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IGIDR Seminar: ” In search of sustainable food transitions”
Abstract:- The current food system transgresses many planetary boundaries while failing to supply healthy foods to all. Providing nutritious and sustainable food while not leaving anyone behind is a grand societal challenge. Calls for transitioning to more sustainable and equitable forms of food production and consumption – sometimes referred to as The Great Food Transformation – highlight various interventions, strategies and policies that are urgently needed; however, different stakeholders voice different narratives around the precise actions that should be taken.…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: ” Journey to the (North, South, East, and) West: Global Spillovers of Chinese Monetary Policy “
Abstract:- Does Chinese monetary policy matter on a global stage? This study evaluates how Chinese monetary policy shocks are transmitted globally. We examine the role production linkages play in the global transmission of Chinese monetary policy shocks to global stock returns. Using a high-frequency measure of Chinese monetary policy shocks, we evaluate how Chinese monetary policy shocks propagate upstream and downstream through supply chains using a heterogeneous coefficient spatial autoregression (SAR) model. Three findings emerge. First, firms on both ends…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: “The Economics of Climate Change: An Agenda for Future Research”
Abstract:- In his talk he will address the key issue of climate financing, identify what the global responses have been, discuss the impending challenges, identify some solutions, and conclude with a discussion of some possible areas of policy research that requires academic rigor too. His presentation will be policy focussed as opposed to technical academic paper presentation.
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: ” Conflicts and Consumption (with Anindya S. Chakrabarti (IIMA) and Abhishek Shaw (IIMA)) “
Abstract:- Land acquisition is a commonplace and hotly debated policy for the developing countries due to opposing views on adequacy of compensation, held by the government and land-owning households. Theories abound as to what would be a good design for compensation. But the empirical question remains open – how do households respond in terms of consumption when they disagree about the quantum of compensation? We estimate consumption responses of households in quasi-randomized setups with six different events of land-acquisition-related conflicts…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: “Ignoring The Left Tail” by Dr. Kaushalendra Kishore (CAFRAL)
Abstract:- This article studies a principal-agent problem with flexible information acquisition. The agent has to choose between investing in an innovative asset about which costly information can be acquired or in a conventional asset about which there is enough historical data and no information is acquired. In the first-best problem, the principal acquires information about the entire distribution of cash flow from the innovative asset. Contrarily, in the second-best problem, less information is acquired about the left tail of the…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: “What explains surges in foreign direct investment inflows in developing countries?” by Dr. Jagadish Prasad Sahu ( Indian Institute of Management Kashipur )
Abstract:- We identify the timings of exceptionally large inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) which we call ‘FDI surges’ and examine the likelihood of these surge occurrences in a sample of 56 developing countries for the period 1990–2019. We employ two threshold criteria to identify the surge-years for each country. While the first approach identifies 298 surge occurrences the second approach provides 247 surge instances. Though most of the countries have experienced FDI surges during the sample period, the surge…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: ” What levels of development can humanity sustainably aspire to? “
Abstract:- What levels of development can the Global South sustainably aspire to? We argue that positioning Nordic countries as the leaders of “sustainable development”, as is often done, poses a serious dilemma: international adoption of their lifestyles risks severely breaching planetary biophysical limits, while non-adoption risks perpetuating developmental inequality. We introduce a revised conceptual framework for “sustainable development” emphasising scalability as a pivotal facet. Our results highlight Panama, Costa Rica, and Sri Lanka as having achieved high levels of social…
Event DetailsIGIDR Seminar: ” Demonetization and Child Health: Evidence from India “
Abstract:- This paper analyzes the impact of the 2016 Indian demonetization episode on infant mortality. The demonetization policy rendered approximately 86% of the circulating Indian currency invalid as legal tender, resulting in substantial shortages of cash in the following months. Old notes could be exchanged for new ones from banks. Thus, the effects of demonetization are expected to be more pronounced for districts with lower bank access. In order to identify the health effects of demonetization, we use a previous…
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