NO : WP-2026-001 AUTHOR : Qayoom Khachoo, Ridwan Ah Sheikh, Pritam Banerjee TITLE : Firm-Level Trade Responses to Intellectual Property Reforms: Evidence from India ABSTRACT : This study leverages India’s Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002, as a quasi-natural experiment within a difference-in-differences framework to examine how domestic reforms related to patents may affect firms’ export […]
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NO : WP-2025-027 AUTHOR : Saurav Kumar, Taniya Ghosh, Shesadri Banerjee TITLE : Carbon Credit Trading and India’s Green Transition ABSTRACT : This study examines the macroeconomic dynamics under the recently announced intensity-based Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) in India using an Environmental Dynamic Stochas¬tic General Equilibrium framework. The policy freely allocates carbon certificates […]
Exchange Rate Volatility and its Impact on Borrowing Costs by Ashima Goyal and Sritama Ray
NO : WP-2025-026 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Sritama Ray TITLE : Exchange Rate Volatility and its Impact on Borrowing Costs ABSTRACT : Reducing borrowing costs for emerging markets (EMs) is a challenge. The additional country risk premia that foreign investors seek are primarily driven by a fear of unexpected currency depreciation; which often […]
Revisiting the Impact of TRIPS on Trade: Evidence from Staggered Difference-in-Differences by Ridwan Ah Sheikh and Sunil Kanwar
NO : WP-2025-025 AUTHOR : Ridwan Ah Sheikh and Sunil Kanwar TITLE : Revisiting the Impact of TRIPS on Trade: Evidence from Staggered Difference-in-Differences ABSTRACT : This paper uses an extended two-way fixed effects (ETWFE) estimator for staggered difference-in-differences to evaluate the impact of compliance with the 1995 agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual […]
US Tariff Shocks and India–US Trade Negotiations: Balancing Strategic Design and Agricultural Sensitivities by Himanshu Jaiswal and A. Ganesh-Kumar
NO : WP-2025-024 AUTHOR : Himanshu Jaiswal and A. Ganesh-Kumar TITLE : US Tariff Shocks and India–US Trade Negotiations: Balancing Strategic Design and Agricultural Sensitivities ABSTRACT : This study evaluates the economic implications of recent US tariff escalations, centered on the “7th and 27th August Tariff Shock”, and examines India’s strategic options in responding […]
Mr. Jones, unless it runs on dreams, I cannot afford it by Gorsi, Abhishek and Ghosh, Taniya Review of Economics of the Household, 2025
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Rules of Origin in India’s Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Dataset and Severity Indices by Himanshu Jaiswal
NO : WP-2025-023 AUTHOR : Himanshu Jaiswal TITLE : Rules of Origin in India’s Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Dataset and Severity Indices ABSTRACT : This paper develops a comprehensive dataset and new severity indices to evaluate the Rules of Origin (RoO) in India’s trade agreements. RoO, while essential for preventing trade deflection, can […]
