Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

PhD. Colloquium 2017
2017-11-07 17:45 - 2017-11-10 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | IGIDR, Santosh Nagr, Goregaon East, Mumbai, 400065, India
IGIDR is organizing its second PhD. Colloquium from November 7 – 10, 2017. Young PhD. scholars from institutions across the country would be presenting their work in the Colloquium.

AGENDA

Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium

November 7-10, 2017

Venue for All Lectures and Sessions: CONFERENCE HALL

Day 1: Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Morning/

Afternoon
Participants Arrive

17:45 – 18:15
Registration – Beside CONFERENCE HALL

18:15 – 18.30
Welcome Address

V.K. Sharma, Professor, IGIDR

18.30 – 20.00
Keynote Lecture: BIG DATA – Theory and Applications

Pulak Ghosh, Professor, IIM Bangalore and Presidency University

20:00 – 22:00
Dinner - Cafeteria

Day 2: Wednesday, November 8, 2017

09:00 – 11:00
Full Paper Sessions - Session 1

11.00 – 11.30
Tea Break and Colloquium Group Photograph

11:30 – 13:00
Poster Presentation Session

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch - Cafeteria

14.00 – 15.20
Full Paper Sessions - Session 2

15.20 – 15.40
Tea Break

15.40 – 17.40
Full Paper Sessions - Session 3

18.30 – 20.00
Invited Lecture: Growth and Creative Destruction

Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics

20:00 – 22:00
Dinner - Cafeteria

Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium

November 7-10, 2017

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

Day 3: Thursday, November 9, 2017

09:00 – 11:00
Full Paper Sessions - Session 4

11.00 – 11.30
Tea Break and Colloquium Group Photograph

11:30 – 13:00
Full Paper Sessions - Session 5

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch - Cafeteria

14.00 – 15.20
Full Paper Sessions - Session 6

15.20 – 15.40
Tea Break

15.40 – 17.40
Full Paper Sessions – Session 7

18:30 – 20:00
Panel Discussion: Life After PhD.

· Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Research Director, India Development Foundation

· O. P. Mall, Adviser, Department of Statistics and Information Management, Reserve Bank of India (to be confirmed)

· Anindya Sen, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

· Janat Shah, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur

· Moderator: Subrata Sarkar, Professor, IGIDR

20:00 – 22:00
Director’s Dinner Venue: Director’s Bungalow

Day 4: Friday, November 10, 2017

9.30 – 11.30
Special Lecture: Causal Inference in Economics

Sudha Narayanan, Associate Professor, IGIDR

11.30 – 12.00
Tea Break

12.00 – 12.30
Closing Remarks, Vote of Thanks and Distribution of Certificates

S. Mahendra Dev, Director (Vice Chancellor), IGIDR

12.30 – 14.00
Lunch - Cafeteria

Rest of the day
Library Visit and Interaction with IGIDR Faculty (by appointment)

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SESSION PLAN

Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium

November 7-10, 2017

Venue for All Sessions: CONFERENCE HALL

Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Session 1 (09.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.) – Macroeconomics

Chair: Romar Correa – University of Mumbai

Paper 1: Culture and Market: A Macroeconomic Tale of Two Institutions

Presenter: Priyanka Arora – Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi

Paper 2: Solvency of India’s Current Account balance: An Evidence of Intertemporal Optimization

Presenter: Bhavesh Garg - IIT, Hyderabad

Paper 3: Epidemiology of Inflation Expectations of Households and Internet Search- An Analysis for India

Presenter: Saakshi Jha - Department of Economic Sciences, IIT, Kanpur

Session 2 (2.00 p.m. – 3.20 p.m.) – Finance

Chair: Rajendra Vaidya - IGIDR

Paper 1: A New Order of Financing Investments: Evidence from Acquisitions by India's Listed Firms

Presenter: Varun Jindal - Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Kolkata

Paper 2: Can Institutional Factors Explain Distress of Handloom Weavers?

