8th  Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

December 17-19, 2012

Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 110016


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Parallel Sessions 6 (19 December, Wednesday; 11.45 AM - 1.30 PM)

  • Session 6(a): Health (Conference Room) [Chair: Anu Rammohan (University of Western Australia)]

Vibhuti Mendiratta (Paris School of Economics): "The Impact of Climatic Shocks on Children's Health in India"

Mousumi Dutta (Presidency University, Kolkata) and Zakir Husain (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi): "Does Health Insurance Ensure Equitable Health Outcomes? An Analysis of Hospital Services Usage in Urban India"

Anu Rammohan (University of Western Australia), Kazi Iqbal (University of Western Australia) and Niyi Awofeso (University of Western Australia): "Neonatal Mortality in Rural India: Does Access to Health Infrastructure Play a Role?"

  • Session 6(b): Networks (Seminar Room 1) [Devesh Roy (International Food Policy Research Institute)]

Tushar K. Nandi (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta) and Fabrice Rochelandet (ADIS, Universite Paris-Sud, Paris): "Contribution to P2P Networks: The Role of Sharing Behaviour in Direct Social Networks"

Tanika Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), Bakhrom Mirkasimov (Humboldt University of Berlin and DIW Berlin) and Susan Steiner (DIW Berlin): "Migration and Social Networks in Kyrgyzstan: Informal Transfers in the Sending Communities"

Abdul Munasib (Oklahoma State University) and Devesh Roy (International Food Policy Research Institute): "Networks and Low Adoption of Modern Technology: The Case of Pearl Millet in Rajasthan, India"

  • Session 6(c): Labour Market (Seminar Room 2) [Chair: Dipanwita Sarkar (Queensland University of Technology)]

James Cust (University of Oxford), Andreas Kotsadam (University of Oslo) and Anja Tolonen (University of Gothenburg): "Mines and Female Employment"

Anirban Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) and Sourabh Bikas Paul (National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi: "Community Identity and Skill Mismatch: A Study on Indian Labour Market"

Dipanwita Sarkar (Queensland University of Technology): "A Distributional Analysis of the Native-Immigrant Earnings Gap: The Importance of Employment Discrimination"

  • Session 6(d): Topics in Macroeconomics (Class Room 13) [Chair: Alok Johri (McMaster University)]

Kausik Gangopadhyay (Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode), Atsushi Nishimura (Ernst & Young Shinnihon Tax, Japan) and Rupayan Pal (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research): "Co-movement of Skill Premium and Stock Prices"

Rudrani Bhattacharya (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi) and Ila Patnaik (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi): "Credit Constraints, Productivity Shocks and Consumption Volatility in Emerging Economies"

Chris Gunn (Carleton University) and Alok Johri (McMaster University): "Fear of Sovereign Default and Business Cycles"

  • Session 6(e): Growth Theory (Class Room 14) [Chair: Alain Desdoigts (Universite Paris-Est)]

Mehdi Senouci (Paris School of Economics): "Direction of Technical Change, Endogenous Fertility, and Patterns of Growth"

Mo Pak-Hung (Hong Kong Baptist University): "Entrepreneurs, Sticky Competition and the Schumpeterian Cobb-Douglas Production Function"

Alain Desdoigts (Universite Paris-Est) and Fernando Jaramillo (Universidad del Rosario): "Mass Consumption and Bounded Learning-By-Doing: Exploring Demand-Side Implications of Income Distribution for Growth"

  • Session 6(f): Industrial Organization (Auditorium) [Chair: Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University)]

Yuanzhu Lu (Central University of Finance and Economics) and Sougata Poddar (AUT Business School): "Does Reliable Pirated Product Lead to More Piracy?"

Arghya Ghosh (University of New South Wales), Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales), and Chengsi Wang (Mannheim): "Horizontal Mergers in the Presence of Vertical Relationships"

Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University) and Kamal Saggi (Vanderbilt University): "Compulsory Licensing, Price Controls, and Access to Patented Foreign Products"


Last Updated on 08 December 2012.