Conference Programme in PDF
Day 1: 19 December, Monday
9.00 - 10.20: Registration, Coffee/Tea
10.20 - 10.30: Opening Remarks: Arunava Sen (ISI Delhi)
10.30 - 11.30: Plenary Session 1 (Auditorium)
Gita Gopinath (Harvard University): “Dominant Currency Paradigm” with Camila Casas (Banco de la Rep´ublica), Federico J. D´ıez (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) & Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (UC at Berkeley and NBER)
Videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3];
Slides: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]
Chair: Chetan Ghate (ISI Delhi)
11.50 – 1.00: Parallel Sessions 1
1(a) Finance I (Conference Room)
1(b) Food (Seminar Room 1)
1(c) Poverty and Mobility (Seminar Room 2)
1(d) Pension (Auditorium)
1(e) Estimation Methodology (Classroom 11)
1(f) Labour: High-skill Immigration (Classroom 13)
1(g) Law and Economics: Theory (Classroom 14)
1.00 - 2.15: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.15 - 4.00: Parallel Sessions 2
2(a) Caste (Conference Room)
2(b) Land Reform and Beyond (Seminar Room 1)
2(c) Health I (Seminar Room 2)
2(d) Political Economy: Clientelism and Political Alignment (Auditorium)
2(e) Individual and Collective Choice (Classroom 11)
2(f) Open Economy Macroeconomics (Classroom 13)
2(g) Applied Microeconomics I (Classroom 14)
4.00 - 4.30: Coffee/Tea Break
4.30 – 6.15: Parallel Sessions 3
3(a) Corruption and Leakages (Conference Room)
3(b) Indian Manufacturing I (Seminar Room 1)
3(c) Finance II (Seminar Room 2)
3(d) Experiment (Auditorium)
3(e) Auctions and Bargaining (Classroom 11)
3(f) Macroeconomics: Theory (Classroom 13)
3(g) Applied Microeconomics II (Classroom 14)
Day 2: 20 December, Tuesday
9.00 - 9.30: Registration and Coffee/Tea
9.30 - 10.30: Plenary Session 2 (Auditorium)
Costas Azariadis (Washington University in St. Louis): “Corruption and Rent-Seeking in Economic Growth” with Yannis Ioannides (Tufts University)
Videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3];
Slides: [Part 1] [Part 2]
Chair: Monisankar Bishnu (ISI Delhi)
10.30 - 11.15: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.15 - 1.00: Parallel Sessions 4
4(a) Women's Labour Force Participation (Conference Room)
4(b) Public Goods and Infrastructure (Seminar Room 1)
4(c) Education I (Seminar Room 2)
4(d) Health II (Auditorium)
4(e) Group and Identity: Theory (Classroom 11)
4(f) Human Capital (Classroom 13)
4(g) Political Economy: Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Classroom 14)
1.00 - 2.15: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.15 - 4.00: Parallel Sessions 5
5(a) Addressing Gender Based Inequality (Conference Room)
5(b) Labour Market (Seminar Room 1)
5(c) Education II (Seminar Room 2)
5(d) Political Economy of Caste (Auditorium)
5(e) Dynamics and Experimentation (Classroom 11)
5(f) Investment, Growth and Convergence (Classroom 13)
5(g) Trade: Theory (Classroom 14)
4.00 - 4.30: Coffee/Tea Break
4.30 – 6.15: Parallel Sessions 6
6(a) Gender I (Conference Room)
6(b) Financial Crises and Microfinance (Seminar Room 1)
6(c) Education III (Seminar Room 2)
6(d) Health III (Auditorium)
6(e) Social Choice and Welfare (Classroom 11)
6(f) Macroeconomics: US and UK (Classroom 13)
6(g) Political Economy: Politician Behaviour and Outcomes (Classroom 14)
7.30 – 10.00: Gala Dinner at the French Cultural Centre (2 APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi - 11)
(Dinner is by invitation only)
[The conference dinner is co-hosted with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
9.30 - 10.30: Plenary Session 2 (Auditorium)
Costas Azariadis (Washington University in St. Louis): “Corruption and Rent-Seeking in Economic Growth” with Yannis Ioannides (Tufts University)
Videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3];
Slides: [Part 1] [Part 2]
Chair: Monisankar Bishnu (ISI Delhi)
10.30 - 11.15: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.15 - 1.00: Parallel Sessions 4
4(a) Women's Labour Force Participation (Conference Room)
4(b) Public Goods and Infrastructure (Seminar Room 1)
4(c) Education I (Seminar Room 2)
4(d) Health II (Auditorium)
4(e) Group and Identity: Theory (Classroom 11)
4(f) Human Capital (Classroom 13)
4(g) Political Economy: Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Classroom 14)
1.00 - 2.15: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.15 - 4.00: Parallel Sessions 5
5(a) Addressing Gender Based Inequality (Conference Room)
5(b) Labour Market (Seminar Room 1)
5(c) Education II (Seminar Room 2)
5(d) Political Economy of Caste (Auditorium)
5(e) Dynamics and Experimentation (Classroom 11)
5(f) Investment, Growth and Convergence (Classroom 13)
5(g) Trade: Theory (Classroom 14)
4.00 - 4.30: Coffee/Tea Break
4.30 – 6.15: Parallel Sessions 6
6(a) Gender I (Conference Room)
6(b) Financial Crises and Microfinance (Seminar Room 1)
6(c) Education III (Seminar Room 2)
6(d) Health III (Auditorium)
6(e) Social Choice and Welfare (Classroom 11)
6(f) Macroeconomics: US and UK (Classroom 13)
6(g) Political Economy: Politician Behaviour and Outcomes (Classroom 14)
7.30 – 10.00: Gala Dinner at the French Cultural Centre (2 APJ Abdul Kalam Road, New Delhi - 11)
(Dinner is by invitation only)
[The conference dinner is co-hosted with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
Day 3: 21 December, Wednesday
9.00 - 9.30: Registration and Coffee/Tea
9.30 - 10.30: Plenary Session 3 (Auditorium)
Rohini Pande (Harvard University): “Leveling the Playing Field: Women and Work in India”
Videos: [Part 1] [Part 2];
Slides: [Part 1] [Part 2]
Chair: Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi)
10.30 – 11.15: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.15 – 1.00: Parallel Sessions 7
7(a) Gender II (Conference Room)
7(b) Indian Manufacturing II (Seminar Room 1)
7(c) Environment I (Seminar Room 2)
7(d) Trade: Empirical (Auditorium)
7(e) Strategyproof Mechanism Design (Classroom 11)
7(f) Macroeconomics: Indian and Emerging Economies (Classroom 13)
7(g) Political Economy: Local Elections (Classroom 14)
1.00 – 2.15: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.15 – 4.00: Parallel Sessions 8
8(a) Agriculture (Conference Room)
8(b) Poverty (Seminar Room 1)
8(c) Environment II (Seminar Room 2)
8(d) Behavioural Economics (Auditorium)
8(e) Stability and Coalition Formation (Classroom 11)
8(f) Topics in Macroeconomics (Classroom 13)
8(g) Political Economy: Theory (Classroom 14)
4.00 – 4.30: Coffee/Tea Break
4.30 - 6.00: Panel Discussion on “Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Its Relevance for India” (Auditorium)
Panelists:
Debraj Ray (New York University),
Himanshu (Jawaharlal Nehru University),
Kalle Moene (University of Oslo),
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University).
