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Parallel Sessions 6 (18 December,
Friday; 2.30
-
4.15
PM)
- Session 6(a): Inequality and Poverty
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Wilima Wadhwa (ISI, Delhi)]
Ankita Mishra (Monash University)
and Ranjan Ray (Monash University):
"Prices, Inequality and Poverty: Methodology and Indian Evidence".
Ingvild Almas (Norwegian
School of Economics and Business Administration):
"International
Income Inequality: Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for
Food".
Ingvild Almas (Norwegian School of
Economics and Business Administration), Anders Kjelsrud
(Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration) and
Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): "Poverty Reduction in
India - New Evidence Based on Micro Data".
- Session 6(b): Political Economy
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair:
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)]
Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School) and Maya
Shivakumar (Harvard Business School):
"Electoral Redistricting in
the World's Largest Democracy: An Evaluation".
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol) and Irma Clots-Figueras
(Universidad Carlos III de Madrid):
"Health and the Political Agency of Women".
Marianna Belloc (Sapienza
University of Rome), Francesco Drago (University of Naples
Parthenope) and Roberto Galbiati (CNRS EconomiX Paris): "The
Long-term Effects of Political Institutions on Growth and Inequality
in Italian Cities".
- Session 6(c): Empirical Issues III
(Seminar Room 2) [Chair:
Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University)]
Louise Grogan and Asha Sadanand
(University of Guelph):
"Electrification and the Household".
TCA Anant (Delhi School of
Economics) and Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics):
"Distribution of Highways Public Private Partnerships in India: Key
Legal and Economic Determinants".
Bart Minten (International
Food Policy Research Institute), Thomas Reardon (Michigan State
University) and Rajib Sutradhar (Jawaharlal Nehru University):
"Food
Prices and Modern Retail: The Case of Delhi".
- Session 6(d): Economic Growth, Trade
and Aid
(Class Room 13)
[Chair: Parantap Basu (Durham University)]
Pengfei Wang
(Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology) and Danyang Xie (Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology):
"Hetergeneous Sectors, Trade,
and Growth".
C. Veeramani (Indira Gandhi
Institute of Development Research, Mumbai):
"Impact of Imported
Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country
Analysis".
Santanu Chatterjee (University of Georgia), Paola Giuliano
(University of California, Los Angeles and IZA) and Ilker Kaya
(American University of Sharjah):
"Where Has All the Money Gone?
Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth".
- Session 6(e): Macro Modeling of Indian
Economy (Class Room 14)
[Chair: Sabyasachi Kar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi)]
Rahul Anand (Cornell University), Shanaka Peiris (IMF), and
Magnus Saxegaard (IMF):
"An Estimated Model with Macrofinancial
Linkages for India".
John Bailey Jones (State University of New York at Albany) and
Sohini Sahu (State University of New York at Albany):
"Transition Accounting for India in a Multi-Sector Dynamic General
Equilibrium Model".
Sudhanshu Kumar (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research, Mumbai), Naveen Srinivasan (Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research, Mumbai) and M. Ramachandran (Pondicherry
University):
"A Time-Varying Parameter Model of Inflation in India".
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