6th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development
December 16 -18, 2010
Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi
Conference Programme
D ay 1 : 16 December, Thursday
10.00 - 11.00: Registration, Coffee/Tea
11.00 - 11.30: Welcome Note: Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick and ISI, Delhi)
Opening Remarks: Kaushik Basu (Cornell University and Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India)
11.30 - 1.00: Plenary Session 1 (Conference Room)
Debraj Ray (New York University): "Poverty and Self Control"
(with Douglas Bernheim (Stanford University) and Sevin Yeltekin (Carnegie Mellon University))
Leonard Mirman (University of Virginia): "Growth, Games and Learning: Past, Present and Future".
Chair: Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick and ISI, Delhi) 1.00 - 2.30: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.30 - 4.15: Parallel Sessions 1
Conference Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Class Room 13 Class Room 14 1(a) Health
Chair: Alok Bhargava
1(b) Labour I:
Theory Chair: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
1(c) Empirical Issues I
Chair: Takashi Kurosaki
1(d) Topics in Macroeconomics I Chair: Shankha Chakraborty
1(e) Topics in Microeconomics I Chair: Murali Agastya Alok Bhargava
(University of Houston), Aravinda M. Guntupalli (University of
Southampton) and Michael Lokshin (World Bank): "Healthcare Utilization,
Socioeconomic Factors and Child Health in India".
Sonia Bhalotra (University of Bristol) and Atheendar Venkataramani (University of Washington, St.
Louis): "Long-Run and Intergenerational Impacts of Disease and Medical Technology:
Evidence from the Sulfa Drug Innovation".
Shruti Kapoor (University of
California, Riverside):
"Infant Mortality Rates in India: District Level Variations and
Correlations".
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis &
IZA, Bonn), Sugata Marjit (Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata) and Lei Yang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University): "An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing".
Amshika Amar (University of Birmingham):
"Motivation, Private Sector Wages and Corruption : An Equilibrium Approach".
Jayanta Kumar Dwibedi (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata) and Sarbajit Chaudhuri (University of Calcutta): "Child Labour in the Presence of Agricultural Dualism: Possible Cures".
Takashi Kurosaki (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University):
"Vulnerability of Household Consumption to Natural Disasters in Rural Pakistan".
Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney), Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University) & Gharad Bryan (Yale
University): "Migrating Away from a Seasonal Famine:A Randomized Intervention in
Bangladesh".
Ambrish Dongre (Accountability Initiative, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi): "Effect of Monetary Incentives on Institutional Deliveries:
Evidence from the Janani Suraksha Yojna in India".
Shankha Chakraborty (University of Oregon) and Etienne Yehoue (International Monetary Fund):
"The Cultural Transmission of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development".
Kunal Dasgupta (University of Toronto): "Learning and Knowledge Diffusion in a Global Economy".
Tali Regev (Tel Aviv University) and Hosny Zoabi (Tel Aviv University):
"Talent Utilization and Search for the Appropriate Technology".
Murali Agastya (University of Sydney):
"Transparency of Peer Activities Confounds Cheap Talk in Joint Projects".
Parimal Kanti Bag (National University of Singapore) and Nona Pepito
(National University of Singapore): "Peer Transparency in Teams: Does it Help or Hinder
Incentives?".
Arpita Chatterjee (Princeton
University): "Why Do Similar Countries Choose Different Policies?
Endogenous Comparative Advantage and Welfare Gains".
4.15 - 4.45: Coffee/Tea Break
4.45 - 6.30: Parallel Sessions 2
Conference Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Class Room 13 Class Room 14 Session 2(a):
Labour II:
Empirics
Chair: Bishwanath Goldar
Session 2(b):
Trade
Liberalization Chair: Devashish Mitra
Session 2(c):
Education I
Chair: Farzana Afridi
Session 2(d):
Topics in
Macroeconomics II Chair: Aarti Singh
Session 2(e):
Industrial Organization I Chair: Sripad Motiram Viktoria Hnatkovska
(University of British Columbia), Amartya Lahiri (University of British Columbia) and Sourabh B. Paul (University of British Columbia): "Castes and Labor Mobility".
Shing-Yi Wang (New York University):
"Statistical Discrimination, Productivity and the Height of
Immigrants".
Bishwanath Goldar (Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi) and Suresh Chand Aggarwal (University of Delhi):
"Informalization of Industrial Labour in India: Are Labour Market Rigidities and Growing Import Competition to Blame?".
