Conference ProgrammeDay
1: 15 December, Thursday
9.00 - 10.00: Registration, Coffee/Tea
10.00 - 10.45: Welcome Note: Satya P. Das (ISI, Delhi)
Opening Remarks: Kaushik Basu (Cornell
University and Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance)
10.45
- 1.00: Plenary Session 1 (Conference Room)
Maurice Obstfeld (University
of California, Berkeley):
"Stories of the Twentieth Century for
the Twenty-First"
John E. Roemer (Yale
University): "Climate Change and Intergenerational Equity"
(The talk will be based on this paper:
click here)
Debraj Ray
(New York University):
"An Overview of Ethnic Conflict"
(The talk will be based on the following paper:
click here)
Chair: Satya P. Das (ISI, Delhi)
1.00
- 2.30: Lunch
(Guesthouse Lawn)
2.30
- 4.15:
Parallel Sessions
1
1(a) Transfer Programmes
(Conference Room)
1(b) Environment I
(Seminar Room 1)
1(c) Agriculture
(Seminar Room 2)
1(d) Economic Growth: Theory
(Class Room 13)
1(e) Industrial Organization:
Theory I (Class Room 14)
1(f) Topics in Microeconomics I
(Auditorium)
4.15
- 4.45: Coffee/Tea Break
4.45
- 6.30:
Parallel Sessions
2
2(a) Health
(Conference Room)
2(b) Labour
(Seminar Room 1)
2(c) Poverty
(Seminar Room 2)
2(d) Topics in Macroeconomics I
(Class Room 13)
2(e) Political Economy I (Class Room 14)
2(f) Microfinance
(Auditorium)
7.30: Conference Dinner at the French Cultural Centre (2 Aurangzeb Road,
New Delhi 110011)
[The conference
dinner is co-hosted with the
Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
Day
2: 16 December, Friday
8.30
- 9.00: Coffee/Tea
9.00
- 11.15: Plenary Session 2: Corruption (Conference Room)
Kaushik Basu
(Cornell University and Ministry of Finance, Government
of India): "Controlling Corruption: Strategic Considerations
in Designing Policy"
(The talk will be based on this paper:
click here)
Abhijit Banerjee (MIT): "Modeling Corruption"
Ajit Mishra (University of Bath): "Controlling
Collusion and Extortion: The Twin Faces of Corruption"
(with Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University))
Chair: Shubhashis Gangopadhyay (India Development Foundation)
[This Plenary Session is co-organized with
ThReD (Theoretical Research
in Development Economics)]
11.15 - 11.45: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.45 - 1.30:
Parallel Sessions
3
3(a) Corruption
(Conference Room)
3(b) Trade Liberalization
(Seminar Room 1)
3(c) Indian Manufacturing I
(Seminar Room 2)
3(d) Human Capital: Health
(Class Room 13)
3(e) Political Economy II (Class Room 14)
3(f) Topics in Microeconomics II
(Auditorium)
1.30
- 2.45: Lunch
(Guesthouse Lawn)
2.45
- 4.30:
Parallel Sessions
4
4(a) Education and Health
(Conference Room)
4(b) Labour: Law, Institution and
Policy
(Seminar Room 1)
4(c) Indian Manufacturing II
(Seminar Room 2)
4(d) International Capital
(Class Room 13)
4(e) Industrial Organization:
Theory II (Class Room 14)
4(f) Mechanism Design
(Auditorium)
4.30
- 5.00: Coffee/Tea Break
5.00
- 6.45:
Parallel Sessions
5
5(a) Corruption and Governance
(Conference Room)
5(b) Environment II
(Seminar Room 1)
5(c) Women: Dowry, Gender and
Health
(Seminar Room 2)
5(d) Economic Growth: Empirics
(Class Room 13)
5(e) International Trade I (Class Room 14)
5(f) Contract Theory
(Auditorium)
Day
3: 17 December, Saturday
8.30
- 9.00: Coffee/Tea
9.00
- 11.15: Plenary Session 3
(Conference Room)
Ashok Kotwal (University of British Columbia):
"One
Kind of Democracy"
(with Siwan Anderson (University of British Columbia) and
Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia))
Richard J. Smith (University of Cambridge): "Panel
Data Analysis"
Mukesh Eswaran (University of British Columbia):
"An
Economic Theory of the Evolutionary Origin of Property Rights"
(with Hugh Neary (University of British Columbia))
Chair: Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick and ISI, Delhi)
11.15 - 11.45: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.45 - 1.30:
Parallel Sessions
6
6(a) Education I (Conference Room)
6(b) Empirical Issues
(Seminar Room 1)
6(c) Gender
(Seminar Room 2)
6(d) Topics in Macroeconomics II
(Class Room 13)
6(e) International Trade II (Class Room 14)
6(f) Topics in Applied
Microeconomics (Auditorium)
1.30
- 2.45: Lunch
(Guesthouse Lawn)
2.45
- 4.30:
Parallel Sessions
7
7(a) Education II (Conference Room)
7(b) Industrial Organization:
Empirics
(Seminar Room 1)
7(c) Food: Price and Consumption
Pattern
(Seminar Room 2)
7(d) Exchange Rate and Reserve
(Class Room 13)
7(e) Human Capital: Education
(Class Room 14)
7(f) Topics in Microeconomics III
(Auditorium)
4.30
- 5.00: Coffee/Tea Break
5.00
- 6.30: Panel Discussion on Public Distribution
System (Conference Room)
Panelists:
Shubhashis Gangopadhyay (India Development Foundation)
Himanshu (Jawaharlal Nehru University and
Centre de Sciences Humaines)
Reetika Khera (IIT, Delhi)
Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego)
Ashok Kotwal (University of British Columbia)
Moderator:
Bharat Ramaswami
(Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)
[The Panel
Discussion is co-organized with the
Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
6.30
- 6.45: Vote of Thanks
Last Updated on 14 December 2011.
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