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Books/Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
- Das, Gouranga G., Akgul, Zeynep, and Badrinarayan, G. (April 2023). " How do Productivity benefits spill over across Firms? Explorations in a Heterogeneous Firm Applied General Equilibrium Trade model," Politicka Ekonomie, Scientific journal of Economic Theory and Policy (SSCI, ABDC, SCOPUS), https://polek.vse.cz/about-journal/inf-990000-2100_Databases.php.
- Das, Gouranga, Ranajoy Bhattacharyya, and Sugata Marjit (April 2023). “Contract Farming and Food Insecurity in an Open Competitive Economy: Growth, Distribution, and Government Policy.” Journal of Risk and Financial Management, MDPI, (SCOPUS, ABDC B), Vol: 16, https://doi.org/10.3390/xxxxx.
- Das, Gouranga G., Edimon Ginting, Aimee Hampel and Mark Horridge (May 2022). Key binding constraints, structural reform, and growth potential of Azerbaijan via economic diversification: A computable general equilibrium policy impact analysis. Journal of Eurasian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/18793665221096688 .Sage Publishers (SCOPUS). Pp 1—26.
- Marjit, S., and Das, Gouranga G.(October 2021). The New Ricardian Specific-Factor Model. Journal of Asian Economics (SCOPUS, SSCI, ABS 1, IF 2.159), 76, October 21. Invited paper for Special Issues in Honor of Ronald W. Jones.
- Das, Gouranga G., Sugata Marjit and Mausumi Kar (March 2020). The Impact of Immigration on Skills, Innovation and Wages: Education Matters more than where People come from, pp. 1-27. Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier (SSCI).
- Das, Gouranga G. (2020). Trade, Environment, and Adjustments: Contemporary themes. Foreign Trade Review (ESCI, SCOPUS), pp.7—11. (Chief Guest Editor).
- Das, Gouranga G. and Imed Drine (January 2020). Distance from the Technology Frontier: How could Africa Catch-up via Socio-Institutional Factors and Human Capital? (accepted in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 150, 119755, (SSCI).
- Das, Gouranga G. (2019-20). Trade war, Global Restructuring and Global Production Network:
- Beating the Odds. Foreign Trade Review (ESCI, SCOPUS), 55 (1), pp.7—12, DOI: 10.1177/0015732519886770. (Chief Guest Editor). February 2020.
- Das, Gouranga G. (October 2019). "Ability-Biased Technical Change and Productivity Bonus in a Nested Production Structure: A Theoretical Model with Endogenous Hicks-Neutral Technology Spillover.” Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 66 (3), pp. 415-450, DOI: 10.2478/saeb-2019-0030, (ESCI, SCOPUS).
- Das, Gouranga G. (February 2018). “Land-Grab in the presence of Skill formation.” Book Chapter in Essays in Honour of Professor Deepak Nayyar, (Dastidar, A.G., R. Malhotra and V. Suneja (eds), “Economic Theory and Policy amidst Global Discontent”, London: Routledge, 2018) at: https://www.routledge.com/Economic-Theory-and-Policy-amidst-Global-Discontent/Dastidar-Malhotra-Suneja/p/book/9781138689213
- Das, Gouranga G. (May 2017). “Food–feed–biofuel trilemma: Biotechnological innovation policy for sustainable development “. Journal of Policy Modelling, accepted May 2017, Elsevier, SSCI)
- Das, Gouranga G. (January 2015). “Why some countries are slow in acquiring new technologies? A Model of Trade-led Diffusion and Absorption” Journal of Policy Modelling, 37, pp. 65-91, Elsevier, SSCI)
- Bhattacharya, S. K. and Gouranga G. Das (December 2014). “Can South-South Trade Agreements Reduce Development Deficits? An Exploration of SAARC during 1995-2008.” Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 9 (3), pp. 253-285 (ISI, SSCI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (March 2014). “What role ‘Learning’? A North-South Tale of Enrichment Effects” Journal of Economic Forecasting, Vol. 17 (1), pp. 67-85. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Gouranga G. Das (February 2013): “Moving” land across borders: Spatial shifts in land demand and immiserizing effects, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, DOI:10.1080/17487870.2012.761459, 16(1), pp. 46—67. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (December 2012). “Fragmentation in Production, Vertical Integration and Wage Inequality: A Theoretical Note”. Modern Economy. Vol. 3, pp. 958-964. Scientific Research Publications. (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (May 2012). "Globalization, Socio-institutional factors and North-South Knowledge Diffusion: Role of India and China as Southern Growth Progenitors." Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, 79 (4), pp. 620-637. (SSCI, ISI listed) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2011.05.013
