IIIS Paper Series
About the IIIS Paper Series
Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS). The IIIS was established in 2001 and was dedicated to promoting and disseminating research and learning about myriad dimensions of global and regional integration.
2003 Papers
Foreign direct investmant, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions
Authors: Sourafel Girma, and Holger Görge
An Account of Geographic Concentration Patterns in Europe
Authors: Marius Brülhart, and Rolf Traeger
International Financial Integration
Authors: Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, and Philip R. Lane
The International Community and the CIS-7
Author: Philip R. Lane
Divergent Inflation Rates in EMU
Authors: Patrick Honohan, and Philip R. Lane
Migration flows: Political Economy of Migration and the Empirical Challenges
Authors: Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Richard Sinnott
Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization
Author: Kevin H. O'Rourke
The spirit of capitalism? Immigration, religion, and self-employment in early 20th century Canada
Authors: Chris Minns, and Mariyan Rizov
Does Policy Matter? On Governments' Attempts to Control Unwanted Migration
Author: Eiko R. Thielemann
The Exclusionary Construction of Human Rights in International Law and Political Theory
Author: Gregor Noll
Understanding Refugee Law in an Enlarged European Union Theory
Authors: Rosemary Byrne, Gregor Noll, and Jens Vedsted-Hansen
Private Participation in the Control of Public Spending - The Multi-Level Subsidy Regimes
Author: Herwig Hofmann
The Macroeconomics of International Financial Trade
Author: Philip Lane
2004 Papers
Agricultural trade reform and poverty reduction in developing countries
Author: Kym Anderson
Idiosyncratic Risk, Market Risk and Correlation Dynamics in European Equity Markets
Authors: Colm Kearney, and Valerio Poti
The US economy from 1992 to 1998: historical and decomposition
Authors: Peter B. Dixon, and Maureen T. Rimmer
Rich nations, poor nations: how much can multiple equilibria explain?
Authors: Bryan S. Graham, and Jonathan R. W. Temple
The Era of Free Migration: Lessons for Today
Author: Kevin O'Rourke
Dynamics of Equity Market Integration in Europe: Evidence of Changes over time and with events
Authors: Raj Aggarwal, Brian M. Lucey, and Cal Muckley
The Masculinization of Poverty: Gender and Global Restructuring
Author: Keith Nurse
Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Authors: Peter McGoldrick, and Patrick Paul Walsh
2005 Papers
The Expenditure Switching Effect, Welfare and Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy
Author: Alan Sutherland
MNEs and Industrial Structure in Host Countries:A Mean Variance Analysis of Ireland's Manufacturing Sector
Authors: Colm Kearney, and Frank Barry
International Investment Patterns
Authors: Philip Lane, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Dynamics of Bond Market Integration between Existing And Accession EU Countries
Authors: Brian M Lucey, Suk-Joong Kim, and Eliza Wu
Exclusion of Suspected Terrorists from Asylum: Trends in International and European Refugee Law
Author: Ben Saul
Labour Productivity and Foreign Direct Investment in Irish Manufacturing Industry: A Decomposition Analysis
Authors: Frances Ruane, and Ali Ugur
Export Platform FDI and Dualistic Development
Authors: Frances Ruane, and Ali Ugur
Foreign Direct Investment And Host Country Wages: New Evidence From Irish Plant Level Panel Data
Authors: Frances Ruane, and Ali Ugur
International Portfolio Formation, Skewness & the Role of Gold
Authors: Brian M Lucey, Edel Tully, and Valerio Poti
Exchange Rates and Inflation under EMU: An Update
Authors: Philip Lane, and Patrick Honohan
Ownership and Export Characteristics of Irish Manufacturing Performance
Authors: Frances Ruane, and Julie Sutherland
Enchantment with 'the East': an individual response to the problem of being Western under conditions of reflexive modernization
Authors: Tim Phillips, and Haydn Aarons
Cost-Push Shocks and Monetary Policy in Open Economics
Author: Alan Matthews
Global Financial Trade: How Far Have We Come?
