6th Economic Theory and Policy Conference
March 20-22
Jointly Organized by NIPFP, JNU, and Faculty of Economics, Kagawa
University
Venue
Auditorium
National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
18/2 Satsang Vihar Marg, Special Institutional Area
New Delhi 110067
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March 20
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Anjan Mukherji and Tapas Kumar Sen: 9.50-10.00
Session I: 10.00-11.30
Chairperson: Tapas Kumar Sen
1. Abhirup Sarkar - FDI in Retail: A Theoretical Analysis
2. Sahana Roy Chowdhury - Recession and Child Labor
Tea: 11.30-12.00
Session II: 12.00-13.30
Chairperson: Pinaki Chakraborty
1. Satya R. Chakravarty and Bhargav Maharaj - Generalized Gini Polarization Indices
for an Ordinal Dimension of Human Well-Being
2. Suchismita Tarafdar, Arunava Sen and Tridib Sharma - On Mediated and Direct Talk
Lunch: 13.30-14.45
Session III: 14.45-17.00
Chairperson: S. Subramanian
1. Amarjyoti Mahanta - The Impact of Information Revelation in Auction With Downstream Market Interaction
2. Sujoy Chakravarty and Priyodorshi Banerjee - The Effect of Minimal Group Framing
in a Dictator Game Experiment
3. Pinaki Chakraborty and Bharatee Bhusana Dash - Fiscal Reforms, Fiscal Rule and
Development Spending: How Indian States have performed?
Tea: 17.00-17.30
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March 21
Session IV: 10.00-11.30
Chairperson: Satya Chakravarty
1. D. Jayaraj and S. Subramanian: Growth and Inequality in the Distribution of India’s
Consumption Expenditure
2. Ravindra R. Ranade, Yukie Shimono - Subjective Indices of Envy and Unequal Income
Distribution
Tea: 11.30-12.00
Session V: 12.00-13.30
Chairperson: Abhirup Sarkar
1. Kenichi Amaya - Multi-Agent Moral Hazard with Approach Choices
2. Srobonti Chattopadhyay - Interdependent Markets and Auction of Entry Rights
Lunch: 13.30-14.45
Session VI: 14.45-17.00
Chairperson: Arun Kumar
1. Vivekananda Mukherjee - Corruption, Pricing of Public Services and Entrepreneurship
in Economies with Leakage
2. Tirthatanmoy Das and Sanmitra Ghosh - Does Access to Health Care Benefit the
Poor?: Evidence from Pro-Poor Health Insurance Scheme in Andhra Pradesh
3. Shamim S Mondal - Wage Differences by Caste and Religion in India
Tea: 17.00-17.30
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March 22
Session VII: 9.30-11.00
Chairperson: Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar
1. Amitava Bose - Some Notes on Structural Change and Balanced Growth
2. Soumya Dutta - Complex Dynamical Possibilities of Debt-Constrained Investment-Led
Growth with Interest Rate Rules
Tea: 11.00-11.30
Session VIII: 11.30-13.45
Chairperson: Amitava Bose
1. Priyodorshi Banerjee - Promises, Credulity and Integrity
2. Rittwik Chatterjee - Auctioning CO2 Emission Permit in an Oligopolistic Industry
3. Debabrata Pal - Complete Characterization of Domains for M-Rationalizable Choice
Functions
Closing Remarks - Rajendra Kundu and Anjan Mukherji: 13.45-13.55
Lunch: 13.55-15.00
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