Moderator: E. Somanathan (ISI Delhi)
[The Panel Discussion is co-organized with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
Discussion videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]
6.00 – 6.15: Vote of Thanks
9.30 - 10.30: Plenary Session 3 (Auditorium)
Rohini Pande (Harvard University): “Leveling the Playing Field: Women and Work in India”
Videos: [Part 1] [Part 2];
Slides: [Part 1] [Part 2]
Chair: Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi)
10.30 – 11.15: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.15 – 1.00: Parallel Sessions 7
7(a) Gender II (Conference Room)
7(b) Indian Manufacturing II (Seminar Room 1)
7(c) Environment I (Seminar Room 2)
7(d) Trade: Empirical (Auditorium)
7(e) Strategyproof Mechanism Design (Classroom 11)
7(f) Macroeconomics: Indian and Emerging Economies (Classroom 13)
7(g) Political Economy: Local Elections (Classroom 14)
1.00 – 2.15: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.15 – 4.00: Parallel Sessions 8
8(a) Agriculture (Conference Room)
8(b) Poverty (Seminar Room 1)
8(c) Environment II (Seminar Room 2)
8(d) Behavioural Economics (Auditorium)
8(e) Stability and Coalition Formation (Classroom 11)
8(f) Topics in Macroeconomics (Classroom 13)
8(g) Political Economy: Theory (Classroom 14)
4.00 – 4.30: Coffee/Tea Break
4.30 - 6.00: Panel Discussion on “Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Its Relevance for India” (Auditorium)
Panelists:
Debraj Ray (New York University),
Himanshu (Jawaharlal Nehru University),
Kalle Moene (University of Oslo),
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University).
Moderator: E. Somanathan (ISI Delhi)
[The Panel Discussion is co-organized with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
Discussion videos: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4]
6.00 – 6.15: Vote of Thanks
Details of the parallel sessions
Parallel Sessions 1 : 19 December, Monday 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM
Session 1(a): Finance I (Conference Room) Chair: Rashmi Barua
Shashwat Alok (Indian School of Business), Ritam Chaurey (State University of New York, Binghamton), Vasudha Nukala (Indian School of Business): “Creditor Rights and Corporate Labor Policy: Evidence from a Policy Experiment”
Paolo Abarcar (Mathematica Policy Research), Rashmi Barua (Jawaharlal Nehru University) & Dean Yang (University of Michigan): “Financial Education and Financial Access for Transnational Households: Field Experimental Evidence from the Philippines”
Session 1(b): Food (Seminar Room 1) Chair: C.S.C.Sekhar
Digvijay Singh Negi (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi) & Bharat Ramaswami (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi): “Risk Sharing and Trade in World Food Markets: The Case of Rice, Wheat and Maize”
C.S.C.Sekhar (Institute of Economic Growth) & Yogesh Bhatt (Institute of Economic Growth): “Food Inflation and Volatility in India”
Session 1(c): Poverty and Mobility (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Sugata Bag
Shariq Mohammed (University of Arizona): “Does a Good Father Now Have to be Rich? Intergenerational Income Mobility in Rural India”
Sugata Bag (Delhi School of Economics) & Suman Seth (University of Leeds): “Understanding Standard of Living and Correlates in Slums: An Analysis using Monetary Versus Multidimensional Approaches in Three Indian Cities”
Session 1(d): Pension (Auditorium) Chair: Sourabh B. Paul
Vidhya Unnikrishnan (University of Manchester): “How Well Targeted are Social Assistance Programs in India-a Case Study of Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme”
Viola Asri (University of Zurich), Katharina Michaelowa (University of Zurich), Sitakanta Panda (IIT Delhi) & Sourabh B. Paul (IIT Delhi): “Does Transparency Improve Public Program Targeting? – Evidence from India's Old-Age Social Pension Reforms”
Session 1(e): Estimation Methodology (Classroom 11) Chair: Debopam Bhattacharya
Arpita Chatterjee (University of New South Wales), James Morley (University of New South Wales) & Aarti Singh (University of Sydney): “A Bayesian Approach to Estimating Household Income Risk and Consumption Insurance”
Debopam Bhattacharya (University of Cambridge): “Empirical Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice: Some New Results”
Session 1(f): Labour: High-skill Immigration (Classroom 13) Chair: Gaurav Khanna
Niloy Bose (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Scott Adams (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) & Chandramouli Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “To Stay or Not to Stay: Location Choice of Foreign Born U.S. Doctorates”
Gaurav Khanna (University of California - San Diego) & Nicolas Morales (University of Michigan): “The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream”
Session 1(g): Law and Economics: Theory (Classroom 14) Chair: Ram Singh
Krishna K Ladha (Goa Institute of Management): “The Trouble with Innocent Until Proven Guilty”
Hans-Bernd Schafer (Bucerius Law School, Hamburg) & Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics): “Economic Analysis of Takings Law: Reexamination”
Shashwat Alok (Indian School of Business), Ritam Chaurey (State University of New York, Binghamton), Vasudha Nukala (Indian School of Business): “Creditor Rights and Corporate Labor Policy: Evidence from a Policy Experiment”
Paolo Abarcar (Mathematica Policy Research), Rashmi Barua (Jawaharlal Nehru University) & Dean Yang (University of Michigan): “Financial Education and Financial Access for Transnational Households: Field Experimental Evidence from the Philippines”
Session 1(b): Food (Seminar Room 1) Chair: C.S.C.Sekhar
