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#	Date/Time	Location	Title	Papers
1	December 19, 2013 9:00-10:20	Auditorium Lawns	Registration and Coffee	0
2	December 19, 2013 10:20-10:30	Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)	Opening Remarks	0
3	December 19, 2013 10:30-11:30	Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)	Plenary Talk by Oliver Hart (Harvard University)	0
4	December 19, 2013 11:50-13:00	Seminar Room 1	Nutrition	2
5	December 19, 2013 11:50-13:00	Classroom 13	Voting	2
6	December 19, 2013 11:50-13:00	Seminar Room 2	Finance	2
7	December 19, 2013 11:50-13:00	Classroom 14	Welfare and Risk	2
8	December 19, 2013 11:50-13:00	Auditorium	Economic Growth: Theory 1	2
9	December 19, 2013 11:50-13:00	Conference Room	Micro Credit and Finance: Empirical 1	2
10	December 19, 2013 13:00-14:15	Guest House Lawns	Lunch	0
11	December 19, 2013 14:15-16:00	Seminar Room 2	Labour: Theory and Empirical	3
12	December 19, 2013 14:15-16:00	Classroom 14	Human Capital: Theory and Applications	3
13	December 19, 2013 14:15-16:00	Classroom 13	Game Theory 1	3
14	December 19, 2013 14:15-16:00	Seminar Room 1	Experiment	2
15	December 19, 2013 14:15-16:00	Auditorium	Industrial Organization 1	2
16	December 19, 2013 14:15-16:00	Conference Room	Poverty and Inequality 1	3
17	December 19, 2013 16:00-16:30	Presentation Area	Coffee/Tea Break	0
18	December 19, 2013 16:30-18:15	Seminar Room 1	Labour: Empirical 1	3
19	December 19, 2013 16:30-18:15	Seminar Room 2	Indian Industry 1	3
20	December 19, 2013 16:30-18:15	Conference Room	Micro Credit and Finance: Empirical 2	2
21	December 19, 2013 16:30-18:15	Classroom 13	Business Cycles	3
22	December 19, 2013 16:30-18:15	Classroom 14	Poverty and Inequality 2	3
23	December 19, 2013 16:30-18:15	Auditorium	Applied Microeconomics 1	3
24	December 19, 2013 19:30-22:00	Centre for Science and Humanities (CSH)	Gala Dinner	0
25	December 20, 2013 9:00-9:45	Auditorium Lawns	Registration and Coffee	0
26	December 20, 2013 9:45-10:45	Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)	Plenary Talk by Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics)	0
27	December 20, 2013 10:45-11:15	Auditorium Lawns	Coffee/Tea Break	0
28	December 20, 2013 11:15-13:00	Conference Room	Gender: Empirical 1	3
29	December 20, 2013 11:15-13:00	Classroom 14	Trust, Altruism, and NGOs	2
30	December 20, 2013 11:15-13:00	Classroom 13	Auctions 1	3
31	December 20, 2013 11:15-13:00	Seminar Room 1	Health: Empirical 1	3
32	December 20, 2013 11:15-13:00	Auditorium	Growth and Transition	3
33	December 20, 2013 11:15-13:00	Seminar Room 2	Rural Economy	2
34	December 20, 2013 13:00-14:15	Guest House Lawns	Lunch	0
35	December 20, 2013 14:15-16:00	Conference Room	Environment	3
36	December 20, 2013 14:15-16:00	Seminar Room 1	Industrial Organization 2	3
37	December 20, 2013 14:15-16:00	Seminar Room 2	Indian Industry 2	3
38	December 20, 2013 14:15-16:00	Classroom 13	Game Theory 2	2
39	December 20, 2013 14:15-16:00	Classroom 14	Auctions and Incentives	3
40	December 20, 2013 14:15-16:00	Auditorium	Applied Microeconomics 2	3
41	December 20, 2013 16:00-16:30	Presentation Area	Coffee/Tea Break	0
