Virtual Trade and Comparative Advantage / Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research (PDF)

consecutive research projects that focus on the roles of time-zone differences in international trade. The first project was entitled "Fragmentation, Time Zones, and Their Dynamic Consequences," which was initiated and led by the late Professor Toru Kikuchi. It began in 2010 and lasted five years. After Prof. Kikuchi's passing in 2011, Dr. Nakanishi took over as project leader, continuing and bringing the project to complete. In 2016, he initiated a new five-year project entitled "Time Zones, Offshoring, Economic Growth and Dynamics." Both projects have been financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science: Grant-in-Aid (A) 22243024 and Grant-in-Aid (A) 16H02016.







Sugata MARJIT: Sugata Marjit, a Gold Medalist of Calcutta University, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester (U.S.A.) in 1985 under the supervision of Prof. Ronald W. Jones. He is currently the Reserve Bank of India Professor of Industrial Economics at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC); External Fellow of The Leverhulme Centre for Globalization and Economic Policy at the University of Nottingham; Fellow of CES-Ifo, Munich, Germany; Project Director of the Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy, India; and a member of the State Planning and Public Policy Board, Government of West Bengal. He is a former vice chancellor of Calcutta University, former chairman of the State Council of Higher Education, and a former director of CSSSC. He received the Mahalanobis Gold Medal of the Indian Econometric Society and the VKRV Rao National Prize as a young social scientist, among only three to receive both awards. Recently he has been nominated as a distinguished (University-wide) visiting fellow of the Queen Mary University of London.



He was a professor at the Indian Statistical Institute and the first Sukhamay Chakravorty Chair professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He held visiting professorial positions at the Universities of Bonn, Berlin, Copenhagen, Cornell, Erasmus (Rotterdam), Monash, Munich, Konstanz, Paris, Sydney, New South Wales, Queensland, Pennsylvania State, Rochester, Washington, St. Louis, and the Australian National University, City University of Hong Kong, Singapore Management University, and others, and has been a visiting scholar at the IMF, ADB, IFS (UCL), and Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, USA.



He edits the South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance (SAGE, India, UK), is an associate editor of Zeitschrift Fuer Nationaolokonomie (Journal of Economics, Springer) and a member of editorial boards of many other journals. His papers have been published in leading journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, European Economic Review, Economic Theory, International Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, International Economic Review, Economica, Oxford Economic Papers, Review of International Economics, Review of Development Economics, Economics Letters, Economic Inquiry, International Review of Economics and Finance, Indian Journal of Physics, European Physical Society Journal, PLOS One, and NATURE Climate Change, among others. Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Princeton University Press, Elsevier, SAGE, Edward Elgar, and Springer have published his books, edited volumes, and chapters in edited volumes.







Biswajit MANDAL: Biswajit Mandal teaches economics at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. Prior to joining Visva Bharati University he worked at Balughat College as assistant professor in economics. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Calcutta, India. He earned his Ph.D. from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India, and received a national scholarship from the Government of India and a junior research fellowship from the University Grants Commission. He has also been honored with a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship to visit Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. He was a visiting C. V. Raman Fellow at the Department of Economics of the University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY, USA. He also taught at the Soka University, Tokyo, Japan. His primary area of research is international trade and development. Very recently his research interests have expanded from trade and development to health economics and applied econometrics in health economics.



Journals such as the Review of Development Economics, International Journal of Economic Theory, Economics & Politics, Economic Modelling, International Review of Economics and Finance, International Economic Journal, Global Economy Journal, Eurasian Economic Review, and Economics Bulletin are among the journals that have published Dr. Mandal's research. He also contributed to edited volumes and conference proceedings. He has attended some 50 conferences in different countries to present his research work.