Author: Philip R. Lane
Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies
Authors: Philip R. Lane, Michael B. Devereux, and Juanyi Xu
Local Exchange Trading Systems: Globalising Rural Communities
Author: Ethel Crowley
Individual Farming in the New EU Member States: The Case of Hungary
Author: Marian Rizov
Does Does Individualisation Help Productivity of Transition Agriculture
Author: Marian Rizov
Are International Equity Markets Really Skewed?
Authors: Colm Kearney, and Margaret Lynch
Are Re-Assessing the Evidence of an Emerging Yen Block in North and Southeast Asia
Authors: Colm Kearney, and Cal muckley
Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Market Voting Behaviour
Authors: Orla Doyle, and Jan Fidrmuc
Volume and Skewness in International Equity Markets
Authors: Colm Kearney, and Margaret Lynch
Financial Globalisation and Exchange Rates
Authors: Philip R. Lane, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Who is in Favour of Enlargement? Determinants of Support for EU Membership in the Candidate's Countries Referenda
Authors: Orlagh Doyle, and Jan Fidrmuc
British Intelligence and the Case for Confronting Iraq: Evidence from the Butler andHutton Reports
Author: Eunan O' Halpin
Anti-Foundationalism, Deliberative Democracy, and Universal Human Rights
Author: Fabrizio Trifiro
The Translocation of Culture: Migration, Community, and the Force of Multiculturalism in History
Author: Pnina Werbner
Competiveness Implications for Ireland of EU Enlargement
Authors: Frank Barry, and Aoife Hannon
Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment
Authors: Jim Markusen, Caroline Ekholm, and Rikard Forslid
A Multi-Country Approach to Factor Proporations Trade and Trade Costs
Authors: Jim Markusen, and Anthony Venables
Learning on the quick and cheap: Gains from trade through imported expertise
Authors: Jim Markusen, and Thomas F. Rutherford
Psychological Barriers in Gold Prices
Authors: Brian Lucey, and Raj Aggarwal
Linkages and relationships between Emerging European and Developed Stock Markets before and after the Russian Crisis of 1997-1998
Authors: Brian Lucey, and Svitlana Voronkova
The Evolving Relationship between Gold and Silver 1978-2002: Evidence from a Dynamic Cointegration Analysis: A Note Crisis of 1997-1998
Authors: Brian Lucey, and Edel Tully
Are Local or International influences responsible for the pre-holiday behaviour of Irish equities?
Authors: Brian Lucey, and Edel Tully
Seasonality, Risk And Return In Daily COMEX Gold And Silver Data 1982-2002
Authors: Brian Lucey, and Edel Tully
Foreign Direct Investment and Export Spillovers: How Do Export Platforms Fare?
Authors: Frances Ruane, and Julie Sutherland
Agricultural trade restrictiveness in the European Union and the United States
Authors: Jean-Christophe Bureau, and Luca Salvatici
Multilateral agricultural trade liberalization: The contrasting fortunes of developing countries in the Doha Round
Authors: Jean-Christophe Bureau, Antoine Bouet, Yvan Decreux, and Sébastien Jean
Special and Differential Treatment in the WTO Agricultural Negotiations
Author: Alan Matthews
Courage to Capital? A Model of the Effects of Rating Agencies on Sovereign Debt Roll–over
Author: Galina Hale
Policy Coherence for Development: Issues in Agriculture: An Overview Paper
Author: Alan Matthews
Indicators of Regional Integration: Methodological Issues
Author: Philippe De Lombaerde
Conspicuous by their Absence: French Canadians and the Settlement of the Canadian West
Authors: Chris Minns, Alan Green, and Mary MacKinnon
The Effect of Capital Requirement Regulation on the Transmission of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Austria.
