Trading in commodity derivatives on exchange platforms is an instrument to achieve price discovery and better price-risk management besides helping the macroeconomy with better resource allocation. In the 2008–2009 budget, the Indian government proposed to impose a commodity transaction tax...

Using the annual data from 1960-61 to 1996-97, this paper attempts to test the causal nexus between total central government expenditures and total central government revenues in the case of India, within the empirical framework of causality, cointegration and error correction mechanism in the...

This paper attempts to test the long run relationships among exports, imports, gross domestic capital formation, trade policy and GDP in India using annual data from 1965- 66 to 1997- 98. The empirical framework of Vector Autoregressions (VARs) augmented with an error correction mechanism has...

Bhutan is a small landlocked country in South Asia, located in the eastern Himalayas, and bordered by India and China. With a population of about 687,000, the country has a small economy that is also fragile. Nevertheless, its banking system plays an essential role in the growth and development...

In recent years China has taken several steps to improve trade and investment relations with Pakistan, including, among others, the signing of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in 2006. Trade between the two countries has increased manifold, which, in turn, has resulted in a huge gap...