Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai
Money and Finance Conference
February 25-26, 2011
Day 1: 25 February, Friday
8.30 a.m. – 9.30 a.m.: Registration
9.30 a.m. – 11.00
a.m.: Inaugural Session
Chair
: Dr. Subir
Gokarn, Dy. Governor, RBI
Welcome and Overview : Dr.
S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR
Keynote address : Dr.
Adam Posen, External Member, Monetary Policy
Committee, Bank of England titled “Democracies, Real Wage Growth and
Global Imbalances".
Chairman’s remarks
11.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.:
Tea break
11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.: Session 1 & 2
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Conference Hall Session 1 |
Seminar Room 1 Session 2 |
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Supply Shocks and Inflation Chair :
(Dr. Romar Correa, University of Mumbai) |
Issues in Foreign Direct Investment Chair : (Dr. Avadoot Nadkarni, University
of Mumbai) |
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Motilal Bicchal and Naresh Kumar Sharma ( University of
Hyderabad) : Measuring Core Inflation
in India : An application of Asymmetric-Trimmed Mean Approach |
K.V. Bhanumurthy and Manoj Kumar Sinha (University of Delhi) : “Dominance and Concentration of FDI: A Cross Country Analysis” |
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Prasanna V. Salian (Indian Economic Service, New Delhi) and Gopakumar K (Faculty, BIET-MBA Programme, Davangere, Karnataka) : Inflation and Economic Growth in India – An Empirical Analysis |
Smruti Ranjan Behera and Yashobanta Parida (University of
Delhi) : Technology
Spillovers and Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence across
Indian Manufacturing Industries |
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Ashima Goyal and Shruti
Tripathi (IGIDR) : Extracting Information on Inflation from Consumer and
Wholesale Prices and the |
Sanjaya Kumar Malik (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram) : Conditional Technology Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industries |
1.00p.m. – 2.00 p.m.: Lunch
2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.: Session 3
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Conference Hall |
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Empirical Finance Chair : (Dr. S.V.D. Nageswara Rao, IIT, Mumbai) |
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Anjali Prashad JNU, New Delhi) : Hedging performance of Nifty index futures |
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K.V. Bhanu Murthy and Sonia Goel (University of Delhi) : Financial liberalization: Efficiency of Indian Money Market |
3.30 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.: Tea Break
4.00 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.: Sessions 4
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Conference Hall |
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Corporate Finance Chair : (Dr. Susan Thomas, IGIDR, Mumbai) |
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Manoj Kamat and Manasvi Kamat (Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Econmics, Goa) : What Kind of Indian Firms Omit Dividend? : An Enquiry into Firm Characteristics and Propensity to Pay |
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Rabi Narayan Kar and Amit Soni (University of Delhi) : Mergers and Acquisitions in India : A Strategic Impact Analysis for the Corporate Enterprises in the Post Liberalization period |
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P.L. Beena (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development) : Financing Reforms of Indian Corporate Sector under Liberalisation : With Focus on Acquiring firms |
Day 2: 26th February, Saturday
9.30 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Session
5
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Conference Hall |
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Issues in Open Economy Macroeconomics Chair : (Dr. M. Ramachandran, Head of Dept., Dept. of Economics, Pondicherry University) |
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Aurodeep Nandi (Aditya Birla Management Corporation) : India's Cosine Curve - A Business Cycle Approach of Analysing Growth, 2007 onwards. |
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Prabheesh K.P., Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad) : Optimum Level of International Reserves for India in the Presence of Sovereign Risk |
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Ritesh Kumar Mishra (IEG, New Delhi) and Chandan Sharma (National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad) : The Demand for International Reserves and Monetary Equilibrium: New Evidence from India |
11.00 a.m. – 11.30
a.m.: Tea break
11.30 a.m. – 1.00
p.m.: Session 6
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Conference Hall |
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Banking Chair : Dr. Rupa Rege-Nitsure, Bank of Baroda |
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Yogieta S Mehra (University of Delhi) : Operational Risk Management in Indian Banks : Impact of Ownership and Size on Range of Practices for Implementation of Advanced Measurement Approach |
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Sunil Kumar (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar) : Off-Balance Sheet Activities and Profit Efficiency of Indian Banks: An Empirical Investigation |
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Rachita Gulati (Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab) : Evaluation of technical, pure technical and scale efficiencies of Indian banks: An analysis from cross-sectional perspective |
1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.: Lunch
2.00 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.:
Session 7
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Conference Hall |
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Financial Inclusion Chair :
Dr. Sripad Motiram, IGIDR |
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Manojit Bhattacharjee and Meenakshi Rajeev (Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore) : Repayment of Loans in the Formal Sector: The Role of Accessibility to Credit from Informal Sources |
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Nitin Kumar (RBI, Mumbai) : Financial Inclusion and its determinants : Evidence from state level empirical analysis in India |
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Chandan Kumar (Applied Manpower Research, Delhi) and Srijit Mishra (IGIDR) : Banking Outreach and Household level Access : Analyzing Financial Inclusion in India |
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Bhaswar Moitra, Saswatee Mukherjee, Saikat Sinha Roy (Jadavpur Univeristy) : Impact of Information sharing in a micro credit market with growing population |
4.00 p.m. – 4.30 p.m.:
Tea break
4.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m.
: Valedictory Address
: Dr. Suman Bery,
Director,
NCAER, Delhi, “Global Monetary Reform and Asian Financial Integration: What are India’s interests?”
Chair
: Dr. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR
Vote of thanks
: Dr Rajendra Vaidya, IGIDR