Authors:Philipp Engler,Terhi Jokipii,Christian Merkl, Pablo Rovira Kaltwasser, and Lúcio Vinhas de Souza
A Resolution of the Fisher Effect Puzzle: A Comparison of Estimators
Author:Ekaterini Panopoulou
Immigration policy and the skills of Irish immigrants: evidence and implications.
Author:Chris Minns
The Dynamics of Central European Equity Market Integration
Authors: Claire G.Gilmore, Brian Lucey, and Ginette M.McManus
Owner-Used Capital Goods and the Exchange Rate Determination
Author: Chris Minns
Equity market integration in the Middle East and North Africa: in search for diversification benefits
Authors: Brian Lucey, and Thomas Lagoarde-Segot
Net Capital Flows and Productivity: Evidence from U.S. States
Authors: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Ariell Reshef, Bent E. Sørensen, and Oved Yoshat
The consequences of agricultural trade liberalization for developing countries: distinguishing between genuine benefits and false hopes
Authors: Jean-Christophe Bureau, Sébastien Jean, and Alan Matthews
Global and EU Agricultural Trade Reform: What is in it for Tanzania, Uganda and Sub-Saharan Africia?
Authors: Thomas Giblin, and Alan Matthews
The International CAPM and a wavelet-based decomposition of Value at Risk
Author: Viviana Fernandez
Structural Breakpoints in Volatility in International Markets
Author: Viviana Fernandez
CEE Banking Sector Co-Movement: Contagion or Interdependence?
Authors: Terhi Jokipii, and Brian Lucey
Integration among G7 Equity Market: Evidence from iShares
Authors: Mahua Barari, Svitlana Voronkova, and Brian Lucey
A Global Perspective on External Positions
Authors: Philip Lane, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Market Structure in Services and Market Access in Goods
Authors: Joseph Francois, and Ian Wooton
Household Inequality, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy
Authors: Joseph Francois, and Hugo Rojas-Romagosa
Mapping the Irish Policy Space:Voter and Party Spaces in Preferential
Authors: Ken Benoit, and Michael Laver
Quality practices, priorities and performance: an international study
Authors: Deirdre Crowe, Louis Brennan, and Alessandra Vecchi
The exclusion of exclusion in social capital
Authors: Deirdre Crowe, and Emma Calvert
Individualization and Equality:Women's careers and organizational form
Authors: Deirdre Crowe, James Wickham, Lidia Greco, and Josephine Browne
Preferential Trade Arrangements and the Pattern of Production and Trade when Inputs are Differentiated
Author: Joseph Francois
Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Authors: Joseph Francois, B. Hoekman, and M. Manchin
Taxation and the Financial Structure of Foreign Direct Investment
Authors: Frances Ruane, and Padraig Moore
Promoting Industrial Clusters: Evidence from Ireland
Authors: Frances Ruane, Anne Marie Gleeson, and Julie Sutherland
Reform of the EU Sugar Regime: Impacts on Sugar Production in Ireland
Authors: Alan Matthews, and Hannah Chaplin
EU Agricultural Policy: What Developing Countries Need to Know
Authors: Alan Matthews, and Jean-Christophe Bureau
Stock Market Predictability in the MENA: Evidence from New Variance Ratio Tests and Technical Trade Analysis
Authors: Thomas Lagoarde Segot, and Brian M Lucey
John Rawls's Justice as Fairness: anti-foundationalism, deliberative democracy, and cosmopolitanism
Author: Fabrizio Trifiró
Ireland in EMU: more shocks, less insulation?
