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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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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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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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Wage Bargaining, Privatisation, Ability to Pay, andOutside Options – Evidence from Hungary

Köllő, Janos; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in … - 2004

This paper examines the determinants of short-term wage dynamics, using asample of large Hungarian companies for the period of 1996-1999. We test thebasic implications of an efficient contract model of bargaining between theincumbent employees and the managers, which we are unable to reject....

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Hot wages: How do heat waves change the earnings distribution?

Valenti, Giulia; Vona, Francesco - 2024

This paper examines the impact of temperature shocks, measured by cold and heat waves, on labour market outcomes across 14 European countries. Using retrospective individual-level data from the Survey on Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and daily climate data from the E-OBS...

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