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IGIDR SEMINAR: In Her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perception By Dr. Nandana Sengupta, (IIT Delhi)
Abstract: In recent years, there has been a proliferation of women’s safety mobile applications in India that crowdsource street safety perceptions to generate “safety maps” which may then be used by policy makers for urban design and academics for studying mobility patterns. However, men and women’s differential access to information and communication technologies (ICTs), and the distinctions between their social and cultural subjective experiences may mitigate the value of crowdsourced safety perceptions data and the predictive ability of models utilizing…
Event DetailsIGIDR SEMINAR: Commodity Price Shocks and Non-Performing Assets in the Indian Banking Sector by Dr. Abhishek Kumar, (CSEP)
Abstract:- Non-performing assets in the Indian banking sector increased significantly in the 2010s, accompanied by a slowdown in credit and GDP growth rates. In this paper, we show that non-performing assets in the banking sector and profit ratios in commodity-sensitive non-financial sectors are highly correlated with global commodity prices. To estimate the effect of movement in commodity prices on non-performing assets, we create nominal price and inflation exposure indices for banks using novel data on banks’ sectoral exposure and commodity…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: Electoral competition with single-plateaued preferences by Dr. Mihir Bhattacharya
Abstract: We consider a model of electoral competition with single-plateaued preferences and characterize the winning set for (i) finite set of voters and (ii) a continuum of voters. We show that the winning set for discrete voters need not divide the set of ‘ideal points’ or mid points of voters into two equal halves. For the continuum of voters with continuous distribution of end points we find that the winning set is a singleton set (not the median voter’s plateau) and the parties converge in equilibrium. We…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: Employing Big Data Analytics in Economics by Dr. Smruti Bulsari (University of Essex)
Date and Time: 4th January, 2023 at 4.15 p.m. (IST) Speaker: Dr. Smruti Bulsari (University of Essex) Venue: Seminar Hall -1 Abstract:- Data science and big data analytics have started occupying important place, when it comes to working with data. Traditionally, in economics research, one begins with formulating hypotheses, based on one’s domain knowledge / existing theories, which are then examined using the relevant data and appropriate statistical / econometric analytical techniques. Data science, on the other hand, begins with extracting data, that is relevant…
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