KBS Faculty Research Interests: Economics
Supervisors | Research Interests |
| Prof Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan | • Comparative Economic Integration (Asia and Europe) • Structural Change and Economic Growth in East Asian Countries • Economic Growth and Crises • Economic Growth and Global Governance |
| Dr Rita Buckley | • Multinational Enterprises and Productivity Spill overs • Global Food Prices and Volatility • Organic and Sustainable Agriculture |
| Prof Jim Deegan | Tourism Sector and Measures to Enhance Productivity • Networks as a Measure to Improve Tourism Performance • The Impact of New Forms of Artificial Intelligence on the Tourism Sector • Challenges for the tourism/aviation/marine sector arising from the need to tackle Climate change |
| Dr Darragh Flannery | • Economics of education • Education policy analysis • Health economics • Applied microeconometrics |
| Dr Olununmi Ipinnaiye | • Enterprise Growth, Development and Policy • Drivers of Firm-level Innovation and Innovation Policy • Social Innovation • Industrial Policy Evaluation |
| Prof Stephen Kinsella | • Political Economy • Open Economy Macroeconomics • Stock Flow Consistent Economics |
| Dr Lukas Kuld | • Economics of innovation, science, and arts • Urban economics • Economic history • Labour economics |
| Prof Helena Lenihan | • Economics of Innovation • Innovation and Innovation policy • Drivers of firm performance and Growth • Innovation, Science (R&D), and Industrial/Enterprise Policy Evaluation • Innovation and Human Capital • Industrial/Enterprise Development and Policy |
| Dr Vincent O'Sullivan | • Economics of Education • Health Economics • Labour Economics |
| Dr Donal Palcic | • Infrastructure Policy • Public Sector Economics • Privatisation and Public-Private-Partnerships • State-owned Enterprises • Efficiency Productivity Analysis |
| Prof Eoin Reeves | • Infrastructure Regulation • Funding and Finance Issues in Infrastructure • State-Owned Enterprise |
| Dr Marta Zieba | • Applied Microeconomics • Efficiency and Productivity Analysis • Cultural Economics • Tourism Economics • Health Economics • Labour Economics |
