WINTER SCHOOL 2016 – Program Overview

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 Tue, December 13 Wed, December 14 Thu, December 15
9:00 – 9:45 AM Registration    &    Tea
Ground Floor            Front Lawns		   Parallel Sessions 3 

3.1 Public Expenditure

                               … Room 116

3.2 Trade and Industry

                              … Room 205

3.3 Macro

                             … Room 104

3.4 Conflict

                            … Room 208

 INTERNATIONAL PRICES AND EXCHANGE RATES 

Gita Gopinath, Harvard University

Chair: Aditya Bhattacharjea

Swami Vivekananda Hall

 

Suggested readings

Lecture 1 slides
9:45  – 10:00 AM Welcome Remarks
J.V. Meenakshi, Executive Director, CDE
Aditya Bhattacharjea, Head, Department of Economics, DSE 

Swami Vivekananda Hall
10:00 – 10:30 AM  

 

MISALLOCATION – I
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT

Chair: Sudhir A. Shah

Swami Vivekananda Hall

 

Suggested readings

Lecture slides
10:30  – 11:00 AM TEA
Front Lawns 		 TEA
Front Lawns 

 
11:00 – 11:30 AM VALUING DIVERSITY: THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF POSITIVE DISCRIMINATION POLICIES
Glenn Loury, Brown University 

 

Chair: Ashwini Deshpande

 

Swami Vivekananda Hall

 

Suggested readings

Lecture 1 slides

 

 SOVEREIGN DEBT 

Gita Gopinath, Harvard University

 

Chair: David Rasquinha, EXIM Bank

 

Swami Vivekananda Hall

 

Suggested readings

Lecture 2 slides
11:30 – 11:45 AM TEA
Front Lawns 
11:45 – 12:30 PM MISALLOCATION – II
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT 

Chair: Parikshit Ghosh

 

Swami Vivekananda Hall

Suggested readings

Lecture slides
12:30 – 1:00 PM  LUNCH
(for registered participants) 

Front Lawns

 LUNCH
(for registered participants) 

Front Lawns
1:00 – 2:00 PM LUNCH
(for registered participants) 

Front Lawns
2:00 – 3:30 PM Parallel Sessions 1 


1.1 Political Economy

… Room 116

1.2 Productivity

… Room 104

1.3 Education and Development

… Room 206

1.4 Environmental Issues

… Room 205

1.5 Networks

 … Room 208

 WHEN BLACK LIVES MATTER: THE ETHICS OF RACE, CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA
Glenn Loury, Brown University 

Chair: J. V. Meenakshi

 

Swami Vivekananda Hall

Suggested readings

Lecture 2 slides

 

 Parallel Sessions 4 


4.1 Experimental Economics

… Room 205

4.2 Game and Contract Theory

… Room 104

4.3 Social Sector

… Room 116

4.4 International Trade

… Room 208
3:30 – 3:45 PM  BREAK  BREAK BREAK
3:45 – 5:15 PM Parallel Sessions 2 

2.1 Political Economy: Empirics

… Room 116

2.2 Labour

 … Room 205

2.3 Public Finance

 … Room 104

2.4 Macro Empirics

 … Room 208

 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM 

Panel Discussion

TACKLING INEQUALITIES

Panelists:
Abhijit Sen, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Glenn Loury, Brown University
Nachiket Mor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

 

Moderator: Rohini Somanathan

 

Swami Vivekananda Hall

 Parallel Sessions 5 

5.1 Gender and Development

… Room 205

5.2 Applied Game Theory

… Room 104

5.3 Health and Development

… Room 116

5.4 Poverty and Inequality

… Room 208
5:15 – 6:00 PM  TEA 

Front Lawns

 TEA 

Front Lawns

 TEA 

Front Lawns
6:00 – 7:00 PM BAI SE BEGUM
An evening of music with Vidya Shah
 

Swami Vivekananda Hall
7:30 – 9:30 PM CONFERENCE DINNER
(for registered participants) 

 

Maidens Hotel, Front Lawns

7, Shamnath Marg, Civil Lines