Rana Hasan (Asian Development Bank), Devashish Mitra (Syracuse
University), Priya Ranjan (University of California - Irvine) and Reshad N Ahsan (University of Melbourne): "Trade Liberalization and Unemployment:
Theory and Evidence from India".
Asha Sundaram (University of Cape Town): "The Impact of Trade
Liberalization on Micro Enterprises:
Do Banks Matter?
Evidence from Indian
Manufacturing".
Dibyendu Maiti (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi): "Foreign Competition, Bi- Sourcing and Union Wage Share".
Farzana Afridi (Delhi School of Economics), Bidisha Barooah (Delhi School of Economics) and Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics): "School Meals and Student Participation in Urban India".
Rajshri Jayaraman (European School of Management and Technology, Berlin), Dora Simroth (ESMT, Berlin) and Francis de Vericourt (ESMT, Berlin):
"The Impact of School Lunches on Primary School Enrollment:
Evidence from India's Midday Meal Scheme".
Veronique Gille (University of Paris 1): "Education Spillovers in Farm Productivity:
Empirical Evidence in Rural India".
Aarti Singh (University of Sydney) and Sophie Stone (University of Sydney): "Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Determinacy".
Manuel J. Garcia- Santana (Center for Monetary and Financial Studies, Spain) and Josep Pijoan-Mas (CMFS, Spain): "Small Scale Reservation Laws and the
Misallocation of Talent".
Jonaki Sengupta (Charuchandra College) and Ishita Mukhopadhyay (University of Calcutta):
"Commodity Price Fluctuations and Stock Adjustment: A Structuralist Macro Model of Sectoral Interlinkage under Rational
Expectation".
Suraj Prasad (University of New South Wales) and Hien Tran
(University of New South Wales):
"Promotions, Multiskilling and Incentives for Skills".
Radhika Lunawat (University of St Thomas):
"Reputation Effects of Disclosure".
Sripad Motiram (IGIDR, Mumbai):
"Governance, Efficiency and the Firm: A Theoretical Analysis".
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]
D ay 2 : 17 December, Friday
8.30 - 9.30: Travel Re-imbursements and Coffee/Tea
9.30 - 10.30: Plenary Session 2 (Conference Room)
Robin Burgess (London School of Economics): "Weather and Death in India"
(with Olivier Deschenes (UC Santa Barbara), Dave Donaldson (MIT) and Michael Greenstone (MIT)).
Chair: Satya P. Das (ISI, Delhi) 10.30 - 11.15: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn) 11.15 - 1.00: Parallel Sessions 3
Conference Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Class Room 13 Class Room 14 Session 3(a):
Environment
Chair: Subhrendu K.
Pattanayak
Session 3(b):
Empirical Issues II
Chair: Sumit K.
Majumdar
Session 3(c):
Education II:
Contract Teachers Chair: Geeta Kingdon
Session 3(d): Economic Growth I
Chair: Debasis Bandyopadhyay
Session 3(e):
Topics in
Microeconomics II Chair: Gautam Bose Sumeet R. Patil
(NEERMAN, Mumbai) and Subhrendu K.
Pattanayak (Duke University): "Behaviors Exposed: Panel Data Evidence on
Environmental Health Externalities in Rural India".
Arkadipta Ghosh (Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton) and Arnab Mukherji (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore): "Air
Pollution and Child Health in Urban India".
Ridhima Gupta (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"The Economic Causes of Crop Residue Burning in Western Indo-Gangetic Plains".
Sankar De (ISB, Hyderabad) and Manpreet Singh (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad):
"Credit Rationing in Informal Markets: The Case of Small Firms in India".
Sumit K. Majumdar (University of Texas, Dallas) and Arnab Bhattacharjee (University of St.
Andrews): "The Profitability Dynamics of Indian Firms".
Mudit Kapoor (ISB, Hyderabad) & Shamika Ravi (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad):
"Determinants of Corruption: Govt.
Effectiveness vs.
Cultural Norms".
Geeta Kingdon (Institute of Education, University of London) and Paul Atherton (IOE, University of London): "The Relative Effectiveness and Costs of Contract and Regular Teachers in India".
Karthik Muralidharan (UC San Diego) and Venkatesh
Sundararaman (World Bank): "Contract Teachers: Experimental Evidence from India".
Sangeeta Goyal (World Bank) and Priyanka Pandey (World Bank):
"Contract Teachers in India".
Fabio Cerina (University of Cagliari and CRENoS) and Francesco Mureddu (University of Cagliari and CRENoS): "Is
Agglomeration Really Good for Growth? Global Efficiency, Interregional Equity and Uneven Growth".
