Biswajit Mandal – författare

Virtual economic transactions have radically transformed the way we think about trade and markets in closed and open economies. Continuous decline in costs of information and communications and setting up of phenomenally large number of virtual platforms have brought in 'Time' as an essential element in the discourse on international trade. This work delves deep into the issue of how Time enters as a major catalyst of international trade and virtual transactions. This changes the way we look at ideas of comparative advantage, factor mobility, growth, income distribution, and allied concepts. A key result is that greater physical distance might encourage trade contrary to what we are accustomed to accept.

This book presents competitive trade models to recast them from the perspective of an economy which is beset with corruption and related intermediation that requires some sort of cost. It innovatively transforms traditional models (HOSV, SFM, HO nugget) by treating intermediation as a distinct economic sector that consumes factors of production.Through rigorous general equilibrium analysis, it also discusses real life events such as trade liberalization, capital inflow, labor immobility, extortion, etc. It is unquestionably an exciting approach to paving the way for future research around trade and development in competitive trade models befitting developing economies where ramifications of corruption and related damages are pervasive.This book will be of interest to researchers, faculty members, and policy makers working with international trade theory and policy, development economics and labour economics.

Given the nonexistence of any research-oriented in-depth analyses of competitive trade models with time-zone differences, this book is a valuable addition to the resources available to researchers and policymakers interested in deciphering recent developments in global trade patterns and the subsequent welfare effect.

Given the nonexistence of any research-oriented in-depth analyses of competitive trade models with time-zone differences, this book is a valuable addition to the resources available to researchers and policymakers interested in deciphering recent developments in global trade patterns and the subsequent welfare effect.