Former Students
- Class of 2017 - 2018
- Class of 2016 - 2017
- Class of 2015 - 2016
- Class of 2014 - 2015
- Class of 2013 - 2014
- Class of 2012 - 2013
- Class of 2011 - 2012
- Class of 2010 - 2011
- Class of 2009 - 2010
- Class of 2008 - 2009
- Class of 2007 - 2008
- Class of 2006 - 2007
- Class of 2005 - 2006
- Class of 2004 - 2005
Class of 2017 - 2018
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Santosh Aryal | Agricultural Output and Conflict Intensity in Nepal’s People’s War |
Rachel Bernard | Contraception and Crime: The Effects of Gender Norms on Female Incarceration |
Marshall Bradley | Does the Minimum Wage have an Effect on Food Insecurity?: An Empirical Analysis |
Shane Ronan Byrne | The impact of down-payment assistance on mortgage choice: the case of Help-to-Buy in Ireland |
Philipp Klein | The Impact of Climate Change on Fertiliser Use in Malawi |
Barra McCarthy | The Impact of the 2016 Finance Act on Investment into Irish Real Estate Funds |
Stefano Meneto | A Quantitative Analysis of Trade Shocks on Regional Labour in France |
Malavika Nambiar | Impact of school sanitation on girl education in India |
Clíona Ní Mhógáin | Financial Inclusion & Universal Biometric Identification: Evidence from India’s Aadhaar. |
Tom O'Keeffe | Financialisation and Economic Volatility |
Sean O'Sullivan | An examination of the determinants of Non-Performing Loans and their influence on bank value |
Hemanshi Shah | A Global Level Analysis of the Effects of Government Spending on Tourism Flow from 1995 to 2016 |
Hairuo Tan | The Economic Policies During Civil War in Russia, 1918-1920: A Comparison of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and Anti-Bolshevik Regimes in Siberia |
Class of 2016 - 2017
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Matthew Allen Coghlan | Should Ireland Adopt National Fiscal Rules: An Analysis of National Fiscal Rules and Fiscal Cyclicality in the EU |
Maxime Bercholz | Do Recessions Make People Smarter? Higher Education Participation and the Great Recession in Ireland |
Natasha Browne | The Trilemma: Does the exchange rate only apply to non-advanced economies? |
Benjamin Campbell Rosbrook | Determining the Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Firm-Level Productivity in Mexico Using a Heterogeneous Firm Model |
Alexis De Saint-Lager | Population Ageing: A Demographic Time Bomb? |
Xidong Guo | Research of China's Real Estate Market: How Does Two-stage Land Auction Affect Housing Price |
Kate Ivory | Apples, Oranges and Aircraft: Using Alternative Measures to Estimate the Effects of Irish Fiscal Policy |
Richard Christopher Keely | An Examination of the Trends in Residential Sale and Rental pricing in Dublin, 1948 - 1996 |
Conor Lamude | Differential Learning Effects among Financial Liberalisation Magnitudes |
Yasmina Lichtinger | Mediation or Moderation? The Effects of Present Bias on the Relationship between Education and Health |
Michael Lyons | Consumption Externalities and Residential Sorting, A Simulated Model |
Mary Motolenich | Determinants of Contraception Use in Colombia and the Dominican Republic: the Role of Abortion Access and Education |
Ciaran Nevin | Is Polarisation a Meidating Factor in the Relationship between Inequality and Growth? |
Sweta Pandey | Determinants and Impact of Mobile Money Access in Developing Nations: Evidence from Financial Inclusion Insights Tracker Survey in Asia and Africa |
Paul Reidy | Real Exchange Rate Convergence in Europe: Evidence from Online Data |
Andrew Salter | Even More Boomer for Who? An Investigation into the Dynamics of the Irish Property Bubble in the Greater Dublin Area |
Class of 2015 - 2016
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Alvaro Miguel Achon | Barriers to Structural Transformation and the Agricultural Productivity Gap |
Rishi Ahuja | Digital Discrimination: Airbnb in Ireland |
Garrett Coble | What Are the Costs of Emissions? A Dynamic Panel Data Analysis of Carbon Emissions and Firm Profitability |
Seraphim Dempsey | Brain Drain - An investigation into the impact of high-skilled emigration on the income distribution of sending countries |
Una Jackman | Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from Ireland |
Andrew Linn | A Cross Country Analysis of Default in European Countries using Loan-Level Data |
Marguerite Amelia O'Connell | Expectations, Supply Shocks and the Zero Lower Bound: An Examination of Euro Area Inflation Dynamics |
James Prendergast | Consumer confidence, consumer spending, and financial markets: the case of Ireland |
