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201808: Taking the Skill Bias out of Global Migration

Costanza Biavaschi, Micha? Burzynski, Benjamin Elsner and Joël Machado

201807: Export Processing Zones and the Composition of Greenfield FDI

Ronald Davies and Rodolphe Desbordes

201806: A Distributional Analysis of Upper Secondary School Performance

John Cullinan, Kevin Denny and Darragh Flannery

201805: Old Firms and New Products: Does Experience Increase Survival?

Martina Lawless and Zuzanna Studnicka

201804: Notes on Guilds on the Eve of the French Revoloution

Cormac Ó Gráda

201803: Famine and Disease in Economic History: A Summary Introduction

Guido Alfani and Cormac Ó Gráda

201802: Changes in BMI in a Cohort of Irish Children: Some Decompositions and Counterfactuals

David (David Patrick) Madden

201801: On the Firms’ Decision to Hire Academic Scientists

Catalina Martínez and Sarah Parlane

201729: Labor Market Frictions, Investment and Capital Flows

Clemens C. Struck

201728: Mostly Harmless? A Subnational Analysis of the Aid-Conflict Nexus

Stijn van Weezel

201727: Banking Crises and Investments in Innovation

Oana Peia

201726: Energy Efficiency and Economy-wide Rebound: Realising a Net Gain to Society?

Lisa Ryan, Karen Turner and Nina Campbell

201725: The Effect of Civil War Violence on Aid Allocations in Uganda

Stijn van Weezel

201724: On the Interaction of Growth, Trade and International Macroeconomics

Clemens C. Struck

201723: More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle

Judith Delaney and Paul Devereux

201722: Mind the Gap: Revisiting the Concentration Index for Overweight

David (David Patrick) Madden

201721: David Versus Goliath: Fundamental Patterns and Predictions in Modern Wars and Terrorist Campaigns

Michael Spagat, Neil Johnson and Stijn van Weezel

201720: Are new states more corrupt? Expert opinions vs. firms’ experiences

Tamanna Adhikari, Michael Breen and Robert Gillanders

201719: Reaching Up and Reaching Out: The Impact of Competition on Firms’ Productivity and Export Decisions

Kate Hynes, Eric Evans Osei Opoku and Isabel K. M. Yan

201718: Transport Infrastructure Investments and Competition for FDI

Kate Hynes, Jie Ma and Cheng Yuan

201717: The Impact of Terrorism on Well-being: Evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing

Andrew Clark, Orla Doyle and Elena Stancanelli

201716: Energy efficiency in the food retail sector: Barriers, drivers, and acceptable policies

Christopher Dixon-O’Mara and Lisa Ryan

201715: The First 2,000 Days and Child Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Home Visiting

Orla Doyle

201714: Optimal Management of Supply Disruptions when Contracting with Unreliable, Risk-averse, Suppliers

Sarah Parlane and Ying-Yi Tsai

201713: Notes on the Demography of the Famine in Ulster

Cormac Ó Gráda

201712: Local linkages: The interdependence of foreign and domestic firms

Kate Hynes, Yum K. Kwan and Anthony Foley

201711: Technological Dynamism in a Stagnant Sector: Safety at Sea during the Early Industrial Revolution

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

201710: Speed under Sail, 1750–1830

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

201709: Brendan M. Walsh (1940-2016): The Economist at Work

J. Peter Neary and Cormac Ó Gráda

201708: The Heterogeneous Impact of Brexit: Early Indications from the FTSE

Ronald Davies and Zuzanna Studnicka

201707: Immigrants and Savers: A Rich New Database on the Irish in 1850s New York

Simone Wegge, Tyler Anbinder and Cormac Ó Gráda

201706: Non-Tariff Barriers, Enforcement, and Revenues: The Use of Anti-Dumping as a Revenue Generating Trade Policy

Igor Bagayev, Ronald Davies, Panos Hatzipanayotou, Panos Konstantinou and Marie Rau

201705: The Impact of Protection on Observed Productivity Distributions

Igor Bagayev and Ronald Davies

201703: The Infant Industry Argument: Tariffs, NTMs and Innovation

Igor Bagayev and Ronald Davies

201702: How Exporters Grow

Doireann Fitzgerald, Stefanie Haller and Yaniv Yedid-Levi

201701: The Effectiveness of Forward Guidance in an Estimated DSGE Model for the Euro Area: the Role of Expectations

Roberta Cardani, Alessia Paccagnini and Stelios Bekiros

201620: Independent Ireland In Comparative Perspective

Kevin O'Rourke

201619: Solar PV where the sun doesn’t shine: Estimating the economic impacts of support schemes for residential PV with detailed net demand profiling

Sarah La Monaca and Lisa Ryan

201618: Short term effects of drought on communal conflict in Nigeria

Stijn van Weezel

201617: Communal violence in the Horn of Africa following the 1998 El Niño

Stijn van Weezel

201616: Childhood Obesity and Maternal Education in Ireland

David Madden

201615: The Impact of Special Economic Zones on Electricity Intensity of Firms

Ronald Davies, Terence Edwards and Arman Mazhikeyev

201614: The Impact of Everything But Arms on EU Relative Labour Demand

Ronald Davies and Rodolphe Desbordes

201613: On Nash Equilibria in Speculative Attack Models

Ivan Pastine

201612: In search of the Euro area fiscal stance

Alice Albonico, Alessia Paccagnini and Patrizio Tirelli

201611: Dealing with Financial Instability under a DSGE modeling approach with Banking Intermediation: a predictability analysis versus TVP-VARs

Stelios Bekiros, Roberta Cardani, Alessia Paccagnini and Stefania Villa

201610: The Base of Party Political Support in Ireland: A New Approach

David (David Patrick) Madden

201609: Banking Union and the ECB as Lender of Last Resort

Karl Whelan

201608: The Impact of Taxes on the Extensive and Intensive Margins of FDI

Ronald Davies, Iulia Siedschlag and Zuzanna Studnicka

201607: Self-reported health in good times and in bad: Ireland in the 21st century

Kevin Denny and Patricia Franken