Presenter: Manas Ranjan Bhowmik – University of Calcutta and Mission Vidyamandira, West Bengal

Session 3 (3.40 p.m. – 5.40 p.m.) – Economic Development

Chair: R. Nagaraj - IGIDR

Paper 1: Does the Early Bird Get the Worm? Examining the Impact of School Entry Age on Academic Performance

Presenter: Kartik Yadav - Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Bangalore

Paper 2: Benefits of Integrated Child Developmental Services: Later Life Evidence

Presenter: Gaurav Dhamija - Shiv Nadar University, Delhi

Paper 3: Quality of Schooling: Child Quantity-Quality Trade off, Technological Progress and Economic Growth

Presenter: Swati Saini - Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU, Delhi

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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Session 4 (09.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.) – Financial Markets

Chair: Subrata Sarkar – IGIDR

Paper 1: Can Leverage Replace Value Effect?

Presenter: Moinak Maiti - Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

Paper 2: Post-Earnings-Announcement-Drift Anomaly in the Indian Stock Market

Presenter: Harshita - Department of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi

Paper 3: Within and Cross Volatility Contagion Effects among Stock, Crude and Forex Returns:

Empirical Evidence from Five Emerging Economies

Presenter: George Varghese - Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai

Session 5 (11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.) – Agriculture

Chair: Vijay Laxmi Pandey- IGIDR

Paper 1: Awareness and Take-up of Crop Insurance: Evidence from India

Presenter: Subhankar Mukherjee - Fellow Programme, Economics Group, IIM, Kolkata

Paper 2: Effect of Flood on Rural Agricultural Wages in Indian States: An Empirical Analysis

Presenter: Yashobanta Parida - Economics at Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU, Delhi

Session 6 (2.00 p.m. – 3.20 p.m.) – Trade and Industry

Chair: C. Veeramani - IGIDR

Paper 1: New Age Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs): Implications for Value Added Trade

Presenter: Kalpana Tokas - Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Bangalore.

Paper 2: Critical Evaluation of the Effects of Infrastructure on Manufacturing Productivity: New Evidence from Major Asian Economies

Presenter: Khanna Rupika - Business Environment (Economics) Department, IIM, Lucknow

Session 7 (3.40 p.m. – 5.40 p.m.) – Social Sector and Innovation

Chair: G. Mythili - IGIDR

Paper 1: Identification and Characterization of Middle Class in India and its Comparison with other Economic Classes

Presenter: R. Ahalya -Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi

Paper 2: Self Employment Profits: The Case of India

Presenter: Bhaskar Jyoti Neog- Dept. of HSS, IIT, Kharagpur

Paper 3: Enabling Digital Innovation at Indian Public Sector Retail Oil Outlets through Internet of Things (IoT)

Presenter: Sudip Das – University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun

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. Chandrasekhar - IGIDR

Poster 1: Extent and Nature of the Rental Markets for Capital Goods: An Analysis of Nepal's Plains

Presenter: Krishna Sharma - Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, New Delhi

Poster 2: Role of Factors of Production, Total Factor Productivity and Macroeconomic Policy in Cross-country Income Differences and Growth Rate

Presenter: Muhammed Najeeb – IIT, Kharagpur

Poster 3: Tracing Prices of Agricultural Commodities in India

Presenter: Prerona Baruah - Dept. (HSS), IIT, Guwahati

Poster 4: Anomalies in International Stock Returns

Presenter: Rahul Roy - Dept. of Commerce, Pondicherry University

Poster 5: Study of 2-D Layered Derived Nanostructures and their Composites for Environmental and Biological Applications

Presenter: Mayank Garg - AcSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh

Poster 6: Political Economy of Corruption in ‘Red Tape’

Presenter: Poulomi Bhattacharya - Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Poster 7: Analysis of the Performance of Selected Petroleum Companies in India

Presenter: Mohd Afzal - Department of Economics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

Poster 8: Future Research Directions for Social & Ethical Marketing

Presenter: Vivek Vyas - Department of Management Studies, IIT, Roorkee

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