Events

Dr. Amlan Das Gupta will be presenting a seminar on 4th April 2017 at 3.30 P.M. in SEANZA Hall. Title: Impact of Cash Transfers Compared to Subsidy in Food: Evidence from the Indian Public Distribution System. Abstract : This paper examines the contribution of the Public Distribution System (PDS) of food grains in India in context of the theoretical prediction that a price subsidy based transfer (like the PDS) and a simple cash transfer produces identical changes in consumption choices for agents who are inframarginal.…

Dr. Purva Khera (IMF) will be presenting a seminar on Wednesday, 5th April 2017,  at  4:30 P.M. in Seminar Hall 1. Title:  Prioritizing and Sequencing Structural Reforms and Coping with Adjustment Costs in India Abstract: Based on a small-open economy DSGE model, this study examines long-term gains and adjustment costs across several deregulation reform scenarios in the labor and product markets and the role for demand management policies in supporting adjustment in India. Given India’s large informal sector, prioritizing labor market reforms…

Dr. Gogol Mitra Thakur (JNU) will be presenting a seminar today (7th April 2017) at 3.30 P.M. in Seminar Room No.1. Title: Petty Services, Profit-Led Growth and Rural-Urban Migration in a Developing Economy Abstract: This paper argues that a high growth in the formal sector can not only lead to an abundance of petty services in urban areas of developing economies by inducing rural-urban migration, as one may expect from Harris and Todaro (1970), but an abundance of petty services can also…

Prof Aparna Sawhney (Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University) is presenting a seminar  on Wednesday, 12th April in Seminar Hall 1 at 4:00 p.m. Title : “Are recycling plants more energy-efficient?: Study of secondary steel manufacturing in India”. Abstract  Recycling and re-use of waste helps in resource conservation and pollution reduction.  Indeed, the re-use of scrap in secondary steel manufacturing has had proven energy-efficiency gains and decreased carbon emissions in the US and Europe.  This paper examines whether…

Dr Malhar Nabar from IMF is presenting seminar on “ROADS LESS TRAVELED: EMERGING MARKET AND DEVELOPING ECONOMY GROWTH IN A COMPLICATED EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT” on 13th April, 2017 in Seanza Hall at 4 p.m. Emerging market and developing economies have become increasingly important in the global economy in recent years. They now account for more than 75 percent of global growth in output and consumption, almost double the share of just two decades ago. The external environment has been crucial for…

Zsoka Koczan from IMF is presenting seminar on “UNDERSTANDING THE DOWNWARD TREND IN LABOR INCOME SHARES” on 13th April, 2017 in Seanza Hall at 4 p.m. This chapter documents the downward trend in the global labor share of income since the early 1990’s, as well as its heterogeneity along many dimensions, using newly assembled data for a large sample of advanced and emerging and developing economies. The empirical analysis points to a dominant role of technology and global integration for…

Dr Ritwik Banerjee (IIM Banglore) is presenting a seminar on Wednesday, 19th April in Seminar Hall 1 at 4:00 p.m. Title: “On Monetary and Non-Monetary Interventions to Combat Corruption”. Abstract The paper studies the relative effectiveness of extrinsic monetary disincentives and intrinsic non-monetary disincentives to corruption. In doing so, we also test the Beckarian prediction that at the same level of expected payoff, a low probability of detection with high penalty is a stronger deterrent to corruption than a high probability…

Dr. Anuj Bhowmik will be presenting a seminar on 21/04/2017 at 4.00 P.M. at Seminar Hall No.1. Title: Sequential Coalitionally Fair and Core Allocations for Two-Period Economies Extended Abstract:The cooperative game theoretic notions such as the core and coalitionally fair allocations are very useful in order to allocation the total resources available in the economy. In a static case, agreeing on such an allocation is equivalent to carrying it out since nothing happens in between. This is completely different in a dynamic model…