Digvijay Singh Negi (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi) & Bharat Ramaswami (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi): “Risk Sharing and Trade in World Food Markets: The Case of Rice, Wheat and Maize”
C.S.C.Sekhar (Institute of Economic Growth) & Yogesh Bhatt (Institute of Economic Growth): “Food Inflation and Volatility in India”
Session 1(c): Poverty and Mobility (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Sugata Bag
Shariq Mohammed (University of Arizona): “Does a Good Father Now Have to be Rich? Intergenerational Income Mobility in Rural India”
Sugata Bag (Delhi School of Economics) & Suman Seth (University of Leeds): “Understanding Standard of Living and Correlates in Slums: An Analysis using Monetary Versus Multidimensional Approaches in Three Indian Cities”
Session 1(d): Pension (Auditorium) Chair: Sourabh B. Paul
Vidhya Unnikrishnan (University of Manchester): “How Well Targeted are Social Assistance Programs in India-a Case Study of Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme”
Viola Asri (University of Zurich), Katharina Michaelowa (University of Zurich), Sitakanta Panda (IIT Delhi) & Sourabh B. Paul (IIT Delhi): “Does Transparency Improve Public Program Targeting? – Evidence from India's Old-Age Social Pension Reforms”
Session 1(e): Estimation Methodology (Classroom 11) Chair: Debopam Bhattacharya
Arpita Chatterjee (University of New South Wales), James Morley (University of New South Wales) & Aarti Singh (University of Sydney): “A Bayesian Approach to Estimating Household Income Risk and Consumption Insurance”
Debopam Bhattacharya (University of Cambridge): “Empirical Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice: Some New Results”
Session 1(f): Labour: High-skill Immigration (Classroom 13) Chair: Gaurav Khanna
Niloy Bose (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Scott Adams (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) & Chandramouli Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “To Stay or Not to Stay: Location Choice of Foreign Born U.S. Doctorates”
Gaurav Khanna (University of California - San Diego) & Nicolas Morales (University of Michigan): “The IT Boom and Other Unintended Consequences of Chasing the American Dream”
Session 1(g): Law and Economics: Theory (Classroom 14) Chair: Ram Singh
Krishna K Ladha (Goa Institute of Management): “The Trouble with Innocent Until Proven Guilty”
Hans-Bernd Schafer (Bucerius Law School, Hamburg) & Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics): “Economic Analysis of Takings Law: Reexamination”
Parallel Sessions 2 : 19 December, Monday 2:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 2(a): Caste (Conference Room) Chair: Ashwini Deshpande
Sunil Mitra Kumar (King's College London) & Ragupathy Venkatachalam (Goldsmiths University of London): “Caste and Credit: A Woeful Tale?”
Tanika Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Anirban Mukherjee (University of Calcutta), Sarani Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) & Abhishek Singh Shekhawat (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur): “Formal Institutions, Caste Network and Occupational Mobility”
Ashwini Deshpande (Delhi School of Economics) & Deepti Goel (Delhi School of Economics): “Identity, Perceptions and Institutions: Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India”
Session 2(b): Land Reform and Beyond (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Prasad S. Bhattacharya
Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University), Rasyad A. Parinduri (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus) & Saumik Paul (Hitotsubashi University): “Evaluating Efficiency Gains from Tenancy Reform Targeting a Heterogeneous Group of Sharecroppers: Evidence from India”
Zoya Saher (University of Surrey), Sarmistha Pal (University of Surrey) & Tiago Pinheiro (University of Surrey): “Land Acquisition and Corporate Investment – Legacy of the Historical Land Ceiling Legislations.”
Rajabrata Banerjee (University of South Australia), Prasad S. Bhattacharya (Deakin University) & Tridip Ray (ISI Delhi): “Land Reform, Property Rights and Financial Development.”
Session 2(c): Health I (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Mehtabul Azam
Wiktoria Tafesse (University of Sussex): “The Effect of Iodine Deficiency on Test Scores and Child Mortality in Rural India”
Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University) & Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar University): “Examining the Quality-Quantity Trade Off: Evidence from a Public Health Intervention in India”
Mehtabul Azam (Oklahoma State University): “Does Social Health Insurance Reduce Financial Burden? Panel Data Evidence from India”
Session 2(d): Political Economy: Clientelism and Political Alignment (Auditorium) Chair: Anirban Kar
Subhasish Dey (New College of the Humanities, London) & Arjun Bedi (Erasmus University, Rotterdam): “Falling Clientelism or Regime-Change Effect? Benefit Incidence of India’s Employment Guarantee Programme: A Panel Data Analysis from West Bengal, India”
Sabyasachi Das (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) & Gaurav Sabharwal (Princeton University): “Whom are you Doing a Favor to? Governance Consequences of Political Alignment”
Anindya Bhattacharya (University of York, UK), Anirban Kar (Delhi School of Economics) & Alita Nandi (University of Essex): “Local Institutional Structure and Clientelistic Access to Employment: The Case of MGNREGS in Three States of India”
Session 2(e): Individual and Collective Choice (Classroom 11) Chair: Rajnish Kumar
Saptarshi Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) & Ruhi Sonal (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): “Proximity and Stochastic Choice”
Anujit Chakraborty (University of British Columbia): “Present Bias Behavior with Subjective Uncertainty.”
