Thursday’s talk to be delivered by Dr. Kunal Dasgupta from the Department of Economics, University of Toronto
10 March, 2017, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will be hosting a research seminar on ‘Distribution Costs, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences’, on March 16 (Thursday), 2017, from 2:30 pm, at Classroom P22. The talk will be delivered by Dr. Kunal Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto.
The focus areas of Dr. Dasgupta’s teaching are: International Trade and International Monetary Economics. His work on Learning and Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Economy and The Missing Middle in Developing Countries Revisited have been published in the Journal of International Economics, and the Indian Growth and Development Review respectively.
Background of talk: It is documented that the efficiency of international distribution systems varies across countries. Moreover, in a model of distribution and trade, an efficient distribution system creates comparative advantage in high quality products. Using the model’s structure and international shipment-level data, the efficiency of distribution systems for a sample of 74 countries was estimated, and it was found that the country at the 90th percentile of the distribution is almost three times more efficient than the one at the 10th percentile.
A calibrated version of the model that incorporates these efficiency estimates reveals that cross-country differences in the efficiency of export distribution systems explain almost forty percent of the observed cross-country differences in income. It also shows that policies that improve the efficiency of distribution systems can lead to significant welfare gains, mainly due to induced quality upgrading.
Topic: Distribution Costs, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences
Speaker: Dr. Kunal Dasgupta, University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017
Time: 2.30 pm onwards
Venue: Classroom P22
Thursday’s talk to be delivered by Dr. Kunal Dasgupta from the Department of Economics, University of Toronto
10 March, 2017, Bengaluru: The Office of Research and Publications (R&P) at IIM Bangalore will be hosting a research seminar on ‘Distribution Costs, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences’, on March 16 (Thursday), 2017, from 2:30 pm, at Classroom P22. The talk will be delivered by Dr. Kunal Dasgupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Toronto.
The focus areas of Dr. Dasgupta’s teaching are: International Trade and International Monetary Economics. His work on Learning and Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Economy and The Missing Middle in Developing Countries Revisited have been published in the Journal of International Economics, and the Indian Growth and Development Review respectively.
Background of talk: It is documented that the efficiency of international distribution systems varies across countries. Moreover, in a model of distribution and trade, an efficient distribution system creates comparative advantage in high quality products. Using the model’s structure and international shipment-level data, the efficiency of distribution systems for a sample of 74 countries was estimated, and it was found that the country at the 90th percentile of the distribution is almost three times more efficient than the one at the 10th percentile.
A calibrated version of the model that incorporates these efficiency estimates reveals that cross-country differences in the efficiency of export distribution systems explain almost forty percent of the observed cross-country differences in income. It also shows that policies that improve the efficiency of distribution systems can lead to significant welfare gains, mainly due to induced quality upgrading.
Topic: Distribution Costs, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences
Speaker: Dr. Kunal Dasgupta, University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017
Time: 2.30 pm onwards
Venue: Classroom P22