SESSION PLAN

Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium

SESSION
November PLAN
13-16, 2018
Venue for All Lectures
Venue and Sessions:
for All Sessions: CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE HALL HALL

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Session 1 (09.00 – 11.00) – Laws, Institutions and Finance

Chair: Subrata Sarkar – IGIDR

Paper 1: Bankruptcy Laws and Income Distribution

Presenter: Harshal Rajan Mulay - Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Calcutta

Paper 2: Role of Institutional Quality and International Integration in Innovation: An Empirical Analysis
Presenter: Muhammed Najeeb, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur

Paper 3: Do Post Offices Compete With Banks on Household Savings: Empirical Evidence among All States in
India
Presenter: Cledwyn Fernandez- Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur

Session 2 (14.00 – 15.20) – Economic Theory

Chair: Anuj Bhowmik - IGIDR

Paper 1: Revenue Targets in Standard Auctions

Presenter: Anushree Saha – Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Paper 2: No One’s Land: Game Theoretic Approach to Compulsory Purchase Compensation
Presenter: Jyoti Rao – University of Melbourne, Australia

Session 3 (15.40 – 17.40) – Education

Chair: G. Mythili - IGIDR

Paper 1: Education-Occupation (Mis-)Match and Dispersion in Returns to Education: Evidence from India
Presenter: Shweta Grover – Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Indore

Paper 2: Improving School Attendance for Adolescent Girls - Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Delhi's Public
Schools
Presenter: Garima Agarwal – Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi

Paper 3: Higher Education in India: A Report Card for the States

Presenter: Samudra Sen – Fellow Programme in Management, IIM, Ahmedabad

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Session 4 (09.00 – 11.00) – Monetary Policy and Financial Markets

Chair: Rajendra Vaidya – IGIDR

Paper 1: Unconventional Monetary policy spillovers and Indian Asset Markets: An Event Study Approach
Presenter: Aishwarya Thomas – Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai

Paper 2: Monetary Policy and Stock Market Interaction: International Evidence

Presenter: Sakshi Saini - Department of Financial Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi

Paper 3: Macro-Liquidity, Stock Market Behaviour and Return Predictability: Evidence from New Measures of
Liquidity
Presenter: Radeef Chundakkadan – Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Madras

Session 5 (14.00 – 15.20) – Environment

Chair: Sudhakar Yedla- IGIDR

Paper 1: Addressing the Drivers of Carbon Emission Embodied in Indian Exports: An Index Decomposition
Analysis
Presenter: Suvajit Banerjee – Department of Economics and Politics, Visva Bharati University,
West Bengal

Paper 2: Environmental Tax and Human Capital

Presenter: Shweta Jain – Shiv Nadar University, Greater Noida

Session 6 (15.40 – 17.40) – Labor Market

Chair: Sudha Narayanan - IGIDR

Paper 1: Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth in India

Presenter: Mrinalini Jha – Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi

Paper 2: Role of Worker’s Compensation Benefit in Estimating Value of Statistical Life

Presenter: Agamoni Majumder – Centre for Economic Studies and Policy, Institute for
Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru

Paper 3: Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults: Evidence from India
Presenter: Archana Dang – Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi

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November 14-15, 2018
Venue: Outside Auditorium
Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR PhD. Colloquium

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Session 1 (11.30 – 13.00)

Chair: Sudhakar Yedla - IGIDR

Poster 1: Fractal Framework to Improve the Efficiency of Bullion Derivative Market in India
Presenter: Rupel Nargunam - B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology,
Chennai

Poster 2: Kashmir Unrest 2008 to 2016: An Analysis of Print Media Coverage in Select English Dailies
Presenter: Irfan Hashim – University of Kashmir, Srinagar

Poster 3: Employment among Female Workers in Odisha

Presenter: P Meenakshi Kalyani – Sambalpur University, Burla

Poster 4: Climate change effects on electricity consumption in India

Presenter: Divya Jain – TERI School of Advanced Studies, Delhi

Poster 5: Capabilities of the Youth and Processes of Horizontal Inequalities: Evidence from Urban India
Presenter: Paramjeet Chawla – School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai

Poster 6: Production Relations and Agrarian Accumulation in Central India: A Case Study of Hoshangabad
District
Presenter: Sunit Arora – Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

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Thursday, November 15, 2018

Session 2 (11.30 – 13.00)

Chair: M. H. Suryanarayana

Poster 1: The Methodology and Essence of Recovery Theorem

Presenter: Gourab Chakraborty – Institute for Financial Management and Research, Chennai

Poster 2: Efficiency Performance of State Public Universities in India: An Empirical Analysis

Presenter: Lalita Rani Pradhan – Department of Analytical and Applied Economics, Utkal
University, Bhubaneshwar

Poster 3: Market Integration, Trade Barriers and Substitution in Global Shrimp Markets
Presenter: V. Gomathy – Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai

Poster 4: Human Capital and Economic Growth: An Empirical Study at the National and Sub-national Levels
in India
Presenter: Surendra Kumar Naik – Centre for Human Resource Development, Institute for Social
and Economic Change

Poster 5: A Comparative Study of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change in BRICS
Countries
Presenter: Sutandra Singha – School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

Poster 6: Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus in India

Presenter: Salla Nityanth Kumar – IIT, Indore

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