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...

We examine the impact of economic deregulation on employer evasion of union-mandated "formal" wage-contracts in an import-competing industry. We show that, if the state maintains industrial employment despite import liberalisation, through cheaper credit to firms, then employer evasion will...

Traditional gravity models posit an inverse relationship between geographical distance and bilateral trade due to increased transportation costs. However, recent literature suggests that bilateral service trade may increase between two countries located at an appropriate geographical distance....

The paper provides an analysis of the simultaneous existence of the formal and the informal sources of finance and their implications for the rate of growth in an economy. Our main result is that in the presence of two sources of borrowing, viz. formal banking sector with lower interest rate...