Sinan Ertemel (Istanbul Technical University) & Rajnish Kumar (Queen's University Belfast): “Proportional Rules for State Contingent Claims”
Session 2(f): Open Economy Macroeconomics (Classroom 13) Chair: Abhijit Sen Gupta
Nikhil Damodaran (Louisiana State University): “Fiscal Policy and Trade in a Currency Union”
Nikhil Patel (Bank for International Settlements): “International Trade Finance and the Cost Channel of Monetary Policy in Open Economies”
Abhijit Sen Gupta (Asian Development Bank) & Rajeswari Sengupta (Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research): “Is there a Case for Exchange Rate Coordination in South Asia”
Session 2(g): Applied Microeconomics I (Classroom 14) Chair: Karna Basu
Swagata Bhattacharjee (Ashoka University): “Contracting for Innovation under Ambiguity”
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay (India Development Foundation), Radhika Lunawat (University of California, Irvine) & Clas Wihlborg (Chapman University): “Soft Information Production and Investment in Specific Assets”
Karna Basu (City University of New York) & Jonathan Conning (City University of New York): “Breakable Commitments: Present-bias, Client protection and Bank ownership forms”
Parallel Sessions 3 : 19 December, Monday 4:30 PM – 6:15 PM
Session 3(a): Corruption and Leakages (Conference Room) Chair: Madhav S. Aney
Samarth Gupta (Boston University): “Corruption and Firm Dynamics in India”
Daniel Overbeck (Heidelberg University): “Leakage and Corruption in India’s Public Distribution System”
Sisir Debnath (Indian School of Business) & Sheetal Sekhri (University of Virginia): “No Free Lunch: Using Technology to Improve the Efficacy of School Feeding Programs”
Madhav S. Aney (Singapore Management University), Shubhankar Dam (City University of Hong Kong) & Giovanni Ko (Nanyang Technological University): “Jobs for Justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India”
Session 3(b): Indian Manufacturing I (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Chirantan Chatterjee
Shahana Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): “How does Debt Financing affect Productivity Growth? Firm-level Evidence from India”
Subhadip Mukherjee (IBS, Hyderabad) & Rupa Chanda ( Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): “Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Performance of Indian Manufacturing MSMEs: A Cross Census Panel Analysis”
Qayoom Khachoo (IIT, Indore) & Ruchi Sharma (IIT, Indore): “Proximity to the Best Practice Frontier and FDI Spillovers”
Sourav Bhattacharya (University of London), Pavel Chakraborty (Jawaharlal Nehru University) & Chirantan Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): “IPR and Composition of Tasks”
Session 3(c): Finance II (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Sudipto Karmakar
Prasenjit Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Management, Indore) & K Kiran Kumar (Indian Institute of Management, Indore): “Options Order Flow, Volatility Demand and Variance Risk Premium”
Swarnodeep Homroy (University of Lancaster): “Why Don't All Firms Do 'Good' Equally?”
Francisco Buera (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago & NBER) & Sudipto Karmakar (Bank of Portugal & UECE): “Real Effects of Financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity”
Session 3(d): Experiment (Auditorium) Chair: Ananish Chaudhuri
Ritwik Banerjee (IIM, Bangalore and IZA, Bonn), Nabanita Datta Gupta (Aarhus University and IZA, Bonn) & Marie Claire Villeval (IZA, Bonn): “The Spillover Effects of Affirmative Action An Artefactual Field Experiment with Castes in India”
Surajeet Chakravarty (University of Exeter), Miguel A. Fonseca (University of Exeter), Sudeep Ghosh (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) & Sugata Marjit (Center for Studies in the Social Sciences, Calcutta): “Religious Fragmentation, Social Identity and Conflict: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in India.”
Cary Deck (University of Arkansas), Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech) & Matt Wiser (University of South Alabama): “An Experimental Investigation of Electoral College Contests”
Tony So (University of Auckland), Ananish Chaudhuri (University of Auckland) & Paul Brown (University of California): “Piece-rates and Tournaments: Implications for Learning in a Cognitively Challenging Task”
Session 3(e): Auctions and Bargaining (Classroom 11) Chair: Fahad Khalil
Ravideep Sethi (New York University) & Ewout Verriest (New York University): “The Power of the Agenda Setter: A Dynamic Legislative Bargaining Model”
Rohan Dutta (McGill University): “Bargaining with Uncertain Commitment: On the Limits of Disagreement”
Indranil Chakraborty (National University of Singapore) & Kenneth Khoo (National University of Singapore): “Simultaneous vs. Sequential Auctions with Risk Averse Bidders”
Indranil Chakraborty (National University of Singapore), Fahad Khalil (University of Washington) & Jacques Lawarree (University of Washington): “Competitive Procurement and Ex Post Moral Hazard”
Session 3(f ): Macroeconomics: Theory (Classroom 13) Chair: Aditya Goenka
Tobias Brunner (University of Lincoln), Guido Friebel (Goethe University, Frankfurt), Richard Holden (UNSW Australia Business School) & Suraj Prasad (University of Sydney): “Education, Experimentation, and Entrepreneurship”
Berrak Bahadir (Ozyegin University), Santanu Chatterjee (University of Georgia) & Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher (Miami University): “The Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances”
Guido Cozzi (St. Gallen), Minwolk Kang (NTU), Aditya Goenka (University of Birmingham) & Karl Shell (Cornell University): “Winners and Losers from Price-Level Volatility: Monetary Taxation and Information Frictions”
Session 3(g): Applied Microeconomics II (Classroom 14) nbsp; Chair: Arijit Muhkerjee
Oindrila Dey (FLAME University), Swapnendu Banerjee (Jadavpur University) & Sougata Poddar (University of Redsland): “Endogenous Favouritism With Status Incentives: A Model Of Optimal Inefficiency”
Kaniska Dam (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas) & Konstantinos Serfes (Drexel University): “A Price Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration Under Two-Sided Productivity Heterogeneity”
Jin Li, (Northwestern University), Arijit Muhkerjee (Michigan State University) & Luis Vasconcelos (University of Essex): “"Learning-by-Shirking" in Relational Contracts”
Parallel Sessions 4 : 20 December, Tuesday 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM
IGC workshop on 'Women and Work in India'
Session 4(a): Women's Labour Force Participation (Conference Room) Chair: Farzana Afridi
Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi), Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth College) and Kanika Mahajan (Ambedkar University, Delhi): “Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in Rural India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades”