Mausumi Das (Delhi School of Economics) and Subrata Guha (Jawaharlal Nehru University): "What Do Teachers Do? Quality- Quantity Tradeoff, Public Education and Growth".
Debasis Bandyopadhyay (University of Auckland) and Xueli Tang (Deakin University):
"Understanding the Economic Dynamics behind Growth-Inequality Relationships".
Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge) and Adrien Vigier (University of Cambridge):
"Robust Networks".
Marcin Dziubinski (Warsaw University):
"Discrete General Lotto Games - The Non-Symmetric Case".
Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales) and Lorraine Ivancic (University of New South Wales):
"Conforming to Group Norms: An Experimental Study".
1.00 - 2.30: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn) 2.30 - 4.15: Parallel Sessions 4
Conference Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Class Room 13 Class Room 14 Session 4(a): Micro
Credit
Chair: Prabal Roy Chowdhury
Session 4(b):
Financial Development Chair: Niloy Bose
Session 4(c): Social Contracts and Networks Chair: Abhijit Banerji
Session 4(d): India's Growth Experience
Chair: Peter E.
Robertson
Session 4(e):
Industrial Organization II Chair: Santanu Roy Shyamal Chowdhury
(University of
Sydney), Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) and Kunal Sengupta (University of Sydney): "Gradual Repayment with Sequential Financing in Micro- Finance".
Brishti Guha (Singapore Management
University) and Prabal Roy Chowdhury (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"Micro-finance Competition with Motivated MFIs".
Bhaswar Moitra (Jadavpur University), Saswatee Mukherjee (Jadavpur University) and Saikat Sinha Roy (Jadavpur
University): "Impact of Information Sharing in a Micro Credit Market with Growing
Population".
Niloy Bose (University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee), Antu Panini Murshid (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee) and Chitralekha Rath (University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee): "Finance and Property Rights:
Exploring Other Directions".
Sankar De (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad), Subrata Sarkar (IGIDR, Mumbai), Manpreet Singh (Indian School of Business,
Hyderabad) and Siddharth Vij (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad): "Finance, Growth, and
Inequality: Channels and Outcomes".
Sabyasachi Kar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi) and Kumarjit Mandal (University of Calcutta): "Banks, Stock Markets and Output: Interactions in the Indian Economy".
Abhijit Banerji (Delhi School of Economics), Gauri Khanna (World Health Organization, Geneva) and J. V.
Meenakshi (DSE):
"Social Contracts, Markets and Efficiency:
Groundwater Irrigation in North India".
Pramila Krishnan (University of Cambridge) and Manasa Patnam (University of Cambridge): "Credit and Social Networks in Rural India".
Kripa Freitas (University of Texas, Austin): "Dowry and Bride Price: The Role of Network Benefits".
Peter E. Robertson (University of Western Australia):
"Deciphering the Hindu Growth Epic".
Tomoaki Kotera (University of Tokyo):
"Why Doesn't India Industrialize? A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach".
Chandan Sharma (National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad) and Ritesh Kumar Mishra (University of Delhi and Institute of
Economic Growth):
"Imported
Intermediary Inputs, R&D and Firm's Productivity:
Evidence from Indian Hi-tech Industries".
Maarten C. W.
Janssen (University of Vienna) and Santanu Roy (Southern Methodist University):
"Signaling and Disclosure of Product Quality with Price Competition".
Dyuti Banerjee (Monash University, Clayton): "On the Effects of Piracy and Network Externality on the Incentive to Innovate in the Presence of Technical and Market
Uncertainty".
Shubhro Sarkar (IGIDR, Mumbai):
"Intertemporal Pricing with Capacity
Constraint and Outside Option".
4.15 - 4.45: Coffee/Tea Break
4.45 - 6.30: Parallel Sessions 5
Conference Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Class Room 13 Class Room 14 Session 5(a):
Agriculture and Poverty
Chair: Peter Svedberg
Session 5(b):
Indian Financial Market
Chair: Amit Bubna
Session 5(c):
Education III
Chair: Tarun Jain
Session 5(d):
Economic Growth II
Chair: Massimo Ricottilli
Session 5(e):
Development Microeconomics I Chair: Ratul Lahkar J. V. Meenakshi
(Delhi School of Economics), Abhijit Banerji (DSE), Victor Manyong (International Institute of Tropical
Agriculture), Keith Tomlins (Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich), Nitya Mittal (DSE) and Priscilla Hamukwala (University of Zambia): "Using a Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit the Demand for a Nutritious Food:
Willingness-to-Pay for Orange Maize in Rural Zambia".