42	December 20, 2013 16:30-18:00	Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)	CSH-ISI Panel Discussion on "The Politics of Economics: The Upcoming General Elections in India"	0
43	December 21, 2013 9:00-9:45	Auditorium Lawns	Registration and Coffee	0
44	December 21, 2013 9:45-10:45	Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)	Plenary Talk by Romain Wacziarg (UCLA)	0
45	December 21, 2013 10:45-11:15	Auditorium Lawns	Coffee/Tea Break	0
46	December 21, 2013 11:15-13:00	Seminar Room 2	Political Economy: Empirical	3
47	December 21, 2013 11:15-13:00	Auditorium	Trade: Empirical	3
48	December 21, 2013 11:15-13:00	Classroom 14	Political Economy: Theory	3
49	December 21, 2013 11:15-13:00	Seminar Room 1	Health: Empirical 2	3
50	December 21, 2013 11:15-13:00	Conference Room	Gender: Empirical 2	3
51	December 21, 2013 11:15-13:00	Classroom 13	Economic Growth: Theory 2	3
52	December 21, 2013 13:00-14:15	Guest House Lawns	Lunch	0
53	December 21, 2013 14:15-16:00	Auditorium	Information Economics	2
54	December 21, 2013 14:15-16:00	Classroom 14	Political Economy: Theory and Evidence	3
55	December 21, 2013 14:15-16:00	Classroom 13	Monetary Economics	3
56	December 21, 2013 14:15-16:00	Conference Room	Education	3
57	December 21, 2013 14:15-16:00	Seminar Room 2	Micro Credit and Finance: Theory and Empirics	3
58	December 21, 2013 14:15-16:00	Seminar Room 1	Indian Industry 3	3
59	December 21, 2013 16:00-16:30	Presentation Area	Coffee/Tea Break	0
60	December 21, 2013 16:30-18:15	Classroom 14	Microfinance and Investment	3
61	December 21, 2013 16:30-18:15	Seminar Room 2	Trade: Theory	3
62	December 21, 2013 16:30-18:15	Classroom 13	Measures and Indices	3
63	December 21, 2013 16:30-18:15	Seminar Room 1	Labour: Empirical 2	2
64	December 21, 2013 16:30-18:15	Auditorium	Inflation and Volatility	3
65	December 21, 2013 16:30-18:15	Conference Room	Public Programs	2

 

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9th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development
Detailed List of Sessions

                                                                                                                                  

Session 1: Registration and Coffee December 19, 2013 9:00 to 10:20 Auditorium Lawns
Session 2: Opening Remarks December 19, 2013 10:20 to 10:30 Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)
Session 3: Plenary Talk by Oliver Hart (Harvard University) December 19, 2013 10:30 to 11:30 Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)
Title: How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?
Session Chair: Bhaskar Dutta, Warwick University
Session 4: Nutrition December 19, 2013 11:50 to 13:00 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Nidhi Pande, TERI University
1. Intergenerational persistence in China: from the perspective of food consumption
Presented by: Diana Cheung, Paris1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
2. Impact of Nutritional Interventions on Cognitive Skills: Evidence from India's Midday Meal Program
Presented by: Nidhi Pande, TERI University
Session 5: Voting December 19, 2013 11:50 to 13:00 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Surajeet Chakravarty, University of Exeter