Authors: Patrick Honohan, and Anthony Leddin
Hours of Work in Old and New Worlds: The Long View, 1870-2000
Authors: Michael Huberman, and Chris Minns
The duration of fixed exchange rate regimes
Author: Sébastien Wälti
Optimal Corporation Tax: An I.O. Approach
Authors: Luca Colombo, Paola Labrecciosa, and Patrick Paul Walsh
Linking Productivity to Trade in the Structural Estimation of Production within UK Manufacturing Industries
Authors: Marian Rizov, and Patrick Paul Walsh
Implications of Domestic Support Disciplines for Further Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Authors: Keith Walsh, Martina Brockmeier, and Alan Matthews
Coping with the fallout for preference-receiving countries from EU sugar reform
Authors: Hannah Chaplin, and Alan Matthews
Party Groups and Policy Positions in the European Parliament
Authors: Gail McElroy, and Ken Benoit
Impediments to Employment and Enterprise Diversification: evidence from small-scale farms in Poland
Authors: Hannah Chaplin, Sophia Davidova, and Matthew Gorton
International Capital Flows and U.S. Interest Rates
Authors: Francis E. Warnock, and Veronica C. Warnock
The International Equity Holdings of Euro Area Investors
Authors: Philip Lane, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Establishing Credibility: Evolving Perceptions of the European Central Bank
Authors: Linda S. Goldberg, and Michael W. Klein
European External Assistance & Food Security: The End of the Line?
Author: Colin Andrews
The Economic Consequences of the Doha Round for Ireland
Authors: Alan Matthews, and Keith Walsh
2006 Papers
More Differentiated Special Treatment in the Agriculture Agreement: beyond concept to practice
Author: Alan Matthews
What's in a Name? The economics, law and politics of Geographical Indications for foods and beverages
Author: Tim Josling
Special and Differential Treatment for Agriculture: Africa's Requirements from Special Safeguards and Special Products
Authors: Christopher Stevens, and Jane Kennan
Agricultural Reciprocity under Economic Partnership Agreements
Authors: Christopher Stevens, and Jane Kennan
Policy Coherence, Agriculture and Development
Authors: Alan Matthews, and Tom Giblin
Foreign Direct Investment in Ireland: Policy Implications for Emerging Economies
Authors: Frances Ruane, and Peter J. Buckley
Financial Contagion in Emerging Markets: Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa
Authors: Thomas Lagoarde-Segot, and Brian Lucey
The Real Effects of EMU
Author: Philip R. Lane
The Impact of Foreign Interest Rates on the Economy: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime
Authors: Jay C. Shambaugh, and Julian di Giovanni
Did Political Constraints Bind during Transition? Evidence from Czech Elections 1990-2002
Authors: Orla Doyle, and Paul Patrick Walsh
Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later
Authors: Jeffrey G. Williamson, and Kevin H. O'Rourke
War and Welfare: Britain, France and the United States 1807-14
Author: Kevin H.O'Rourke
Antitrust in Open Economies
Authors: Joseph Francois, and Henrik Horn
Rags in the High Rent District: the Evolution of Quota Rents in Textiles and Clothing
Authors: Joseph Francois, and Julia Woerz
Flight-to-quality or Contagion? An Empirical Analysis of Stock-bond correlations
Authors: Dirk Baur, and Brian M. Lucey
The Forward Exchange Rate Bias Puzzle: Evidence from New Cointegration Tests
Authors: Raj Aggarwal, Sunil K. Mohanty, and Brian M. Lucey
A Portfolio Theory of International Capital Flows
Authors: Michael B. Devereux, and Makoto Saito
Agricultural Market Access: A Moving Target in the WTO Negotiations?
Authors: Martina Brockmeier, and Janine Pelikan
The External Wealth of Nations Mark II: Revised and Extended Estimates of Foreign Assets and Liabilities,1970–2004
Authors: Philip R. Lane, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Dynamic equilibrium correction modelling of yen Eurobond credit spreads
Authors: Seppo Pynnönen, Warren P. Hogan, and Jonathan A. Batten
Arbitrage, Covered Interest Parity and Long-Term Dependence between the US Dollar and the Yen
Authors: Peter G. Szilagyi, and Jonathan A. Batten
Exchange Rates and External Adjustment: Does Financial Globalization Matter?