Neha Gupta (Delhi School of Economics):
"Reserve Prices, Minimum Support Prices and Farmers' Revenues: Govt. Grain Policy through the Prism of Rice auctions in North India".
Peter Svedberg (Stockholm
University): "Poverty in India can be Halved in Five Years if ...".
Santosh Anagol (Wharton School) &
Hoikwang Kim (Wharton School):
"The Impact of Shrouded Fees:
Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Indian Mutual Funds Market".
Sudip Gupta (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad) and John Rust (University of Maryland): "Why and When to Go Public: Evidence from Structural Estimation".
Amit Bubna (Indian School of Business,
Hyderabad) and Radhakrishnan Gopalan (Olin Business School):
"Bank Involvement in Firm
Management:
Panacea or a Pain?".
Shenila Rawal (Institute of Education, University of London) and Geeta Kingdon (Institute of Education,
University of London): "Akin to my Teacher: Does Caste, Religious or Gender Distance between Student and Teacher Matter?
Some Evidence from India".
Tarun Jain (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad) and Tulika Narayan (Abt Associates):
"Incentive to Discriminate? An Experimental Investigation of Teacher Incentives in India".
Zakir Husain (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi): "Gender Disparities in Completing School Education in India:
Analyzing Regional Variations".
Rainer Andergassen (University of Bologna), Franco Nardini (University of Bologna) and Massimo Ricottilli (University of Bologna):
"Innovation, Specialisation and Growth in a Model of Structural Change".
Fabio Cerina (University of Cagliari and CRENoS) and Francesco Mureddu (University of Cagliari and CRENoS):
"Agglomeration and Growth with
Endogenous
Expenditure Shares".
Merwan Engineer (University of Victoria) and Ian King (University of Melbourne):
"Maximizing Human Development".
Roberto Burguet (Instituto Analysis Economico, CSIC, Barcelona) and Indranil Chakraborty (National University of Singapore):
"Procurement Auctions with Corruption".
Ram Singh (Delhi School of
Economics): "Public- Private-Partnerships versus Traditional Procurement Contracts: A Study of Incentives and Performance".
Ratul Lahkar (Institute for Financial
Management and Research, Chennai) and Reka Sundaram- Stukel (University of Wisconsin-
Madison):
"Protecting the Poor through Community Based Health Insurance".
D ay 3 : 18 December, Saturday
8.30 - 9.30: Travel Re-imbursements and Coffee/Tea
9.30 - 11.00: Plenary Session 3 (Conference Room)
Alberto Alesina (Harvard University): "The Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough"
(with Paola Giuliano (University of California, Los Angeles) and Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)) Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University): "A Theory of Occupational Choice with Endogenous Fertility"
(with Silvia Prina (Case Western University) and Debraj Ray (New York University)).
Chair: Saumitra Chaudhuri (Member, Planning Commission)
11.00 - 11.30: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn) 11.30 - 1.15: Parallel Sessions 6
Conference Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Class Room 13 Class Room 14 Session 6(a): Political
Economy I
Chair: Parikshit Ghosh
Session 6(b):
Financial Crisis and Recession Chair: Marcus Miller
Session 6(c): Education IV
Chair: Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Session 6(d): Fiscal Policy and Politics
Chair: Santanu Chatterjee
Session 6(e):
Inequality
Chair: Ajit Mishra Archishman Chakraborty
(York University) &
Parikshit Ghosh (Delhi School of Economics):
"Media Bias and Electoral Competition".
Bernardo Guimaraes (Sao Paulo School of Economics & LSE) &
Kevin D. Sheedy (London School of Economics): "A Model of Equilibrium
Institutions".
Sourav Bhattacharya (University of Pittsburgh), Joyee Deb (New York University) and Tapas Kundu (University of Oslo): "Conflict &
Mobility: Resource Sharing Among Groups".
John Driffill (Birbeck, University of London) and Marcus Miller (University of Warwick):
"When Money Matters:
Liquidity Shocks with Real Effects".
Gurbachan Singh (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"Seemingly Adequate Capital in Banks in an Emerging Economy".
Amparo C. Climent (University of Valencia) & Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"Mass Education or a Minority Well Educated Elite in the Process of Development: the Case of India".
Rob French (Institute of Education, University of London) and Geeta Kingdon (IOE, University of London):
"The Relative Effectiveness of Private and Govt Schools in Rural India: Evidence from ASER Data".