Mark Regan | Consumption Variety and Asset Prices |
Luke Daniel Rehill | Probability of purchase, level of expenditure and incidence of the UK National Lottery |
Marielle Grigby-Rocca | The Spillover Effects of the ECB’s Unconventional Monetary Policies on Emerging Market Economies |
Simona Stefanelli | The impact of pollution on health in a European cross-country analysis, and the contribution of the Kyoto Protocol |
Kevin Threadgold | Accounting for Politicians: Fiscal Policy, Financial Cycles and Political Contexts |
Xiaoyuan Wang | The Impact of the Financial System on the Long-Term Real Interest Rate |
Class of 2014 - 2015
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Katharina Bergant | External Adjustment and the Crisis |
Jonathan Daniel Carrick | The Hidden Costs of Agriculture in India; Adverse Effects of Child Labour on Academic Performance. |
Harleen Chhabra | Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in India: Do Financial Development and International Financial Integration play a role? |
Geoffrey Gray | The differential effect of income on education decisions for boys and girls: Evidence from Cambodia |
Brian Hallissey |
Irish Job Flows Throughout The Great Recession: An Analysis of the Differences Across Sectors. |
Conor Hamilton | Family Background and Occupational Choice in South Africa |
Brian Higgins | How Important is Employment History? An Econometric Analysis of Experience and Wages |
Peter Kingston | Do Compulsory Voting Policies Lead to Greater Levels of Income Equality? An Investigation into the Effects of Compulsory Voting Policies and Voter Turnout on Income Distributions. |
Tony O' Connor | Do Net Foreign Returns Equal Domestic Returns? An Alternative Approach to Testing UIP |
Alexander Redmond | Inequality and European Quantitative Easing: Evidence from the Stock Market |
Michelle Riordan | The Dynamics of Bilateral Portfolio Holdings During the European Sovereign Debt Crisis |
Richard Rue | An Information Criteria Approach to Estimating the Speed of per Capita Income Convergence |
Class of 2013 - 2014
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Hugo Byrne | The Financial Crisis' Effects on the Lobbying of Financial Firms |
Ciaran Corr | An Econometric Analysis of Obesity and Food Consumption |
Feargal Deery | Australian House Prices, Foreign Investment and Macroprudential Policy |
Qing Dong | Productivity and Competiveness in the U.S. Manufacturing Industry during the Recent Financial Crisis |
Therese Grace | Investigating the role of credit conditions in Irish house price dynamics 2002-2012: A panel data approach |
Patrick Greene | Institutions and the Resource Curse: An empirical investigation |
Ingo Hanke |
Convergence in Agricultural Labour Productivity |
Aleksander Hughes | The Oil Price and Scottish Real Economic Activity |
Supriya Kapoor | External Commercial Borrowings- An Analysis |
Emmet Kiberd | Foreign Bank Ownership and Financial Access in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Seán Mc Grath | Bank Borrowing Costs & Business Cycle Fluctuations |
Rory Mulholland | Competition, Regulation and Financial Stability in Banking |
Charles Phillips | Estimating Moral Hazard in U.S. Crop Insurance Markets: Evidence from the Agriculture Risk Protection Act of 2000 |
Niall Quinn | Recreational Consumption and the Equity Premium Puzzle |
Jonathan Rice | The Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy: In Search of Bacons' Experimentum Crucis |
Peter Roche | Spatial Variation of Airbnb Price as a Proxy for Value of Local Consumption Amenities |
David See | Information seeking and the Internet: A study of HIV testing trends |
Yannick Timmer | TARGET2 Balances and the Adjustment of Capital Flows in the Euro Area |
Mai-Thy Nguyen Vuong | The Effectiveness of Tax Relief Laws to Curb Suspected Game Drain in International Rugby Union |
Class of 2012 - 2013
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Lionel Cottier | Competition, International Trade and Firm Behaviour: Evidence from Vietnamese Manufacturing |
Patrick Deshpande | Natural Resource Rents, Political Corruption and Social Heterogeneity: An Investigation |
Nick Michael Fitzpatrick | Product Variety and Asset Pricing |
Johanna Christina Hermanussen | Searching for the Signalling Effect of Education in Germany and the US |
Yijie Huang |
Measuring the Effect of House Prices and Stock Market on Chinese Household Savings |
Matthew McGann | Competitiveness Adjustments and Private Sector Indebtedness: Trade-Offs for Growth |
Niall McGinn | Students' Results & School Characteristics |
