India’s Optimal Trade Strategy: A General Equilibrium Analysis

Jian Zhang, Hung-Gay Fung () and Bansi Sawhney
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Hung-Gay Fung: College of Business Administration & Center of International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Postal: One University Boulevard - St. Louis, MO 63121-4400 USA, http://www.umsl.edu/

Economia Internazionale / International Economics, 2008, vol. 61, issue 4, 755-776

Abstract: Using a conventional multi-region, multi-sectoral global trade analysis project (GTAP) model, we analyze the effects of India’s trade liberalization policies on its output, trade, and welfare. We also analyze three trade policy scenarios: full trade liberalization, joint cooperative trade liberalization, and unilateral trade liberalization. India, despite some tradeoffs in the trade and agricultural sectors, primarily gains in welfare. The gains in the unilateral trade liberalization scheme, though positive, are smaller than that of the joint cooperative trade liberalization and the full trade liberalization schemes, implying some flexibility in trade negotiations.

Keywords: International trade; Computational General Equilibrium; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F14 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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