7th  Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

December 15-17, 2011

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016


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Parallel Sessions 7 (17 December, Saturday; 2.45 - 4.30 PM)

  • Session 7(a): Education II (Conference Room) [Chair: Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego)]

Mukta Mukherjee (Syracuse University): "Do Better Roads Increase School Enrollment? Evidence from a Unique Road Policy in India".

Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) and Soham Sahoo (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Does Access to Secondary Education affect Primary Schooling?: Evidence from India".

Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego): "Long-Term Effects of Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India".

  • Session 7(b): Industrial Organization: Empirics (Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Sunil Kanwar (Delhi School of Economics)]

Sudip Gupta (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad), Neeraj Prasad (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad) and Venkat Chandrasekar (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad): "Impact of Inter Firm Cooperation on Social Welfare under Demand Uncertainty".

Kensuke Kubo (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Explaining Vertical Integration in the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry".

Sunil Kanwar (Delhi School of Economics): "Intellectual Property Protection and Technology Licensing: The Case of Developing Countries".

  • Session 7(c): Food: Price and Consumption Pattern (Seminar Room 2) [Chair: Michel Morisset (Lavall University, Canada)]

Abhimanyu Arora (Katholieke Universteit, Leuven), Jo Swinnen (Katholieke Universteit, Leuven) and Marijke Verpoorten (Katholieke Universteit, Leuven): "Food Prices, Social Unrest and the Facebook Generation".

Nathalie Pons (Centre de Sciences Humaines, Delhi): "Food and Prices in India: Impact of Rising Food Prices on Welfare".

Michel Morisset (Lavall University, Canada) and Pramod Kumar (IARI, New Delhi): "Trends and Pattern of Consumption of Value Added Foods in India".

  • Session 7(d): Exchange Rate and Reserve (Class Room 13) [Chair: Vikas Kakkar (City University of Hong Kong)]

Hrushikesh Mallick (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram): "Role of Exchange Rate on Services and Goods Exports: A Comparative Empirical Analysis".

Sudhanshu Kumar (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi) and Naveen Srinivasan (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai): "Zone-quadratic Preference, Asymmetry and International Reserve Accretion in India: An Empirical Investigation".

Vikas Kakkar (City University of Hong Kong) and Isabel Yan (City University of Hong Kong): "Real Exchange Rates and Productivity: Evidence from Asia".

  • Session 7(e): Human Capital: Education (Class Room 14) [Chair: Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)]

Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics) and Subrata Guha (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "Education and Development: Moving Beyond Labour Productivity".

Marcello D'Amato (University of Salerno) and Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University): "Educational Signaling, Credit Constraints and Inequality Dynamics".

Shoumitro Chatterjee (Delhi School of Economics), Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics), Seher Gupta (Delhi School of Economics) and Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Education Financing Policy: Income Contingent Loans and Educational Poverty Traps".

  • Session 7(f): Topics in Microeconomics III (Auditorium) [Chair: Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)]

Abhijit Banerji (Delhi School of Economics) and Neha Gupta (Delhi School of Economics): "Do Auction Bids Betray Expectations-based Reference Dependent Preferences? A Test, Experimental Evidence, and Estimates of Loss Aversion".

Murali Agastya (University of Sydney) and Arkadii Slinko (University of Auckland): "On Choice in a Complex Environment".

Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) and Amal Sanyal (Lincoln University) and Kunal Sengupta (University of Sydney): "Holdup: Investment Dynamics, Bargaining and Gradualism".


Last Updated on 12 December 2011.