1. Voting with evaluations : When should we sum? What should we sum?
Presented by: Antonin Macé, Ecole Polytechnique
2. The Benefits of Costly Voting
Presented by: Surajeet Chakravarty, University of Exeter
Session 6: Finance December 19, 2013 11:50 to 13:00 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Priti Mendiratta, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
1. Regime Switching Analysis of Stock and Currency Markets in India and Developed Countries
Presented by: Divya Tuteja, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
2. Housing Price Cycle and its Macroeconomic Impact: Role of Financial Intermediaries
Presented by: Priti Mendiratta, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
Session 7: Welfare and Risk December 19, 2013 11:50 to 13:00 Classroom 14
Session Chair: Paul Anand, The Open University
1. On disasters and income deviations
Presented by: Lopamudra Banerjee, New School for Social Research, The New School
2. Rethinking Welfare Economics: Towards an Operationalisation of Sen’s Capability Approach
Presented by: Paul Anand, The Open University
Session 8: Economic Growth: Theory 1 December 19, 2013 11:50 to 13:00 Auditorium
Session Chair: Parantap Basu, Durham University
1. `Love of Wealth' and Economic Growth
Presented by: Guenther Rehme, TU Darmstadt
2. Quantitative Easing in a Growing Economy
Presented by: Parantap Basu, Durham University
Session 9: Micro Credit and Finance: Empirical 1 December 19, 2013 11:50 to 13:00 Conference Room
Session Chair: Pushkar Maitra, Monash University
1. Lessons for Modern Microfinance from the Contraction of Rural Credit Markets 1951-1971
Presented by: Susan Wolcott, Binghamton University
2. Agent Intermediated Lending: A New Approach to Microfinance
Presented by: Pushkar Maitra, Monash University
Session 10: Lunch December 19, 2013 13:00 to 14:15 Guest House Lawns
Session 11: Labour: Theory and Empirical December 19, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Shasikanta Nandeibam, University of Bath
1. A Simple Model of NREGA, Subsistence and Agricultural Labour Markets
Presented by: Ashokankur Datta,
2. Unemployment Burden and its Distribution: Theory and Evidence from India
Presented by: Karthikeya Naraparaju, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dev. Research
3. Discrimination and population composition in the long run
Presented by: Shasikanta Nandeibam, University of Bath
Session 12: Human Capital: Theory and Applications December 19, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Classroom 14
Session Chair: Tarun Jain, Indian School of Business
1. Economic Wellbeing Of A Society In A Culture Of Violence Against Women
Presented by: Debasis Bandyopadhyay, University of Auckland
2. Sorting Siblings: Gender and School Choice in India
Presented by: Kritika Narula, Delhi School of Economics
3. Does who you know matter? Unraveling the influence of student networks on academic performance
Presented by: Tarun Jain, Indian School of Business
Session 13: Game Theory 1 December 19, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Ratul Lahkar, Institute for Financial Management and R
1. Bargaining Order and Delays in Multilateral Bargaining with Asymmetric Sellers
Presented by: Amit Maurya,
2. Decentralised Bilateral Trading in a Market with Incomplete Information
Presented by: Kaustav Das, University of Exeter
3. The Dynamics of Generalized Reinforcement Learning
Presented by: Ratul Lahkar, Institute for Financial Management and R
Session 14: Experiment December 19, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Ananish Chaudhuri, University of Auckland
1. Bargaining and Asymmetry: An Experimental Investigation
Presented by: Subrato Banerjee, Indian Statistical Institute
2. Gender differences in contracting for labor: some experimental evidence
Presented by: Ananish Chaudhuri, University of Auckland
Session 15: Industrial Organization 1 December 19, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Auditorium
Session Chair: Rupayan Pal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
1. FDI in Retail: A Theoretical Analysis
Presented by: Debasmita Basu, Indian Statistical Institute
2. Price and Quantity Competition in Network Goods Duopoly: A Reversal Result
Presented by: Rupayan Pal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
Session 16: Poverty and Inequality 1 December 19, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Conference Room
Session Chair: Nabanita Datta Gupta, Aarhus University
1. Religious and Caste Conflict in India: does Inequality matter?
Presented by: Victoire Girard, CES, Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2. Dynamic Poverty Decomposition Analysis: an Application to the Philippines
Presented by: Tomoki Fujii, Singapore Management University
3. Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
Presented by: Nabanita Datta Gupta, Aarhus University
Session 17: Coffee/Tea Break December 19, 2013 16:00 to 16:30 Presentation Area
Session 18: Labour: Empirical 1 December 19, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics
1. Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A study on the interaction between the formal and the informal institutions and its effect on entrepreneurship