Deepak Varshney (Delhi School of Economics): “Gender Difference in Wages in Casual Labour Market in India: An Analysis of the Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)”
Chandan Jain (Shiv Nadar University): “Supply Side School Interventions for Girls in India, Effectiveness and Labour Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
*This session is supported by IGC- India Central research grant for 'Women and Work in India'
Session 4(b): Public Goods and Infrastructure (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Simon Alder
Viacheslav Yakubenko (Goettingen University): “Giants and Midgets: The Effect of Public Goods’ Provision on Urban Population Concentration”
Sam Asher (The World Bank), Karan Nagpal (University of Oxford) & Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College): “The Cost of Distance: Geography and Governance in Rural India”
Simon Alder (University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill): “Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development”
Session 4(c): Education I (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Tarun Jain
Bhanu Gupta (University of Michigan): “"Big Brother" Effect: Impact of Birth Order and Gender on Learning Outcomes - Evidence from India”
Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University), Kumarjit Mandal (University of Calcutta) & Anirban Mukherjee (University of Calcutta): “Identity and Learning: A Study on the Effect of Student Teacher Gender Interaction on Student’s Learning”
Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) & Subha Mani (Fordham University): “Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English training in India”
Session 4(d): Health II (Auditorium) Chair: Mukesh Eswaran
Subham Kailthya (University of Reading) & Uma Kambhampati (University of Reading): “Political-economy of Healthcare Provision in India: Analysing the Entire Healthcare Distribution”
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex), Rudi Rocha (UJRF Rio) & Rodrigo Soares (University of Columbia): “Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructutring and Maternal and Child Health in Brazil”
Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia) & Nancy Gallini (University of British Columbia): “Rescuing the Golden Age of Antibiotics: Can Economics Help Avert the Looming Crisis?”
Session 4(e): Group and Identity: Theory (Classroom 11) Chair: Rajiv Sethi
Dripto Bakshi (Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata) & Indraneel Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata): “Identity Conflict with Cross Border Spillovers”
Sourav Bhattacharya (University of London) & Ming Li (Condcordia University, Canada): “Strategic Communication and Group Formation”
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University) & Muhamet Yildiz (MIT): “Culture and Communication”
Session 4(f): Human Capital (Classroom 13) Chair: Shankha Chakraborty
Anurag Banerjee (Durham University), Parantap Basu (Durham University) & Elisa Keller (University of Exeter): “Business Cost and Skill Acquisition”
Jayanta Sarkar (Queensland University of Technology): “Fertility, Child Labor and Physical Activity among the Nutritionally Poor: A Bio-Economic Exploration”
Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon) & Fidel Perez-Sebastian (University of Alicante & University of Hull): “Age-Specific Effects of Mortality Shocks and Economic Development”
Session 4(g): Political Economy: Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Classroom 14) Chair: Sam Asher
Yu Liu (Fudan University) & Xiaoxue Zhao (Yale University): “State Capacity and Economic Development under Capital Mobility”
Satyendra Kumar Gupta (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) : “The Long-run Effects of Land Productivity on Democracy”
Sam Asher (World Bank Research Unit) & Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College): “Dirty Politics: Mining Booms and Politician Behavior in India”
Session 4(a): Women's Labour Force Participation (Conference Room) Chair: Farzana Afridi
Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi), Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth College) and Kanika Mahajan (Ambedkar University, Delhi): “Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in Rural India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades”
Deepak Varshney (Delhi School of Economics): “Gender Difference in Wages in Casual Labour Market in India: An Analysis of the Impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)”
Chandan Jain (Shiv Nadar University): “Supply Side School Interventions for Girls in India, Effectiveness and Labour Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
*This session is supported by IGC- India Central research grant for 'Women and Work in India'
Session 4(b): Public Goods and Infrastructure (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Simon Alder
Viacheslav Yakubenko (Goettingen University): “Giants and Midgets: The Effect of Public Goods’ Provision on Urban Population Concentration”
Sam Asher (The World Bank), Karan Nagpal (University of Oxford) & Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College): “The Cost of Distance: Geography and Governance in Rural India”
Simon Alder (University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill): “Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development”
Session 4(c): Education I (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Tarun Jain
Bhanu Gupta (University of Michigan): “"Big Brother" Effect: Impact of Birth Order and Gender on Learning Outcomes - Evidence from India”
Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University), Kumarjit Mandal (University of Calcutta) & Anirban Mukherjee (University of Calcutta): “Identity and Learning: A Study on the Effect of Student Teacher Gender Interaction on Student’s Learning”
Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) & Subha Mani (Fordham University): “Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English training in India”
Session 4(d): Health II (Auditorium) Chair: Mukesh Eswaran
Subham Kailthya (University of Reading) & Uma Kambhampati (University of Reading): “Political-economy of Healthcare Provision in India: Analysing the Entire Healthcare Distribution”
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex), Rudi Rocha (UJRF Rio) & Rodrigo Soares (University of Columbia): “Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructutring and Maternal and Child Health in Brazil”
Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia) & Nancy Gallini (University of British Columbia): “Rescuing the Golden Age of Antibiotics: Can Economics Help Avert the Looming Crisis?”