Sonja Fagernas (University of Sussex) and Panu Pelkonen (University of Sussex):
"Getting Teachers to Remote Locations: Skills vs
Preferences. Evidence from India”.
Santanu Chatterjee (University of Georgia) and Stephen J. Turnovsky
(University of Washington, Seattle):
"The Distributional Consequences of Government Spending".
Yinghua Jin (Georgia Southern University) and Mark Rider (Georgia State University): "Fiscal Decentralization, Fiscal Equalization, and Economic Growth: A
Comparative Study of China and India".
Bodhisattva Sengupta (Madras School of Economics):
"Do the Subnational Governments Choose Expenditure or Revenue? A Political Economy Approach".
Ajit Mishra (University of Bath) and Ranjan Ray (Monash University):
"Informality, Corruption, and Inequality".
Sukanta Bhattacharya (University of Calcutta), Sarani Saha (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) and Sarmila Banerjee (University of Calcutta): "Income Inequality, Club
Formation & the Quality of Public Good: A Developing Country Perspective".
Namrata Gulati (ISI, Delhi) and Tridip Ray (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi):
"Inequality,
Neighbourhoods and Welfare of Poor".
1.15 - 2.30: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn) 2.30 - 4.15: Parallel Sessions 7
Conference Room Seminar Room 1 Seminar Room 2 Class Room 13 Class Room 14 Session 7(a): Political
Economy II
Chair: Poonam Gupta
Session 7(b): Finance and Volatility
Chair: Vidhan K. Goyal
Session 7(c):
Empirical Issues III
Chair: Manisha Chakrabarty
Session 7(d):
Economic Growth III: Empirics Chair: Silvia Dal Bianco
Session 7(e):
Development Microeconomics II Chair: Jesper Stage Soumyanetra
Munshi (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore):
"Analyzing Conflict within a Contested Land: The Case of Kashmir".
Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School), Anandi Mani (University of
Warwick), Prachi Mishra (IMF) and Petia Topalova (IMF):
"Political
Representation and Crime: Evidence from India".
Poonam Gupta (ICRIER, New Delhi) and Arvind Panagariya (Columbia University):
"India: Election Outcomes and Economic Performance".
Vidhan K. Goyal (Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology) and Wei Wang (Queen's University): "Debt Maturity and Asymmetric
Information: Evidence from Default Risk Changes".
Marat Ibragimov (Tashkent State University of
Economics), Rustam Ibragimov (Harvard University) and Paul Kattuman (University of Cambridge):
"Emerging Markets and Heavy Tails".
N. Kundan Kishor (University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee) and James Morley (University of New South Wales): "What Moves the Price-Rent Ratio: A Latent Variable Approach".
Stefania Lovo (University of Sussex): "Analysing the Welfare-
Improving Potential of Land in the Former Homelands of South Africa".
Rahul Banerjee (Indore, Madhya Pradesh): "The Importance of Activist Mediated Collective Action for Tribal
Development".
Manisha Chakrabarty (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta) and Werner Hildenbrand (University of Bonn): "How Should Engel's Law be Formulated?".
Silvia Dal Bianco (University of Pavia):
"Alternative Hypotheses of Cross-Country Convergence. A Non-Parametric Analysis of Manufacturing Sectors".
Robert Gillanders (University
College Dublin):
"The Effects of Foreign Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa".
Anwesha Aditya (Jadavpur
University) and Saikat Sinha Roy (Jadavpur
University):
"Export
Diversification &
Economic Growth:
Evidence from Cross-Country Analysis".
Ajit Mishra
(University of Bath) and Sudipta Sarangi (Louisiana State University):
"Provider Incentives and Delivery of Developmental Goods".
Kenneth Backlund (Umea University), Tomas Sjogren (Umea University) and Jesper Stage (Goteborg
University): "Optimal Tax and Expenditure Policy in the Presence of Migration - Are Credit Restrictions Important?".
Kaniska Dam (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas, Mexico): "Principal- Agent Assignment:
Implications for Incentives and Income Distribution in Tenancy
Relationships".
4.15 - 4.45: Coffee/Tea Break
4.45 - 6.15: Panel Discussion on Capital Flows, Monetary Policy, and Labor Intensive Growth (Conference Room)
Panelists:
Subir Gokarn (RBI, Deputy Governor) Partha Sen (Delhi School of Economics).
Renu Kohli (Ex IMF and RBI)
Indira Rajaraman (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)
Moderator: Basudeb Chaudhuri (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
[The Panel Discussion is co-organized with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
6.15 - 6.30: Vote of Thanks
