CDE-ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY WINTER SCHOOL 2008
December 13 - 16, 2008
Venue:
AMEX Conference Room
Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
December 13
9.30 a.m - 9:45 a.m. : Registration
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. : Opening remarks
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. : Anirban Kar "The Shapley Value As The Maximizer of Expected Nash Welfare"
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. : Debasis Mishra "Minimum Cost Arborescences"
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. : Tea Break
11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. : Rittwik Chatterjee "Ability, Performance and the Optimal Allocation of Prices in Contests"
11.45 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. : Debdatta Saha "Does the Market Kill Bad Ideas? An Intitutional Comparison of Committees and Markets in Network Industries"
12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. : Arti Grover "The Indian Business Process Outsourcing Industry: An Evaluation of Firm-Level Performance"
12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. : Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. : Jayant Vivek Ganguli "Ambiguity and Rational Expectations Equilibria"
2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. : Sushama Murthy "Externalities and Fundamental Noncovexities:A Reconsideration of Approaches to General Equilibrium Externality Modeling and Implications for Decentralization"
2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. : Taposik Banerjee "Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a Choice Function to be K-Rationalizable"
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. : Tea Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. : Partha Chatterjee "Democracy and Growth Volatility: Exploring the Links"
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. : Chetan Ghate "The 'V-Factor': Distribution, Timing and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround?"
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. : Anubha Dhasmana "Welfare Gains of Aid Indexation in Small Open Economies"
December 14
10.00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. : Maitreesh Ghatak "Incentives in Public Organizations - I"
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. : Tea Break
11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. : Maitreesh Ghatak "Incentives in Public Organizations - II"
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. : Lunch
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. : Deepti Goel "The Role of Social Ties in Job Search of Recent Immigrants"
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. : Nishith Prakash "Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota"
3.30 p.m. - 3.45 p.m : Tea Break
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. : Nilanjan Banik "Regional Integration and Trade Costs in South Asia"
4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. : Trishita Ray Barman "Fiscal Policies, Environmental Pollution and Economic Growth"
December 15
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. : Herakles Polemarchakis "Theory of Economic Policy - I"
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. : Tea Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. : Gerhard Glomm "Political Economy of Education Vouchers"
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. : Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. : Maitreesh Ghatak "Incentives in Public Organizations - III"
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. : Tea Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. : Ratul Lahkar "Dynamic Instability of Dispersed Price Equilibria"
4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. : Rene Saran "The Maximal Domain for the Revelation Principle when Preferences are Menu Dependent"
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. : Namrata Gulati "Impact of Income Inequality and Spatial Distribution on Consumer Welfare"
December 16
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. : Herakles Polemarchakis "Theory of Economic Policy - II"
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. : Tea Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. : Herakles Polemarchakis "Theory of Economic Policy - III"
12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. : Lunch
Affiliation of speakers:
Taposik Banerjee, Ph.D. Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Nilanjan Banik, Associate Professor, Institute for Financial Management & Research, Chennai
Trishita Ray Barman, Senior Research Fellow, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Partha Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore Business School, Singapore
Rittwik Chatterjee, Ph.D. Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Anubha Dhasmana, Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Steven Durlauf, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jayant Vivek Ganguli, University Lecturer & Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge, UK
Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor, London School of Economics
Chetan Ghate, Assistant Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Gerhard Glomm, Professor, IndianaUniversity Bloomington
Arti Grover, Ph.D. Scholar, Delhi School of Economics
Anirban Kar, Reader, Delhi School of Economics
Debasis Mishra, Assistant Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Deepti Goel, Assistant Professor, Institute for Financial Management & Research, Chennai
Namrata Gulati, Ph.D. Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Ratul Lahkar, Associate Professor, Institute for Financial Management & Research, Chennai
Sushama Murthy, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.
Herakles Polemarchakis, Professor, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Nishith Prakash, Assistant Professor, Ohio University, Athens
Debdatta Saha, Ph.D. Scholar, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Rene Saran, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Organized by: Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics
Organizing Committee: Mausumi Das, Partha Sen & Sudhir A. Shah