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Credit Market Imperfection, Lack of Entrepreneurs and Capital Outflow from a Developing Economy

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...

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Contact-Intensity, Collapsing Entertainment Sector and Wage Inequality : A Finite Change Model of COVID-19 Impact

Marjit, Sugata; Das, Gouranga - 2021

In a general equilibrium model with online, entertainment and informal sectors employing skill, unskilled, and capital, we show that Covid-19 could cause polarization pushing contact-intensive entertainment industry on the brink of collapse while other two survive. Dual roles of factor-intensity...

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Quadratic Costs, Innovation and Welfare : The Role of Technology

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

In a Cournot oligopoly set up with constant marginal cost and linear demand, innovation is rewarding. In this paper we … work with a Cournot oligopoly framework with increasing marginal cost and linear demand and show that innovation may not be … interaction we attempt to capture and explain is the one of technology with the possibility of innovation via the intensity of …

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A Theory of Indifference Based on Status-Seeking Behaviour

Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Pandey, … - 2023

psychology and economic theory literature on the causes and consequences of status-seeking behaviour. It integrates the idea in a …

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Inequality Convergence and Distribution Neutral Fiscal Policy

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

We provide an interesting empirical evidence dealing with the cross country data on equality i.e. movements of Gini coefficient over last four decades. This seems to suggest a robust empirical evidence that the growth or change in inequality across nations has a negative relation with initial...

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Minimum Wage, Trade and Unemployment in General Equilibrium

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age-old conventional wisdom on its head. This paper demonstrates that this apparently paradoxical result is perfectly plausible in a competitive general equilibrium production...

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Sham Litigation, Delayed Tax Payment and Evasion : The Role of Informal Credit Market

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

We model the interaction between the informal credit market and the act of tax collection by the government; in presence and functioning of the informal credit market, the agents (the tax paying firms) engage in false or sham litigation and deferred tax payments. During the litigation period...

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The Dynamics of Finance-Growth-Inequality Nexus : Theory and Evidence for India

Das, Pranab Kumar - 2019

The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth ‘nexus’ to finance-growth-inequality ‘nexus’ in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study...

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Asset Level Heterogeneity, Competition and Export Incentives : The Role of Credit Rationing

Marjit, Sugata - 2020

Firm heterogeneity is mostly discussed in the literature from the viewpoint of productivity differential. In contrast this paper recognizes wealth heterogeneity as an important factor that results in firm heterogeneity. The issue of wealth heterogeneity and export incentive through credit market...

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Market Size and Number of Firms with New Technology

Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Das, Gouranga - 2022

In this paper, unlike the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that the relationship between the size of the market and number of firms would be non-monotonic. While moderate rise in the size would force the local firms to exit and only the foreign firm rules, substantial rise in the size would...

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