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Seminar: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces
Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Abdul Quadir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Date & Hour: 27 May 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces Abstract: We consider a class of mechanism design problems in private value environment where the type of an agent is a single number. The preference over transfers is quasi-linear for every agent. We give a complete characterization of dominant strategy incentive compatible mechanisms for these problems. Further, by imposing a suitable version of…
Event DetailsSeminar: Basis Risk in Index Insurance: Lower Tail Dependence and the Demand for Weather Insurance
Date & Hour: 29 May 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Basis Risk in Index Insurance: Lower Tail Dependence and the Demand for Weather Insurance By: Dr. Digvijay Singh Negi, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Abstract: For a variety of reasons, agricultural insurance programs use losses against an index (rainfall, area yield) rather than losses against individual yields to make payouts. While this facilitates the supply of insurance, the resulting basis risk reduces the value of insurance and…
Event DetailsSeminar: Equity in Climate Change: GST and Long Term Climate Goals
By: Dr. Tejal Kanitkar, Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai. Date & Hour: 06 June 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Equity in Climate Change: GST and Long Term Climate Goals Abstract: With less than two years to go before the Paris Agreement becomes fully operational, it is necessary to examine the means of operationalising the principles of equity in the framework of this agreement, within the overall scope of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Article 14 of the Paris…
Event DetailsSeminar: The Refugee Allocation Problem-Matching with Indifferences
Seminar by Dr. Swarnendu Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. Date & Hour: 14 June 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: The Refugee Allocation Problem-Matching with Indifferences Abstract: This paper studies a matching model where refugee families are allowed to express preferences over hosts. In this model, we show that the size of stable matchings are always the same. This has a policy implication: if we want to implement stable matching, then there is no way to improve it in terms of the…
Event DetailsSeminar: Strategy-Proof Rules on Partially Single-Peaked Domains
Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Gopakumar Achuthankutty, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics, New Delhi. Date & Hour: 24 June 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Strategy-Proof Rules on Partially Single-Peaked Domains Abstract: We consider domains that exhibit single-peakedness only over a subset of alternatives. We call such domains partially single-peaked and provide a characterization of the unanimous and strategy-proof social choice functions on these domains. As an application of this result, we obtain a characterization…
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Seminar : New Facts About New Firms: Assessing the Impact of Plant Openings on the Local Labour Market
Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Kaushik Krishnan, IGIDR, Mumbai. Date & Hour: 08 July 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: New Facts About New Firms: Assessing the Impact of Plant Openings on the Local Labour Market
Event DetailsSeminar :Export Slowdown in South Asia
Speaker: Dr. Lei Lei Song and Dr. Tara Iyer, team from Asian Development Bank, New Delhi Date & Hour: 07 August 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Export Slowdown in South Asia Abstract: This study analyzes the determinants of export performance in South Asia with a focus on the economies of India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. An autoregressive distributed lag model is applied on the data to estimate the response of merchandise exports to various macroeconomic factors including external demand and relative prices. We find…
Event DetailsSeminar : Does choice of contract matter for cost and quality of highways?: Empirical analysis of PPPs vs. Traditional contracts
Speaker: Dr. Ram Singh, Delhi School of Economics Date & Hour: 27 August 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Does choice of contract matter for cost and quality of highways?: Empirical analysis of PPPs vs. Traditional contracts Abstract: During the last two decades, several countries have used Public Private Partnerships along with the traditional contracts for development of infrastructure. In this paper, we model the incentive structures induced by Public Private Partnerships (PPPs or P3) contracts and the traditional procurement contracts used for…
Event DetailsSeminar : Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Capital flows – Role of Credit Market Imperfection
Speaker: Prof. Sugata Marjit, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Date & Hour: 09 September 2019, 2:30 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Capital flows – Role of Credit Market Imperfection Abstract: This paper explores the impact of wealth distribution and inequality on pattern of trade and capital flows with credit rationing. More egalitarian societies may aggravate the impact ofcredit rationing leading to import of credit or capital intensive good. Low price of capital in autarky may reflect lack of demand for credit due to scarcity of entrepreneurs and not due to capital abundance and eventually may lead to capital outflow from a…
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