Papers by Ankur Bhatnagar
The Singapore Economic Review, 2008
This paper attempts to provide conclusive evidence in favor of sensitivity of optimal commodity t... more This paper attempts to provide conclusive evidence in favor of sensitivity of optimal commodity taxes to demographic variables. This involves estimating optimal commodity taxes for the chosen 16 Indian states, incorporating demographic profiles for each state using NSS data. Such calculations are further done under alternative welfare weights for each household. The results reveal that the introduction of demographic variables in the demand system makes the tax rates more non-uniform across commodities and across states, and significantly alters their response to changes in the social…
Journal of Business Research
Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
This paper attempts to provide conclusive evidence of variations in demand behaviour across regio... more This paper attempts to provide conclusive evidence of variations in demand behaviour across regions using National Sample Survey Organisatioll (NSSO) data for India. India is well-suited for such an exercise as it provides a ready segregation of vast geographical area in the form of different states. The importance of household composition is brought out clearly via its influence. on optimal commodity taxes. This is done by recognizing each of the chosen 16 Indian states separately and estimating tax rates for them, while incorporating demographic variables specific to each. The results show considerable variations in not only• the estimated tax rates, but also in the demand behavior as revealed by response of tax rates to changes in revenue requirements and changes in a social planner's aversion to inequality. In other words, the estimated tax rates are extremely sensitive to the degree of aversion to inequality and the required revenue; the response of each state to these changing parameters is also nonuniform. Our results reveal that indirect taxes are ineffective in redistributing income in the majority of the states• under cOllsideration.
Studies in Business and Economics, Sep 1, 2006
This paper attempts to provide conclusive evidence of regional variations in demand behaviour in ... more This paper attempts to provide conclusive evidence of regional variations in demand behaviour in India using the Restricted Non Linear Preference System. Also the importance of household composition is brought out clearly via its influence on optimal commodity taxes for India. This is done by recognizing each of the chosen 16 Indian states separately and estimating tax rates for them, while incorporating demographic variables. The results show considerable variations in not only the estimated tax rates, but also in the demand behaviour as revealed by response of tax rates to changes in revenue requirements and changes in a social plannerʼs aversion to inequality. In other words, the estimated tax rates are extremely sensitive to the degree of aversion to inequality and the required revenue; the response of each state to these changing parameters is also non uniform. Our results reveal that indirect taxes are ineffective in redistributing income in the majority of the states under consideration.
Transnational Corporations Review
Transnational Corporations Review , 2020
This paper attempts to analyse the drivers of the emerging Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) relati... more This paper attempts to analyse the drivers of the emerging Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) relationship between India and Africa. Using a fixed effect negative binomial model, it examines the determinants of FDI from India to 23 African countries from 2008 to 2016. The study finds that Indian FDI to Africa is a unique combination of both private sector and state driven investment. It is driven by the search for markets, and is pulled despite an adverse business environment. Indian FDI has contributed to several African countries by development of their manufacturing sector and contribution to employment, and has the potential to solve regional problems of poverty and inequality. The paper thus makes a pioneering contribution as an empirical study on OFDI from India to Africa and also to the literature on south-south FDI. ARTICLE HISTORY
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Papers by Ankur Bhatnagar