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Discreteness and the welfare cost of labor supply tax distortions (2003)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., & Whalley, J. (2003). Discreteness and the welfare cost of labor supply tax distortions. International Economic Review, 44(3), 1117-1133. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2354.t01-1-00103

We compare the welfare costs of tax distortions of labor supply in one- and two-member household discrete and continuous choice labor supply (leisure consumption) models calibrated to the same aggregate uncompensated labor supply elasticities. In the... Read More about Discreteness and the welfare cost of labor supply tax distortions.

Welfare Gains to UK from a Global Free Trade (2001)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K. (2001). Welfare Gains to UK from a Global Free Trade. European Research Studies Journal, 4(3-4), 55-72. https://doi.org/10.35808/ersj/65

This paper reports on a 11 region 15 sector global trade model which includes the UK as one of the regions. Model results show that a global elimination of tariffs, export taxes and subsidies raises the volume of global trade. Gains from the global f... Read More about Welfare Gains to UK from a Global Free Trade.

On some properties of a trade closure widely used in numerical modelling (1999)
Journal Article
Bhattarai, K., Ghosh, M., & Whalley, J. (1999). On some properties of a trade closure widely used in numerical modelling. Economics letters, 62(1), 13-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1765%2898%2900187-6

Armington trade models with price taking behaviour and CET and CES functions may have perverse offer curves and Nash equilibria in tariff games may not exist in the two-country case.