CDE SEMINARS
Date	Time	By	Topic	Details
23-02-2012	3.00 p.m.	Pierre Dehez University of Louvain	"Cooperative provision of indivisible public goods"	Click Here
16-02-2012	3.00 p.m.	Gurbachan Singh ISI Delhi	Systemic Flight to Quality from Emerging Economies, and Enabled International Credit Lines	Click Here
9-02-2012	3.00 p.m.	Debasis Mishra ISI Delhi	Implementation in Multidimensional Dichotomous Domains	Click Here
2-02-2012	3.00 p.m.	Rahul Mukherjee The Graduate Institute, Geneva	Institutions, Corporate Governance and Capital Flows	Click Here
13-01-2012	3.00 p.m.	Priyanka Sharma Texas A&M University	Reputation Building in the Presence of Rating Agents	Click Here
10-01-2012	3.00 p.m.	S. Anukriti Columbia University	The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Child Mortality and Sex Ratios: Evidence from Rural India	Click Here
20-12-2011	3.00 p.m.	Ravi Bansal Duke University	Volatility, the Macroeconomy and Asset Prices	Click Here
19-12-2011	3.00 p.m.	Gita Gopinath Harvard University	Fiscal Devaluations (with Emmanuel Farhi and Oleg Itskhoki)	Click Here
24-11-2011	3.00 p.m.	Federico Etro University of Venice	Endogenous Market Structures and International Trade	Click Here
11-11-2011	3.00 p.m.	Rebecca Morton New York University	The Dark Side of the Vote: Misleading Signals, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting	Click Here
8-11-2011	2.00 p.m.	Laura Zimmermann University of Michigan	It's a boy! Women and non-monetary benefits from a son in India	Click Here
20-10-2011	3.00 p.m.	Kensuke Kubo Honorary Visiting Scientist Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi	Inferring the Effects of Vertical Integration from Entry Games: An Analysis of the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry	Click Here
13-10-2011	3.00 p.m.	Nils Rudi INSEAD, Singapore	In-play Football Prediction	Click Here
29-9-2011	3.00 p.m.	Dean Spears Princeton University	Bounded Intertemporal Rationality: Apparent Impatience among South African Pension Recipients	Click Here
22-9-2011	3.00 p.m.	Reetika Khera Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	Performance of the PDS: Evidence from Secondary Data and the Field	Click Here
15-9-2011	3.00 p.m.	Amit Goyal Indian Statistical Institute	Have Patience, Its Good	Click Here
8-9-2011	3.00 p.m.	Karla Hoff The World Bank, Washington D.C.	Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences	Click Here
1-9-2011	3.00 p.m.	Shailendra Mehta Indian Institite of Management, Ahmedabad	Why is Harvard # 1? Governance and the Dominance of US Universities	Click Here
18-8-2011	3.00 p.m.	Monica Jain University of California Riverside	India's Struggle against Malnutrition: Is the ICDS Program the Answer?	Click Here
11-8-2011	3.00 p.m.	Rahul Deb University of Toronto	Relational Contract Farming: Theory and Its Emergence in Ghana	Click Here
4-8-2011	3.00 p.m.	Amitrajeet A. Batabyal Rochester Institute of Technology	Human Capital Use, Innovative Activity, and Patent Protection in a Model of Regional Economic Growth	Click Here
28-7-2011	3.00 p.m.	Gunjan Sharma University of Missouri	India's Mysterious Manufacturing Miracle	Click Here
21-7-2011	3.00 p.m.	Romeo Balanquit Centre for Economic Studies & Planning (CESP) Jawaharlal Nehru University	Common Belief Revisited	Click Here
26-4-2011	3.00 p.m.	G. Ananda Vadivelu Assistant Professor Institute of Economic Growth	Does Participatory Development Mean Legitimisation of Cooption Mechanisms? Evidence from Karnataka Watershed Development Agency, India	Click Here
29-3-2011	3.00 p.m.	Professor Vito Tanzi Honorary President, International Institute of Public Finance, USA & Former Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund	The Economic Role of the State: A Historical Perspective	Click Here
