| AGENDA
Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium November 7-10, 2017 Venue for All Lectures and Sessions: CONFERENCE HALL
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Day 1: Tuesday, November 7, 2017
| Morning/
Afternoon |
Participants Arrive |
| 17:45 – 18:15 | Registration – Beside CONFERENCE HALL |
| 18:15 – 18.30 | Welcome Address |
| V.K. Sharma, Professor, IGIDR | |
| 18.30 – 20.00 | Keynote Lecture: BIG DATA – Theory and Applications |
| Pulak Ghosh, Professor, IIM Bangalore and Presidency University | |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Dinner - Cafeteria |
Day 2: Wednesday, November 8, 2017
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Full Paper Sessions - Session 1 |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tea Break and Colloquium Group Photograph |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Poster Presentation Session |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch - Cafeteria |
| 14.00 – 15.20 | Full Paper Sessions - Session 2 |
| 15.20 – 15.40 | Tea Break |
| 15.40 – 17.40 | Full Paper Sessions - Session 3 |
| 18.30 – 20.00 | Invited Lecture: Growth and Creative Destruction |
| Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics | |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Dinner - Cafeteria |
| Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium
November 7-10, 2017
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| Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research |
Day 3: Thursday, November 9, 2017
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Full Paper Sessions - Session 4 |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Tea Break and Colloquium Group Photograph |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Full Paper Sessions - Session 5 |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch - Cafeteria |
| 14.00 – 15.20 | Full Paper Sessions - Session 6 |
| 15.20 – 15.40 | Tea Break |
| 15.40 – 17.40 | Full Paper Sessions – Session 7 |
| 18:30 – 20:00 | Panel Discussion: Life After PhD.
· Shubhashis Gangopadhyay, Research Director, India Development Foundation · O. P. Mall, Adviser, Department of Statistics and Information Management, Reserve Bank of India (to be confirmed) · Anindya Sen, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta · Janat Shah, Director, Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur · Moderator: Subrata Sarkar, Professor, IGIDR |
| 20:00 – 22:00 | Director’s Dinner Venue: Director’s Bungalow |
Day 4: Friday, November 10, 2017
| 9.30 – 11.30 | Special Lecture: Causal Inference in Economics |
| Sudha Narayanan, Associate Professor, IGIDR | |
| 11.30 – 12.00 | Tea Break |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Closing Remarks, Vote of Thanks and Distribution of Certificates |
| S. Mahendra Dev, Director (Vice Chancellor), IGIDR | |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch - Cafeteria |
| Rest of the day | Library Visit and Interaction with IGIDR Faculty (by appointment) |
| Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research |
Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium
November 7-10, 2017
Venue for All Sessions: CONFERENCE HALL
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Session 1 (09.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.) – Macroeconomics
Chair: Romar Correa – University of Mumbai
Paper 1: Culture and Market: A Macroeconomic Tale of Two Institutions
Presenter: Priyanka Arora – Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
Paper 2: Solvency of India’s Current Account balance: An Evidence of Intertemporal Optimization
Presenter: Bhavesh Garg - IIT, Hyderabad
Paper 3: Epidemiology of Inflation Expectations of Households and Internet Search- An Analysis for India
Presenter: Saakshi Jha - Department of Economic Sciences, IIT, Kanpur
Session 2 (2.00 p.m. – 3.20 p.m.) – Finance
Chair: Rajendra Vaidya - IGIDR
Paper 1: A New Order of Financing Investments: Evidence from Acquisitions by India's Listed Firms
Presenter: Varun Jindal - Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Kolkata
Paper 2: Can Institutional Factors Explain Distress of Handloom Weavers?
