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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-11)Small firms that offer health insurance to their employees may face variable premiums if the firm hires an employee with high-expected health costs. To avoid expensive premium variability, a small firm may attempt to ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-11)We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-11)This paper examines the role of employer provided health insurance in the retirement decisions of dual working couples. The near elderly have high-expected medical expenditures; therefore, availability of health insurance ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-12)We use an equilibrium search framework to model a formal- informal sector labour market where the informal sector arises endogenously. In our model large firms will be in the formal sector and pay a wage premium, while ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-02)Ireland was one of the first countries in the world to adopt an FDI-oriented development strategy. It remains to this day the most FDI-intensive economy in Europe. These factors have helped configure the institutional ...
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The state, venture capital and domestic high-tech start-ups in a late-developing economy : Ireland (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-12)Ireland, the “Celtic Tiger” economy of today, had for decades been one of the poorest of the Western European economies. This paper analyses the three-pronged approach of the Irish authorities in promoting successful ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-12)This paper presents a model of the interaction between two rival firms based in the same country. Each firm must decide how to serve a foreign market (export or foreign production) and how much to invest in a corporate-wide ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-12)Ireland, in employment terms, is the most FDI-intensive economy in the EU. International comparisons of trends and levels of FDI intensity are usually based on balance-of-payments data however, and the international data ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-05)This paper offers a theoretical explanation for the determination of exchange rates under specific conditions which can/could be found in some OECD and newly industrialised countries. In an Obstfeld (1994) framework extended ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2006-05-05)We present a new model of multi-product firms (MPFs) and flexible manufacturing and explore its implications in partial and general equilibrium. International trade integration affects the scale and scope of MPFs through ...
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