All Outputs (5)

Institutions or geography: Which matters most in economic development? (2013)
Journal Article
Saha, B. (2013). Institutions or geography: Which matters most in economic development?. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 25(1-2), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1177/0260107914524668

Although development economics generally confines its attention to the last 60 years, there is a growing body of research that looks back centuries and tries to determine if the events in the long past are responsible for underdevelopment of today’s... Read More about Institutions or geography: Which matters most in economic development?.

Trade openness, labour institutions and flexibilisation: Theory and evidence from India. (2013)
Journal Article
Saha, B., Sen, K., & Maiti, D. (2013). Trade openness, labour institutions and flexibilisation: Theory and evidence from India. Labour Economics, 24, 180-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2013.08.008

There is a global trend of substituting permanent workers by workers on fixed term contracts, job outsourcing and production subcontracting. Labour institutions and globalisation are often taken to be causally related to this phenomenon, but the evid... Read More about Trade openness, labour institutions and flexibilisation: Theory and evidence from India..

Mixed duopoly and environment. (2013)
Journal Article
Saha, B., & Pal, R. (2014). Mixed duopoly and environment. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 16(1), 96-118. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpet.12056

We show under general demand and cost conditions that in a mixed duopoly with pollution the government can implement the socially optimal outputs and abatements by a tax-subsidy scheme and keeping the public firm fully public. The scheme requires tax... Read More about Mixed duopoly and environment..

Bilateral Delegation in Wage and Employment Bargaining in Monopoly (2013)
Journal Article
Chatterjee, I., & Saha, B. (2013). Bilateral Delegation in Wage and Employment Bargaining in Monopoly. Economics Letters, 120(2), 280-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.009

We study efficiency and distributional implications of bilateral delegation in wage and employment bargaining in monopoly. Delegation causes underproduction, and the bargaining pie severely contracts rendering mutual gains from delegation impossible.... Read More about Bilateral Delegation in Wage and Employment Bargaining in Monopoly.

State ownership, credit risk and bank competition: a mixed oligopoly approach. (2013)
Journal Article
Saha, B., & Sensarma, R. (2013). State ownership, credit risk and bank competition: a mixed oligopoly approach. Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 6(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/17520843.2011.641719

The recent financial crisis led many governments to buy equity in banks leading to situations of mixed oligopoly in banking markets. We model such a case where a partially state-owned bank competes with a private bank in collecting deposits. The gove... Read More about State ownership, credit risk and bank competition: a mixed oligopoly approach..