Seminars: Held between 2005-2006 at Centre for Development Economics

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPICS
May 4, 2006	Rabindra Bhandari University of Western Ontario London, Ontario	Panel data evidence of the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on private investment in Southeast Asia
March 16, 2006	Kanika Kapur Lecturer, School of Economics University College Dublin, Ireland & Adjunct Economist, RAND, Santa Monica, California	Love or Money? Health Insurance and Retirement among Married Couples
March 2, 2006	Nzinga Broussard Ph. D. Student University of Michigan	Aid and Agency in Africa: Understand Food Aid Disbursements Across Ethiopian Households in the Nineties
February 23, 2006	Steven Slutsky Department of Economics Warrington College of Business University of Florida, USA	Partial Commitment in Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxation
February 21, 2006	Kaushik Basu C. Marks Professor of International Studies & Professor of Economics Director, Programme on Comparative Economic Development, Cornell University	Is Product Boycott a Good Idea for Controlling Child Labour?
February 17, 2006	Ronald McKinnon William D. Eberle Professor of International EconomicsStanford University	China’s Exchange Rate Trap : Japan Redux?
February 10, 2006	Amit Bhaduri Distinguished Professor, University of Pavia, Italy & Visiting Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi	Development and Dignity: A case for full employment in India
February 8, 2006	William A. Niskanen Chairman, CATO Institute, Washington D. C.	Autocratic, Democratic and Optimal Government: Fiscal choices and economic outcomes
January 19, 2006	Eleanor Fox Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation New York University School of Law	Law and economics at the interface of antitrust and regulation: the case of telecommunications
January 17, 2006	Rodney Smith Department of Applied Economics University of Minnesota	The Impact of HIV on Total Factor Producticity
December 22, 2005	Professor V. Bhaskar University College London	Rational Adversaries? Evidence from Randomized Trials in the Game of Cricket
December 17, 2005	Hugo F. Sonnenschein University of Chicago	Factor Endowments, Relative Commodity Prices, and Anything Goes
December 13, 2005	Alok Bhargava University of Houston, USA	Healthcare infrastructure, contraceptive use and infant mortality in Uttar Pradesh, India
December 9, 2005	Professor William H. Melody London School of Economics, Technical University of Denmark	Reducing the Chasm Between Theory and Practice in Telecom Reform and Information Economy Policies: New Role for Economic Research
December 8, 2005	Mukesh Eswaran University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada	What Determines Female Autonomy? Evidence from Bangladesh
December 7, 2005	Sonia Bhalotra University of Bristol	The Impact of Economic Growth on Childhood Mortality in India
October 10, 2005	Prasanta K. Pattanaik University of California	Minimal Relativism, Dominance, and Standard of Living Comparisons Based on Functionings
October 7, 2005	Manoranjan Pal & Premananda Bharati Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata	Measures on Segregation
October 6, 2005	Robert Innes University of Arizona	A Theory of Consumer Boycotts under Symmetric Information and Imperfect Competition
October 3, 2005	Michael Beenstock Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel	The Effect of Parents’ Education and Earnings upon the Education and Earnings of their Children
September 30, 2005	Prof. Meghnad (Lord) Desai London School of Economics	Hayek and Marx on Cycles and Crises
August 25, 2005	Sumeet Gulati University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada	Time Inconsistent Resource Conservation Contracts
July 20, 2005	Ujjayant Chakravorty University of Central Florida,Orlando & Emory University, Atlanta	A Hostelling Model with a Ceiling on the Stock of Pollution