#2006-021B "The Determinants of Aid in the Post-Cold War Era"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Howard J. Wall
April 2006
Revised October 2006

This paper estimates the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries’ economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. More...

PUBLISHED: in Sajal Lahiri, ed., Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid, Elsevier, May 2007, pp. 387-402. Reprinted in Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November/December 2007, 89(6), pp. 533-47.

#2005-074C "Policy Evaluation in the Presence of Outsourcing: Global Competitiveness versus Political Feasibility"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Howard J. Wall
December 2005
Revised January 2007

We analyze the effects of outsourcing in the presence of a minimum wage by presenting a general-equilibrium model with an oligopolistic export sector and a competitive import-competing sector. More...

PUBLISHED: Economics and Politics, July 2007, 19(2), pp. 219-34

#2005-069E "Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Cletus C. Coughlin, and Howard J. Wall
October 2005
Revised January 2006

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic networks on U.S. exports. More...

PUBLISHED: Review of International Economics, February 2008, 16(1), pp. 199-213

#2005-058C "Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, and Howard J. Wall
August 2005
Revised December 2007

This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms in response to market conditions and through policy-imposed barriers. More...

FORTHCOMING: Review of Development Economics

#1999-017A "Endogenous Export Subsidies and Welfare Under Domestic Cost Heterogeneity"
by Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Eun-Soo Park, and Howard J. Wall


We present a model of Cournot rivalry where domestic and foreign firms compete in a third country market, and where the domestic export subsidy is determined by lobbying. Greater domestic cost heterogeneity (a mean-preserving spread of the marginal costs of the domestic firms) means that the subsidy level, aggregate domestic output, and domestic market share will all be higher. More...

PUBLISHED: Economics and Politics, 2004, 16:3, pp. 347-366