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Seminar: Personalizing financial solutions for informal sector customers
Speaker: Ms Sucharita Mukherjee, Kaleidofin, Chennai Date & Hour: 16 October 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Personalizing financial solutions for informal sector customers Abstract: Customers working in the informal sector experience significant income and expense volatility in their lives, The volatility in income and expenses tends to be high at or about 45-50% each [1]. In addition, they are exposed to significant risks such as life, accident, health and natural catastrophes, however, are completely unprotected against such risks. The big problem we…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: Health Insurance and Infant Mortality: Evidence from India
Speaker: Dr. Anaka Aiyar, Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, USA Date & Hour: 29 November 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Health Insurance and Infant Mortality: Evidence from India Abstract: We estimate the impact of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a national-level public health insurance program in India, on child mortality. In our analysis we combine information on the staggered rollout of RSBY across districts with detailed health information from over 200,000 households. Using a difference in differences approach,…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: Wage bargaining and product innovation: relevance of the preference function
Speaker: Dr Debasmita Basak, Nottingham University Business School, U. K. Date & Hour: 04 December, 2019, at 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Wage bargaining and product innovation: relevance of the preference function Abstract: Using the right-to-manage model of union-firm bargaining, which is commonly used in the literature, we show that a higher union power increases product innovation if the bargaining is decentralised, the market expansion effect is weak, and the cost of innovation is low. Otherwise, the relationship between union power and innovation…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: A Journey in Search of the Unknown “True” Model: Data–Based Nonparametric Econometrics and Empirical Economics
Speaker: Dr. Aman Ullah, University of California, Riverside, USA Date & Hour: 12 December 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: A Journey in Search of the Unknown “True” Model: Data–Based Nonparametric Econometrics and Empirical Economics Abstract: In the early 20th century, the legendary statistician Sir R.A. Fisher and others set in motion what is known today as the classical parametric approach to Statistics — estimation of a finite number of population parameters using sample data. Thus began the practice of statistical inference…
Event DetailsMerchants of Early Modern and Colonial India: Enterprise, Community, and Politics Conference
Merchants of Early Modern and Colonial India: Enterprise, Community, and Politics Conference at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Goregaon (East), Mumbai, India 14-15 December 2019 Sponsors: S K Somaiya College (Department of History), London School of Economics, Georgia State University, Dr. Phiroza J Godrej, the Godrej Archives, Ashwin Bhai Shroff, Excel Industries and British Academy. The conference aims to bring together scholars who have studied Indian merchants during the 17th and 20th century. During this period, merchants and merchant communities played…
Event DetailsSeminar: Unearthing Zombies
Speaker: Dr. S.K. Ritadhi, Reserve Bank of India, Mumbai Date & Hour: 8th January, 2020 at 4.15 P.M. Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Unearthing Zombies
Event DetailsSeminar: Can India Grow and Live Within a 1.5 Degree GHG Emissions Budget?
Speaker: Dr. Kirit S. Parikh, Integrated Research and Action for Development (IRADe), New Delhi Date & Hour: 09 January 2020, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Can India Grow and Live Within a 1.5 Degree GHG Emissions Budget? Abstract: The world of 1.5 degree C requires a global compact and action. Assuming that a fair allocation of global emissions space is made, the question arises can India live within that space? What kind of technological innovations are needed to make it possible? What would be the…
Event DetailsSeminar: Robust statistical inference based on the C-divergence family
Speaker: Dr. Avijit Maji, Department of Statistics and Information Management, Reserve Bank of India, Patna. Date & Hour: 10th January, 2020 at 4.15 P.M. Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: “Robust statistical inference based on the C-divergence family”
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