24-3-2011	3.00 p.m.	Sudha Narayanan Cornell University & Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics	Relationship Farming:The Problem of Enforcement in Contract Farming Systems in India	Click Here
17-3-2011	3.00 p.m.	Prodyot Samanta Founder & President, ThirdEye RiskInsights, USA	Enterprise Risk Management: A Strategic Tool for Hedging Performance Disruptions	Click Here
24-2-2011	3.00 p.m.	Tridib Sharma Centro de Investigación Económica, ITAM, Mexico & Visiting Faculty, ISI, Delhi	Axiom of Monotonicity: An Experimental Test	Click Here
18-2-2011	3.00 p.m.	Anmol Ratan Monash University	Trading Intentions and Behavioral Bidders in First-Price Auctions	Click Here
17-2-2011	3.00 p.m.	Stephan Marette Chair, UMR Economie Publique INRA-AgroParisTech, Grignon, France	The Combination of Lab and Field Experiments for Benefit-Cost Analysis	Click Here
3-2-2011	3.00 p.m.	Ralph A. Winter Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia	Innovation and the Dynamics of Global Warming	Click Here
28-1-2011	3.00 p.m.	Nancy Gallini University of British Columbia	Private Agreements for Coordinating Patent Rights: The Case of Patent Pools	Click Here
27-1-2011	3.00 p.m.	Siddhartha Chattopadhyay University at Albany - SUNY	The Sticky Information New-Keynesian DSGE Model: An Analysis under Taylor Rule	Click Here
21-1-2011	3.00 p.m.	Ralph A. Winter Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia	Exclusionary Contracts	Click Here
20-1-2011	3.00 p.m.	Mukta Mukherjee Syracuse University	The Effect of Fringe Benefit Tax on Wages: Evidence from India	Click Here
9-12-2010	3.00 p.m.	Yves Sprumont University de Montreal & Visiting Faculty, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	An Axiomatization of the Serial Cost-Sharing Method	Click Here
8-12-2010	3.00 p.m.	Amartya Lahiri University of British Columbia	Castes and Labor Mobility	Click Here
11-11-2010	3.00 p.m.	Farzana Afridi Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi	Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China’s Hukou System	Click Here
4-11-2010	3.00 p.m.	Abhinash Borah University of Pennsylvania & Visitor, Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics	Other-Regarding Preferences and Concerns for Procedure?	Click Here
3-11-2010	3.00 p.m.	Prachi Mishra Research Department, International Monetary Fund	How Does Trade Evolve in the Aftermath of Financial Crises?	Click Here
28-10-2010	3.00 p.m.	Mausumi Das Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi	What Do Teachers Do? The Quality-Quantity Tradeoff in a Public Education System with Heterogenous Agents and its Implication for Growth	Click Here
21-10-2010	3.00 p.m.	Ram Singh Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi	Determinants of Delays and Cost Overruns in Public Procurement of Infrastructure: Roads and Railways	Click Here
30-09-2010	3.00 p.m.	Arunava Sen Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Nash Implementation with Partially Honest Individuals	Click Here
23-09-2010	3.00 p.m.	Clive Bell University of Heidelberg, Germany	Estimating the Social Profitability of PMGSY: A Bumpy Ride	Click Here
20-09-2010	3.00 p.m.	Shasikanta Nandeibam University of Bath, U.K.	Menu Contracts in Teams	Click Here
19-08-2010	3.00 p.m.	Nabamita Dutta University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	Do Potential Skilled Emigrants Care About Political Stability At Home?	Click Here
13-08-2010	3.00 p.m.	Rajiv Sethi Columbia University	Economic Consequences of Speculative Side Bets: The Case of Naked Credit Default Swaps	Click Here
