Winter School 2004 -
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The Centre for Development Economics and the Department of Economics at the Delhi School of Economics organized Winter School 2004, which was conducted over the period December 27-30 at the Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
The broad theme for the Winter School was the application of standard economic theory to various public policy problems, especially those of greater relevance to developing economies. While the principal target audience for the Winter School was the community of research economists, the lecture themes were broad enough to appeal to a wider audience including sophisticated economic practitioners.
Dr. Kirit S. Parikh, Member, Planning Commission, Government of India, inaugurated Winter School 2004. The programme schedule was as follows:
|
Speaker |
Topic
of discussion |
| Maitreesh
Ghatak Professor, London School of Economics |
Incentives and Organization Design for Provision of Public Services |
| Kaushik Basu Professor, Cornell University |
Household decision-making, poverty and development |
| Kalyan Chatterjee
Professor, Pennsylvania State University |
Bargaining and incomplete contracts |
| Esther Duflo
Professor, MIT |
Evaluating the effectiveness of social policies |
| Abhirup Sarkar Professor, ISI, Kolkata |
Economic well being and political response: theory and some evidence from the state of West Bengal |
| Abhijit Banerjee Professor, MIT |
Productivity and allocation of capital |
Almost 50 participants including Ph.D. students, researchers and faculty members from various institutions around the country participated in the Winter School. We are very grateful to the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and ICICI Bank Research Centre for their generous support to CDE for organizing Winter School 2004.
For obtaining teaching material of the lectures delivered at the Winter School 2004, please contact us at office@econdse.org