PhD Candidate Research Areas
Mr Emanuele Albarosa | |
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Research Interests | Applied econometrics, labour policy, migration, organised crime |
Thesis Title | The distributional effects of employment protection |
Supervisor | Prof Benjamin Elsner |
Funding | IRC Government of Ireland Scholarship |
Mr Matthew Amalitinga Abagna | |
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Research Interests | Foreign Direct Investment, International Trade, Special Economic Zones and Taxation |
Thesis Title | Measuring the Impact of Policy Interventions on Subnational Economic Growth in Developing Countries Using Nighttime Light |
Supervisor | Prof Ronald B Davies |
Funding | UCD School of Economics Scholarship |
Mr Dimitrios Argyros | |
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Research Interests | Demographic Economics, Development Economics, Political Economy |
Thesis Title | Essays in Demographic Economics: The role of political environment on family decisions: Evidence from developing countries. |
Supervisor | Dr Benjamin Elsner |
Funding | BDIC Scholarship |
Ms Karen Arulsamy | |
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Research Interests | Mental health and economics, financial decision-making and outcomes, public policy, behavioural science |
Thesis Title | Mental health and financial outcomes over the lifespan |
Supervisor | Prof Orla Doyle (UCD) and Prof Liam Delaney (LSE) |
Funding | Irish Research Council (IRC) Postgraduate Scholarship |
Ms Tatiana Bezdenezhnykh | |
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Research Interests | Political economy, Inequality, Health economics |
Thesis Title | Living in a non-democracy: Russia's changing economic landscape |
Supervisor | Dr Kanika Kapur |
Funding | UCD School of Economics PhD scholarship |
Mr Killian Carroll | |
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Research Interests | Macroeconomics, Fiscal policy, Monetary policy |
Thesis Title | Essays in Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy |
Supervisor | Prof Nora Strecker |
Funding | Irish Fiscal Advisory Council |
Mr Philip Carthy | |
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Research Interests | Environmental economics, health economics, transport economics |
Thesis Title | Environment, Health, and Economic Well-being: A Long-Term Perspective |
Supervisors | Prof Aisling Reynolds-Feighan (UCD) and Dr. Seán Lyons (ESRI) |
Funding | UCD School of Economics PhD scholarship |
Mr Giacomo lo Conte | |
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Research Interests | economics of innovation, economic geography, applied microeconomics |
Thesis Title | The geography of technological dynamics |
Supervisors | Prof Ron Davies and Prof Dieter Kogler |
Funding | EZ Scholarship |
Ms Deirdre Coy | |
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Research Interests | Health; education; human capital; intervention evaluation |
Thesis Title | Health Formation and Early Investment |
Supervisor | Dr Orla Doyle |
Funding | SPHeRE Scholar (Health Research Board SPHeRE/2013/1) |
Mr Daire Crotty | |
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Research Interests | Labour, education and sports economics |
Thesis Title | Educational attainment and wage structures |
Supervisor | Prof Paul Devereux |
Funding | UCD School of Economics PhD scholarship |
Mr Kenneth Devine | |
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Research Interests | Household Finance, Behavioural Economics, Lab and Field Experiments |
Thesis Title | Household Financial Decision Making |
Supervisor | Prof Liam Delaney |
Funding | Central Bank |
Ms Francesca Eustacchi | |
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Research Interests | Developing countries, development economics, Latin America |
Thesis Title | The impact of women land titles on children's well-being |
Supervisor | Dr Frank Walsh |
Funding | Self-funded |
Mr Eoin Flaherty | |
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Research Interests | FDI, productivity spillovers, wage returns from changing jobs, trade, macroprudential policy |
Thesis Title | Productivity and Growth in a Globalised World |
Supervisor | Dr Stefanie Haller |
Co-Supervisor | Prof Ron Davies |
Funding | Funded by my employer; the Central Statistics Office, Ireland |
Ms Sorcha Foster | |
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Research Interests | monetary policy, non-standard instruments, banking |
Thesis Title | Essays in monetary policy |
Supervisor | Prof Karl Whelan |
Funding | Funded by employer (Central Bank of Ireland) |
Ms Beatriz Gietner | |
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Research Interests | Economics of Education, Complex Systems, East Asian development, Economic Growth |
Thesis Title | Estimating returns to education for different fields of study in Ireland from a macroeconomics perspective |
Supervisor | Prof Kevin Denny |
Funding | UCD School of Economics |
Mr Michele Gubello | |
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Research Interests | Applied Microeconomic Theory, Inequality, Intergenerational transmission, Public Economics, Economics of Education |
Thesis Title | Essays on Inequality and Public Policies: Theory and Applications |
Supervisors | Dr Benjamin Elsner and Dr Sarah Parlane |
Funding | IRC Government of Ireland Scholarship |
Website | https://sites.google.com/view/ |
Mr Xidong Guo | |
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Research Interests | Contract theory; health economics; asymmetric information; auction; housing market; sports economics |
Thesis Title | Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivations: Addressing the Private Care in Irish Public Health System |
Supervisor | Dr Sarah Parlane |
Funding | School of Economics Scholarship, UCD |
Mr Tadgh Hegarty | |
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Research Interests | Behavioural Economics. Financial, Betting and Prediction Markets. Asymmetric Information & Economics of Uncertainty |