12-08-2010	3.00 p.m.	Saurabh Singhal University of Southern California	The Economic Costs of Naxalite Violence and the Economic Benefits of a Unique Robust Security Response	Click Here
6-08-2010	3.00 p.m.	Emmanuel Dechenaux Kent State University	Preemptive Corruption, Hold-Up and Repeated Interactions	Click Here
29-07-2010	3.00 p.m.	Pushkar Maitra Monash University, Victoria, Australia	Social Exclusion in a Laboratory Microfinance Experiment	Click Here
23-07-2010	3.00 p.m.	Tanika Chakraborty DIW, Berlin	Mother’s Decision-making and Child Welfare in Mexico – A New Measure and Some New Evidence	Click Here
22-07-2010	3.00 p.m.	Sushanta Mallick Queen Mary, University of London	Pricing-to-Market with Trade Liberalization: The Role of Market Heterogeneity and Product Differentiation in India’s Exports	Click Here
20-07-2010	3.00 p.m.	Alok Bhargava University of Houston	Executive Compensation, Share Repurchases and Investment Expenditures: Econometric Evidence from U.S. Firms	Click Here
22-04-2010	3.00 p.m.	Radek Stefanski University of Oxford	Structural Transformation and the Oil Price	Click Here
15-04-2010	3.00 p.m.	Sanjay Banerji University of Essex, U.K.	Collusion and Incentives: The Role of Expertise in Corporate Reorganization	Click Here
8-04-2010	3.00 p.m.	Saptarshi Mukherjee Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi	Choice in Tree-based Decision Problems	Click Here
1-04-2010	11.30 a.m.	Sonalde Desai NCAER, New Delhi & University of Maryland, USA	Educational Inequalities: Reservations and Beyond	Click Here
26-03-2010	3.00 p.m.	Suchismita Tarafdar Arizona State University	Optimization in Economies with Nonconvexities	Click Here
19-03-2010	3.00 p.m.	S. Subramanian Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai	A Chakravarty-D’Ambrosio View of Multidimensional Deprivation	Click Here
11-03-2010	3.00 p.m.	Manimay Sengupta Indian School of Business and Finance, New Delhi	How Long is the Spell that the Poor are Poor: The Time Dimension in the Measurement of Poverty	Click Here
4-03-2010	3.00 p.m.	V. Bhaskar University College London	Sex Selection and Gender Balance	Click Here
25-02-2010	3.00 p.m.	Reetika Khera Centre for Development Economics Delhi School of Economics	BPL Census: A Possible Alternative	Click Here
18-02-2010	3.00 p.m.	Yukinobu Kitamura Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan	How to Make the Japanese Public Pension System Reliable and Workable	Click Here
4-02-2010	1.50 p.m.	Arup Sen Boston University	Moral Hazard in Long-term Guaranteed Contracts: Theory and Evidence from the NBA	Click Here
28-01-2010	3.00 p.m.	Sudhir A. Shah Delhi School of Economics	Comparative Riskiness of Random Vector Outcomes	Click Here
15-01-2010	3.00 p.m.	Timothy Dalton Kansas State University, Manhattan	Active Learning Education and Soil Conservation in Asian Cassava Systems	Click Here
14-01-2010	3.00 p.m.	Neha Khanna Binghamton University	Income Inequality and Consumer Behavior: A Model of Conspicuous Consumption	Click Here
24-12-2009	3.00 p.m.	Jean-Philippe Platteau Centre for Research in Economic Development University of Namur, Belgium	Transformation of the Family under Rising Land Pressure: A Theoretical Essay	Click Here
3-12-2009	1.50 p.m.	Gurbachan Singh Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.	Banking Crisis and Liquidity: A Perspective	Click Here
12-11-2009	1.50 p.m.	Peter Lanjouw The World Bank, Washington D.C.	Revisiting Between Group Inequality Measurement: An Application to the Dynamics of Caste Inequality in Two Indian Villages	Click Here
29-10-2009	3:00 p.m.	Jean-Marie Baland University of Namur, Belgium.	The Distributional Implications of Group Lending	Click Here
