Events

Prof Shyamal Chowdhury, University of Sydney, is presenting a seminar on “Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages” Date : January 5, 2018 Time: 11:30 am Venue: Seminar Room 1, IGIDR. All are invited.   Title: Natural Shocks and Marriage Markets: Evolution of Mehr and Dowry in Muslim Marriages by Shyamal Chowdhury, Debdulal Mallick, Prabal Roy Chowdhury (March 2017) Abstract: We examine how mehr, a conditional payment from husbands to wives in the event…

Date & Hour: 29-January-2018, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Multinational Firms, Trade, and the Trade-Comovement Puzzle Abstract: Existing empirical studies show a strong positive correlation between bilateral trade and business cycle comovement within country-pairs. I show that for OECD economies, this relationship weakens considerably when bilateral FDI stock is controlled for, while FDI is significant. I develop a two-country business cycle model with heterogeneous firms, international trade, and multinational activity to explain this empirical finding. The calibrated model generates the positive relationship…

Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Ritesh Jain, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University, USA. The details are as follows: Date & Hour: 02-February-2018, 4:00 pm   Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Rationalizable Implementation of Social Choice Correspondences   All are invited

Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Bharat Diwakar, Department of Economics, Auburn University, Auburn Alabama., USA. The details are as follows: Date & Hour: 05-February-2018, 4:00 pm Venue: Conference Hall Title: Patents and Growth in OLG Economy with Physical Capital   Abstract:We study the implications of patents in an overlapping generations model with horizontal innovation of differentiated physical capital. We show that within this demographic structure of finitely lived agents, weakening patent protection generates two contradicting effects on innovation and growth. Weakening patent protection lowers the (average) price…

Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Kartik Misra, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. The details are as follows: Date & Hour: 06-February-2018, 4:00 pm Venue: Conference Hall Title: Is India’s Employment Guarantee Program Successfully Challenging Her Historical Inequalities? Abstract:By providing 100 days of guaranteed employment to every rural household, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) can challenge the hegemony of the landed elite as major employers in the Indian countryside and raise market wages which have long been depressed. This paper shows…

 Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Shree Ravi, Boston University, USA. The details are as follows: Date & Hour: 12-February-2018, 4:00 pm Venue: Conference Hall Title: The Effect of Place-based Development Policies: Evidence from Indian SEZs Abstract:We investigate the influence of Indian Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on the local economy. Using nighttime lights data and firm- and worker-level survey data, we find that SEZs boost local economic activity. Moreover, we analyze the impact over a range of distances around the SEZs to show that the local…

Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Tushar Bharati, Department of Economics, University of Southern California, USA. The details are as follows: Date & Hour: 14-February-2018, 4:00 pm   Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Recovery from an early life shock through improved access to schools: Evidence from Indonesia   Abstract: We examine the extent to which improved access to schools can help individuals overcome the impact of early life resource shocks as proxied by low rainfall in the first year of life. Using information from the fifth wave…

Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Bharti Nandwani, Shiv Nadar University. The details are as follows: Date & Hour: 15-February-2018, 4:00 pm   Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Decentralisation, Economic Inequality and Insurgency   Abstract: This paper investigates if devolution of political power in conflict-affected areas can reduce violence by providing institutional means to address people’s grievances. In particular, we look at the impact of a local government, introduced in tribal districts in 1996, on Maoist insurgency in India. The initiative recognised tribals traditional lifestyle and their…