Session 4(e): Group and Identity: Theory (Classroom 11) Chair: Rajiv Sethi
Dripto Bakshi (Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata) & Indraneel Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute , Kolkata): “Identity Conflict with Cross Border Spillovers”
Sourav Bhattacharya (University of London) & Ming Li (Condcordia University, Canada): “Strategic Communication and Group Formation”
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University) & Muhamet Yildiz (MIT): “Culture and Communication”
Session 4(f): Human Capital (Classroom 13) Chair: Shankha Chakraborty
Anurag Banerjee (Durham University), Parantap Basu (Durham University) & Elisa Keller (University of Exeter): “Business Cost and Skill Acquisition”
Jayanta Sarkar (Queensland University of Technology): “Fertility, Child Labor and Physical Activity among the Nutritionally Poor: A Bio-Economic Exploration”
Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon) & Fidel Perez-Sebastian (University of Alicante & University of Hull): “Age-Specific Effects of Mortality Shocks and Economic Development”
Session 4(g): Political Economy: Infrastructure and Natural Resources (Classroom 14) Chair: Sam Asher
Yu Liu (Fudan University) & Xiaoxue Zhao (Yale University): “State Capacity and Economic Development under Capital Mobility”
Satyendra Kumar Gupta (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) : “The Long-run Effects of Land Productivity on Democracy”
Sam Asher (World Bank Research Unit) & Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College): “Dirty Politics: Mining Booms and Politician Behavior in India”
Parallel Sessions 5 : 20 December, Tuesday 2:15 PM – 4:00 PM
IGC workshop on 'Women and Work in India'
Session 5(a): Addressing Gender Based Inequalities (Conference Room) Chair: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Sukanya Sarkhel (St. Xavier's College, Kolkata): “Parenthood, Patriarchy and Penalty: Evidence from Indian Labour Market”
Shareen Joshi (Georgetown University), Nishtha Kochhar (Georgetown University) & Vijayendra Rao (World Bank): “Does Caste Still Matter? Gender, Empowerment and Inequality in 3 States of India”
Shabana Mitra (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) & Kalle Moene (University of Oslo): “Wheels of power---Longterm Effects of Targeting Girls with In Kind Transfers”
*This session is supported by IGC- India Central research grant for 'Women and Work in India'
Session 5(b): Labour Market (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Arnab K. Basu
Benjamin Thompson (University of Michigan): “Pensions, Retirement, and the Disutility of Labor: Bunching in Brazil”
Anand Shrivastava (Azim Premji University, University of Cambridge) & Girish Bahal (NCAER, University of Cambridge): “Labor Market Effects of Inconsistent Policy Interventions: Evidence from India's Employment Guarantees”
Arnab K. Basu (Cornell University), Nancy Chau (Cornell University) & Vidhya Soundararajan (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) “Wage Polarization and Contract Employment”
Session 5(c): Education II (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Sweta Gupta
Karan Singhal (IIM Ahmedabad) & Upasak Das (Centre for Development Studies): “The Role of Private Schooling on Children Learning Outcomes and Prevalence of Female Mathematical Anxiety in India”
Maulik Jagnani (Cornell University) & Gaurav Khanna (University of California, San Diego): “Do Public Colleges Increase Private School Enrollment? Evidence from India”
Sweta Gupta (University of Sussex): “Do Private Preschools add more 'value'? - Evidence on Achievement Gaps from Rural India”
Session 5(d): Political Economy of Caste (Auditorium) Chair: Patrick Francois
Victoire Girard (LEO Unversité d'Orléans and CES, Université Paris 1): “Don’t Touch My Road: Evidence from India on Affirmative Action and Everyday Discrimination”
Yusuf Neggers (Brown University): “Enfranchising Your Own? Experimental Evidence on Bureaucrat Diversity and Bias in Indian Elections”
Siwan Anderson (University of British Columbia) & Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia): “Reservations and the Politics of Fear”
Session 5(e): Dynamics and Experimentation (Classroom 11) Chair: Kaustav Das
Srijita Ghosh (New York University): “Costly Social Learning and Rational Inattention”
Shraman Banerjee (O.P. Jindal Global University) & Bo Chen (Southern Methodist University): “Asymmetric Dynamic Price Mechanism for Symmetric Buyers”
Kaustav Das (University of Exeter): “The Role of Heterogeneity in a Model of Strategic Experimentation”
Session 5(f): Investment, Growth and Convergence (Classroom 13) Chair: Alok Johri
Aparna Lolayekar (Goa University) & Pranab Mukhopadhyay (Goa University): “Regional Income Convergence in India and Spatial Dependence”
Debdulal Mallick (Deakin University), Robert Chirinko (University of Illinois): “The Substitution Elasticity, Factor Shares, Long-Run Growth, and the Low-Frequency Panel Model”
Alok Johri (McMaster University) & Mahbubur Rahman (McMaster University): “The Rise and Fall of Q : The Story of India's Relative Price of Investment As Told by Quantitative Theory”
Session 5(g): Trade Theory (Classroom 14) Chair: Kamal Saggi
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Todd Sandler (University of Texas, Dallas) & Javed Younas (American University of Sharjah): “Trade and Terrorism: A Disaggregated Approach”
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), Arnab K. Basu (Cornell University), Nancy H. Chau (Cornell University) & Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University): “Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring On a Developing Country: Theory and Policy”
Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University) & Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University): “Compulsory Licensing and Patent Protection: a North-South perspective”
Parallel Sessions 6 : 20 December, Tuesday 4:30 PM – 6:15 PM
Session 6(a): Gender I (Conference Room) Chair: Annemie Maertens
S Anukriti (Boston College), Sungoh Kwon (University of Connecticut) & Nishith Prakash (University of Connecticut): “Dowry: Household Responses to Expected Marriage Payments”
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex) & Sofia Amaral (University of Essex): “Unmarried Men and Violence against Women: the Long-run Effects of Sex Selection in India”
Sweta Gupta (University of Sussex), Chris Ksoll (Mathematica) & Annemie Maertens (University of Sussex): “Do Mothers-In-Law Ruin Efficiency? Evidence from Rural India”
Session 6(b): Financial Crises and Microfinance (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Shyamal Chowdhury
Helios Herrera (University of Warwick), Guillermo Ordoñez (University of Pennsylvania) & Christoph Trebesch (University of Munich): “Political Booms, Financial Crises”
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Esther Duflo (MIT) & Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago): “(Measured) Profit is Not Welfare: Evidence from an Experiment on Bundling Microcredit and Insurance”
Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney), Dyotona Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute), Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute) & Uttam Sharma (University of Sydney): “How Does Competition among MFIs Affect Lenders and Borrowers? Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh”
Session 6(c): Education III (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Panu Pelkonen
Jim Berry (Cornell University) & Priya Mukherjee (College of William and Mary): “Pricing of Private Education Services in India: Demand, Use and Impact”
Andres Giraldo (Southern Methodist University) & Manini Ojha (Southern Methodist University): “An Evaluation of the Effect of Quality of Education on Violence: Evidence from Colombia”
Sonja Fagernas (University of Sussex) & Panu Pelkonen (University of Sussex): “Teacher Imbalances and Segregation in India”
Session 6(d): Health III (Auditorium) Chair: Prakarsh Singh
Sanjeev Kumar (Yale University): “Does Health Influence Risk Preference?”