Authors: Philip Lane, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Global rules, patent power and our food future: controlling the food system in the 21st century
Author: Geoff Tansey
Portfolio management implications of volatility shifts: Evidence from simulated data
Authors: Viviana Fernandez, and Brian M. Lucey
Have European Stocks Become More Volatile? An Empirical Investigation of Idiosyncratic
Authors: Colm Kearney, and Valerio Poti
The role of EBA in the political economy of CAP reform
Authors: Alan Matthews, and Jacques Gallezot
Looking far in the past: Revisiting the growth-returns nexus with non-parametric tests
Authors: Ekaterini Panopoulou, Nikitas Pittis, and Sarantis Kalyvitis
The Contribution of Growth and Interest Rate Differentials to the Persistence of Real Exchange Rates
Authors: Dimitrios Malliaropulos, Ekaterini Panopoulou, Nikitas Pittis, and Theologos Pantelidis
Integration Of Smaller European Equity Markets: A Time-Varying Integration Score Analysis
Authors: Gregory Birg, and Brian M. Lucey
Why unwinding preferences is not the same as liberalisation: the case of sugar
Author: Christopher Stevens
Developing Foreign Bond Markets: The Arirang Bond Experience in Korea
Authors: Jonathan A. Batten, and Peter G. Szilagyi
The Euro and Financial Integration
Authors: Philip Lane, and Sébastien Wälti
Export dynamics in Small Open Economies: Indigenous Irish Manufacturing Exports, 1985-2003
Authors: Anne Marie Gleeson, and Frances Ruane
Portfolio allocations in the Middle East and North Africa
Authors: Thomas Lagoarde-Segot, and Brian M. Lucey
The Evolution of Interdependence in World Equity Markets - Evidence from Minimum Spanning Trees
Authors: Ricardo Coehlo, Claire Gilmore, and Brian M. Lucey
Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries
Authors: Anna Maria Mayda, and Giovanni Facchini
Steel Safeguards and the Welfare of U.S. Steel Firms and Downstream Consumers of Steel: A Shareholder Wealth Perspective
Authors: Benjamin H. Liebman, and Kasaundra M. Tomlin
Max Weber and the Origin of Human Rights: A Study on Cultural Innovation
Author: Hans Joas
Structural Weakness in Nicaragua : Hindrances to Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
Author: Ruth Rios-Morales
Policy Formulation, Implementation and Feedback in EU Merger Control
Authors: Eric J. Shea, and Raj S. Chari
Migrant women's networks and intercultural Ireland
Author: Ronit Lentin
Gender and Transnational Migration: social networks and the forging of alliances
Author: Annie Phizacklea
Narrating the New World Domestic Order
Author: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Clean pure white and definitely upper class
Author: Gráinne Collins
Narrative Networks:Italian Women in Dublin
Author: Carla De Tona
Women's solidarity as a resistance strategy against liberalidentity politics in Turkey
Author: Melissa Bilal
Moving "on their own"? Mobility strategies and social networks of migrant women from Maghreb in Italy
Author: Camille Schmoll
Les infirmieres exclusives and migrant quasi-nurses in Greece
Author: Gabriella Lazaridis
Trade Flows of Agricultural Products with Ireland and the EU : An Analysis for Six African Countries
Author: Hannah Chaplin
The Doha Development Agenda: Mixed Prospects for Developing Countries
Authors: Alan Matthews, and Keith Walsh
Impact of Policy Reforms on Agriculture and Poverty in Uganda
Authors: Jacob Opolot, and Rose Kuteesa
Can the Benefits of Developed Country Agricultural Trade Reforms Trickle Down to the Rural Agricultural Households in Least Developed Countries: Analysis via Price Transmission in Selected Agricultural Markets in Uganda
Authors: Michael Atingi-Ego, Jacob Opolot, and Anna Santa Drale
Are Price Changes in the World Market Transmitted to Markets in Less Developed Countries? A Case Study of Sugar, Cotton, Wheat, and Rice in Tanzania
Author: F. T. M. Kilima
Capital Flows to Central and Eastern Europe
Authors: Philip R. Lane, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
The Performance of International Equity Portfolios
Author: Charles P. Thomas
Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience of Central Asia
Author: Richard Pomfret
Is Regionalism an Increasing Feature of the World Economy?
