DEVASHISH MITRA

 

BRAND NEW PAPER !   "Offshoring and Unemployment" by Devashish Mitra and Priya Ranjan

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal Articles

 

1)      “Inequality and the Instability of Polity and Policy,” (with Pushan Dutt), forthcoming in the Economic Journal

 

2)  “Temporary Shocks and Offshoring: The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity,” (with Priya Ranjan),      forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics.

 

3)  “Indian Manufacturing: A Slow Sector In A Rapidly Growing Economy,” (with Beyza Ural), forthcoming in the Journal  of International Trade and Economic Development.

4)  "The Economics of Offshoring," (with Priya Ranjan), forthcoming in the Singapore Economic Review.

5)      “Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Reforms with Majority Voting,” (with Pravin Krishna), Journal of Development Economics 85(1), February 2008, 81-93.

 

6)      “Inequality, Nonhomothetic Preferences and Trade: A Gravity Approach,” (with Vitor Trindade and Muhammed Dalgin), Southern Economic Journal 74(3). January 2008, 747-774.

 

7)      “Institutions and Policies for Growth and Poverty Reduction: The Role of Private Sector Development,” (with Rana Hasan and Mehmet Ulubasoglu), Asian Development Review 24(1), January 2008, 69-116.

 

8)  “Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from India,” (with Rana Hasan and K.V. Ramaswamy), Review of Economics & Statistics 89(3), August 2007, 466-481.

 

9)  “Trade Liberalization, Labor-Market Institutions and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Indian States,” (with Rana Hasan and Beyza P. Ural), India Policy Forum 3, August 2007, 71-122.  (Appendix)

10) "Labor versus Capital in Trade Policy: The Role of Ideology and Inequality," (with Pushan Dutt),  Journal of International Economics 69(2), July 2006, 310-20.

 

11) “Can we obtain realistic parameter estimates for the 'Protection for Sale' model?,” (with Dimitrios Thomakos and Mehmet Ulubasoglu), Canadian Journal of Economics 39(1), February 2006, 187-210.

12) “Inequality and Trade” (with Vitor Trindade), Canadian Journal of Economics 38(4), November 2005, 1253-71.

13) “The Political Economy of Trade Policy: Theory and Applications to Latin America,” Spanish translation “La economia    politica de la politica commercial: teoria y aplicaciones para America Latina” in Perspectivas 3(1), July 2005, 11-36.

14) “Reciprocated Unilateralism in Trade Policy” (co-authored with Pravin Krishna), Journal of International Economics. 65(2), March 2005, 461-487.
 

15) “Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An Empirical Investigation” (coauthored with Pushan Dutt), Review of Economics and Statistics 87(1), February 2005, 59-72..

 

16)  Economic (Dis)integration in the Presence of Evolutionary Learning,” (co-authored with Cem Karayalcin and Diego Mendez-Carbajo), Journal of Evolutionary Economics 14, October 2004, 463-481.

 

17)      "Protection versus Promotion: An Empirical Investigation," (co-authored with Dimitrios Thomakos and Mehmet Ulubasoglu), Economics & Politics. 16(2),  July 2004, 147-162.

 

18)    Endogenous Trade Policy Through Majority Voting: An Empirical Investigation,”  (co-authored with Pushan Dutt), Journal of International Economics 58(1), October 2002, 107-134.

 

19)    “Infrastructure, Returns to Scale and Sovereign Debt,”(co-authored with Cem Karayalcin and Kathryn Mcollister), Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 11(3), September 2002, 267-278.

 

20)  “Endogenous Political Organization and the Value of Trade Agreements,” Journal of International Economics 57(2), August 2002, 473-485.

 

21)  ‘Protection for Sale’ In A Developing Country: Democracy vs. Dictatorship,” (with Dimitrios Thomakos and Mehmet Ulubasoglu), The Review of Economics and Statistics 84(3), August 2002, 497-508.

 

22)  “Trade Liberalization and Labor Demand Elasticities: Evidence from Turkey,” (co-authored with Pravin Krishna and Sajjid Chinoy), Journal of International Economics 55(2), December 2001, pp. 391-409.

 

23)      “ ‘Protection for Sale’ and Political Regimes: Empirical Evidence,”(co-authored with Dimitrios Thomakos and Mehmet Ulubasoglu), International Advances in Economic Research, Research Notes section, May 2001, pp. 270.