Chitwan Lalji (IIT, Kanpur), Debayan Pakrash (IIT Kanpur) & Russell Smyth (Monash University, Clayton): “Can Fruits and Vegetables Really Keep the Doctors Away?”
Prakarsh Singh (Amherst College) & William A. Masters (Tufts University): “Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India”
Session 6(e): Social Choice and Welfare (Classroom 11) Chair: Mihir Bhattacharya
Swarnendu Chatterjee (Maastricht University), Hans Peters (Maastricht University) & Ton Storcken (Maastricht University): “Frequency Based Analysis of Voting Rules”
Sandip Sarkar (Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy) & Sattwik Santra (Centre for Training and Research in Public Finance and Policy): “On the Quasi Approaches for Inequality Ordering of Ordinal Variables”
Mihir Bhattacharya (Aix-Marseille University) & Nicolas Gravel (Aix-Marseille University): “The Majoritarian Social Welfare Relation: Some Results”
Session 6(f): Macroeconomics: US and UK (Classroom 13) Chair: Sandy Suardi
Aditi Thapar (University of Michigan) & Matthew Hall (Boston Consulting Group): “The Economic Effects of Government Spending”
Arnab Bhattacharjee (Heriot-Watt University) & Atanas Christev (Heriot-Watt University): “Inferring Structural Ordering: How does the UK Economy respond to International Shocks?”
Amélie Charles (Audencia Nantes), Chew Lian Chua (University of Melbourne), Olivier Darné (LEMNA - Université de Nantes) & Sandy Suardi (University of Wollongong): “On the Pernicious Effects of Oil Price Uncertainty on US Real Economic Activities”
Session 6(g): Political Economy: Politician Behaviour and Outcomes (Classroom 14) Chair: Soham Sahoo
Ajit Phadnis (IIM, Bangalore): “Do Individual MPs matter in India? Voter Reactions to MPs’ Parliamentary Performance in the 15th Lok Sabha”
Ritika Jain (Centre for Development Studies): “Do political factors influence performance of Public Sector Enterprises? The Indian Disinvestment Experience”
Rahul Lahoti (University of Goettingen) & Soham Sahoo (University of Goettingen): “Are Educated Leaders good for Education? Evidence from India”
Parallel Sessions 7 : 21 December, Wednesday 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM
Session 7(a): Gender II (Conference Room) Chair: Rossella Calvi
Annalisa Frigo (Université catholique de Louvain) & Eric Roca Fernandez (Université catholique de Louvain): “Now She Is Martha, then She Is Mary: The Influence of Beguinages on Attitudes Toward Women”
Uttara Balakrishnan (University of Maryland): “Financial Incentives, Son Preference and Household Behaviour: Evidence from India”
Rossella Calvi (Rice University): “Why Are Older Women Missing in India? The Age Profile of Bargaining Power and Poverty”
Session 7(b): Indian Manufacturing II (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Swati Dhingra
Abhinav Narayanan (Reserve Bank of India) & Santanu Chatterjee (University of Georgia): “The Spillover Effects of Public Investment: Implications for Formal and Informal Sector Firms in India”
Sonal Dua (Delhi School of Economics): “What motivates Mergers and Acquisitions - An Industry Level Analysis”
Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po), Swati Dhingra (LSE & CEP) & John Morrow, (Birkbeck & CEP) : “Swimming Upstream: Input-Output Linkages and the Direction of Product Adoption”
Session 7(c): Environment I (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Teevrat Garg
Yashobanta Parida (Jawaharlal Nehru University): “Economic Impact of Floods in Indian States”
Shreekant Gupta (Delhi School of Economics), Partha Sen (Delhi School of Economics) & Saumya Verma (Delhi School of Economics): “Climate Change and Production Risk : Evidence from Indian Agriculture”
Teevrat Garg (University of California, San Diego), Maulik Jagnani (Cornell University) & Vis Taraz (Smith College): “Human Capital Costs of Climate Change: Evidence from Test Scores in India”
Session 7(d): Trade Empirical (Auditorium) Chair: Asha Sundaram
Pavel Chakraborty (Jawaharlal Nehru University) & Michael Henry (University of Birmingham): “The Effect of Chinese Competition on the Product Variety of Indian Firms”
Ivan Kandilov (North Carolina State University), Aslı Leblebicioglu (University of Texas) & Ruchita Manghnani (World Bank): “Trade Liberalization and Investment in Foreign Capital Goods: Evidence from India”
Asha Sundaram (University of Auckland): “Trade Liberalization and Firm Sales Volatility: Evidence from India”
Session 7(e): Strategyproof Mechanism Design (Classroom 11) Chair: Abhinaba Lahiri
Gopakumar Achuthankutty (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) & Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): “Further Results on Strategy-proof Social Choice under Categorization”
Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) & Soumyarup Sadhukhan (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): “Strategy-proof and Unanimous Random Rules on Mixed Single Peaked Domain”
Abhinaba Lahiri (Kyushu University) & Ton Storcken (Maastricht University): “Strategy-proof Location of Two Public Bads in an Interval”
Session 7(f): Macroeconomics: Indian and Emerging Economies (Classroom 13) Chair: Anindya S. Chakrabarti
Sargam Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute): “Optimal Monetary Policy and Terms of Trade Shocks”
Suman Das (Jadavpur University) & Saikat Sinha Roy (Jadavpur University): “Exchange Rate Return Co-movements and Volatility Spillover: The Case of Emerging Market Economies”
