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Conference Programme Day
1: 17 December, Wednesday
8:30 - 9:30: Registration, Coffee/Tea
9:30 - 10:00: Welcome and Opening Remarks;
- Official Launch of The Indian Growth and Development Review (IGDR).
10:00 - 11:15: Plenary Session: Marcus Miller (University of
Warwick)
Title:
Leverage and Asset Bubbles: Averting Armageddon with Chapter 11? (with
Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University)
Chair: Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick and ISI, Delhi)
11:15 - 11:30: Tea break
11:30 - 1:15: Parallel Sessions 1:
| Conference
Room |
Seminar Room 2 |
Class Room 13 |
Class Room 14 |
1(a): Health
Chair: Vegard Iversen (University of
Manchester and ISI, Delhi) |
1(b):
Experiment
Chair: Debasis Mishra (ISI, Delhi)
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1(c): Economic
Growth I
Chair:
Alok Johri (McMaster University) |
1(d): Topics
in Microeconomics I
Chair: Arunava Sen (ISI, Delhi)
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| Peter Svedberg (IIES, Stockholm University):
Why Malnutrition in Shining India Persists? Ashlesha Datar
(RAND Corporation, Santa Monica), Arkadipta Ghosh (Mathematica Policy
Research, Princeton) and Neeraj Sood (RAND Corporation and NBER) :
Mortality Risks, Health Endowments, and Parental Investments in
Infancy: Evidence from Rural India
Richard Palmer-Jones (University of East Anglia):
Have Heights of Indian Women Increased Faster than Male over the Past
Half Century?
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Timothy Cason (Purdue University), Pushkar Maitra (Monash University)
and Lata Gangadharan (University of Melbourne):
Moral Hazard and Peer Monitoring in a Laboratory Microfinance
Experiment Nisvan
Erkal, Lata
Gangadharan and Nikos Nikiforakis (University of Melbourne):
Competition, Luck and Social Preferences: A Real-Effort Experiment
Sudeep Ghosh and Bin Srinidhi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University):
Effect of Internal and Market-based Governance On Managerial Intention
to Expropriate and Investor Confidence: An Experimental Investigation
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Hyeok Jeong (Vanderbilt University) and Yong
Kim (University of Southern California):
Complementarity
and Transition to Modern Economic Growth Areendam Chanda
and Eric Hillebrand (Louisiana State University):
Skill Heterogeneity and Housing in a Neoclassical Growth Model
Manash Ranjan Gupta and Bidisha Chakraborty (ISI, Kolkata):
Human Capital Accumulation, Environmental Quality, Taxation and
Endogenous Growth
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Partha Dasgupta and Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge):
Narrow Identities I: Group Formation and Conflict Raja Kali,
Josh McGee, Javier Reyes and Stuart Shirrell (University of Arkansas):
The Architecture of Growth: Product Space, Growth Acceleration, and
"Small World" Networks
Diganta Mukherjee (ICFAI Business School, Kolkata) and
Rajlakshmi Mallik (NSHM Business School, Kolkata):
Teaching Assessment Trade-off and Performance Related Pay in Education
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1:15 - 2:30: Lunch
2:30 - 4:15: Parallel Sessions 2:
| Conference
Room |
Seminar Room 2 |
Class Room 13 |
Class Room 14 |
2(a):
Education
Chair: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (ISI, Delhi) |
2(b): Indian
Manufacturing
Chair: Sanghamitra Das (ISI, Delhi)
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2(c): Growth
Experience of India
Chair: Sugata Ghosh (Brunel University) |
2(d): Topics
in Microeconomics II
Chair: Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics) |
| Jyotsna Jalan (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
Kolkata) and Rinku Murgai (World Bank, Delhi):
Intergenerational Mobility in Education in India
Sripad Motiram
(Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai) and Lars
Osberg (Dalhousie University, Canada):
Demand or Supply for Schooling in Rural India?
