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Parallel Sessions 7 (18 December,
Saturday; 2.30
-
4.15
PM)
- Session 7(a): Political Economy II
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Poonam Gupta (ICRIER, New Delhi)]
Soumyanetra
Munshi (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore):
"Analyzing
Conflict within a Contested Land: The Case of Kashmir".
Lakshmi Iyer
(Harvard Business School), Anandi Mani (University of Warwick), Prachi Mishra (IMF) and Petia Topalova (IMF):
"Political Representation and Crime: Evidence from
India".
Poonam Gupta
(ICRIER, New Delhi) and Arvind Panagariya (Columbia
University):
"India: Election Outcomes and Economic
Performance".
- Session 7(b): Finance and Volatility
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair:
Vidhan K. Goyal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)]
Vidhan K. Goyal (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Wei Wang
(Queen's University):
"Debt Maturity and Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Default Risk Changes".
Marat Ibragimov
(Tashkent State University of Economics), Rustam Ibragimov (Harvard
University) and Paul Kattuman (University of Cambridge):
"Emerging Markets and Heavy Tails".
N. Kundan Kishor
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) and James Morley (University of New South Wales):
"What Moves the Price-Rent Ratio: A
Latent Variable Approach".
- Session 7(c): Empirical Issues III
(Seminar Room 2) [Chair:
Manisha Chakrabarty (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta)]
Stefania Lovo
(University of Sussex):
"Analysing the Welfare-Improving
Potential of Land in the Former Homelands of South Africa".
Rahul Banerjee
(Indore, Madhya Pradesh):
"The Importance of Activist Mediated
Collective Action for Tribal Development".
Manisha Chakrabarty
(Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta) and Werner Hildenbrand
(University of Bonn):
"How Should Engel's Law be
Formulated?".
- Session 7(d): Economic Growth III:
Empirics
(Class Room 13)
[Chair: Silvia Dal Bianco (University of Pavia)]
Silvia Dal
Bianco (University of Pavia):
"Alternative Hypotheses of
Cross-Country Convergence. A Non-Parametric Analysis of
Manufacturing Sectors".
Robert Gillanders
(University College Dublin):
"The Effects of Foreign Aid in
Sub-Saharan Africa".
Anwesha Aditya
(Jadavpur
University) and Saikat Sinha Roy (Jadavpur
University):
"Export Diversification and Economic Growth:
Evidence from Cross-Country Analysis".
- Session 7(e): Development
Microeconomics II (Class Room 14)
[Chair: Jesper Stage (Goteborg University)]
Ajit Mishra (University of Bath) and Sudipta Sarangi (Louisiana
State University):
"Provider Incentives and Delivery of Developmental
Goods".
Kenneth Backlund (Umea University), Tomas Sjogren (Umea
University) and Jesper Stage (Goteborg University):
"Optimal Tax and Expenditure Policy in the Presence of Migration
- Are Credit Restrictions Important?".
Kaniska Dam
(Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico):
"Principal-Agent Assignment: Implications for Incentives and Income
Distribution in Tenancy Relationships".
Last Updated on 13 December 2010. |
