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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Incentive to Invest in Thermal Plants in the Presence of Wind Generation
(ESRI, 18/12/2012)In a deregulated market, the decision to build new thermal power plants rests with private investors and they will decide whether to invest on the basis of expected profits. This paper evaluates how such profits are affected ... -
Internationalisation and the Innovation Activities of Services Firms
(ESRI, 19/09/2011)This paper examines the relationship between the internationalisation of firms in services and their innovation performance. We use firm?level data over the period 2004? 2006 and estimate an augmented structural model ... -
The Impact of Climate on Tourist Destination Choice
(ESRI, 20/02/2012)We examine the determinants of holiday destination choice for tourists from 182 countries over a fifteen year time period. Our sample is much larger than that used by previous studies. The results are similar. Tourists ... -
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, ... -
Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland
(ESRI, 20/06/2013)Ireland is one of the countries most severely affected by the Great Recession. National income fell by more than 10 per cent between 2007 and 2012, as a result of the bursting of a remarkable property bubble, an exceptionally ... -
Carbon Tax Scenarios and their Effects on the Irish Energy Sector
(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, ... -
A Critique of The Economics of Climate Change in Mexico
(ESRI, 20/09/2011)This paper revises some relevant aspects of The Economics of Climate Change in Mexico (ECCM), one of the most important documents for supporting national decisionmaking regarding the climate change international negotiations. ... -
Estimating Historical Landfill Quantities to Predict Methane Emissions
(ESRI, 2009)We estimate Irish historical landfill quantities from 1960 -2008 and Irish methane emissions from 1968-2006. A model is constructed in which waste generation is a function of income, price of waste disposal and, household ... -
The macro-economic impact of changing the rate of corporation tax
(Economic and Social Research Institute, 2009-01-06)This paper considers the impact of changes in the rate of corporation tax in Ireland affecting the services sector. A model is estimated that relates services exports and output to world activity, competitiveness and the ... -
Too much of a good thing? Gender, 'Concerted cultivation' and unequal achievement in primary education
(2010)It is well established that cultural and economic resources imparted to children vary significantly by social class. Literature on concerted cultivation has highlighted the extent to which out-of-school activities can ...