Presented by: Anirban Mukherjee, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
2. Presence of grandparents and labour market outcomes of mothers: Evidence from India
Presented by: Zakir Husain, Institute of Economic Growth
3. How Backward are the Other Backward Classes? Changing Contours of Caste Disadvantage in India
Presented by: Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi School of Economics
Session 19: Indian Industry 1 December 19, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Dibyendu Maiti, School of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of the South Pacific
1. TRADE CREDIT, BANK CREDIT AND INTERNAL FUNDS UNDER CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTION IN INDIAN FIRMS
Presented by: Vikash Gautam, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
2. Determinants of Disinvestment in India: An Analysis of Central Public Sector Enterprises
Presented by: Ritika Jain, IGIDR
3. Contractualisation and Productivity Growth in Formal Sector: Theory and Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Presented by: Dibyendu Maiti, School of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of the South Pacific
Session 20: Micro Credit and Finance: Empirical 2 December 19, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Conference Room
Session Chair: Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, IFMR
1. Financial inclusive innovation with branchless mobile banking applications for rural poor
Presented by: Kasina Rao, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
2. Does Access to Microfinance Affect Consumption Inequality? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Andhra Pradesh, India
Presented by: Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay, IFMR
Session 21: Business Cycles December 19, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Alok Johri, McMaster University
1. Business Cycle Persistence in a Model with Endogenous Growth and Fluctuations
Presented by: Kerk Phillips, Brigham Young University
2. Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Business Cycle Model
Presented by: Pawan Gopalakrishnan, Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi Cen
3. Intangible Capital and the Excess Volatility of Aggregate Profits
Presented by: Alok Johri, McMaster University
Session 22: Poverty and Inequality 2 December 19, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Classroom 14
Session Chair: Swati Dutta, Institute for Financial Management and Research
1. Growth, Structural Change, and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from in India
Presented by: Abhijit Sen Gupta, Asian Development Bank
2. Pro-poor price development and inequality: The case of India
Presented by: Anders Kjelsrud, University of Oslo
3. Identifying Single or Multiple Poverty Trap: An Application to Indian Household Panel Data
Presented by: Swati Dutta, Institute for Financial Management and Research
Session 23: Applied Microeconomics 1 December 19, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Auditorium
Session Chair: Alessia Russo, University of Oslo
1. Organizational cultures of corruption
Presented by: Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales
2. Leadership by Obfuscation
Presented by: Nona Pepito, ESSEC Business School
3. A theory of cooperation with Self-Commitment Institution
Presented by: Alessia Russo, University of Oslo
Session 24: Gala Dinner December 19, 2013 19:30 to 22:00 Centre for Science and Humanities (CSH)
Session 25: Registration and Coffee December 20, 2013 9:00 to 9:45 Auditorium Lawns
Session 26: Plenary Talk by Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics) December 20, 2013 9:45 to 10:45 Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)
Title: Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Microfinance
Session Chair: Arunava Sen, Indian Statistical Institute
Session 27: Coffee/Tea Break December 20, 2013 10:45 to 11:15 Auditorium Lawns
Session 28: Gender: Empirical 1 December 20, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Conference Room
Session Chair: Selim Gulesci, Bocconi University
1. The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Presented by: S Anukriti, Boston College
2. Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
Presented by: Abhishek Chakravarty, University of Essex
3. The Price of Gold: Dowry and Son Preference in India
Presented by: Selim Gulesci, Bocconi University
Session 29: Trust, Altruism, and NGOs December 20, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Classroom 14
Session Chair: S Kapur, Birkbeck College, London
1. Is Foreign Aid Motivated by Altruism or Self-Interest? A Theoretical Model and Empirical Test
Presented by: Andrew Horowitz, University of Arkansas, Walton College of Business
2. NGOs as Providers of Information
Presented by: S Kapur, Birkbeck College, London
Session 30: Auctions 1 December 20, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Indranil Chakraborty, National University of Singapore
1. Shills and snipes
Presented by: Arup Daripa, Birkbeck College
2. Revenue Non-Equivalence in Multidimensional Procurement Auctions under Asymmetry
Presented by: Shivangi Chandel, IGIDR
3. Multi-Unit Auctions with Reserve Price
