Virtual Trade in a Changing World
Comparative Advantage, Growth and Inequality

This Element delves deep into the issue of how Time enters as a major catalyst of international trade and virtual transactions.

Sugata Marjit (Author), Gouranga G. Das (Author), Biswajit Mandal (Author)

9781009101332, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 September 2023

102 pages
23 x 15.3 x 0.5 cm, 0.163 kg

Virtual economic transactions have radically transformed the way we think about trade and markets in closed and open economies. Continuous decline in costs of information and communications and setting up of phenomenally large number of virtual platforms have brought in 'Time' as an essential element in the discourse on international trade. This work delves deep into the issue of how Time enters as a major catalyst of international trade and virtual transactions. This changes the way we look at ideas of comparative advantage, factor mobility, growth, income distribution, and allied concepts. A key result is that greater physical distance might encourage trade contrary to what we are accustomed to accept.

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Theory and Pattern of Virtual Trade
3. Trade, Growth, and Factor Income
4. Capital Mobility and Virtual Trade
5. Conclusion and Road ahead
References.

Subject Areas: Economics [KC]