AGENDA 


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Day 0: Sunday, December 15, 2019
07:00 p.m.  Welcome Dinner, IGIDR Red Square
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Day 1: Monday, December 16, 2019
Venue - Conference Room, IGIDR
09:00 a.m. to 09:45 a.m.  Registration
09:45 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.  Welcome Address

S. Mahendra Dev
Director,
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai

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Session No. 1: International Trade and International Macroeconomics
Chair: Ashima Goyal
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research
10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.  Tony Cavoli, Sasidaran Gopalan and Ramkishen Rajan
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Can Macroprudential Policies Counter the Financial Dutch Disease Phenomenon? Empirical Evidence from Panel Data
Discussant: Sargam Gupta
10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  Liutang Gong, Chan Wang and Liyuan Wu
Peking University

Welfare gains from international monetary policy cooperation with international trade in intermediate inputs
Discussant: Hari Venkatesh
11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  Rohit Prasad, Gaurav Gupta, Yogesh B. Mathur
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

Vanishing Gains to Trade in the Distressed Debt Market
Discussant: Liyuan Wu
11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.   Tea Break
12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.  Makram El-Shagi and Steven Yamarik
Center for Financial Development and Stability and School of Economics, Henan University

IMF Conditionality and Capital Controls: Capital Account Liberalization to Capital Inflow Management?
Discussant: Barendra Kumar Bhoi
12:30 p.m. to 01:00 p.m.  Krittika Banerjee and Ashima Goyal
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research

Long Run Real Exchange Rates in Large Emerging Markets: A Re-look at Misalignments through Panel Co-integrating Estimation
Discussant: Aneesha Chitgupi
01:00 p.m. to 02:30 p.m.  Lunch
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Session No. 2: Money, Financial Wealth and Remittances
02:30 p.m. to 03:00 p.m.  Aneesha Chitgupi
Centre for Economics Studies and Policy, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru.

Drivers of International Remittance Flows: Role of Risk and Age Dependency Variables
Discussant: Trisha Chandra
03:00 p.m. to 03:30 p.m.  Irfan Ahmad Shah
Centre for Development Studies, Kerala

Asymmetries in the Monetary Policy Reaction Function: Evidence from India
Discussant: Masudul Hasan Adil
03:30 p.m. to 04:00 p.m.  Masudul Hasan Adil
Mumbai University

Does Financial Innovation Disturb the Money Demand Stability
Discussant: Irfan Ahmad Shah
04:00 p.m. to 04:30 p.m.  Akash Malhotra and Trisha Chandra
CESP, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Indian Household Balance Sheet: Accounting issues and financial wealth accumulation
Discussant: Krittika Banerjee
04:30 a.m. to 05:00 a.m.  Tea Break
07:30 p.m. Director's Dinner
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Day 2: Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Venue - Conference Room, IGIDR
Session No. 3: Issues Related to Financial Sector Stability
Chair: Rajendra Vaidya
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research
09:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.  Nishant Vats, Fulin Li and Saibal Ghosh
University of Chicago

Anatomy of Depositor Disciplining Mechanism: Selection, Voice and Exit
Discussant: Ajay Mishra
10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.  Samarth Gupta
National Council of Applied Economic Research

Distortion in Credit Availability in India's Lead Bank Scheme: A Transaction Costs-based approach
Discussant: Ekta Selarka

10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.  Ashay Kadam and Magdalena Pisa
Indian School of Business

Relaxing credit constraints: Credit risk and financial intermediation quality
Discussant: Sasidaran Gopalan

11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  Neha Gupta and Arya Kumar
BITS Pilani

Predicting Banking Sector Crisis using ANNs: Indian context
Discussant: Nishant Vats
11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  Tea Break
12:00 p.m. to 01:00 p.m.  Special Talk (Venue - Seminar Hall 1, IGIDR)
Rashesh Shah

India and Credit Markets - Looking Back to Look Ahead [PPT]
Chairman and CEO, Edelwiess Financial Services Limited
01:00 p.m. to 02:00 p.m.  Lunch
 
Session No. 4: Institutions, Incentives and Innovation
Chair: Jayati Sarkar
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research
02:00 p.m. to 02:30 p.m.  Aman Appolinus Bara and Bidisha Chakraborty Jadavpur University

Why should the government provide the infrastructure through the Public-Private Partnership mode?
Discussant: Anuradha Saha

02:30 p.m. to 03:00 p.m.  Ekta Selarka and Saumitra Bhaduri
Madras School of Economics

Indian Banking Sector: Investigating a Macroeconomic perspective beyond Non Performing Assets
Discussant: Rajeswari Sengupta
03:00 p.m. to 03:30 p.m.  Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Muhammed Najeeb K. K., Anwesha Aditya
IIT Kharagpur

Property Rights, Technological Innovation and Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis [PPT]
Discussant: Anuradha Saha

03:30 p.m. to 04:00 p.m.  Francois Derrien, , and Phoung-anh Nguyen
Schulich School of Business, York University

Labor Force Demographics and Corporate Innovation
Discussant: Makram El-Shagi

04:00 p.m. to 04:30 p.m.  Tea Break
 
Session No. 5: Monetary Policy and the Open Economy
Chair: Krishnan R.
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research
04:30 p.m. to 05:00 p.m.  Ruijie Cheng and Ramkishen Rajan
Monetary Trilemma, Dilemma or Something in Between?

National University of Singapore
Discussant: Siddhartha Chattopadhyay
05:00 p.m. to 05:30 p.m.  Ajay Mishra, Bhavik Parikh and Ronald Spahr
IIT Kharagpur

Stock Market Liquidity, Funding Liquidity, Financial Crises and Quantitative Easing
Discussant:
05:30 p.m. to 06:00 p.m.  Hari Venkatesh and Gourishankar S Hiremath
IIT Kharagpur

Currency mismatches in Emerging Market Economies: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications
Discussant: Ashima Goyal

07:00 p.m.  Dinner
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  Organizing Committee (IGIDR)


Taniya Ghosh
Ashima Goyal
R. Krishnan
Jayati Sarkar
Rajendra Vaidya
Rajeswari Sengupta


  Conference Secretariat



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