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IGIDR Workshop on DSGE Modeling for Emerging Economies ; August 6th and 7th, 2018

On August 6th and 7th, 2018, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), is organizing a workshop on dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) modeling for emerging markets. The latest-generation DSGE models are the workhorse of modern macroeconomic theory and policy.  Dr. Viktoria Hnatkovska (Vancouver School of Economics) will conduct Dynare- […]

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IGIDR working Paper: Signaling through Public Antitrust Enforcement: A Generalization

NO : WP-2018-015 AUTHOR : Madhuparna Ganguly and Rupayan Pal TITLE : Signaling through Public Antitrust Enforcement: A Generalization ABSTRACT : This note shows that the argument of Saljanin(2017) [Saljanin, 2017. Signaling through publicantitrust enforcement, Economics Letters 169, 4 – 6] that public antitrust enforcement complements private investment is robust […]

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IGIDR Working Paper: WP-2018-012,WP-2018-013,WP-2018-14

NO : WP-2018-012 AUTHOR : Chandan Kumar TITLE :Opportunism and Hold-up in the Incomplete Public Private Partnership (PPP) Contracts ABSTRACT : Opportunism is a concern for contracts that are incomplete in the presence of bounded rationality and uncertainty. Since Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts are incomplete, are these contracts prone […]

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Visiting Student Programme 2018 – List of selected students

Visiting Student Programme 2018 – Names of  10 Students selected   S. No. Name Name of Institution  1. Deepanshi Gilhotra TERI  University, Delhi  2. Gaibul Preet University of Hyderabad  3. Heena Sharma IIT, Roorkee  4. Komal Pahilajani University of Rajasthan  5. Meera Ancy Vincent Pondicherry University  6. Nidhi Gyan Pandey […]

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Workshop on Mechanism Design and Auctions on Monday – 9th April, 2018

    Workshop on Game Theory, Auctions, Mechanism Design and Operations Research Monday, April 9th, 2018 Workshop Program   Session 1 SEANZA HALL 9:00 am to 10:00 am: Umang Bhaskar (TIFR) Title: Bounds on the Welfare of Truthful Voting Mechanisms 10:00 am to 11:00 am Prof. Gaurav Kasbekar (IITB) Title: Truthful […]

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IGIDR Working Paper: Green firm, brown production

NO : WP-2018-011 AUTHOR : Rupayan Pal, A.M.T. Hussain and Prasenjit Banerjee TITLE : Green firm, brown production ABSTRACT : In a theoretical model of an environmentally conscious (“green”) monopolist, we show that increasing greenness does not always mean lower output and environmental damages. We assume that a green firm […]

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