In this thesis I inquire into the possible connections between the philosophical problem that Immanuel Kant called the First Antinomy of Pure Reason and some of the paradoxes that were discovered in set theory in the second ...

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 ...

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are designed to classify hospital output into a manageable number of groups, containing patients who were clinically homogeneous with similar levels of resource utilisation. Where DRGs are ...

This thesis examines interest groups' partieipation in environmental policymaking in the European Union. It investigates two fundamental questions that are essential to understanding the EU's policymaking system: first, ...

This thesis is a collection of three separate essays. We examine how a small open economy adjusts to a number of challenges posed by globalisation. We also analyse the effect of employment constraints on an economy's ability ...

This thesis explores the nature of the distinction between two types of meaningful content associated with human language: context-free linguistic content and pragmatically enriched communicated content.

This thesis is the collection of three applied studies, two of which deal with distributional effects of carbon taxation in the Irish economy and one, the third, which estimates a microeconometric model for food demand in ...

This thesis is composed of four essays, providing insights and perspectives on the topic of access to credit and firm-level investment. It covers two subfields in economics: finance in developing countries and financing ...

This thesis investigates the effect of political institutions on the effectiveness of aid. More specifically, the thesis examines the use of aid under different political institutional frameworks. This thesis aims to fill ...

Income risk remains a significant obstacle to rural development. Even within a transitioning economy such as Vietnam which has a significant social safety-net, income shocks (for example, natural disasters, illness, pest ...