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Capital inflow, vanishing sector and wage distribution in an economy with corruption related intermediation

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  • Biswajit Mandal

    (Visva-Bharati University, India)

  • Sugata Marjit

    (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta, India)

Abstract

This paper formulates a specific factor model of trade with skilled and unskilled workers as the specific and capital as the mobile factors. Production of goods is subject to intermediation and corruption. We then allow for international capital mobility and show that corruption as an activity may be squeezed out if the cost of intermediation is held fixed at any exogenously fixed level.

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  • Biswajit Mandal & Sugata Marjit, 2012. "Capital inflow, vanishing sector and wage distribution in an economy with corruption related intermediation," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 32(3), pages 2128-2135.
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    1. Sugata Marjit & Biswajit Mandal, 2016. "Finite Change—Implication for Trade Theory, Policy and Development," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: S. Mahendra Dev & P.G. Babu (ed.), Development in India, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 271-282, Springer.
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    5. Mandal Biswajit, 2018. "Tax on Traded Goods, and Corrupt Non-traded Goods Sector: Implications for Intermediation Activities," Review of Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 69(1), pages 27-41, April.
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    8. Mandal, Biswajit, 2014. "Traded Goods, Tax and Intermediation - the Role of Corrupt Nontraded Sector," MPRA Paper 56525, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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