International Trade and International Finance: Explorations of Contemporary Issues

This book brings together a collection of papers on international trade and international finance, instead of treating the two as disjoint fields of study. The volume, while focusing on the recent developments and frontiers of research in international trade and international finance, also emphasizes the inherent integrated nature of the two subjects; some of the papers are overlapping across the two areas. A unique feature of the proposed volume is that it unravels some new issues in addition to re-examining certain old issues in a new perspective and thus covers wide ranging issues with an emphasis on policy. The book covers issues mostly relating to emerging market economies, which has increasingly assumed importance in the context of globalization. The book contains some survey papers covering the frontiers of current knowledge on important themes like recent developments in trade theory and empirics, foreign exchange market, institutions in trade and finance, interrelation and interaction between international trade and international finance. The papers, fruit of rigorous and original research, are written by internationally and nationally reputed authors along with promising young researchers on the subjects. The book substantially contributes to the growing literature on issues relating to trade and international finance in emerging market economies and extends the frontiers of knowledge. The book is expected to have the widest possible readership comprising of advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as senior researchers working in international trade and international finance.

Malabika Roy is a faculty member of the Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She teaches financial economics to the undergraduate as well as the post graduate students. Her research interest includes corporate finance, financial markets in emerging economy and understanding the role of financial markets and institutions at the household level. She has widely published in reputed national and international journals. She has also conducted several research projects funded by national and international agencies and has worked as consultant for UN, ESCAP. 

Saikat Sinha Roy is a faculty member of the Department of economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His research interest and teaching are focused on theories and empirics of international trade, applied trade modeling, and interface between trade and industrial structure, international trade and institutions. He has published in reputed national and international journals. He received the prestigious British Academy of Social Sciences/ESRC/AHRC Visiting South Asia fellowship in 2009. In 2013 he received a research grant from British High Commission, New Delhi, to conduct a study on state level exports in India. He also conducted the UNCTAD-GoI-DfiD funded Trade Related Research Capacity Building project.