Events

Dr Nicholas Rada (Senior Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture) is presenting a seminar today (14th July) at 4 pm in Seanza conference hall. He is talking on “Evaluating research and education performance in Indian agricultural development”. Abstract India’s agricultural research spending has long been regionally uneven, consistently favoring northern, western, and southern states over central and eastern ones. Farm production patterns have, however, changed in recent years and regional output growth is being driven by new commodity mixes. In this…

Mr Suman Berry (Nonresident Fellow of the Brussels think-tank Bruegel, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth) is presenting a seminar on ” Dealing with uncertainty in designing India’s energy future”. Date: 21st July 2017 (Friday) Time: 3 pm Venue: Seanza Conference Hall, IGIDR. The talk will draw upon a recent book “Energizing India’ (Sage India, 2017) that he has co-authored. Profile- Suman Bery ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Till mid-2016 Suman Bery was Shell’s Chief Economist, based in The Hague,…

Prof  Sushanta Mallick (School of Business and Management Queen Mary University of London) is presenting a seminar on “Is financial inclusion good for bank stability? International evidence “. Date: 2nd August 2017 (Wednesday) Time: 4:30 pm Venue: Seanza Conference Hall ABSTRACT Financial inclusion has become an important public policy priority following the recent global financial crisis. Yet, we know very little of how it impacts soundness of the providers of financial services. Using an international sample of 2,600 banks in 86 countries over the period…

Date: 7th August 2017 Time: 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1, IGIDR, Mumbai Dr Johannes’s bio-note. 

Date: 9th August 2017 (Wednesday) Time: 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Abstract Whether currency can be efficiently provided by competitive money suppliers is arguably one of the fundamental questions in monetary theory. It is also one with practical relevance because of the emergence of multiple competing financial assets as well as competing cryptocurrencies as means of payments in certain class of transactions. In this paper, a dual currency version of Lagos and Wright (2005) money search model is used to explore the…

Dr Abhijit Sharma  (School of Management, Bradford University, United Kingdom) is presenting a seminar on “Live Football and Tourism Expenditure: Match Attendance Effects in the UK”. Date: 16th August 2017 (Wednesday) Time: 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Abstract  We employ unconditional quantile regression with region of origin fixed effects, whereby we find that attending live football matched significantly increases expenditures by inbound tourist in the UK, and surprisingly we find that such effects are strongest for those who overall spend the least. Higher…

Date: 23rd August 2017 (Wednesday) Time: 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Abstract In this paper we examine whether students’ and teachers’ social identity play any role in the learning outcome of the students. More importantly, we ask if a student benefit by learning from a teacher of the same gender of his/her own gender. Unlike the existing literature which explains such interaction in terms of role model based effect, we explain such interaction in terms of gender based sorting…