Shilpi Kapur and Tanika Chakraborty (Washington University, St Louis):
English Language Premium: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in India
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Rubiana Chamarbagwala (Indiana University,
Bloomington) and Gunjan Sharma (University of Missouri):
Industrial De-Licensing, Trade Liberalization, and Skill Upgrading in
India Bishwanath Goldar (Institute of Economic Growth,
Delhi):
Trade Liberalization and Labor Demand Elasticity in Indian
Manufacturing
M. Parameswaran (Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum):
International Trade and R&D Investment: Evidence from Manufacturing
Firms in India
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Chetan Ghate (ISI, Delhi) and Stephen Wright
(University of London):
The "V-Factor": Distribution, Timing and Correlates of the Great
Indian Growth Turnaround Oleg Badunenko (German Institute for Economic
Research) and Kiril Tochkov (Texas Christian University):
The Determinants of Regional Growth and Convergence in China, India,
and Russia
Robin Douhan (Uppsala University) and Andres Nordberg
(Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm):
Is the Elephant Stepping
on its Trunk? The Problem of India's Unbalanced Growth |
Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales):
The Fragmentation of Reputation Archishman Chakraborty (York
University, Canada) and Rick Harbaugh (Indiana University):
Clearly Biased Experts Ratul Lahkar
(Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai):
The Dynamic
Instability of Dispersed Price Equilibria
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4:15 - 4:30: Tea break
4:30 - 6:15: Parallel Sessions 3:
| Conference
Room |
Seminar Room 2 |
Class Room 13 |
Class Room 14 |
3(a): Child
Development and Child Labour
Chair: Rinku Murgai (World Bank, Delhi) |
3(b):
Empirical Issues I
Chair: Wilima Wadhwa (ISI, Delhi)
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3(c):
Corruption
Chair: Ajit Mishra (University of Bath)
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3(d): Law and
Economics
Chair: Priyodorshi Banerjee (ISI, Delhi)
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| Christian Helmers (University of Oxford) and Manasa Patnam
(University of Cambridge):
The Formation and Evolution of Childhood Skill Acquisition: Evidence
From India Marie-Claire
Robitaille (University of Otago, New Zealand):
Determinants of Gender Inequality in Child Mortality in India: Do Gods
Matter?
Sugata Marjit (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata) and Kausik Gupta (Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata):
International Capital Mobility and Child Labour
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Jo Thori Lind, Karl Ove Moene and Fredrik Willumsen (University of Oslo, Norway):
Opium for the Masses? Conflicts-induced Narcotics Production in
Afghanistan Siddharth Chandra and Aaron Swoboda (University of Pittsburgh):
Substitution and Complementarity
in Markets for Multiple Drugs in British Bengal
Daniel Guilbert and Satya Paul (University of Western Sydney):
Income and Happiness: An Empirical Analysis of Adaptation and
Comparison Income Effects |
Sambit Bhattacharyya (Australian National
University) and Roland Holder (University of Melbourne):
Natural Resources, Democracy and Corruption Sugata
Ghosh and Andros Gregoriou (Brunel University, UK):
The Composition of Government Spending and Growth: The Role of
Corruption
Keith Blackburn (University of Manchester), Niloy Bose (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
and Salvatore Capasso (University of Naples):
Tax Evasion, the Underground Economy and Financial Development
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Ram Singh (Delhi School of Economics):
On the
Existence and Efficiency of Equilibria under Liability Rules Vimal Kumar (Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Gurgaon):
Production, Appropriation and the Dynamic Emergence of Property Rights Mainak Majumdar and
Meenakshi Rajeev
(Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore):
Parallel Trade and its Implication on the Availability of Patented
Drugs: A Theoretical Approach
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7:30: Conference Dinner at Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH)
Day
2: 18 December, Thursday
9:00 - 10:00: Travel Re-imbursements and Coffee/Tea
10:00 - 11:15: Plenary Session: Gerhard Glomm (Indiana University,
Bloomington)
Title:
On The Political Economy of Education Vouchers
Chair: Satya P. Das (ISI, Delhi)
11:15 - 11:30: Tea break
11:30 - 1:15: Parallel Sessions 4:
| Conference
Room |
Seminar Room 2 |
Class Room 13 |
Class Room 14 |
4(a):
Empirical Issues II
Chair: Siddharth Chandra (University of Pittsburgh) |
4(b): Finance
and Financial Crisis
Chair: Niloy Bose (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) |
4(c): Economic
Growth II
Chair: Chetan Ghate (ISI, Delhi)
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4(d):
Political Economy
Chair: Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales) |
| Mudit Kapoor and Shamika Ravi (Indian School of Business,
Hyderabad):
Effect of Interest Rate on Consumption Ranjula Bali
Swain and Maria Floro (Uppsala University):
Effect of Microfinance on Vulnerability, Poverty and Risk in Low
Income Households
Massimiliano Cali and Carlo Menon (London School of Economics):
Does Urbanisation
Affect Rural Poverty? Evidence from Indian Districts
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Kee-Hong Bae (Queen's University) and Vidhan Goyal (Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology):
Equity Market Liberalization and Corporate Governance Marcus Miller and Lei Zhang (University of Warwick):
Eastern Caution, Western Ebullience and Global Imbalances: A Brief
Tale in Two Parts, with Prologue and Epilogue
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Patricia Prufer (CentER, Tilburg University)
and Gabriele Tondl (Vienna University of Economics and Business
Administration):
The FDI-Growth
Nexus in Latin America: the Role of Source Countries and Local
Conditions Guanyi Ben Li (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Yi Lu (University of Hong Kong):
Happiness and Development: the Effect of Mental Well-being on Economic
Growth
Manash Ranjan Gupta and Trishita Ray Barman (ISI, Kolkata):
Health, Infrastructure, Environment and Endogenous Growth |
Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School) and Anandi Mani (University
of Warwick):
Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India
Brishti Guha (Singapore Management University) and Ashok S.