- Das, Gouranga G. (July 2011). "How does trade-mediated Technology Transfer affect Inter-regional and Inter-sectoral Competition? Exploration of Multisectoral Effects in a Global Trade Model." African Journal of Business Management, Vol 5 (14), pp 5871-5886. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (August 2010). “How to Reap the Induced Technological Bonus? A Mechanism and Illustrative Implementation”. Modern Economy. Vol. 1 (2), pp. 80—88. Scientific Research Publications. DOI: 10.4236/me.2010.12008. (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (August 2009). "A Hybrid Production Structure in Trade: Theory and Implications" International Review of Economics, Springer, Online Version: September 2009, Vol. 56, No. 4, December 2009, pp. 359-375. DOI 10.1007/s12232-009-0082-9. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (June 2009). "Intra-Industry Trade and Development: Revisiting Theory, Measurement and New Evidences." Indian Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 8, No. 1, June 2009, pp. 79-115. (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G., H. K. Nath, and H. M. Yildiz (March 2009). “International Productivity Differences and the Roles of Domestic Investment, FDI, and Trade.” International Economic Journal, Vol: 23, No: 1, pp. 121-142. DOI: 10.1080/10168730802700277, (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (December 2008). “Modelling Sectoral and Welfare Impacts of Information Technology Spillover: A Tale of Two Souths." Indian Journal of Economics and Business, Vol. 7, No. 2, December 2008, pp. 195-205. (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (March 2008). "Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Convergence? The Role of Technology Adoption in Reducing the Inequality of Nations." Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Vol: 11, No: 1, March 2008, pp. 67-92. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (July 2007). "Information Age to Genetic Revolution: Embodied Technology Transfer and Assimilation—A Tale of Two Technologies", Technological Forecasting and Social Change, North-Holland, Elsevier, Vol 74, Issue 6, pp. 819-842. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (December 2007). "Who leads and who lags? Technology Diffusion, E-commerce and Trade Facilitation in a model of Northern hub vis-à-vis Southern spokes." – Journal of Economic Integration, Vol 22. No 4, pp. 929-972. (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G., and Soamiely Andriamananjara (2006). “Hub-and-Spokes FTAs in the Presence of Technology Spillovers: An application to the Western Hemisphere”--Review of World Economics, Springer-Verlag (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) –Vol. 142, No. 1, pp. 33-66. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (2005). “Growth and Pattern of Intra-Industry Trade in Manufactures in India’s Overall Trade: A Quantitative Analysis”--Indian Journal of Economics and Business, Vol 4, No: 1, pp. 161-184, June 2005, Serials Publications. (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G., J. R. R. Alavalapati, D. R. Carter and M. E. Tsigas (2005). “Regional impacts of environmental regulations and technical change in the U.S. forestry sector: A multiregional CGE analysis”--Forest Policy and Economics—Vol: 7 (1), pp. 25-38, North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publisher. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. and Janaki R. R. Alavalapati (2003). “Trade Mediated Biotechnology Transfer and its Effective Absorption: An Application to the U.S. Forestry Sector”--Technological Forecasting and Social Change: An International Journal Volume 70, Issue: 6 pp. 545-562, North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publisher. (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (2003). “Elasticity of Substitution and Disaggregation of Labor by Skill Level: Empirical Measurement Using a Global Database” ¾ Applied Econometrics and International Development, Vol: 3, No: 1, pp. 81—102, Euro-American Association of Economic Development Studies, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (2003). “Cross-Country Analysis of Empirical Evidences of Intra-industry Trade in Manufactures for Dynamic Asian and Other Developing Economies: Implications for Economic Growth and Development” ¾The Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Volume 17, Number 2, pp. 49-75.
