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Parallel Sessions 3 (17 December,
Thursday; 2.30
-
4.15
PM)
- Session 3(a): Micro Credit
(Conference Room)
[Chair: Prabal Roy Chowdhury (ISI, Delhi)]
Jean-Marie Baland (University
of Namur) and Rohini
Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): "The Distributional
Implications of Group Lending".
Arup Daripa (Birkbeck College, London University):
"Social Capital, Individual Incentives and Loan Repayment".
Camilla Andersson (Umea University, Sweden), Erik Holmgren (Umea
University, Sweden), James MacGregor (International Institute for
Environment and Development, London) and Jesper Stage
(University of Gothenburg, Sweden):
"Formal Microlending and Adverse
(or Nonexistent) Selection: A Case Study of Shrimp Farmers in
Bangladesh".
- Session 3(b): Inequality
(Seminar Room 1) [Chair: Shamika
Ravi (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad)]
Erling Barth (Institute for Social
Research, Oslo) and Karl O. Moene (University of Oslo):
"The
Equality Multiplier".
Takashi Kurosaki (Hitotsubashi University), Kyosuke
Kurita (Waseda University) and Ethan Ligon (University of
California):
"Intertemporal Choice and Inequality in Low-Income
Countries: Evidence from Thailand, Pakistan, and India".
Ashish Singh (Indira Gandhi
Institute of Development Research, Mumbai):
"Inequality of
Opportunity: Application to India".
- Session 3(c): Empirical Issues I
(Seminar Room 2) [Chair: J.V.
Meenakshi (Delhi School of Economics)]
Isabelle Bonjean (University of Namur), Jean-Philippe
Platteau
(University of Namur) and Vincenzo Verardi (University of
Namur):
"Two-Sided Wealth Constraints and Innovation Adoption
under a Grassroots Market-Based Extension System".
Deepti Goel (Institute for Financial Management and
Research, Chennai):
"Perceptions and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in
Australia after 9/11".
Samik Chowdhury (National Institute of Public Finance
and Policy):
"Health Shocks and the Urban Poor: A Case Study of Slums in
Delhi".
- Session 3(d): Economic Growth: Theory
II
(Class Room 13)
[Chair: David De la Croix (IRES, Universite Catholique de Louvain)]
Aditya Goenka (National
University of Singapore) and Lin Liu (University of Rochester):
"Infectious Diseases and Endogenous Growth".
Debasis Bandyopadhyay (University of Auckland) and Xueli Tang
(Deakin University):
"Inequality May Retard Growth but Sometimes
Progressive Redistribution Makes it Worse".
Debasis Mondal (National University of Singapore):
"On the Growth Effects of North-South Trade: the Role of
Institutional Quality".
- Session 3(e): Topics in Microeconomics
III (Class Room 14)
[Chair: Sripad Motiram (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research, Mumbai)]
Sudip Gupta (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad):
"Value of an Endogenously Asymmetric Toehold: Estimation of a
Dynamic Auction Game".
Kun Jiang
(Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology) and Susheng Wang
(Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology):
"Staged Privatization: An
Efficient Approach".
Andrea Pierce (Ryerson University, Toronto) and Debapriya Sen
(Ryerson University, Toronto):
"Outsourcing versus Technology
Transfer: Hotelling Meets Stackelberg".
Last Updated on 14 December 2009. |
