8th  Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

December 17-19, 2012

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016


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Parallel Sessions 3 (18 December, Tuesday; 11.15 AM - 1.00 PM)

  • Session 3(a): Gender (Conference Room) [Chair: Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol)]

Kanika Mahajan (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi): "Impact of Rainfall Shocks on Gender Wage Differential in Agriculture"

Sofia Amaral (University of Birmingham): "Do Improved Property Rights Decrease Violence Against Women in India?"

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol), Irma Clots-Figueras (Carlos III Madrid) and Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School): "Path-breakers: How does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?"

  • Session 3(b): Corruption (Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad)]

Girijashakar Mallik (University of Western Sydney) and Shrabani Saha (Edith Cowan University): "Growth and Corruption: A Complex Relationship"

Sandip Sukhtankar (Dartmouth College): "Much Ado about Nothing? Corruption in the Allocation of Wireless Spectrum in India"

Klaus Abbink (Monash University), Utteeyo Dasgupta (Franklin & Marshall College), Lata Gangadharan (Monash University), Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad): "Letting the Briber Go Free: An Experiment on Mitigating Harassment Bribes"

  • Session 3(c): Political Economy I (Seminar Room 2) [Chair: Graziella Bertocchi (Universita di Modena and CEPR)]

Laura Zimmermann (University of Michigan): "Jai Ho? The Impact of a Large Public Works Program on the Government's Election Performance in India"

Nishant Chadha (University of British Columbia): "Technological Change and Political Mobilization: Evidence from India"

Graziella Bertocchi (Universita di Modena and CEPR) and Arcangelo Dimico (Queen's University Belfast): "De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi"

  • Session 3(d): Open Economy Macroeconomics (Class Room 13) [Chair: Poonam Gupta (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy)]

Samrat Roy (St. Xavier's College, Kolkata) and Kumarjit Mandal (University of Calcutta): "Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Exploration in Asia using Panel Cointegration Technique"

Abhijit Sen Gupta (Asian Development Bank) and Rajeswari Sengupta (Institute for Financial Management and Research): "Management of Capital Flows in India: 1990-2011"

Sabyasachi Kar (Institute of Economic Growth): "Global Rebalancing: Limitations of the East-Asia-Centric Approach and the Role of Europe"

Poonam Gupta (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy) and Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley): "Real Exchange Rate and Services Export"

  • Session 3(e): Fiscal Policy (Class Room 14) [Sugata Ghosh (Brunel University London)]

Sanchit Arora (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Games under Adaptive Learning"

Santanu Chatterjee (University of Georgia) and Azer Mursagulov (International Monetary Fund): "Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate"

Evangelos V. Dioikitopoulos (Brunel University London) and Sugata Ghosh (Brunel University London): "Intertemporal Substitution and Fiscal Policy Indeterminacy in a Growth Model of the Environment"

  • Session 3(f): International Trade I: Theory (Auditorium) [Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University, NBER and CES-IFO)]

Debasmita Basu (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata): "Opening Up of the Agricultural Sector in the Presence of Single Voting Rights"

Satya P.Das (ISI, Delhi) and Anuradha Saha (ISI, Delhi): "Trade in Goods and Services and Economic Growth"

Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University, NBER and CES-IFO) and Yelena Sheveleva (The Pennsylvania State University): "Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting"


Last Updated on 14 December 2012.