- Das, Gouranga G. (2003). “Trade, Endogenous Technology Capture and Induced Productivity: a Numerical Analysis” Research Institute of Digital Economics (RIDE) Journal of Business and Economics, Volume 8, pp. 223—246, Hanyang University, South Korea.
- Das, Gouranga G. (2002). “Trade, Technology and Human Capital: Stylised Facts and Quantitative Evidence”¾The World Economy, Volume 25, Issue 2, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford (U.K.) & Boston (U.S.A.). (SSCI, ISI listed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (2002). “Trade-induced Technology Spillover and Adoption: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Application” ¾Journal of Economic Development, Volume 27, Number 2, pp. 21-44, December 2002. (AEA-ECONLIT indexed)
- Das, Gouranga G. (2001). “Absorptive Capacity and Structural Congruence: The Binding Constraints on the Acquisition of Technology—An Analytical Survey of the Underlying Issues.”-- The Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Volume XV, No. 2 (February, 2001), pp. 117-140, Seoul National University, South Korea.
- Das, Gouranga G. and Alan A. Powell (2001). “Absorption Capacity, Structural Similarity and Embodied Technology Spillovers in a ‘Macro’ model: An Implementation within a Computable General Equilibrium Framework.”-- The Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Volume XV1, No. 1 (August, 2001), pp. 111-132, Seoul National University, South Korea.
Working Papers:
- Sugata Marjit and Gouranga Das (February 2022). Immunity-Driven Comparative Advantage and its Palliative Effect on Social Health and Inequality - A Theoretical Perspective. CESifo Working Paper No. 9569, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4035106 pp. 1-23
- Sugata Marjit and Gouranga Das (December 2022). Contact-Intensity, Unemployment and Finite Change: The Case of Entertainment Sector under Pandemic-A General Equilibrium Approach. Global Labor Organization (GLO) Discussion Paper No. 1200 and ECONSTOR (ZBW-Leibniz Information Center for Economics). http://hdl.handle.net/10419/266374
- Sugata Marjit, Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh and Gouranga Das (September 2022). Market Size and Number of Firms with New Technology. CESifo Working Paper No. 9934, Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH The international platform of Ludwigs-Maximilians University’s Center for Economic Studies and the ifo Institute Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany
- Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4219438 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4219438
- Sugata Marjit and Gouranga Das (April 2022). Finance, Trade, Man and Machines: A NewRicardian Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson Model. CESifo Working Paper No. 9672, Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH The international platform of Ludwigs-Maximilians University’s Center for Economic Studies and the ifo Institute Poschingerstr. 5, 81679 Munich, Germany
- Sugata Marjit and Gouranga Das (September 2021). Contact-Intensity, Collapsing Entertainment Sector and Wage Inequality: A Finite Change Model of Covid-19 Impact. CESifo Working Papers ISSN 2364-1428 (electronic version) Publisher and distributor: Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH WP # 93112021
- Sugata Marjit and Gouranga Das (April 2021). The New Ricardian Specific Factor Model. CESifo Working Papers ISSN 2364-1428 (electronic version) Publisher and distributor: Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research - CESifo GmbH WP # 90522021
- Bhattacharyya, Ranajoy; Das, Gouranga; Marjit, Sugata (June 2021). Effect of Contract Farming in a Small Open Less-Developed Economy: A General Equilibrium Analysis.
