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The internationalization of organizations mandates blending of expatriates with local workforce to stay competitive in the glocal (globally localized) arena. Expatriation has been prevalent in the European and American continents since the industrial revolution era. The paper delves into the...

There is a recent trend towards trade agreements that include trade related competition provisions. However there are large differences across these trade agreements in terms of how the competition provisions are addressed. In this context, this research report tries to analyse the competition...

We provide a novel experimental auction design, in which (i) an exogenous decrease in the probability of winning, conditional on the bid, reduces the optimal bid of a loss averse agent whose reference point is expectations based; (ii) observed bid distributions uniquely identify the participants'...

This paper reviews the rice procurement operations of the Government of India from the standpoints of cost of procurement as well as effectiveness in supporting farmers' incomes. The two channels used for procuring rice are custom-milling of rice and levy. In the first, the government buys paddy...

Book Review of William J. Baumol, The Free-Market Innovation Machine, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 2002, pp. 318, ISBN 0691096155, $35.00

This paper uses export and import shares of intermediate goods to assess the extent of integration of G20 and non-G20 nations, including least developed countries (LDCs), in global value chains (GVCs). The G20's intermediate trade, especially the imports, recovered fast during and immediately...