Barry Meehan | Did Fiscal Cyclicality Play a Role on the Incidence of the Financial Crisis? |
Ian Power | Inequality and Growth: A Reappraisal |
Anuj Pratap Singh | Investigating the Channels behind the Resource Curse Hypothesis in Africa |
Murat Sokmen | Industry Performance and Wages in the Era of Declining Unionization |
Jason Somerville | Reconciling the Easterlin Paradox |
Linying Zhu | The determinants of FDI and portfolio flows to developing countriesfrom 1981-2010 |
Class of 2011 - 2012
Student | Dissertation Title |
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James Carroll | Reducing Electricity Demand: Attitudes, Actions and the Role of Information |
Yishan Cheng | Empirical Analysis of Chinese Real Estate Market In The Past Twenty Years |
Jeanne Diesteldorf | Taylor Rules for the European Central Bank -Interest Rate Setting before and during the Financial Crisis |
Pedro Fontes | Access Regulation and Investment in Next Generation Access Networks |
Sophie Katherine Jacobs | Did the recent recession in Ireland affect male and female labour outcomes differently? |
Jessica Lawless | Expanding Micro-Enterprises in Rural Vietnam: Can increased levels of formal savings promote profit and revenue growth? |
Sara Mitchell | The Gender and Education Aspects of Networks Effects |
Tadgh O'Leary | Migration and Trade: evidence from Ireland |
Barra Roantree | The Demographic Transition and Savings Rates |
Christoph Walsh | Analysing Convergence, Dynamics and Poverty Traps in the Income Distribution |
Mengyang Zhang | The Extension of The Banking System and Formal Household Savings in Rural Vietnam |
Class of 2010 - 2011
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Shane CahillKeith Fitzgerald | Do changes in the Irish sovereign spread affect firm values? |
Keith Fitzgerald | The Propensity of Electoral Competition to Impede Malfeasant Behaviour: A Nigerian Case Study |
Eoin David Grennan | Assessing the Natural Resource curse using export and mirror import data - Can the same conclusions be drawn? |
Olav Hovland | Hydropower and electricity prices in the Nordic electricity market |
Hamad Mahar | Attitudes towards Globalization, Trade and Immigration |
Evin O'Reilly | The Impact of Exchange Rate Volatility on Irish Exports |
Matthias Ploeg | Small is Beautiful? Economies of Scale in Photovoltaics:A Stochastic Frontier Approach Benjamin Redahan - Does Aid Affect Technology Adoption? |
Benjamin Redahan | Does Aid Affect Technology Adoption? |
Agata Sobczak | Impact of the Introduction of Third Level College Fees on the Participation of Students from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany |
Willem Kevin Sonneveld | The impact of oil price shocks on European stock markets |
Ani Vardanyan | Market Liberalization and Firm Productivity: Evidence from the Vietnamese Services Sector |
Class of 2009 - 2010
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Michael Bracken | An analysis of the relationship between corruption, political decentralisation and civic participation in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Sarah Elizabeth Cansfield | Testing for the existence of financial contagion: asset return co-movement analysis |
Alan De Bromhead | Demand for insurance in the early 20th Century: evidence from the 1911 Census of Canada |
Charles Fox | Do Productivity Spillovers Exist with the Inclusion of Low-Cost Carrier Operations at United States Airports: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis |
Jana Barbara Glawe | Changes in sovereign credit rating |
Ian Gorman | Intelligence and investment in human capital |
Marie Luise Hadamovsky | On the relationship between growth and institutions: evidence from EU enlargement |
Rosemarie Jordan | Structural change in Irish agriculture and the role of factor markets: emphasis on the relationship between land rental markets and off-farm employment opportunities |
Christian Krekel | Determinants and impacts of the application for German citizenship |
Paul Kulkarni | Has the current financial crisis increased the risk-aversion of bond investors? |
Eoin McCabe | The effect of electoral systems and ethnic polarization on corruption |
Brona Ni Chobhthaig | Female empowerment and household financial decisions in rural Vietnam: an instrumental variables approach |
Emma Mary O'Donoghue | Differential determinants of gender and skill-specific migration rates |
David Purdue | How self-interested advisors cause investors to stay away |
Liam Rockall | The EMU and Irish trade - a success story or not? |