 

24)      “Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture and Manufacturing,” (co-authored with Will Martin), Economic Development & Cultural Change 49(2), January 2001, pp. 403-422.

 

25)      On the Endogenous Choice Between Protection and Promotion,” Economics & Politics 12(1), March 2000, pp. 33-52.

 

26)      Endogenous Lobby Formation and Endogenous Protection: A Long Run Model of Trade Policy Determination,” American Economic Review 89(5), December 1999, pp. 1116-1134.

 

27)  Multiple Equilibria, Coordination and Transitional Growth” (co-authored with Cem Karayalcin), Journal of Development Economics 60(2), December 1999, pp. 297-316.

 

28)  “History, Coordination and Optimality: Some Policy Lessons,” Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 8(2), June 1999, pp. 185-193.

 

29)  Trade Liberalization, Market Discipline and Productivity Growth: New Evidence from India,” (co-authored with Pravin Krishna), Journal of Development Economics 56(2), August 1998, pp. 447-462.

 

30)  “The Labor Market Impact of the Indian Trade Reforms,” (co-authored with Uma Kambhampati and Pravin Krishna), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 6(2), June 1997, pp. 287-297.

 

Book Chapters

 

31)      “International Trade and Economic Development,’ forthcoming in the K.A. Reinert and R.S. Rajan, eds., Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy.

 

32)      “Political Economy of Trade Policy,” forthcoming in S. Durlauf and L. Blume, eds., the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, May 2008.

 

33) “Introduction,” (co-authored with Arvind Panagariya) in Devashish Mitra and Arvind Panagariya, eds., The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Foreign Investment Policies, Elsevier, September 2004, 1-8.

 

34)      “Unilateralism in Trade Policy: A Survey of Alternative Political-Economy Approaches,” (co-authored with Pravin Krishna) in Devashish Mitra and Arvind Panagariya, eds., The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Foreign Investment Policies, Elsevier, September 2004, 197-212.

 

35)      “Introduction,” (co-authored with Rana Hasan) in Rana Hasan and Devashish Mitra, eds., The Impact of Trade on Labor: Issues, Perspectives and Experience  from Developing Asia, North-Holland, May 2003, 1-16.

 

36)      “Trade Reforms, Labor Markets and Imperfect Competition,” in Rana Hasan and Devashish Mitra, eds., The Impact of Trade on Labor: Issues, Perspectives and Experience  from Developing Asia, North-Holland, May 2003, 127-139.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

37)  Review of [Graham, Edward M. and David M. Marchik, US National Security and Foreign Investment , Institute for International Economics, Washington DC, 2006],  Journal of Economic Literature 45, December 2007, 1042-1044.

 

38) Review of  [Mattoo, Aditya and Robert M. Stern, eds., India and the WTO.  Washington, DC: A Copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2003], American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 88(2), May 2006, pp. 517-519.

 

39)      Review of [Grossman, Gene M. and Helpman, Elhanan, Interest Groups and Trade Policy, Princeton University Press, 2002,  Economic Journal 113(488), June 2003, pp. F390-392.

 

40)      Review of [Easterly, William, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics, MIT Press, 2001], Southern Economic Journal 68(4), April 2002, pp. 979-983.

 

 

Conference Proceedings

 

41)      “International Trade and Labor Markets: Evidence from Turkey,” (co-authored with Sajjid Chinoy and Pravin Krishna), Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies: Proceedings of the Middle East Economic Association Meetings, Vol. 1,   New York, 1999.

 

Edited Volumes

 

42)      The Political Economy of Trade, Aid and Foreign Investment Policies (co-edited with Arvind Panagariya), Elsevier, September 2004.

 

43)      The Impact of Trade on Labor: Issues, Perspectives and Experience  from Developing Asia, (co-edited with Rana Hasan), North Holland, May 2003.

 

PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

 

1)      “Offshoring and Unemployment,” (with Priya Ranjan)

 

2)      “International Trade and Unemployment: Theory and Cross-National Evidence,” (with Priya Ranjan and Pushan Dutt)

CURRENT PROJECTS

 

1)      “Protection and Unemployment: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence,” (with Pushan Dutt and Priya Ranjan)

 

2)      “Offshoring, Firm Heterogeneity, Entry and Exit, and Productivity: Theory and

      Evidence,” (with Pushan Dutt and Priya Ranjan)

 

3)      “The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection,” (with Pushan Dutt)

 

4)      “The Determinants of Services Exports,” (with Priya Ranjan and Beyza Ural)