(2013)This article examines the potential to create an energy independent smart network for an island community utilizing ocean and wind energy. The analysis involves the simulation of an extensive electrification of the heat ... -
Social Capital and Savings Behaviour: Evidence from Vietnam
(2011-05-29)We explore the extent to which social capital can play a role in imparting information about the returns to saving where potential knowledge gaps and mistrust exists. Using data from Vietnam we find strong evidence to ... -
The Social Cost of Carbon
(ESRI, 28/02/2011)This paper surveys the literature on the economic impact of climate change. Different methods have been used to estimate the impact of climate change on human welfare. Studies agree that there are positive and negative ... -
Socioeconomic Distribution of Emissions and Resource Use in Ireland
(ESRI, 01/03/2012)This paper uses the ESRI's ISus model to explore the distributional differences in emissions by household type. Most greenhouse gas and metal emissions are emitted via indirect means, although direct sources of emissions ... -
Spatial networks, clustering and spillovers : lessons for development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)The geographic clustering of manufacturing activity has long been recognised as facilitating the growth and prosperity of firms and regions alike. Empirical evidence however is limited, particularly in a developing country ... -
The spread of rents in Ireland, over time and space
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The Structural Balance for Ireland
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Structural changes in agriculture : a critical analysis of Common Agricultural Policy reforms
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)This thesis focuses on the impact of European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on structural change in the EU agricultural sector. The CAP is still the most integrated of all EU policies and consequently ... -
Structural modeling of demand and supply : assessing collusion & tax reform impact on the Irish automotive market
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)In this thesis the factors shaping the Irish automotive industry are analyzed using a unique dataset covering purchases of new cars in Ireland during the year 2003. -
Studies in preferences for public goods in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)This dissertation is based on two studies conducted in 2002 and 2004 analysing preferences for non-marketed activity in Ireland. The first study applies the contingent valuation method (CVM) to Irish public service ... -
Studies on the application of the alpha-stable distribution in economics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2009)Bubbles, booms and busts in asset prices give rise to a considerable misallocation of resources when they are growing and the subsequent adjustment can be very long and painful. Yet, there is no accepted diagnosis of a ... -
Switching benefits and costs in the Irish health insurance market: an analysis of consumer surveys
(2018)Relatively little analysis has taken place internationally on the consumer-reported benefits and costs to switching insurer in multi-payer health insurance markets. Ideally, consumers should be willing to switch out of ...