External Speaker Series
Seminar Series in the academic year 2022-23
Sl. No. |
Name of the Speaker |
Date |
Institution of the Speaker |
Area |
Title |
1 |
Dr. Gautham Udupa |
July 6 , 2022 |
Research Director at CAFRAL |
ESS |
Unsecured Consumer Credit and Bankruptcy Policy in Emerging Economies |
2 |
Prof. Kunal Sen |
July 11 , 2022 |
United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) |
ESS |
Can political decentralization improve citizen welfare? Evidence clues from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in India |
3 |
Prof. Suraj Prasad |
July 13 , 2022 |
University of Sydney |
ESS |
Instructions and Incentives in Organizations |
4 |
Prof. Aarti Singh |
July 14 , 2022 |
University of Sydney |
ESS |
Marginal propensities to consume before and after the Great Recession |
Seminar series in the academic year 2021-22
Sl. No. |
Name of the Speaker |
Date |
Institution of the Speaker |
Area |
Title |
1 |
Vidya Mahambare |
March 17th, 2021 |
Great Lakes Institute of Management |
ESS |
Location, Location, Location: Implications for Welfare Inequality in India |
2 |
Jeevant Rampal |
March 31st, 2021 |
Indian Istitute of Management , Ahmedabad |
ESS |
The Performance and Perception Effects of a Gender-Based Affirmative-Action Policy: An Experimental Investigation (joint with Pritha Dev and Kirtivardhan Singh) |
3 | Gaurav Khanna | April 7th , 2021 | University of California San Diego | ESS | Trade Liberalization and Chinese Students in US Higher Education |
4 | Nicholas Ryan | April 14th, 2021 | Yale University | ESS | Holding Up Green Energy |
5 | Pamela Medina | April 28th , 2021 | University of Toronto | ESS | Capital Reallocation Frictions and Trade Shocks |
6 |
September 8th, 2021 |
Ashoka University |
ESS |
The Importance of Being Earnest: What Drives the Gender Quota Effect in Politics? | |
7 |
September 22 , 2021 |
Boston College |
ESS |
Search Frictions and Efficiency in Decentralized Transport Markets (joint with Giulia Brancaccio, Myrto Kalouptsidi and Nicola Rosaia) | |
8 |
October 6th, 2021 |
University of Connecticut |
ESS |
Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl’s Lives with Bicycles (joint with Nathan Fiala, Ana Garcia-Hernandez and Kritika Narula) | |
9 |
October 20th, 2021 |
Rice University |
ESS |
Til dowry do us part: Bargaining and violence in Indian families | |
10 |
November 3rd , 2021 |
World Bank |
ESS |
Women's Autonomy, Social Networks, and Access to Family Planning: Experimental Evidence from India | |
11 |
November 17th , 2021 |
Yale University |
ESS |
Holding Up Green Energy | |
12 |
December 1st , 2021 |
Singapore Management University |
ESS |
Migration and Spatial Misallocation in China | |
13 |
December 14th , 2021 |
University of Texas at Austin |
ESS |
Globalization, Structural Change and International Comovement | |
14 | Megha Patnaik | February 23rd, 2022 | Luiss Guido Carli | ESS | Management practices and resilience to shocks: Evidence from COVID-19 |
Seminar series in the academic year 2020-21
Sl. No. | Name of the Speaker | Date | Institution of the Speaker | Area | Title |
1 | Dweepobotee Brahma | 17/6/2020 | Brookings | ESS | Early warning Signs : Targetting Neonatal and Infant Mortality using Machine Learning |
2 | Nikhil Damodaran | 1/7/2020 | Jindal Global University | ESS | Fiscal Policy and Transmission : The case of India's States |
3 | Viral Acharya | 4/8/2020 | NYU Stern School of Business | ESS | Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India |
4 | Arvind Panagariya | 19/8/2020 | Columbia University | ESS | The New Import Substitution |
5 | V. Srinivas | 2/9/2020 | IAS, Additional Secretary - GoI | ESS | India and IMF |
6 | Samarth Gupta | 10/12/2020 | NCAER | ESS | Predictive Determinants of Enterprise Micro-Financing by Self Help Groups in India |
Seminar series in the academic year 2019-20
Sl. No. | Name of the Speaker | Date | Institution of the Speaker | Area | Title |
1 | Swapnendu Banerjee | 14/05/2019 | Jadavpur University | ESS | Other Regarding Principal and Moral Hazard with Multiple Agents |
2 | Sunanda Sen | 6/7/2019 | Economist | ESS | Employment in India: Aggregate Demand and Structural Transformations |
3 | Sourav Bhattacharya | 14/06/2019 | Royal Holloway University of London | ESS | Condorcet Jury Theorem in a Spatial Model of Elections |
4 | Namrata Kala | 24/06/2019 | MIT Management Sloan School | ESS/Public Policy | Workhorses or White Elephants? The Effects of Earned Autonomy on State Owned Enterprises |
5 | Gaurav Chiplunkar | 7/1/2019 | Darden School of Business, University of Virginia | ESS | How Important are Matching Frictions in The Labour Market? Experimental and Non-Experimental Evidence from a Large Indian Firm |
6 | Deepti Goel | 7/5/2019 | Azim Premji University | ESS | Drivers of Student Performance: Evidence from Higher Secondary Public Schools in Delhi |
7 | Chandan Jha | 7/12/2019 | Madden School of Business, Le Moyne College | ESS | Corruption and Stock Price Volatility: Firm-Level Evidence |
8 | Samarth Gupta | 19/07/2019 | NCAER, New Delhi | ESS | Inter-Organizational Transaction Costs Theory and Credit Delivery |
9 | Saikat Sinha Roy | 25/07/2019 | Jadavpur University | ESS | Services Trade and Choice of Industries |
Studying Intergenerational Mobility of Indian workers | |||||
10 | Rajnish Kumar | 8/2/2019 | Queen's Management School | ESS | Group Contributions in TU-games : A class of k-lateral Shapley values |
11 | Joseph Flavian Gomes | 23/08/2019 | Université catholique de Louvain | ESS | The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization |
12 | Shraman Banerjee | 9/5/2019 | OP Jindal | ESS | Treating Symmetric Buyers Asymmetrically |
13 | Ritesh Jain | 19/09/2019 | Academia Sinica | ESS | A systematic test of the Independence Axiom: Around Certainty |
14 | Anaka Aiyar | 11/7/2019 | Cornell University | ESS | Health Insurance and Infant Mortality: Evidence from India |
15 | Manish Kacker | 13/11/2019 | McMaster University | ESS | Performance Implications of Organizational Signaling and Screening in Interfirm Networks: Evidence from Franchising |
16 | Arno Hantzsche | 27/11/2019 | Arno Hantzsche | ESS | Regional Government Bond Markets - Lessons from Europe |
17 | Abhishek Chakravarthy | 1/8/2020 | The University of Manchester | ESS | Informed Citizens and Political Entry: Evidence from a Large Education Programme in India |
18 | Dyuti Banerjee | 16/1/2020 | Monash University | ESS | Optimal IPR infringement enforcement policy and innovation |
19 | Prashant Bharadwaj | 28/1/2020 | University of California, San Diego | ESS | The Effects of Health Shocks to the Elderly on Children’s Labor Supply |
20 | Manoj Mohanan | 2/3/2020 | Duke | ESS | Information and Facilitation Interventions for Accountability in Health and Nutrition: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in India |
21 | Anisha Sharma | 2/12/2020 | Ashoka University | ESS | Preferences and expectations: Understanding the gender gap in major choice |