#2008-022A "Enlargement and Common External Tariff in a Political-Economic Model of Customs Union"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sajal Lahiri, and Suryadipta Roy
June 2008

We present a model with three blocks of nations: two of the blocks are members of a Customs Union (CU) and maintain a common external tariff (CET) on the third (non member). More...

#2007-038B "Political Asymmetry and Common External Tariff in a Customs Union"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Sajal Lahiri, and Suryadipta Roy
September 2007
Revised June 2008

This paper examines the effect of political asymmetries in the formation of common external tariffs (CETs) in a customs union (CU). We do so by introducing cross-border lobbying and by endogenizing tariff formation in a political economic model for the determination of CETs. More...

#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