Presented by: Indranil Chakraborty, National University of Singapore
Session 31: Health: Empirical 1 December 20, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University
1. Inequality in Maternal Health Care Utilization in India: A Shapley Decomposition Analysis
Presented by: Rama Pal, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay
2. Does Distance matter for Institutional Delivery in Rural India: An Instrumental Variable Approach
Presented by: Santosh Kumar, University of Washington
3. Health Knowledge, Caste and Social Networks in India
Presented by: Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University
Session 32: Growth and Transition December 20, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Auditorium
Session Chair: Louis Putterman, Brown University
1. Statehood, Democracy and Preindustrial Development
Presented by: Nils-Petter Lagerlof, York University
2. Contraception and the Fertility Transition
Presented by: Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon
3. Persistence of Fortune: Accounting for Popultion Movements, There was No Post-Columbian Reversal
Presented by: Louis Putterman, Brown University
Session 33: Rural Economy December 20, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Stefan Klonner, University of Heidelberg
1. Agricultural TFP Growth and Health in India: A State-level Analysis
Presented by: Shilpa Chaudhary, Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Dellhi
2. Sources of Agrarian Distress and Farmers’ Suicides in Southern India: An Econometric Investigation
Presented by: Stefan Klonner, University of Heidelberg
Session 34: Lunch December 20, 2013 13:00 to 14:15 Guest House Lawns
Session 35: Environment December 20, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Conference Room
Session Chair: Anubhab Pattanayak, Madras School of Economics
1. Climate Change, Food Prices and Welfare
Presented by: Eshita Gupta, Indian statistical Institute
2. Erosion of Common Pool Land Resources in India: Role of socio-economic inequalities
Presented by: Sneha Thapliyal, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
3. Weather Sensitivity of Rice Yield: Evidence from India
Presented by: Anubhab Pattanayak, Madras School of Economics
Session 36: Industrial Organization 2 December 20, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt University
1. Imitation by price and quantity setting firms in a differentiated market
Presented by: Abhimanyu Khan, Maastricht University
2. Certification under Oligopolistic Competition
Presented by: Sabyasachi Das, University of Vienna
3. The case for non-discrimination in the international protection of intellectual property
Presented by: Kamal Saggi, Vanderbilt University
Session 37: Indian Industry 2 December 20, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Erasmus School of Economics
1. The Cost and Effects of Employment Size-Dependent Regulations on Firms in India
Presented by: Amrit Amirapu, Boston University
2. What Motivates Indian Firms to Invest Abroad?
Presented by: Khanindra Das, IFMR
3. Drug Distribution System, Retail Union, and Regional First Mover Advantages
Presented by: Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Erasmus School of Economics
Session 38: Game Theory 2 December 20, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Rohan Dutta, McGill University
1. A Foundation for Proper Rationalizability from an Incomplete Information Perspective
Presented by: Souvik Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
2. Coordinating by Not Committing: Efficiency as the Unique Outcome
Presented by: Rohan Dutta, McGill University
Session 39: Auctions and Incentives December 20, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Classroom 14
Session Chair: Oindrila Dey, Jadavpur University
1. Common Value Procurement Auction and Perfectly Competitive Outcome
Presented by: Amarjyoti Mahanta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2. Incentive and normative analysis on sequencing problem.
Presented by: Parikshit De, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
3. Status, Incentives and Random Favouritism
Presented by: Oindrila Dey, Jadavpur University
Session 40: Applied Microeconomics 2 December 20, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Auditorium
Session Chair: Ujjayant Chakravorty, Tufts University
1. The Cost of Identity
Presented by: Rajiv Sethi, Barnard College, Columbia University
2. Public versus Private Provisioning: Role of Education and Political Participation
Presented by: Adway De, Delhi School of Economics
3. Boom Before Bust? The Industrial Organization of Groundwater
Presented by: Ujjayant Chakravorty, Tufts University
Session 41: Coffee/Tea Break December 20, 2013 16:00 to 16:30 Presentation Area
Session 42: CSH-ISI Panel Discussion on "The Politics of Economics: The Upcoming General Elections in India" December 20, 2013 16:30 to 18:00 Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)
Moderated by Indira Rajaraman (Member, Board of Governors, Reserve Bank of India); Panelists: Bhaskar Dutta (Wariwick and ISI), Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE), Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics), E. Sridharan (University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India)
