Abstract Trade between India and China has been rising exponentially with a widening trade deficit for India, which raised alarm by businesses, some Indian parliamentarians have started accusing of unfair practices. Nevertheless, both countries intend to negotiate free arrangements them based on complementarity. This study examines how much reduction in due different preferential trading is fea...

This paper develops a new model of a trade agreement that puts at center stage the competing interests between firms within a sector. Larger firms favor trade liberalization whereas smaller firms favor protection. Lobbying by firms for or against the agreement is modelled as an all-pay auction, thus incorporating the feature that binding contracts over contributions for policies cannot be writt...

This article aims to examine the trade effects of the South Asian FTAs including regional and bilateral ones with a focus on Sri Lanka, by applying a gravity trade model as an analytical framework. The study specifically targets the following three FTAs: the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) enforced in 2006, the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (ISFTA) in 2001, and the Pakistan-Sri ...

To protect consumers from online counterfeiting, several systems have been recently made available that check whether an ecommerce website is trustworthy or not. In this paper we study how to evaluate and compare trust checkers using an information retrieval methodology to gather suitable data and build a ground truth test collection. The main findings of our experimental evaluation are that th...

Under the Reserve Bank Act 1959, the Reserve Bank has sole authority to issue banknotes in Australia. As such, a key responsibility of the Reserve Bank is to maintain public confidence in banknotes, so that they remain an effective payment mechanism and a secure store of wealth. This article examines how counterfeiting can impact on this confidence, and counterfeiting trends in Australia and ov...