Recent analyses of ancient Mesopotamian mitochondrial genomes have suggested a genetic link between the Indian subcontinent and Mesopotamian civilization. There is no consensus on the origin of the ancient Mesopotamians. They may be descendants of migrants, who founded regional Mesopotamian groups like that of Terqa or they may be merchants who were involved in trans Mesopotamia trade. To ident...

Trade in services has grown more rapidly than merchandise trade. Information technology and business process outsourcing are among the fastest growing sectors in terms of services export.FDI is widely viewed as being one of the principal vehicles for the international transfer of technology. FDI results in increase in productive capital stock, technological growth, and facilitates transfer of m...

Using state and industry-level unemployment and trade protection data from India, we find no evidence of any unemployment increasing effect of trade reforms. In fact, our state-level analysis reveals that urban unemployment declines with liberalization in states with flexible labor markets and larger employment shares in net exporter industries. Moreover, our industry-level analysis indicates t...

Traders in the financial world are assessed by the amount of money they make and, increasingly, by the amount of money they make per unit of risk taken, a measure known as the Sharpe Ratio. Little is known about the average Sharpe Ratio among traders, but the Efficient Market Hypothesis suggests that traders, like asset managers, should not outperform the broad market. Here we report the findin...

E-commerce technology is perceived as offering many advantages. A key element is the company website which typically combines sales and marketing functions. Despite the potential improvements in business practice offered by e-commerce research has shown that SMEs have not fully embraced the opportunities offered by this new marketing channel. This paper examines sole trader website development,...

Abstract The internet has expanded opportunities for wildlife traders to conduct business globally, but monitoring this activity is often challenging. As techniques frequently employ language-based searches particular words, it important understand the language use, particularly nomenclature used refer traded species. We recorded advert data from four UK websites, focusing on reptiles, which co...

We consider a dynamic asset pricing model with one asset, in which one informed trader trades against liquidity traders and competitive market makers. Informed trader has private information about the fundamental value of the asset as well as the exogenous demand shock on the market. We characterize the unique linear Markov equilibrium of the model. With just the private information about funda...