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Can non-fiscal incentives like reverse job work revive the SEZs? The case study of gems and jewellery sector in India
Mukherjee, Arpita; Rahman, Nida; Mukherjee, Eshana - 2023
Globally, special economic zones (SEZs) are created to boost exports and promote investment by providing units located inside the zones with certain fiscal and non-fiscal incentives that are not available to and/or are different from those given to units in the domestic tariff area (DTA). In...
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Trade Protection in India: Economics vs. Politics?
Gang, Ira N.; Pandey, Mihir - 1996
This paper investigates economic and political determinants of protection across the secondary (manufacturing) sector … compared to the rest-of-the-world to have low levels of protection. Moreover, the degree of protection should change as the … industries may enjoy a great deal of protection because of political lobbying. …
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On the spread and impact of antidumping
Prusa, Thomas J. - 1999
This paper documents two key costs of AD protection. First, once AD has been adopted countries often have a difficult … impact of AD protection most surely implies that AD will continue to be a key negotiating item in the next WTO round. …
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Revenue Motives and Trade Liberalization in an Endogenous Tariff Model
Gang, Ira N. - 1994
-maker would respond to lower world prices by reducing tariff protection for an import-competing industry. An initial tariff that …
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Spatial competition and price discrimination with capacity constraints
Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2019
We characterize mixed-strategy equilibria when capacity constrained suppliers can charge location-based prices to different customers. We establish an equilibrium with prices that weakly increase in the costs of supplying a customer. Despite prices above costs and excess capacities, each...
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Spatial competition with capacity constraints and subcontracting
Hunold, Matthias; Muthers, Johannes - 2018
We characterize mixed-strategy equilibria when capacity constrained suppliers can charge location-based prices to different customers. We establish an equilibrium with prices that weakly increase in the costs to supply a customer. Despite prices above costs and excess capacities, each supplier...
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Hydrogen corporatism and working time reduction: Union strategies in the transformation of German primary steel manufacturing
Schoppengerd, Stefan - 2024
Industrial trade unions in Europe and North America often struggle to develop a coherent strategy on climate change and overcoming fossil fuel production patterns. Trade union policy in the German steel industry is an interesting example of this: the "green" restructuring is firmly in favour, as...
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Impact of transaction taxes on commodity derivatives trading in India
Ray, Saon; Malik, Neha - 2014
Commodity derivatives were introduced in India with a dual purpose of promoting price discovery and enhancing risk management in the commodities market. A transaction tax (of 0.01 per cent) on commodity futures trading was introduced in the Union Budget 2013-14. This study examines the rationale...
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Housing wealth and wage bargaining
Cunningham, Chris; Reed, Robert R. - 2012
We examine the relationship between housing equity and wage earnings. We first provide a simple model of wage bargaining where failure leads to both job loss and mortgage default. Moreover, foreclosure generates disutility beyond selling a home. We test this prediction using nine waves of the...
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The wage impact of undocumented workers
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam; Rios-Avila, … - 2012
Using administrative, individual-level, longitudinal data from the state of Georgia, this paper finds that a documented worker employed by a firm that hires undocumented workers can expect to earn 0.15 percent less than if employed by a firm that does not hire undocumented workers. However, in...
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