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UK Tourists, The Great Recession and Irish Tourism Policy
(ESRI, 27/10/2011)Inbound tourism to Ireland fell sharply in 2009 and 2010. Visits to Ireland from the UK, the dominant country of origin of visitors to Ireland, did not fall faster than UK visits elsewhere. We use micro-data for UK travellers ... -
The Uncertainty about the Social Cost of Carbon: A Decomposition Analysis Using FUND
(ESRI, 01/09/2011)We report the results of an uncertainty decomposition analysis of the social cost of carbon as estimated by FUND, a model that has a more detailed representation of the economic impact of climate change than any other ... -
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 ... -
Unit Commitment for Systems with Significant Wind Penetration
(2009)The stochastic nature of wind alters the unit commitment and dispatch problem. By accounting for this uncertainty when scheduling the system, more robust schedules are produced, which should, on average, reduce expected ... -
Universal Credit in Northern Ireland: what will its impact be, and what are the challenges?
(Institute for Fiscal Studies, 2013)This is the first of two reports examining welfare reform and poverty in Northern Ireland, funded through a research call from OFMdFM in their remit as the department with policy responsibility for equality and social ... -
Unlocking the pamphlets of the Fagel Collection at Trinity College Dublin - A review of bibliographic resources to assist the investigation of probability theory and statistics
(2010-05-12)The purpose of this research project is to investigate the holdings of the Fagel Collection (TCD Library) given its origins as a working information resource for high-level officials of the States-General in the Dutch ... -
The US and Ireland Approach to Sentencing in Cartel Cases: the Citroen Case
(ESRI, 29/01/2013)Developing a coherent evidence based methodology for determining sanctions in cartel cases is vitally important for robust cartel enforcement in Ireland. This methodology should take into account aggravating/mitigating ... -
User Cost of Debt-Financed Capital in Irish Manufacturing Industry: 1985 2011
(ESRI, 07/02/2013)This paper provides estimates of the cost of debt-financed capital to Irish manufacturing industry over the period 1985 to 2011. The estimates are provided for two types of capital assets, machinery and equipment and ... -
Value, money and risk : three essays
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2003)This thesis comprises of three essays which explore the theories of value, money and risk. The first essay takes a theoretical approach to study the background of and the relationship between value, money and wealth. The ... -
What Determines the Location Choice of R&D Activities by Multinational Firms?
(2013)We analyse 446 location decisions of R&D activities by multinational firms incorporated in the European Union over 1999-2006. Our results suggest that on average, the location probability of a representative R&D foreign ... -
What Has Happened to Marginal Tax Rates?
(ESRI, 2011)As the economy boomed in the early 2000s, income tax rates were reduced, tax credits were increased and the standard rate band was widened. With the onset of the crisis in 2007-2008, and the collapse of revenues from capital ... -
Wind Generation, Power System Operation and Emissions Reduction
(2006)With increasing concern over global climate change, policy makers are promoting renewable energy sources, predominantly wind generation, as a means of meeting emissions reduction targets. Although wind generation does not ... -
Winners and Losers? The Equality Impact of the Great Recession in Ireland
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Work Incentives: New Evidence for Ireland
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WTO accession and Tariff evasion
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Younger and Older Households in the Crisis
(ESRI, 13/05/2013)