Thesis Title | Essays in Applied Microeconomics |
Supervisor | Prof Liam Delaney (LSE) |
Funding | Funded by employer ; the further education and training authority SOLAS |
Mr Mohsin Javed | |
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Research Interests | Labour markets; Technological change |
Thesis Title | The impact of automation technologies on workers with different skills |
Supervisors | Dr Benjamin Elsner and Dr Christopher Jepsen |
Funding | UCD School of Economics PhD scholarship |

Ms Manvi Jindal | |
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Research Interests | Microeconomics and public policy |
Thesis Title | Application of the framework of preferential treatment all-pay auction and contest theory |
Supervisor | Prof Vessela Daskalova |
Co-Supervisor | Prof Ivan Pastine |
Funding | UCD School of Economics PhD scholarship |
Ms Neeharika Kakunuri | |
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Research Interests | Development Economics, Macroeconomics and Political Economy |
Thesis Title | Estimating the socio economic impact of Partisan Politics across Asia and Europe |
Supervisor | Dr Frank Walsh |
Funding | BDIC Scholarship |
Mr Panteleimon Karamalis | |
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Research Interests | Macroeconomics; Banking; Fiscal Policy and Taxation; Monetary Economics; Finance |
Thesis Title | The effect of taxation on the financing and credit decisions of firms and households |
Supervisor | Dr Yota Deli |
Funding | UCD School of Economics PhD scholarship |
Mr Noor Khoso | |
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Research Interests | International Trade and Global Income Inequality |
Thesis Title | Does Trade Openness causes Global Income Inequality? |
Supervisor | Dr Zuzanna Studnicka |
Funding | Beijing Dublin International College (BDIC) Scholarship |
Mr Zilong Li | |
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Research Interests | International Economics; Trade; Finance |
Thesis Title | Revisiting the border effect |
Supervisor | Professor Zuzanna Studnicka |
Funding | China Scholarship Council (CSC) |
Ms Lucie Martin | |
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Research Interests | Behavioural Economics |
Thesis Title | Behavioural Economics, Administrative Burden, and Inequality |
Supervisor | Joint Supervisors: Dr Orla Doyle (UCD School of Economics) and Prof Liam Delaney (LSE Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science) |
Funding | UCD School of Economics Scholarship |
Ms Himani Pasricha | |
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Research Interests | Migration, Climate Change and Labour Market Outcomes |
Thesis Title | Essays in Labour Economics |
Supervisor | Dr Frank Walsh |
Funding | BDIC Scholarship |
Ms Diane Pelly | |
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Research Interests | Labour economics; Wellbeing measurement; Productivity; Cost-benefit analysis; Behavioural Economics; Flexible working |
Thesis Title | The economic case for Worker Wellness Programmes: are they really worth the investment? |
Joint Supervisors | Dr Orla Doyle, UCD School of Economics and Professor Liam Delaney, London School of Economics |
Funding | IRC Government of Ireland Scholarship |
Mr Mark Regan | |
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Research Interests | Applied microeconomics, labour economics |
Thesis Title | Essays in labour economics |
Supervisor | Prof Paul Devereux |
Funding | Economic and Social Research Institute Scholarship |
Mr Manuel Estevo Lago Rodriguez | |
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Research Interests | Gender Economics, Experimental Economics, Social Economics, Behavioural Economics |
Thesis Title | Going beyond the media in the era of #MeToo: causality and driving mechanisms of gender social movements |
Supervisor | Orla Doyle |
Funding | UCD School of Economics Scholarship |
Mr Johannes Scheuerer | |
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Research Interests | FDI, International Trade, Applied Microeconometrics |
Thesis Title | Essays on Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Inequality in Space |
Supervisor | Prof Ronald B Davies |
Funding | UCD School of Economics Scholarship |
Ms Yishan Shi | |
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Research Interests | education economics,development economics |
Thesis Title | Intergenerational mobility in education and economic transformation in Africa |
Supervisor | Prof Kevin Denny |
Funding | China Scholarship Council |
Ms Lena Susanne Specht | |
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Research Interests | International Trade and FDI |
Thesis Title | Essays in International Trade and Migration |
Supervisor | Prof Ronald Davies |
Funding | BDIC Scholarship |
Ms Prachi Srivastava | |
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Research Interests | Expectations, uncertainty, Bounded rationality in Macroeconomics |
Thesis Title | Expectations, Uncertainty in Monetary Policy |
Supervisor | Prof Karl Whelan |
Funding | BDIC Scholarship |
Mr Gennadiy Sudak | |
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Research Interests | taxation, tax burden, behavioral finance |
Thesis Title | The impact of Effective Tax Burden on Individual Consumption and Savings in Post-Communist Countries |
Supervisor | Dr Nora Strecker |
Funding | UCD School of Economics PhD Scholarship |
Mr Kun Wu | |
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Research Interests | Welfare and Family Economics, Family Formation; Ageing and Retirement Wealth; Insurance Role of Family; Pension. |
Thesis Title | The Differential Wealth Effect of Family Formation in Retirement |
Supervisor | Prof Kevin Denny |
Funding | China Scholarship Council |
Ms Le Zheng | |
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Research Interests | Macroeconomics; Ban |
Thesis Title | The Impact of Macroeconomic Changes on Capital Allocation Efficiency: Evidence from China |
Supervisor | Dr Constantin Burgi |
Funding | Self-funded |