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Essays on voting behaviour. A historical perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2008)
The present thesis consists of two parts. The first part contains two essays that study
voting behaviour in general elections that took place before turning points in trade
policy. They aim to shed light on why European ...
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 ...
Essays on the political economy of development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
The core of this thesis explores three issues at the intersection of political and
development economics. In Chapter 2, I demonstrate how ethnic divisions can undermine the provision of an important public good: teacher ...
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 ...
European multinational enterprises : a study of resource allocation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2005)
The aims of this thesis are to investigate the short run dynamics of labour
reallocation; profit switching and potential pull factors on capital allocation of EU
parent multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their European ...
Essays in development economics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
This thesis is motivated by research questions faced by policy makers in developing
country governments and donor agencies. In particular, it deals with
the appropriate measurement of foreign aid and its possibly pernicious ...
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 ...
Export characteristics of Irish manufacturing enterprises
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2004)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the export characteristics of enterprises, using the
manufacturing sector of Ireland between 1991 and 1998 as a case study. The growth of Irish merchandise exports is considered to ...
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 ...
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 ...