Author: Richard Pomfret
Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-indifferences matching approach
Authors: Sourafel Girma, and Holger Görg
Factor Returns, Institutions, and Geography: A View From Trade
Authors: Scott L. Baier, Gerald P. Dwyer, and Robert Tamura
International Portfolio Diversification and Market Linkages in the presence of regime-switching volatility
Authors: Thomas Flavin, and Ekaterini Panopoulou
Global Bond Portfolios and EMU
Author: Philip R. Lane
Structural Weakness in Nicaragua : Hindrances to Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
Author: Ruth Rios-Morales
Building a Social Accounting Matrix for Ireland with specific detail in relation to energy and carbon dioxide emissions
Author: Wiepke Wissema
WTO Contstaints and the CAP: Domestic Support in EU 25 Agriculture
Authors: Jean-Pierre Butault, and Jean-Christophe Bureau
Situating Middle East and North Africa (MENA) capital markets within the emerging markets universe
Authors: Thomass Lagoardde-Segot, and Brian M. Lucey
Flying around the globe and bringing business back home?
Authors: Paul Haynes, Alessandra Vecchi, and James Wickham
The International Financial Integration of China and India
Authors: Philip R. Lane, and Sergio L. Schmukler
Goldilocks and the cleaning companies: Collective coordination among contract cleaning companies
Authors: Gráinne Collins, and Alessandra Vecchi
Shift versus traditional contagion in Asian markets
Authors: Thomas Flavin, and Ekaterini Panopoulou
Social Discounting Under Uncertainty: A cross-country comparison
Authors: Cameron Hepburn, Phoebe Koundouri, Ekaterini Panopoulou, and Theologos Pantelidis
The predictive content of financial variables: Evidence from the euro area
Author: Ekaterini Panopoulou
The Importance of Social Factors when assessing the impact of foreign direct investment on economic growth
Authors: Xuan-Vinh Vo, and Jonathan A. Batten
The impact of globalisation and trade on the productivity performance of the Irish food manufacturing sector
Author: Carol Newman
Fear of Floating and the External Effects of Currency Unions
Authors: Thomas Plümper, and Vera E. Troeger
Equity Markets and Economic Development: What Do We Know
Authors: Thomas Lagoarde-Segot, and Brian M. Lucey
Trade in Services: Does Gravity Hold? A Gravity Model Approach to Estimating Barriers to Services Trade
Author: Keith Walsh
Modelling the Longitudinal Properties of Financial Ratios of European Firms
Authors: Stuart McLeay, and Maxwell Stevenson
The Costs of Risk: Examining the Missing Link between Globalization and Social Spending
Author: Stephanie J. Rickard
2007 Papers
Does foreign direct investment affect wage inequality? An empirical investigation
Authors: Paolo Figini, and Holger Görg
Sudden Flight and True Sudden Stops
Authors: Alexander D. Rothenberg, and Francis E. Warnock
Strengthening Policy Coherence for Development in Agricultural Policy: Policy Recommendations to Irish Aid
Authors: Alan Matthews, Hannah Chaplin, Thomas Giblin, and Marian Mraz
Currency Unions and Irish External Trade
Authors: Christine Dwane, Philip R. Lane, and Tara McIndoe
The Shifting Composition of External Liabilities
Authors: André Faria, Philip R. Lane, Paolo Mauro, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Democracy and Protectionism
Author: Kevin O'Rourke