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Trade reform in a corrupt economy : A note

Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

distortion exists in form of bureaucratic corruption that arises because of trade protection at the border. In this kleptocratic … to prove that whether trade liberalization necessarily helps reducing corruption activities and to check what happens to …

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Would Recession Induce More Intermediation in the Corrupt Informal Sector?

Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper my endeavor is to give you an idea about the upshot of a recessionary phase on the intermediation activity which is required for the survival of the informal fragment of the society. Informal part of the economy covers a large chunk of the total economic activities in any stylized...

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Traded Goods, Tax and Intermediation - the Role of Corrupt Nontraded Sector

Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

the effects of corruption and tax cut. We assume only the non-traded sector to be corruption affected. We argue that a … fall in the degree of corruption surprisingly increases number of intermediators while tax change has no effect on it. But … the size of the intermediation activities expands in both the cases. Low corruption diminishes the exportable production …

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Bureaucratic reform, informal sector and welfare

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this paper we formulate a three-sector general equilibrium model where one sector produces a service or good used as an intermediate input in two other sectors. Intermediate input here resembles bureaucratic (in)efficiency/control, red-tapism etc. in light of these concerns we introduce...

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Informal Wage, Informal Price and Extortion under Migration and Tariff Reform

Mandal, Biswajit; Chaudhuri, Saswati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In this paper we propose a theoretical model where formal and informal sectors co-exist in tandem. Trade union segregates some labor from being formal. Capital is not allowed to freely move between formal and informal sectors. Using this sort of framework it has been shown that immigration of...

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Reform, Informal Sector and Extortion

Mandal, Biswajit; Marjit, Sugata; Beladi, Hamid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Informal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra legal activities employs majority of the workforce in the developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal production is facilitated through extortion by agents of political forces in power. Also extortion activities themselves...

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Trade Reform, Environment and Intermediation: Implication for Health Standard

Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Health standard of a region or economy significantly depends on environmental quality. And informal sector has a striking role for overall environmental quality as sometimes producers prefer not to produce in the formal sector as formal production calls for stringent environmental and other...

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Extortion and Informal Sector in a Small Open Economy

Marjit, Sugata; Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Informal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra legal activities employs majority of the workforce in the developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal manufacturing and service sectors is facilitated through extortion by agents of political forces in power. Such extortion...

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Homogenous Agent Wage-Posting Model with Wage Dispersion

Steinbacher, Matej; Steinbacher, Matjaz; Steinbacher, Mitja - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In the paper we test a homogenous agent version of the Montgomery's (1991) non-cooperative wage posting model. The inclusion of intrinsic costs, related to the uncertainty when changing the alternative agents are already using, alters the outcome of the model in two respects: firstly, it...

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Knowledge, Preferences and Shocks in Portfolio Analysis

Steinbacher, Matjaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

We simulate social network games of a portfolio selection to analyze how knowledge, preferences of agents and their level of omniscience affect their decision-making. The key feature of the paper is that preferences and the level of omniscience of agents very much determine the ways agents make...

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