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Distributional Issues in Climate Policy
Climate policy is typically framed as an issue of inter-generational distributive justice: policy proponents urge the current generation to incur costs so as to benefit future generations. This framing tends to overlook important intra-generational distributional issues, and in so doing it fails to explore possibilities to design climate policies that also bring significant benefits to people who are alive today. The lecture will consider three such issues: (i) the distribution of air quality co-benefits from the reduced use of fossil…
Event DetailsIGIDR Working Paper :The Indian Insolvency Regime in Practice-An Analysis of Insolvency and Debt Recovery Proceedings
NO:WP-2015-027 AUTHOR: Aparna Ravi TITLE: The Indian Insolvency Regime in Practice-An Analysis of Insolvency and Debt Recovery Proceedings ABSTRACT: This paper analyses 45 cases of insolvency and bankruptcy resolution in order to measure the efficiency and problems of the present laws for firm bankruptcy in India. These cases have been selected to cover a month of judgements under the reorganisation provisions of the Sick Industrial Companies Act, (SICA) 1985, the winding up provisions of Companies Act, 1956, and the debt…
Event DetailsCAFRAL IGIDR Winter School
CAFRAL IGIDR Winter School Dec 12-16 2015 Program and Application Details: www.cafral.org.in/Winter-School-Program.aspx For application process(only Online applications accepted) : www.cafral.org.in/Winter-School-Application.aspx
Event DetailsSeminar : Naive reasoning, unhappy sets and the lexicographic preferences over attributes
Professor Manipushpak Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata is presenting a seminar on Wednesday, February 24 in Seminar Hall 1 from 4;00 to 5:30 pm. The title of his talk is “Naive reasoning, unhappy sets and the lexicographic preferences over attributes”. The abstract of the paper is given below. You are invited to attend. Abstract: In this paper we axiomatize the lexicographic preferences on the domain of attributes. We use three axioms based on fast/naive reasoning. Our first axiom is the…
Event DetailsSeminar : Climate Change, India’s INDC, COP 21 and a fair deal
Professor Kirit S. Parikh (Chairman, Integrated Research and Action for Development and former Director of IGIDR) is presenting a seminar. The title of his talk is: “Climate Change, India’s INDC, COP 21 and a fair deal”.
Event DetailsSeminar : Are Uniform Pricing Policies Unfair? Mortgage Rates, Credit Rationing, and Regional Inequality
Speaker : Dr Nirupama Kulkarni (Haas School of Business, Berkeley) Abstract: Federal policy often institutes uniform pricing across regions in the name of fairness. I study the unintended consequences of such uniform pricing in the context of the residential mortgage market, which is heavily influenced by the securitization policies of the government sponsored enterprises (GSEs). I show that the regional uniformity of GSE-conforming mortgage rates leads to credit rationing. I develop three results by exploiting differences in the strength of…
Event DetailsSeminar : The World Today, The Emerging Countries, and India: A View from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Rahul Lahoti (University of Gottingen) is presenting a seminar on Wednesday, 9th March in Seminar Hall 1 at 4:00 p.m. The title of his talk is: “The World Today, The Emerging Countries, and India: A View from the Global Consumption and Income Project”. Abstract: How rapidly is the relative and absolute position of emerging countries in the world economy changing and what impact is it having? What is India’s role compared to other fast-growing and sizable countries, especially China? What…
Event DetailsSeminar : Education and Development: Beyond Labor Productivity
Abstract: This paper revisits the relationship between education and development. We argue that the role of education in the production process extends beyond the conventional labor productivity enhancement. Education also plays a complementary role in expanding one’s horizon. In particular, education leads to more efficient processing of information. Better processing of information has many important implications for the optimal choices of an agent and are associated with pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits which may not be directly captured by the conventional…
Event DetailsSeminar :Global warming and local air pollution have reduced wheat yields in India
Abstract We use regression analysis on data from 208 districts over the period 1981-2009 to examine the impact of temperature and solar radiation (affected by pollution from aerosols) on wheat yields in India. We find that a 1°C increase in average daily maximum and minimum temperature tends to lower yields by 2-3% each. A 1% increase in solar radiation increases yields by nearly 1%. Yields are estimated to be about 5% lower than they would have been if temperatures had…
Event DetailsSeminar : Environmental Certification and Technical Efficiency: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in India
Dr. Santosh Kumar Sahu (Madras School of Economics) will be presenting a seminar on “Environmental Certification and Technical Efficiency: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in India” Abstract: Obtaining environmental certification (such as the ISO-14,001) has become a status symbol for adopting greener practices for the corporate sector in emerging economies. Such certification can help improve the global visibility of firms and is mandated in international trade. This paper attempts to examine the impact of such certifications on technical efficiency of…
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