#2007-024A "Trade and Child Labor: A General Equilibrium Analysis"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Sudeshna C. Bandyopadhyay
May 2007

This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the goods is a non-traded good. More...

PUBLISHED: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, January/February 2009, 45(1), pp. 5-18

#2007-023A "Foreign Aid and Export Performance: A Panel Data Analysis of Developing Countries"
by Jonathan Munemo, Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Arabinda Basistha
May 2007

The effect of foreign aid on economic activity of a country can be dampened due to potentially adverse effects on exports through a real exchange rate appreciation. More...

PUBLISHED: in Sajal Lahiri ed. “Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid”, Elsevier, May 2007, pp. 421-33

#2007-022A "Corruption and Trade Protection: Evidence from Panel Data"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Suryadipta Roy
May 2007

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of corruption and poor institutions on trade protection. It exploits data on several measures of trade protection including import duty, international trade taxes, and the trade-GDP ratio. More...

PUBLISHED: International Journal of Economic Research, 2007, 4(2), pp. 124-34

#2007-021A "Nash Equilibrium Tariffs and Illegal Immigration: An Analysis of Preferential Trade Liberalization"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Ryo Takashima
May 2007

We use a version of the small-union Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. More...

PUBLISHED: International Economics and Finance Journal, January/February 2007, 2(1-2), pp. 51-66

#2006-062B "Is There Too Little Immigration? An Analysis of Temporary Skilled Migration"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Howard J. Wall
December 2006
Revised August 2007

This paper presents a model of legal migration of temporary skilled workers from one source country to two host countries, both of which can control their levels of such immigration. More...

PUBLISHED: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, June 2008, 17(2), pp. 197-211

#2006-021B "The Determinants of Aid in the Post-Cold War Era"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Howard J. Wall
April 2006
Revised October 2006

This paper estimates the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries’ economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. More...

PUBLISHED: in Sajal Lahiri, ed., Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid, Elsevier, May 2007, pp. 387-402. Reprinted in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2007, 89(6), pp. 533-47.

#2005-074C "Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Outsourcing: Global Competitiveness versus Political Feasibility"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Howard J. Wall
December 2005
Revised January 2007

We analyze the effects of outsourcing in the presence of a minimum wage by presenting a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing sector. More...

PUBLISHED: Economics and Politics, July 2007, 19(2), pp. 219-34

#2005-069E "Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Cletus C. Coughlin, and Howard J. Wall
October 2005
Revised January 2006

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic networks on U.S. exports. More...

PUBLISHED: Review of International Economics, February 2008, 16(1), pp. 199-213

#2005-058C "Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Howard J. Wall
August 2005
Revised December 2007

This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms in response to market conditions and through policy-imposed barriers. More...

FORTHCOMING: Review of Development Economics

#1999-017A "Endogenous Export Subsidies and Welfare Under Domestic Cost Heterogeneity"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Eun-Soo Park, and Howard J. Wall


We present a model of Cournot rivalry where domestic and foreign firms compete in a third country market, and where the domestic export subsidy is determined by lobbying. Greater domestic cost heterogeneity (a mean-preserving spread of the marginal costs of the domestic firms) means that the subsidy level, aggregate domestic output, and domestic market share will all be higher. More...

PUBLISHED: Economics and Politics, 2004, 16:3, pp. 347-366