Session 43: Registration and Coffee December 21, 2013 9:00 to 9:45 Auditorium Lawns
Session 44: Plenary Talk by Romain Wacziarg (UCLA) December 21, 2013 9:45 to 10:45 Auditorium, Classrooms 13 and 14 (A/V feed)
Title: Economic Integration and Structural Change
Session Chair: Chetan Ghate, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Session 45: Coffee/Tea Break December 21, 2013 10:45 to 11:15 Auditorium Lawns
Session 46: Political Economy: Empirical December 21, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Yogesh Uppal, Youngstown State University
1. Does political connections and affiliation affect allocation of benefits in the Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: Evidence from West Bengal, India
Presented by: Upasak Das, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
2. Electoral cycle and primary school resources in India
Presented by: Panu Pelkonen, University of Sussex
3. Elections and Economic Activity: Evidence from State Assembly Bye-elections in India
Presented by: Yogesh Uppal, Youngstown State University
Session 47: Trade: Empirical December 21, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Auditorium
Session Chair: Prachi Mishra, IMF
1. Trade Liberalization and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India
Presented by: Arpita Chatterjee, University of New South Wales
2. How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China
Presented by: Kala Krishna, Penn State University
3. Beggar-thy-Neighbor Effects of Exchange Rates? A Study of the Renminbi
Presented by: Prachi Mishra, IMF
Session 48: Political Economy: Theory December 21, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Classroom 14
Session Chair: Arijit Mukherjee, Michigan State University
1. The economics of independent regulatory agencies: Commitment and information
Presented by: Tapas Kundu, University of Tromsø
2. Policy Persuasion and Electoral Competition
Presented by: Parikshit Ghosh,
3. On the optimality of diverse expert panels in persuasion games
Presented by: Arijit Mukherjee, Michigan State University
Session 49: Health: Empirical 2 December 21, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Sonia Bhalotra, University of Bristol
1. Improving Maternal Health with Incentives to Mothers vs. Health Workers: Evidence from India
Presented by: Sisir Debnath, Indian School of Business
2. The Impact of a Community Health Worker on Childhood Immunization: Evidence from India's ‘ASHA’ Workers
Presented by: Tanvi Rao, Cornell University
3. Fertility Responses to Infant and Maternal Mortality: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from 20th Century America
Presented by: Sonia Bhalotra, University of Bristol
Session 50: Gender: Empirical 2 December 21, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Conference Room
Session Chair: Wayne Grove,
1. Gender differential in educational attainments in India: Comparing results of individual-level and household-level analysis
Presented by: Charanjit Kaur, Delhi University
2. In What Role Do Women Affect Corruption?
Presented by: Sudipta Sarangi, Louisiana State University
3. “’A Labor Market Punishing to Mothers?’: Gender Gaps in Human Capital Acquisition, Earnings, and Labor Supply Among MBAs”
Presented by: Wayne Grove,
Session 51: Economic Growth: Theory 2 December 21, 2013 11:15 to 13:00 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Mausumi Das, Delhi School of Economics
1. Technology Diffusion and Sectoral Change
Presented by: Callum Jones, New York University
2. Pro poor growth : A partial ordering approach
Presented by: Sandip Sarkar, Indian Statistical Institute
3. Inequality and Expectations in a model of Technology Adoption and Growth
Presented by: Surbhi Badhwar, Shyam lal college (evening), University of Delhi
Session 52: Lunch December 21, 2013 13:00 to 14:15 Guest House Lawns
Session 53: Information Economics December 21, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Auditorium
Session Chair: Parimal Bag, National University of Singapore
1. Subjective Performance Evaluation and Perils of Favoritism
Presented by: Neng Qian, National University of Singapore
2. Revisiting Money Burning in Performance Evaluation
Presented by: Parimal Bag, National University of Singapore
Session 54: Political Economy: Theory and Evidence December 21, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Classroom 14
Session Chair: Karl Moene, University of Oslo
1. Does Mandated Political Representation help the Poor? Theory and Evidence from India
Presented by: Anirban Mitra, University of Oslo
2. Local Funds and Political Competition: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Presented by: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi)
3. The political reinforcement mechanism
Presented by: Karl Moene, University of Oslo
Session 55: Monetary Economics December 21, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Gurbachan Singh, Indian Statistical Institute
1. Inflation Volatility, Taylor Rule and Activism of Monetary Policy
Presented by: Shesadri Banerjee, National Council of Applied Economic Research
2. How credible is the Federal Reserve? A structural estimation of policy re-optimizations
Presented by: Aeimit Lakdawala, Michigan State University
