Trade Finance and Development

Contents Preface. Introduction. I. Trade 1. Black market for foreign exchange and capital flight/Amit K. Biswas. 2. Intellectual property rights and imitation product/Tanmoyee Banerjee (Chatterjee). 3. Market structure joint ventures and environmental protection in a small open economy/Indrani Roy Chowdhury. II. Finance 4. Comparative advantage in banking and strategic specialization in cournot games/Indrajit Mallick. 5. Dualistic credit markets and its impact on welfare an introduction/Rajlakshmi Mallik. 6. Does firm size matter in an imperfect capital market. A study for the Indian firms/Pranab Kumar Das and Bhaswar Moitra. 7. Examining the relationship among capital risk and productivity evidence from Indian public sector banks/Abhiman Das and Saibal Ghosh. III. Development 8. Government taxation and economic growth for models with private and public inputs/Dipankar Dasgupta. 9. Child labour and economic development/Ambar Ghosh Chandana Ghosh and Arindam Bhattacharyya. 10. Rural financial sector and non farm employment/Amit Kundu. 11. Competition and collusion in a basmati market the impact of collusion on prices/Abhijit Banerjee and J.V. Meenakshi. 12. Uncertain demand choice of capacity and repeated competition in a Duopoly market/Diganta Mukherjee. Index. The present book provides a snapshot of some of the emerging issues in the fields of international trade financial economics and development economics that are being debated by experts in recent years and the materials are useful to not only post graduate students but also to researchers who seek to make new grounds in different dimensions of contemporary research in economics. Distributed in three sections the twelve chapters in the volume cover areas like black market in foreign exchange intellectual property rights and limitation products trade and environmental protection measures through joint ventures strategic specialization an comparative advantage in banking activities dualistic credit markets and social welfare firm size and imperfection in Indian capital market the relationships between risk and productivity of capital in India's banking industry government taxation and economic growth growth with child labour financial sector and non farm employment in the rural economy competition and collusion in specific quality rice market and the relation between uncertain market demand and choice of optimum capacity utilization in imperfectly competitive firms. While some of the papers are about rigorous empirical treatment of economic issues relevant in contemporary Indian context some of the papers address the theoretical issues which are relevant for developing nations as whole. 253 pp.…