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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