3. Narrow Monetary Policy and Extended Fiscal Policy
Presented by: Gurbachan Singh, Indian Statistical Institute
Session 56: Education December 21, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Conference Room
Session Chair: Karthik Muralidharan, UCSD
1. Assessing Teacher Quality in India
Presented by: Mehtabul Azam, Oklahoma State University
2. Incentivizing Standards or Standardizing Incentives? Affirmative Action in India
Presented by: Gaurav Khanna, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
3. The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance: Evidence from Primary Education in India
Presented by: Karthik Muralidharan, UCSD
Session 57: Micro Credit and Finance: Theory and Empirics December 21, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Satadru Mukherjee, University of Houston
1. Optimal Group Size under Group Lending with Joint Liability and Social Sanction
Presented by: Shirsendu Mukherjee, St.Paul's C. M. College
2. Interest Rates and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: Recent Global Evidence
Presented by: Ranjula Bali Swain, Uppsala University
3. Access to formal banks and new technology adoption: evidence from India
Presented by: Satadru Mukherjee, University of Houston
Session 58: Indian Industry 3 December 21, 2013 14:15 to 16:00 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Rajeswari Sengupta, IFMR, India
1. Elasticity of Substitution between Capital and Labour Input in Major Sectors of the Indian Economy
Presented by: Akhilesh Sharma, Institute of Economic Growth
2. Cross-country analysis of composition of human capital on total factor productivity growth depending on its distance to frontier
Presented by: Sujata Basu, Jawaharlal Nehru University
3. Impact of Exchange Rate Movements on Exports: An Analysis of Indian Non-Financial Sector Firms
Presented by: Rajeswari Sengupta, IFMR, India
Session 59: Coffee/Tea Break December 21, 2013 16:00 to 16:30 Presentation Area
Session 60: Microfinance and Investment December 21, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Classroom 14
Session Chair: Saswatee Mukherjee, Presidency University
1. Incentives and Competition in Microfinance
Presented by: Kaniska Dam, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Econ
2. Sequential Group Lending with and without Joint-Liability: Grameen I versus Grameen II
Presented by: Saswatee Mukherjee, Presidency University
3. Emerging Countries Sovereign Rating Adjustment using Market Information: Impact on Financial Institutions' Investment Decisions
Presented by: Xin Zhao, University Paris 1
Session 61: Trade: Theory December 21, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Seminar Room 2
Session Chair: Dennis Becker, Cornell University
1. Inheritance, Search Friction and International Trade: A General Equilibrium Model
Presented by: Debojyoti Mazumder, Indian Statistical Institute
2. The Gravity of Experience
Presented by: Pushan Dutt, INSEAD
3. Heterogeneous firms and informality: the effects of trade liberalization on labor markets
Presented by: Dennis Becker, Cornell University
Session 62: Measures and Indices December 21, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Classroom 13
Session Chair: Bhargav Maharaj, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira
1. A Dynamic Multidimensional Measure of Poverty
Presented by: Kompal Sinha, Monash University
2. Does Heterogeneity Affect Group Cost Of Living Index?
Presented by: Sutirtha Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute
3. The Discrete Polarization Measure
Presented by: Bhargav Maharaj, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira
Session 63: Labour: Empirical 2 December 21, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Seminar Room 1
Session Chair: Leah Lakdawala, Michigan State University
1. Informality, firm size and labour market segmentation in Indonesia
Presented by: Anisha Sharma, University of Oxford
2. Perverse Consequences of Well-Intentioned Regulation: Evidence from India's Child Labor Ban
Presented by: Leah Lakdawala, Michigan State University
Session 64: Inflation and Volatility December 21, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Auditorium
Session Chair: shashidhar murthy, Indian Institute for Management Bangalore
1. Understanding Food Inflation in India
Presented by: Rudrani Bhattacharya, NIPFP
2. Friedman-Ball Hypothesis for Inflation Revisited: Evidence from some OECD Countries
Presented by: Kushal Banik Chowdhury, Indian Statistical Institute
3. INVESTMENT GROWTH OPTIONS - A SIMPLE MODEL OF ENDOGENOUS STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY
Presented by: shashidhar murthy, Indian Institute for Management Bangalore
Session 65: Public Programs December 21, 2013 16:30 to 18:15 Conference Room
Session Chair: Aparajita Dasgupta, ucr
1. Payment Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Programs: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India
Presented by: Sandip Sukhtankar, Dartmouth College
2. Can the Major Public Works Policy Buffer Negative Shocks in Early Childhood? Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Presented by: Aparajita Dasgupta, ucr

 

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