Working Paper #21-02 International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) IATRC 10.22004/ag.econ.312026 ISSN 1098-9210 - Das, Gouranga G., Sugata Marjit and Mausumi Kar (August 2019). Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants be the Trump Card? (Empirical Extension of the Theory). CESifo Working Papers. ISSN 2364‐1428 (electronic version), pp. 1—28. Working Paper No. 7794-2019. https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp7794.pdf
- Das, Gouranga G. and Sugata Marjit (May 2018). Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants be the Trump Card? CESifo Working Papers. ISSN 2364‐1428 (electronic version), pp. 1—28. Working Paper No. 7082.
- Das, Gouranga G. (April 2012). Trans-border Land Acquisitions: A New Guise of Outsourcing and Host Country Effects. United Nations University—World Institute of Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) ‘New Directions in Development Economics’ Project Working Paper No. 2012/43.pp. 1—54. Helsinki, Finland. Access at: http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/2012/en_GB/wp2012-043/
- Bhattacharya, S. K. and Gouranga G. Das (November 2011). “Do South-South Trade Agreements enhance member countries’ trade? Evaluating Implications for Development potentials in the context of SAARC.” Working Paper—W-2011/2 (pg.1-49) for the United Nations University Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Belgium. (at: http://www.cris.unu.edu/fileadmin/workingpapers/W-2011-2.pdf)
- Das, Gouranga G. (January 2007). "Does Trade and Technology Transmission facilitate Inequality Convergence? An Inquiry into the role of Technology in reducing the Poverty of Nations." –Working Paper (WP/07/16) for IMF, Washington DC. (http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=19860.0)
- Das, Gouranga G., and Soamiely Andriamananjara (2004). “Hub-and-Spokes FTAs in the Presence of Technology Spillovers: An application to the Western Hemisphere” (Electronically published in Social Science Research Network, Economics Research Network at www.ssrn.com). Also, published as Office of Economics Working Paper, United States International Trade Commission, September 2004, No: 2004-09-A. (Published).
- Das, Gouranga G. and Alan A. Powell (2001). “Absorption Capacity, Structural Similarity and Embodied Technology Spillovers in a Macro model: An Implementation within the GTAP Framework.”--Working Paper IP-77, Centre of Policy Studies/IMPACT Project, Monash University, Australia. Available electronically at http://www.monash.edu.au/policy/ELECPAPR/ip-77.htm and also in Social Science Research Network Electronic Library (for Economic Research Network) at http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=281529 (Published)
- Das, Gouranga G. (1999). “What is assumed in the GTAP Database’s Disaggregation of Labor By Skill Level?”--Working Paper IP-75, Centre of Policy Studies/ IMPACT Project, Monash University, Australia. (Published)
Books/Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
- Virtual Trade and Markets in a Changing World—Comparative Advantage, Growth and Inequality. October 2023. Cambridge Elements Book Series, Cambridge University Press (With Prof. Biswajit Mandal, Viswa-Bharati University, and Prof. Sugata Marjit, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India).
- Sugata Marjit and Gouranga Das (June 2023). Contact Intensity, Unemployment and Finite Change-The Case of Entertainment Sector under Pandemic. Pages 29-48, Volume in Contemporary Themes in Development Economics. Series Title: India Studies in Business and Economics, Managing Pandemic and Correcting Development Fundamentals—India’s Great Challenge. Ajitava Raychaudhuri and Arpita Ghose (Editors). Springer Nature, Singapore.
- Ranajoy Bhattacharya, Riddhi Chatterjee, and Gouranga Das (May 2022). Import Demand Function under Forex Constraints. In Issues in International Economics and Finance, Essays in Honour of Prof Bandi Kamaiah, Springer Nature. Chief Editor—Prof. Yoshino Naoyuki, Former CEO of Asian Development Bank Institute.
