Tridip Ray, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi

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• Introduction
   

• Agricultural Organization and Productivity in Developing Countries

  • Introduction
     

  • Agrarian Organization
     

  • Land Rental Contracts
     

  • Land Reform

    • Student Presentation:
      Banerjee, Gertler and Ghatak (2002) and Besley and Burgess (2000): presented by Bipul Verma and Saurav Goyal
       

• Credit Markets in Developing Countries

  • Introduction
     

  • The Complete Markets Benchmark
     

  • Contracting Under Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Enforcement
     

  • Rural Financial Intermediaries

    • Moneylenders as Active Monitors
       

  • Interaction of Formal and Informal Credit Markets
    
    Student Presentations:
    Burgess and Pande (2005): presented by Nikita
    Cole (2009): presented by Nikita
     

• Micro Finance

  • Student Presentations:
    Besley and Coate (1995): presented by Anirudh Khakolia
    Ghatak (2000): presented by Jhalak Jain
    Roy Chowdhury (2007): presented by Rajib Oraon
     

• Property Rights

  • Student Presentation:
    Besley, Burchardi and Ghatak (2012): presented by Chetna Ahuja and Aroon Narayanan
     

• Social Networks and Informal Institutions

  • Student Presentation:
    Banerjee and Newman (1998): presented by Satyen Pandita and Rohan Joshi
     

• Education: Credit Constraints in Education

  • Student Presentation:
    Lochner and Monge-Naranjo (2016): presented by Anjandeep Kaur and Deep Sikha
     

• The Political Economy of Development

  • Student Presentations:
    Mitra and Ray (2014) and Ray and Esteban (2017): Theory: presented by Korok Dasgupta
    Mitra and Ray (2014) and Ray and Esteban (2017): Empirics: presented by Priyanka Dutta

Last Updated on 21 April 2020.