This paper attempts to provide conclusive evidence in favor of sensitivity of optimal commodity taxes to demographic variables. This involves estimating optimal commodity taxes for the chosen 16 Indian states, incorporating demographic profiles for each state using NSS data. Such calculations...

This paper proposes a new method to break up the bid-ask spread in wholesale rice markets into its three components and applies the methodology to twelve major rice centers in India. The proposed methodology is claimed to be superior to the extant methods such as those of Stoll (1989) and...