International Trade and International Finance : Explorations of Contemporary Issues

Part 1: Recent Developments in Trade Theory and Empirics -- Chapter 1. The “New-New” Trade Theory: A review of the literature -- Chapter 2. Time Zones and FDI with Heterogeneous Firms -- Chapter 3. Firm Heterogeneity and Decision to Export: An exploration with India’s Capital Goods Sector -- Chapter 4. IPR Regulatory Policy, Commercial Piracy and Entry modes of MNC: A Theoretical Analysis -- Part 2: International trade and institutions -- Chapter 5. International Trade and Size of the Government -- Chapter 6. Heterogenous Effect of Corruption on Bilateral Trade: Sectoral Gravity Analysis with Panel Data -- Chapter 7. Enlargement Decisions of Regional Trading Blocs -- Chapter 8. The Deal Breaker or the Protector of Interests of Developing Countries: India’s Changing Negotiating Stance in WTO -- Part 3: Issues in Trade, Trade Policy and Development -- Chapter 9. Export Performance in Textile and Garments with China as a Competitor: An analysis of India’s situation from the perspective of Structure-Conduct-Performance paradigm -- Chapter 10. Impact of Trade Liberalization on Indian Textile Firms: A Panel Analysis -- Chapter 11. Trade, Infrastructure and Income Inequality in Selected Asian Countries: An empirical analysis -- Chapter 12. A Theoretical Model of Trade, Quality of Health Services and Signalling -- Chapter 13. Smuggling and Trafficking of Workers: A brief review and analysis of the Economics of Illegal Migration -- Chapter 14. Impact of Trade vs Non-Trade Policies on the Incidence of Child Labour: A Two Sector General Equilibrium Framework -- Chapter 15. FDI and Child Labour in a Developing Economy: A General Equilibrium Analysis -- Part 4: Issues related to foreign investment flows -- Chapter 16. The Role of Institutions in Attracting US FDI -- Chapter 17. Does foreign direct investment promote capital accumulation? -- Chapter 18. Do macroeconomic indicators influence foreign direct investment in India? A Causality Analysis -- Chapter 19. The Nature of trading by Domestic and Foreign Institutional Investors: A Cross Country Analysis -- Part 5: Issues relating to Globalization, financial markets and financial instruments -- Chapter 20. Exploratory study of select commodity and equity index around 2008 -- Chapter 21. An empirical estimation of volatility clustering, volatility spillover and persistence in terms of half-life from a developed country USA to two emerging economy India and China -- Chapter 22. Post Crisis Global Financial Architecture and India -- Part 6: Issues related to foreign exchange market -- Chapter 23. Survey and benchmarking of Indian FX markets and types of intervention -- Chapter 24. The global foreign exchange market: crisis and beyond -- Chapter 25. ‘The Impossible Trinity’: Where does India stand? -- Part 7: Issues related to financial institutions -- Chapter 26. Insuring the Insurer: a game theoretic approach to regulatory design -- Chapter 27. Does skill matter in Mutual funds? How emerging markets differ from more developed markets/Mutual fund performance: An International Perspective -- Chapter 28. Determinants of foreign bank entry into emerging market economies -- Chapter 29. Banks, financial derivatives, and crises: a fourth generation model.