28-10-2009	11:00 a.m.	Shasikanta Nandeibam University of Bath, U.K.	On Randomized Rationality	Click Here
22-10-2009	3:00 p.m.	Ramgopal Agarwala Research and Information System for Developing Countries, New Delhi	On Managing Risks Facing the Indian Economy: Towards a Better Balance Between Public and Private Sectors	Click Here
24-9-2009	3:00 p.m.	Guilhem Cassan Paris School of Economics and LEA-INRA	British Law and Caste Identity Manipulation in Colonial India: The Punjab Alienation of Land Act	Click Here
17-9-2009	3:00 p.m.	T. C. A. Anant & Ram Singh Delhi School of Economics	Distribution of Highways Public Private Partnerships in India: Key Determinants	Click Here
10-9-2009	3:00 p.m.	Pami Dua Delhi School of Economics	Synchronization of Recessions in Major Developed and Emerging Countries	Click Here
27-8-2009	3:00 p.m.	Swapnendu Banerjee West Bengal State University, Kolkata	Gestational Surrogacy Contracts: Altruistic or Commercial? A Contract Theoretic Approach	Click Here
13-8-2009	3:00 p.m.	Chetan Dave University of Texas at Dallas, USA	The Bank Lending Channel: A FAVAR Analysis	Click Here
30-7-2009	3:00 p.m.	Deepti Goel Institute for Financial Management & Research, Chennai	Perceptions and Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Australia after 9/11	Click Here
2-4-2009	11:40 a.m.	Thierry Marchant Ghent University, Belgium & Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Score-based bibliometric rankings of authors	Click Here
31-3-2009	11:40 a.m.	Soumyen Sikdar Calcutta University	Occupation Choice Among Prospective Labour Market Entrants: A Case of Study of New Delhi and Kolkata	Click Here
26-3-2009	1:50 p.m.	Reetika Khera Centre for Development Economics Delhi School of Economics	“Group Measurement” of NREGA Work: The Jalore Experiment	Click Here
6-3-2009	1:50 p.m.	Pompeo Della Posta Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Universita di Pisa - Italy	Strategic Interactions Among Central Bank and National Fiscal Authorities in a Monetary Union Subject to Asymmetric Country Shocks	Click Here
5-3-2009	1:50 p.m.	Dinko Dimitrov University of Munich, Germany	Coalitional Matchings	Click Here
5-2-2009	1:50 p.m.	Jacques Dreze Professor Emeritus, Member of CORE, Université catholique de Louvain	Individual Decision Theory and Expected Utility	Click Here
22-1-2009	1:50 p.m.	Alaka Holla Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University	Discrimination in School Access: Evidence from Test Scores in India	Click Here
11-12-2008	2:00 p.m.	James R. Barth Senior Finance Fellow, Milken Institute	The Origin of the Current Economic Crisis, Including the Switch from an Originate-to-Hold Housing Finance Model to and Originate-to-Securitize Model	Click Here
20-11-2008	1:50 p.m.	Andriy Zapechelnyuk University of Bonn	Job Market Signaling and Job Search	Click Here
25-9-2008	1:50 p.m.	Arunava Sen Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Incentive-Compatible Voting Rules with Positively Correlated Beliefs	Click Here
18-9-2008	1:50 p.m.	Paul Clist University of Nottingham	Aid and Tax Revenue: Signs of a Positive Effect Since the 1980s	Click Here
11-9-2008	1:50 p.m.	Christopher Y. Olivola Princeton University	Patience Auctions: Novel Mechanisms for Eliciting Discount Rates and the Impact of Time vs. Money Framing	Click Here
20-8-2008	1:50 p.m.	Alok Bhargava University of Houston	HIV Pandemic, Medical Brain Drain and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa	Click Here
14-8-2008	1:50 p.m.	Siddharth Chandra University of Pittsburgh	Regime Type and Economic Performance: Why Democracies Just ‘Muddle Through’	Click Here
31-7-2008	1:50 p.m.	Sudhir A. Shah Delhi School of Economics	Dual Representations of Cardinal Preferences	Click Here
