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Seminar : 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 DetailsVisiting Scholars Program 2019" rel="bookmark"> Visiting Scholars Program 2019
Visiting Scholars Program 2019 Overview : The Visiting Scholar Programme (VScP) has been instituted at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) as one of its outreach activities with the objective of supporting research being conducted by Ph.D scholars and junior faculty members of Colleges and Universities in India. The scholarship will enable up to five selected scholars to spend three months at a stretch at IGIDR anytime during 1st Sept. 2019 to 31st March 2020 to work on…
Event DetailsSeminar : Predicting the unpredictable: A case study of financial market crashes
Speaker: Prof. Anirban Chakraborti, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Date & Hour: 04 September 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Predicting the unpredictable: A case study of financial market crashes Abstract: Catastrophic events, though rare, do occur and when they occur, they have devastating effects. The study of the critical dynamics in complex systems is always interesting yet challenging. We choose financial market as an example of a complex system, and do the analysis of the S&P 500…
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…
Event DetailsSeminar: Market Access, Policies and Agricultural Transformation: Evidence Using Disaggregated Data from India
Speaker: Dr Digvijay Singh Negi, IGIDR, Mumbai Date & Hour: 25 September 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Market Access, Policies and Agricultural Transformation: Evidence Using Disaggregated Data from India Abstract: Inter alia, diversification of agriculture in favor of high-return cash crops is considered an important pathway for sustainable improvements in agricultural productivity and agriculture-based livelihoods. In this paper, using highly spatially disaggregated data we study structural changes in Indian agriculture in terms of product diversification and commercialization…
Event DetailsSeminar – Can Referral Improve Targeting? Evidence from a Vocational Training Experiment
Speaker: Dr Debayan Pakrashi, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Date & Hour: 30 September 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Can Referral Improve Targeting? Evidence from a Vocational Training Experiment
Event DetailsSeminar – A Bioeconomic Framework for PES Programs Generating Multiple Environmental Services
Speaker: Dr Ram Ranjan, Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney Date & Hour: 01 October 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: A Bioeconomic Framework for PES Programs Generating Multiple Environmental Services
Event DetailsSeminar : Uncertainty shocks and monetary policy rules in a small open economy
Speaker: Dr Sargam Gupta, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi Date & Hour: 03 October 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Uncertainty shocks and monetary policy rules in a small open economy
Event DetailsSeminar -Does Inflation Targeting help information transmission? Evidence from India
Speaker: Dr Shekhar Tomar, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad Date & Hour: 09 October 2019, 4:15 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Does Inflation Targeting help information transmission? Evidence from India Abstract: This paper provides a novel evidence in favor of the informational properties of inflation targeting (IT) and document the attenuative effect of IT on financial market volatility. We evaluate the impact of the hard switch to IT by India in 2015 on the information transmitted to the markets through central bank policy announcements. We…
Event DetailsSeminar: Do the rich pollute more? Mexican household consumption by income level and CO2 emissions
Speaker: Prof. Angel de la Vega Navarro, Graduate Department of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico, City, Mexico Date & Hour: 11 October 2019, 2:30 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Do the rich pollute more? Mexican household consumption by income level and CO2 emissions
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