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Over the past three decades, the world has witnessed economic growth accompanied by widening of income inequalities. In the face of rising income inequalities, it becomes imperative to ask what happens to the quality of various products provided in the market when economies experience economic...

We examine human capital's contribution to economy-wide technological progress through two channels { im- itation and innovation} innovation being more skilled-intensive than innovation. We develop a growth model considering an endogenous ability-driven skill acquisition decision of an...

This paper constructs monthly Exchange Market Pressure index for India over the period 1992-2011. It then identifies stress events in the Indian currency markets, as represented by the extreme movements of this index using the extreme value theory approach. We show that this approach is superior...

Recent studies have analyzed the adoption of Bt cotton in the light of government seed price interventions. According to one view, reduction in seed prices enabled the farmers to buy seeds at lower prices and this resulted in the sudden surge in area under Bt cotton. The other view holds that...

Evolutionary tournaments have been used effectively as a tool for comparing game-playing algorithms. For instance, in the late 1970's, Axelrod organized tournaments to compare algorithms for playing the iterated prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. These tournaments capture the dynamics in a population...

In this paper we have made an attempt to explain the observed rising inequality between unskilled and skilled wages, or, fall in relative wages of unskilled labour within a general equilibrium framework by introducing specific factors and non- traded intermediate goods. For this we set up two...