Chapter 1: Tariff-Rebate on Intermediate Inputs for Exportables in a Two-period Model with Learning-from-Exporting -- Chapter 2: Trade Policy during COVID -- Chapter 3: Ronald W. Jones as a General Equilibrium Theorist in a Classical Mold: International Trade through the Ricardo-Viner-Jones...

Globalization has its detractors as well as supporters. Concerns have been expressed about the greater ease of fragmenting the production process so that more parts can be outsourced to a variety of countries. Highly developed regions worry about the possibility of greater unemployment or lower...

International joint ventures (JV) are popular institutional forms chosen by the less developed countries (LDCs) to attract foreign Investments. In this paper we describe a set up where a multinational firm (MNF) decides on the volume of investment and the LDC gov-ernment offers a package...

The objective of the paper is to understand the transforming relationship between the formal and informal sector in a liberalizing open developing economy. There are various facets in this relationship, and we focus on three essential aspects. First, we look at the impact of deregulatory...