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Growth with Time Zone Differences

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  • Toru Kikuchi

    (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University)

  • Sugata Marjit

    (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India.)

Abstract

We propose a two-country growth model of intermediate businessservices trade that captures the role of time zone differences. It is shown that a time-saving improvement in intermediate businessservices trade involving production in different time zones can have a permanent impact on productivity.

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  • Toru Kikuchi & Sugata Marjit, 2010. "Growth with Time Zone Differences," Discussion Papers 0920, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
    • Handle: RePEc:koe:wpaper:0920
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    2. Arundhati Sinha Roy & Anwesha Aditya & Siddhartha Chattopadhyay & Sugata Marjit, 2024. "Comparative Advantage in the 24/7 Economy: Time-Zone Differences and Service Trade Flows," CESifo Working Paper Series 11290, CESifo.
    3. Sugata Marjit & Biswajit Mandal, 2017. "Virtual trade between separated time zones and growth," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 13(2), pages 171-183, June.
    4. Toru Kikuchi & Sugata Marjit & Biswajit Mandal, 2013. "Trade with Time Zone Differences: Factor Market Implications," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 17(4), pages 699-711, November.
    5. Ramesh Chandra Das & Tonmoy Chatterjee, 2021. "Trade liberalization and R&D activity: examining long-run and short-run linkages for individual and panel of leading countries and groups," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 54(4), pages 1091-1118, November.
    6. Biswajit Mandal & Sujata Ghosh, 2020. "Communication Cost, Skilled-Unskilled Wage, and Informality," Journal of Quantitative Economics, Springer;The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), vol. 18(4), pages 927-939, December.
    7. Biswajit Mandal & Sugata Marjit & Noritsugu Nakanishi, 2018. "Outsourcing, factor prices and skill formation in countries with non-overlapping time zones," Eurasian Economic Review, Springer;Eurasia Business and Economics Society, vol. 8(2), pages 289-304, August.
    8. Biswajit Mandal & Alaka Shree Prasad, 2020. "A simple model of time zone differences, virtual trade and informality," Indian Growth and Development Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 14(1), pages 81-96, June.
    9. Sugata Marjit & Anwesha Basu & C. Veeramani, 2019. "Growth Gains from Trade," CESifo Working Paper Series 7905, CESifo.
    10. Sugata Marjit, "undated". "Virtual Trade and Growth," Economics Working Papers 02-01/2015, School of Business Administration, American University of Sharjah.
    11. Noritsugu Nakanishi & Ngo Van Long, 2020. "A new impetus for endogenous growth: R&D offshoring via virtual labor mobility," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(3), pages 846-883, August.
    12. Alaka Shree Prasad & Biswajit Mandal, 2019. "Time zone difference, skill formation and corrupt informal sector: the role of virtual trade," Indian Economic Review, Springer, vol. 54(2), pages 261-290, December.
    13. Mandal, Biswajit & Prasad, Alaka Shree, 2018. "Time Zone Differences, Communication Cost and Service Trade," MPRA Paper 87465, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    14. Mandal, Biswajit & Prasad, Alaka Shree & Bhattacharjee, Prasun, 2017. "A Review of Literature on Time Zone Difference and Trade," MPRA Paper 78779, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    15. Sugata Marjit & Lei Yang, 2020. "An Elementary Theorem on Gains from Virtual Trade," Working Papers 2046, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade.
    16. Sugata Marjit & Manoj Pant & Sugandha Huria, 2020. "Unskilled immigration, technical progress, and wages—Role of the household sector," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(1), pages 235-251, February.
    17. Prasad, Alaka Shree & Mandal, Biswajit, 2019. "Virtual trade between different time zones, educational capital and corrupt informal sector," MPRA Paper 96963, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Das, Maitrayee & Mandal, Biswajit, 2025. "Distance related time zone difference, waiting time, trade, and Dutch disease," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 79(4).
    19. Marjit, Sugata & Yang, Lei, 2020. "An Elementary Theorem on Gains from Virtual Trade," MPRA Paper 104088, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation

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