David Stafford | Does Eurozone membership affect sovereign bond yields? |
Adnan Velic | Do industrial countries exhibit faster mean-reversion in the real exchange rate than developing nations? An empirical investigation |
Shawn Lynne Waywell | Energy consumption and economic growth in the United Kingdom: a study using disaggregated data by sector |
Jerome Matthew Williams | Contagion in the Eurozone during the Greek sovereign debt crisis of 2009/10 |
Class of 2008 - 2009
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Mark Costine | The Permanent Income Hypothesis: Evidence from US Panel Data |
Austin Delaney | Labour Supply and Public Sector Outputs |
Gavin Doherty | Religion and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Irish Household Data |
Mate Fodor | The Optimal Cost of Education |
Edward Gaffney | Trade Policy, Saving and Investment |
Emma Howard | Estimating the Endogenously Determined Intrahousehold Balance of Power: Evidence from Peru |
Irina Ioffe | An Econometric Study of the Causal Relationship between CO2 Emissions and GDP in Ireland |
Conor Keegan | The Determinants of the Demand for Health Insurance in Ireland |
Aoife Molloy | An Application of the Nelson Siegel Framework to the Irish Yield Curve |
Liam Murphy | Do Contional Betas Explain Excess Returns? A Study of UK Stock Market Data 1984 -2008 |
Sanna Nivakoski | Employment and Labour Taxation - Evidence from Finland and Ireland |
SM Masud Parvez | Training as a Signalling Device in Group Lending in Microfinance |
Niall Power | Consumption and the Real Interest Rate in the UK: Am Empirical Analysis |
Colm Sheehy | Does Joining the European Union Improve Labour Market Efficiency |
Patrick Wustmann | The Impacts of the Single Farm Payment on Land Values in Ireland |
Jing Yu | Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Capital Stock: Case of China |
Class of 2007 - 2008
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Oliver Anderson | Nature versus Nurture: A study to establish whether the intergenerational link between better educated, wealthier parents and children's academic performance and intelligence is due to genetics or environment. |
Donagh Cagney | Expectations in the Determination of Job Satisfaction in Ireland, with an Emphasis upon the Role of Occupational Prestige. |
Jacopo Canello | Firm level Efficiency and Concentration in the Electricity Supply Market: an Empirical Investigation using a Stochastic Frontier Approach. |
Concetta Castiglione | ICT Investment and Technical Efficiency. A Firm Level Analysis of the Italian Manufacturing Sector. |
Peter Coary | Structural Shifts in the Systematic Risk of the Banking Industry as a Result of the Current Credit Crunch Crisis. |
Edmond Coughlan | The Characteristics of Household Debt in Ireland. |
Conor Devitt | Modelling the Irish Social Partnership Pay Negotiations as a Bargaining Game. |
Niall Dwyer | Is Dollarization an Optimal Strategy? Evidence from Latin America. |
Santiago Hurtado | Cities Cycle |
Joseph MacMunn | Tax Competition from the NMS of the EU and the Consequences for Foreign Direct Investment Flows into Ireland. |
Paul Monahan | Regulating for Efficient Household Waste Collection in Ireland. |
Donal O'Flaherty | Opportunistic and Partisan Cycles in Ireland since 1948 |
Mark Ryan | Hidden Project Values and the Investment Decision: The Effect of Noisy Project Appraisals on Optimal Decision Making. |
Robert Ryan | Financial Ratios as Predictors of Failure in the German Banking Sector. |
Michael Terbush | Foreign Capital Inflows and the Financial Sophistication of Developing Nations. |
Fiona Wainwright | The Effects of Household Characteristics and Social Capital on the Demand for Insurance: Evidence from Vietnam. |
Class of 2006 - 2007
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Jamie Cassidy | Long Run Wealth Distribution, Inequality and the Poverty Trap |
Jean Goggin | The Effect of EMU on Irish Trade: A Sectoral Analysis |
Leandro Guilherme | The Impact of Access to Financial Services on Income Levels and Poverty Alleviation in Zambia |
Karl Edward Keeling | An Analysis of Contribution from Modern Monetary Theory to Monetary Policy |
Charmaine Kenny | On the Measurement of Inequality in India |
Keith McGovern | Self-selection and Migration: Further Evidence from the UK |
Holly Ruth Milne | Cultural Preferences for Thrift, and the Impact on Budget Deficits in Industrialized Countries |
Ge Min | The Economic Impact of the Olympic Games |
Sophie Roseanna Morris | Regulation of Periodic Motor Vehicle Inspections |
