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Previous year External Speaker Series

Seminars in the Academic Year 2018-19

  • Debayan Pakrashi (IIT Kanpur) “ How Intensity of Exposure to an Innovation Affects Patterns of Adoption and Impacts:  Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh on the System of Rice Intensification” 22nd Feb 2019.

  • Kanika Mahajan (Ashoka University) “Home Production, Social Norms and Women's Labor Supply in Indiaome Production, Social Norms and Women's Labor Supply in India” 12th Feb 2019

  • Vijayendra Rao (DECRG, World Bank) “ Deliberative inequality: a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies” 06th Feb 2019

  • Urvi Neelakantan (Cafral, RBI) “ Who values access to subsidized college?” 1st Feb 2019

  • Ananish Chaudhuri (University of Auckland, New Zealand) “Fri Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market” 11th Jan 2019.

  • Subhashish Dey (The University of York) “Affirmative Action and Quality of Governance: Evidence from Utilization of Funds in Village Councils of India” 7th Jan 2019.

  • Swagata Bhattacharya (Ashoka University) “Contracting for Innovation Under Ambiguity”. 28th Sep 2018.

  • JV Meenakshi (Delhi School of Economics).” ICDS Utilization, and its Impact on Food Intakes and Anthropometric Outcomes: Evidence from Eastern India”. 21st Sep 2018.

  • Agnirup Sarkar (IIT Guwahati). “Market Capitalization and Growth with Nominal and Real Rigidities”. 14th Sep 2018.

  • Shesadri Banerjee (MIDS). “Financial Frictions and Monetary Policy Transmission in India”. 24th Aug 2018.

  • R Gandhi, Former Dy. Governor, RBI “Challenges in Regulating Markets with Emerging Technologies” 17th Aug 2018

  • Bhaskar Dutta (Ashoka University). “Efficient Formation of Partnerships in Social Networks – Theory and Experiment”. 3rd Aug 2018

  • Anujit Chakrabarty (UC, Davis). “Cooperation in Finitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma games”. 27th July 2018.

  • Nandana Sengupta (Azim Premji University) “Characterizing the Skills Space of Bangalore’s Urban Informal Labour Market”. 20th July 2018.
  • Farzana Afridi  (Indian Statistical Institute).“Social Connections and Financial Incentives: A Quasi Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector“. 10th April 2018

Seminars in the Academic Year 2017-18

  • Partha Chatterjee (Shiv Nadar University).“Optimal Taxation in a Federation and GST in India”. 14th March 2018

  • Karan Nagpal “The Cost of Distance: Geography and Governance in Rural India.”7th February 2018

  • John Firth “I’ve Been Waiting on the Railroad: The Effects of Congestion on Firm Production.” 2nd February 2018

  • Ritesh Jain “Rationalizable Implementation Of Social Choice Correspondences.” 1st February 2018

  • Srinivasan Murali “Job Specialization and Labor Market Turnover.” 29th January 2018

  • Asad Dossani “Central Bank Tone and Currency Risk Premia” 19th January 2018

  • Markus Brueckner (Australian National University). “Inequality and Economic Growth: The Role of Initial Income”. December 12, 2017 

  • Nishant Chadha (India Development Foundation). ”Linking​ ​literacy​ ​and​ ​mobile​ ​phone​ ​usage​ ​among​ ​women: Evidence​ ​from​ ​a​ ​women’s​ ​adult​ ​literacy​ ​programme​ ​in​ ​India”. November 15, 2017

  • Shilpa Aggarwal (Indian School of Business). “Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow: Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya”. October 11, 2017

  • Vasso Ioannidou (University of Manchester). “why do central banks care about their profits?”. October 4, 2017

  • Saptarshi Ghosh (Shiv Nadar University). “Information control in reputational cheap talk”. September 6, 2017
  • Prashant Bharadwaj (University of California San Diego). “Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India”. September 13, 2017
  • Mukesh Eswaran. “Can For-Profit Business Alleviate Extreme Poverty in Developing Countries?” August 16, 2017
  • Abhinash Borah. "Choice via Social Influence". August 9, 2017
  • Nayana Bose (Scripps college)’ “Intergenerational Effects of Improving Women's Property Rights: Evidence”. July 26, 2017
  • Vaidyanathan Venkateswaran (New York University). Capital Misallocation: Frictions or Distortions? June 22nd 2017
  • Rakesh Chaturvedi (Indian Institute of Management Udaipur). Stability and Efficiency in a Model of Production and Pillage. May 23, 2017 
  • Abhishek Chakravarty (University of Manchester). “Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal”.  April 20, 2017
  • Aparajita Dasgupta (Ashoka University). “Examining the Quality-Quantity Trade off: Evidence from a Public Health Intervention in India”. April 5, 2017 

Past Seminars in the Academic Year 2016-17

  • Kunal Dasgupta (University of Toronto). “Distribution Costs, Product Quality, and Cross-Country Income Differences”. March 16, 2017
  • Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics). “Culture and Cognition: Does living in a low-solidarity community impede recognition of a Pareto-improving tax-spending program?” March 14, 2017
  • Priyodorshi Banerjee (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata). “The Role of Empathy in Altruistic Behaviour: Evidence from Sequential Dictator Games”. February 24, 2017
  • Pavel Chakraborty (Jawaharlal Nehru University). “Trade Liberalization, Intermediate Inputs and the Demand for Managers: Evidence from India”. January 20, 2017
  • Prakarsh Singh (Amherst College). “Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India”. December 9, 2016
  • Daniel Benett (University of Southern California). “The Marriage Market for Lemons: HIV Testing and Marriage in Rural Malawi”. November 14, 2016
  • Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University). “Stereotypes, Crime and Justice”. October 25, 2016