- Invited Book Editor: Das, Gouranga G, and R. B. Johnson (August 2020): Rwandan Economy at the Crossroads of Development: Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Perspectives. Springer Book Series: Frontiers in African Business Research. Springer Publisher. ISBN: 978-981-15-5045-4, 978-981-15-5046-1, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5046-1 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811550454, https://books.google.co.kr/books/about/Rwandan_Economy_at_the_Crossroads_of_Dev.html?id=G-LuDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
- Das, Gouranga G. (July/August 2020). Introduction and Overview. In Das, Gouranga G, and R. B. Johnson (July 2020): Rwandan Economy at the Crossroads of Development: Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Perspectives. ISBN: 978-981-15-5045-4, 978-981-15-5046-1
- Invited Book Editor: Das, Gouranga G. ‘Current Issues in International Trade: Methodologies and Development Implications for the World Economy.’ Nova Science Publishers, NY, USA. Published August 2014. ISBN: 978-1-63321-405-7
- Das, Gouranga G. (August 2014). CGE Methodology And Trade-Technology Nexus Redux: Illustrations And Synthesis For Modelling And Policy Analysis. In Das, Gouranga G (Ed.) ‘Current Issues in International Trade: Methodologies and Development Implications for the World Economy.’ Nova Science Publishers, NY, USA. Published August 2014. ISBN: 978-1-63321-405-7
- Invited Book Chapter/Lead Author: ‘’Land Use, Land Cover, and Food-Energy-Environment Trade-off: Key issues and Insights for Millennium Development Goals.” In Encyclopaedia of Agriculture and Food Systems, Vol. 4, Editor-in-Chief Neal Van Alfen (August 2014), Elsevier, San Diego: pp. 114-133.
- Invited Book Chapter/Lead Author: Das, Gouranga G. and Hongyul Han (April 2013). "Trade in Middle Products between South Korea and China: A Survey on Extent of Off-shoring.” pp. 276-310. Invited Book Chapter in: Bardhan, Kroll and Jaffe (University of California Berkeley, USA) (Editors-in-Chief), Oxford Handbook of Off-shoring and Global Employment. Oxford University Press, UC Berkeley and Oxford.
- Invited Book Chapter/Lead Author: Das, Gouranga G. (March 2014). “Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Asia: Exploring the Implications of the Cooperation between the EU and Asia via Technology” In Book publication “Food Security - The Role of Asia and Europe in Production, Trade and Regionalism”, Invited Chapter, EU-ASIA Dialogue Project (implemented by: East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, and European Policy Centre, European Union Centre Singapore, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. (KAS).
- Invited Book Chapter/Lead Author: Das, Gouranga G. (2009). "Triads of Food, Feed, and Fuel: Economic Implications of Developing Science and Technology in Soybean and Other Crops." Book Chapter in: Frank Columbus (Editor-in-Chief), Soybean Crops: Growth, Fertilization and Yield. Nova Science Publishers, N.Y., USA.
- Das, Gouranga G. (November 2008). "Agricultural Trade Reforms and Development Experience in the 1990s: A Bird's Eye View with Special Focus on India." Monograph Series (ISBN: 978-89-86998-14-6), Hanyang University, KISDI Publishers, South Korea.
- Invited Book Chapter/Lead Author: (with Alavalapati, Janaki R. R., and C. Wilkerson. “Emerging Issues of Globalization: Implications for Forest Use in the U.S. and Canada”— Book Chapter in: B. Shindler, B. Steel, and T. Beckley (eds.), Two Paths through the Forest: The Sustainability Challenge in Canada and the United States. Oregon University Press, USA, pp. 251-270. 2003
- Invited Book Chapter/Lead Author: (with Arindam Banik, and Rajat Kathuria. “Indo-US Trade: A Birds Eye View of the Issues”, Book Chapter in: Pranab Banerji (Editor), Issues in the U.S. Trade, Kanishka Publishing House, New Delhi, India. 1996