Donal Michael Mullins | Explaining the Existence of Market Subsections within the Irish Market for New Car Sales |
Tao Niu | Does the QFII Regime Stabilize the Stock Market During and After the '97 Asian Financial Crisis - The Case of Taiwan |
Pierce O'Reilly | The Political Economy of International Capitol Flows |
Neill O'Shea | Affordability of Housing in Irish Cities |
Conor Mark O'Toole | A Study of Export Status Switching: Evidence from the Italian Furniture Industry |
Gilbert Charles Pooley | Informal Employment in South Africa: Vibrant, Integral and Sorely Misunderstood |
Maria Catharina Priebs | Another Look at Social Partnership & Wage Formation in Ireland |
Theodore Talbot | Theory and Evidence for Investment Under Uncertainty: An Application to a Small Sample of Developing Countries |
Hongyang Tang | The Lessons of China's Innovation Reforms: The Rapid Growth and Weaknesses of China's Innovation Centres |
Suzanne Tierney | When Should Women have Children?: A Study of the Demographic Trends of the Age of Mother at Maternity in Ireland |
Stefano Verde | Agriculture Trade Liberalisation within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Estimating the Potential Imports of Major EU Economies |
Nicholas Vincent | Examining Arts Participation in the USA using the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts |
Qi Wang | Chinese Large Enterprise Group Concentration |
Laura Weymes | Modelling Voter Preference and the Extent of Angry Voting in the 2002 French Presidential Elections |
Yizhou Zhang | The Effects of Privatization on Employment: Evidence from the Changing Triangle Economical Belts in China |
Lizhuo Zhang | Inflation and Exchange Rate Among Chinese Provinces |
Peter Zimmerman | Purification of Nash Equilibria in 2x2 games |
Class of 2005 - 2006
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Alona Binkovska | The Role of Financial Incentives in Retirement Decision: A Two Country Analysis |
Adrian Byrne | Accidents on Irish Roads from 2000 to 2004; An Econometric Analysis |
Elsa El Hachem Kirby | An Empirical Investigation of the Economic and Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Voter Turnout: The Case of France |
Clarissa Fernandes | Do Exporters have a Higher Productivity than Non-Exporters? The case in Thailand |
Padraig Gerard Flynn | The Determinants of EU-15 Long-Term Debt Holdings in New EU-Member States and Emerging Europe Countries |
Brian William Godfrey | The Effects of Exchange Rate Regime Changes on Anglo-Irish Trade |
Christian Patrick Keeling | Globalisation and the Speed of Convergence |
Ronan Keenan | The Determination of Stock Returns and Role of Financial Linkages in Emerging EU Markets |
Qi Li | A Theoretical Model for Understanding Firm Size Distribution and Age Distribution |
Yi Liu | The Structural Estimations of the Beijing and Shanghai Housing Markets: Equilibrium Versus Disequilibrium |
Niamh McCombe | Determinants of the Fertility Decision |
Peter Edward McQuade | Divergent Inflation Rates in EMU: A Reappraisal |
Samir Patel | An empirical exploration of the Determinants of Irish Undergraduate Exam Performance |
Barry John Rafferty | Investigating the Forward Exchange Rate Anomaly: A Long Memory and Nonlinear Approach |
John James Ring | Cause for Concern? An Econometric Analysis of Irish Household Debt |
Greg Sadlier | An Econometric Analysis of Competitive Regulatory Reforms and Performance in Telecoms, Fixed Line & Mobile: Evidence from OECD Countries |
Martin Schmitz | The Importance of the Valuation Effect for Germany's Net Foreign Assets 1970-2004 |
Reetta Suonpera | The Endogeneity of Optimum Currency Areas: an Update on Frankel and Rose |
Denis Tkachenko | The Analysis of Jump Spillovers in Emerging Equity Markets |
Jing Zhang | The use of Italian (automobile) product level data to identify the effect of horizontal mergers on prices and quantities |
Class of 2004 - 2005
Student | Dissertation Title |
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Colm Fahey | Irish Housing Market |
Ronan Griffin | Determinants of Credit Ratings |
William Hynes | Export Performance in the Tropics |
Jacqueline Suzanne Longton | Migration in the OECD |
Ronan Lyons | World War and the Labour Market |
Tara Mitchell | Regional Inequality in India |
Robert Owens | Monetary Policy and Stock Prices |
Alan Michael Reilly | FDI and Productivity |
William Richard Sparks | Mexican Self Employment |
Graham Stull | Bequests Under Uncertainty |
Haiyan Wang | China's WTO Accession |
Chun Hrien Yip | Stock Market Synchronization |