entered sports retail. Sports goods manufacturing is a focus area in the Foreign Trade Policy (2009-2014) and the government …Sports retail is a small but fast growing segment of modern retail in India. Recently, the country has been hosting … is taking a fresh look at the current foreign direct investment policy in retail. In the above context, this paper …

difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the … period up to 2026 by drawing on past sectoral trends and the latest macroeconomic forecast results from the International …

trades, and convincing explanations of the persistence of the Indo-Central Asian trade (for example) despite the growing Indo …-European trade from the seventeenth-century. The customs-union model usefully approximates this trading-situation (i.e. the Europeans … the possibility for trade-creation (i.e. due to substitution between otherwise regionally-specialised production …

per capita incomes across economies and the spatial advance of free trade. For many economists and historians the two are … linked: the reduction of trade barriers in the post-war world ushered in a new era of globalisation and that globalisation in … then it would represent one of the most important transitions of the twentieth century. Free trade was championed by the …

Using a VAR model of the American economy from 1984 to 2003, we find that, contrary to official claims, the Federal … unemployment, in a way that suggests that a baseless fear of full employment is a principal force behind monetary policy. Tests of …

spending response to these holidays. Using a diff-in-diff methodology, we find that STHs increase overall daily spending by 8 …%, with large percentage increases in spending on children's clothes and shoes of 193% and 98% respectively. Consumers with … children increase spending more during STHs. Our estimates of price elasticities range from 6 for big box merchants to 30 for …