24-7-2008	1:50 p.m.	Karla Hoff The World Bank, Washington, DC	Economic Consequences of Social Identity: Discrimination, Social Identity, and Durable Inequalities	Click Here
17-7-2008	1:50 p.m.	Raj M. Desai Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC & The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC	Cronisym: Firm-Level Evidence from Developing Countries	Click Here
13-3-2008	11:40 a.m.	Sweta C. Saxena Bank for International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland	The Monetary Model Strikes Back: Evidence from the World	Click Here
4-3-2008	3:00 p.m.	Sanjit Dhami University of Leicester	Why Do People Pay Taxes? An Application of Behavioral Decision Theory	Click Here
28-2-2008	11:40 a.m.	Parikshit Ghosh Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi	Making the Punishment Fit the Crime or Taliban Justice? Optimal Penalties Without Commitment	Click Here
21-1-2008	11:40 a.m.	Neha Khanna Binghamton University	Improving Public Health: Race, Income Inequality and Mortality in the United States	Click Here
17-1-2008	11:40 a.m.	Sohini Sahu State University of New York at Albany	Business Cycle Accounting for India in a Multi-sector Dynamic General Equilibrium Model	Click Here
10-1-2008	11:40 a.m.	Jonathan Morduch NYU Wagner Graduate School New York University	Do Interest Rates Matter? Credit Demand in the Dhaka Slums	Click Here
8-1-2008	11:40 a.m.	Jacek B. Krawczyk School of Economics & Finance Victoria University of Wellington	Satisficing Solutions to a Monetary Policy Problem: A Viability Theory Approach	Click Here
1-11-2007	3:00 p.m.	Kala M. Krishna Liberal Arts Research Professor The Pennsylvania State University	Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders: Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?	Click Here
11-10-2007	3:00 p.m.	K. Sundaram Delhi School of Economics	Fair Access to Higher Education Re-visited: Some Results for Social and Religious Groups from NSS 61st Round Employment-Unemployment Survey, 2004-05	Click Here
04-10-2007	3:00 p.m.	Debopam Bhattacharya Dartmouth College, Hanover	Inferring Optimal Resource Allocations from Experimental Data with Application to Peer Assignment in College	Click Here
27-9-2007	3:00 p.m.	Anjan Mukherji Jawaharlal Nehru University	The Stability of a Competitive Economy: A Reconsideration	Click Here
30-8-2007	3:00 p.m.	Tauhidur Rahman University of Arizona	Poverty Status, Hygiene and Health: Some Empirical Explorations	Click Here
23-8-2007	3:00 p.m.	Indraneel Dasgupta University of Nottingham	Revealed Preference with Stochastic Demand Correspondence	Click Here
9-8-2007	3:00 p.m.	Kundan Kishor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee	International Evidence on Time-Variation in a Forward Looking Monetary Policy Rule	Click Here
2-8-2007	3:00 p.m.	Dipjyoti Majumder Concordia University, Montreal, Canada	Efficiency, Public Monitoring and Private Strategies in Repeated Auctions	Click Here
30-7-2007	3:00 p.m.	Aman Ullah University of California, Riverside, USA	Semiparametric Estimator of Time Series Conditional Variance	Click Here
26-7-2007	3:00 p.m.	Vegard Iversen School of Development Studies, University of East Angila	Literacy sharing, assortative mating, or what? Labour market advantages and proximate illiteracy revisited	Click Here
19-7-2007	3:00 p.m.	Farzana Afridi Syracuse University	The Impact of School Meals on School Participation: Evidence from Rural India	Click Here
4-4-2007	3:00 p.m.	Vijay Prakash Ojha Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi	International Trading of Emission Rights: Its Implications for India	Click Here