Presenter: Manas Ranjan Bhowmik – University of Calcutta and Mission Vidyamandira, West Bengal
Session 3 (3.40 p.m. – 5.40 p.m.) – Economic Development
Chair: R. Nagaraj - IGIDR
Paper 1: Does the Early Bird Get the Worm? Examining the Impact of School Entry Age on Academic Performance
Presenter: Kartik Yadav - Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Bangalore
Paper 2: Benefits of Integrated Child Developmental Services: Later Life Evidence
Presenter: Gaurav Dhamija - Shiv Nadar University, Delhi
Paper 3: Quality of Schooling: Child Quantity-Quality Trade off, Technological Progress and Economic Growth
Presenter: Swati Saini - Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU, Delhi
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Session 4 (09.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.) – Financial Markets
Chair: Subrata Sarkar – IGIDR
Paper 1: Can Leverage Replace Value Effect?
Presenter: Moinak Maiti - Pondicherry University, Pondicherry
Paper 2: Post-Earnings-Announcement-Drift Anomaly in the Indian Stock Market
Presenter: Harshita - Department of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi
Paper 3: Within and Cross Volatility Contagion Effects among Stock, Crude and Forex Returns:
Empirical Evidence from Five Emerging Economies
Presenter: George Varghese - Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai
Session 5 (11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.) – Agriculture
Chair: Vijay Laxmi Pandey- IGIDR
Paper 1: Awareness and Take-up of Crop Insurance: Evidence from India
Presenter: Subhankar Mukherjee - Fellow Programme, Economics Group, IIM, Kolkata
Paper 2: Effect of Flood on Rural Agricultural Wages in Indian States: An Empirical Analysis
Presenter: Yashobanta Parida - Economics at Centre for International Trade and Development, JNU, Delhi
Session 6 (2.00 p.m. – 3.20 p.m.) – Trade and Industry
Chair: C. Veeramani - IGIDR
Paper 1: New Age Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs): Implications for Value Added Trade
Presenter: Kalpana Tokas - Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Bangalore.
Paper 2: Critical Evaluation of the Effects of Infrastructure on Manufacturing Productivity: New Evidence from Major Asian Economies
Presenter: Khanna Rupika - Business Environment (Economics) Department, IIM, Lucknow
Session 7 (3.40 p.m. – 5.40 p.m.) – Social Sector and Innovation
Chair: G. Mythili - IGIDR
Paper 1: Identification and Characterization of Middle Class in India and its Comparison with other Economic Classes
Presenter: R. Ahalya -Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Delhi
Paper 2: Self Employment Profits: The Case of India
Presenter: Bhaskar Jyoti Neog- Dept. of HSS, IIT, Kharagpur
Paper 3: Enabling Digital Innovation at Indian Public Sector Retail Oil Outlets through Internet of Things (IoT)
Presenter: Sudip Das – University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
. Chandrasekhar - IGIDR
Poster 1: Extent and Nature of the Rental Markets for Capital Goods: An Analysis of Nepal's Plains
Presenter: Krishna Sharma - Faculty of Economics, South Asian University, New Delhi
Poster 2: Role of Factors of Production, Total Factor Productivity and Macroeconomic Policy in Cross-country Income Differences and Growth Rate
Presenter: Muhammed Najeeb – IIT, Kharagpur
Poster 3: Tracing Prices of Agricultural Commodities in India
Presenter: Prerona Baruah - Dept. (HSS), IIT, Guwahati
Poster 4: Anomalies in International Stock Returns
Presenter: Rahul Roy - Dept. of Commerce, Pondicherry University
Poster 5: Study of 2-D Layered Derived Nanostructures and their Composites for Environmental and Biological Applications
Presenter: Mayank Garg - AcSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh
Poster 6: Political Economy of Corruption in ‘Red Tape’
Presenter: Poulomi Bhattacharya - Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Poster 7: Analysis of the Performance of Selected Petroleum Companies in India
Presenter: Mohd Afzal - Department of Economics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
Poster 8: Future Research Directions for Social & Ethical Marketing
Presenter: Vivek Vyas - Department of Management Studies, IIT, Roorkee
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