Anindya S. Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad): “Inflationary Effects of Monetary Policies in Newly Industrialized Economies with Cross-Sectoral Labor and Capital immobility”
Session 7(g): Political Economy: Local Elections (Classroom 14) Chair: Anirban Mitra
Ashna Arora (Columbia University): “Government Performance under Elite Capture”
Miri Stryjan (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), Erika Deserranno (Kellogg School of Management) & Munshi Sulaiman (BRAC International): “Electoral Rules and Leader Selection: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Community Groups”
Francesca R. Jensenius (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs), Andreas Kotsadam (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research) & Anirban Mitra (University of Kent): “Do Parties Matter at the Subdistrict Level of Politics? Evidence from mandals in Andhra Pradesh”
Parallel Sessions 8 : 21 December, Wednesday 2:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Session 8(a): Agriculture (Conference Room) Chair: Arjunan Subramanian
Chandan Singha (University of Delhi): “Causal Impact of Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures on Farm Profit, Revenue and Variable Cost in Darjeeling District, India”
Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester) & Ankush Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi): “To Farm or Not to Farm? Indian Farmers in Transition”
Arjunan Subramanian (Glasgow University), Purnima Purohit (Glasgow University) & Rebeca Echavarri (Glasgow University): “Dial Helpline ‘H’ for Help”
Session 8(b): Poverty (Seminar Room 1) Chair: Sabina Alkire
Anders Kjelsrud (Statistics Norway) & Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): “Incorporating Public Transfers into the Measurement of Poverty”
Stephan Klasen (University of Goettingen) & Rahul Lahoti (University of Goettingen): “How Serious is the Neglect of Intra-Household Inequality in Multi-dimensional Poverty Indices?”
Sabina Alkire (University of Oxford) & Suman Seth (University of Leeds): “Identifying Destitution through Linked Subsets of Multidimensionally Poor: An Ordinal Approach”
Session 8(c): Environment II (Seminar Room 2) Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann
P P Krishnapriya (Delhi School of Economics): “Effects of Information on Energy Related Choices: Experimental Evidence from Rural Uttar Pradesh and Kerala”
Prabhat Barnwal (Michigan State University), Lex van Geen (Columbia University), Jan von der Goltz (World Bank) & Chander Kumar Singh (TERI University): “Price Sensitivity of demand for arsenic testing of drinking-water wells: Evidence from Bihar, India”
Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney), Annabelle Krause (IZA, Bonn) & Klaus F. Zimmermann (Princeton University and UNU-MERIT): “Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health”
Session 8(d): Behavioural Economics (Auditorium) Chair: Brit Grosskopf
Yashodha (University of Gothenburg): “Bargaining and Contract Choice: Evidence from Informal Groundwater Contracts in India”
Daichi Shimamoto (Waseda University) ,Yasuyuki Todo (Waseda University) ,Yu Ri Kim (The University of Tokyo) & Petr Matous (The University of Sydney): “Identifying and Decomposing Peer Effects in Decision-Making Using a Randomized Controlled Trial”
Brit Grosskopf (University of Exeter) & Graeme Pearce (University of Exeter): “Do you mind me paying less? Measuring Other-Regarding Preferences in the Market for Taxis”
Session 8(e): Stability and Coalition Formation (Classroom 11) Chair: Rakesh Chaturvedi
Shashwat Khare (Maastricht University) & Souvik Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): “Stability in Matching with Groups having Non Responsive Preferences”
Saish Nevrekar (Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research): “A Theory of Endogenous Coalition Formation in Group Contests”
Rakesh Chaturvedi (Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur): “Stable Property Rights”
Session 8(f): Topics in Macroeconomics (Classroom 13) Chair: N. Kundan Kishor
Ashima Goyal (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research) & Abhishek Kumar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): “A DSGE Model-Based Analysis of the Indian Slowdown”
Bhavesh Garg (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad) & Prabheesh K.P. (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad): “Intertemporal Optimization Approach to the Current Account in India”
Omid Ardakani (Armstrong State University) & N. Kundan Kishor (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Examining the Success of the Central Banks in Inflation Targeting Countries: The Dynamics of the Inflation Gap and Institutional Characteristics”
Session 8(g): Political Economy: Theory (Classroom 14) Chair: Sanjay Jain
Manaswini Bhalla (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Kalyan Chatterjee (Pennsylvania State University) & Souvik Dutta (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): “Revolution or Gradualism: Optimal Strategy of a Leader”
Zivanemoyo Chinzara (The World Bank Group) & Radhika Lahiri (Queensland University of Technology): “Institutional Development, Technology Adoption and Redistribution: A Political Economy Perspective”
Sanjay Jain (University of Oxford) & Sumon Majumdar (Queen's University): “The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Redistributive Promises and Transfers to Special Interests”