Guha (ISI, Delhi):
Demography, Development and the Origin of Democracy: A Model with Case
Studies of Archaic Athens and Maritime England
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1:15 - 2:30: Lunch
2:30 - 4:15: Parallel Sessions 5:
| Conference
Room |
Seminar Room 2 |
Class Room 13 |
Class Room 14 |
5(a):
Empirical Issues III
Chair: Pushkar Maitra (Monash University) |
5(b): Labour
Market
Chair: Bharat Ramaswami (ISI, Delhi)
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5(c): Topics
in Macroeconomics
Chair: Areendam Chanda (Louisiana State University) |
5(d):
Industrial Organization
Chair: Prabal Roy Choudhury (ISI, Delhi) |
| Amaresh Dubey (Jawharlal Nehru University), Vegard Iversen (University of
Manchester and ISI, Delhi), Adriaan Kalwij (University of Utrecht),
Bereket Kebede and Arjan Verschoor (University of East Anglia):
Caste Dominance and Inclusive Growth: Evidence from a Panel Data set
for India Annemie Maertens (Cornell
University):
Understanding the Role of Social Learning, Imitation and Social Norms
in BT cotton Technology Adoption Decisions in India
Gaurav Nayyar (University of Oxford):
The Demand for Services in India: A Mirror Image of Engel's Law for
Food? |
Takashi Kurosaki (Institute of Economic
Research, Hitotsubashi University):
Wages in Kind and Economic Development: Their Impacts on Labor Supply
and Food Security of Rural Households in Developing Countries Deepti Goel
(Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai) and Kevin
Lang (Boston University and NBER):
The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Varinder Jain (Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum):
Twin Issues of Discrimination and Work-Related Insecurity: Addressing
Plight of Wageworkers through Social Class Analysis |
Andrew Atkenson and Ariel Burstein (University of California, Los
Angeles):
Innovation, Firm Dynamics, and International Trade
Keqiang Hou and
Alok Johri (McMaster University, Canada):
Costly vs. By-product Learning-by-Doing : A Bayesian Evaluation
Tommaso Ciarli, Andre Lorentz (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena,
Germany), Maria Savona (University of Lille 1, France) and Marco
Valente (University of L'Aquila, Italy):
The Effect of Consumption and Production Structure on Growth and
Distribution. A Micro to Macro Model
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Rohit Prasad and Varadharajan Sridhar
(Management Development Institute, Gurgaon):
Allocative Efficiency of the Mobile Industry in India and Its
Implication for Telecom Policy Prabal Roy Chowdhury and Debdatta Saha (ISI,
Delhi):
Does the Market Kill Bad Ideas? An Institutional Comparison of
Committees and Markets in Network Industries
Arti Grover (Delhi School of Economics):
Vertical FDI
versus Outsourcing: The Role of Technological Complexity and
Absorptive Capacity
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4:15 - 4:30: Tea break
4:30 - 6:15: Panel Discussion on Affirmative Action:
Basudeb Chaudhuri
(Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Velayoudom Marimoutou
(French Institute of Pondichery)
- Chair: Ashwini Deshpande
(Delhi School of Economics)
6:15 - 6:30: Vote of Thanks
Last Updated on 12 December 2008.
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