Avinash Dixit (Princeton University): "National Parties, Their Local Agents, and Tactical Transfers to Special Groups" (with Edwin Camp and Susan Stokes, Yale University )
M. Scott Taylor (University of Calgary): "Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies" (with Juan Moreno Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology)
1.00 - 2.30: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.30 - 4.15: Parallel Sessions 1
1(a) Food and Agriculture (Conference Room) 1(b) Infrastructure (Seminar Room 1) 1(c) Environment I (Seminar Room 2) 1(d) India's Growth Experience (Class Room 13) 1(e) Human Capital: Education and Skill (Class Room 14) 1(f) Institutions I: Theory (Auditorium)
4.15 - 4.45: Coffee/Tea Break
4.45 - 6.30: Parallel Sessions 2
2(a) NREGA (Conference Room) 2(b) Prices, Inequality and Deprivation (Seminar Room 1) 2(c) Environment II (Seminar Room 2) 2(d) Empirical Issues in Macroeconomics (Class Room 13) 2(e) Institutions II (Class Room 14) 2(f) Topics in Microeconomics (Auditorium)
7.30: Conference Dinner at the French Cultural Centre (2 Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi 110011)
[The conference dinner is co-hosted with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
Day 2: 18 December, Tuesday
9.00 - 9.30: Coffee/Tea
9.30 - 10.30: Plenary Session 2 (Conference Room)
Vijay Krishna (Pennsylvania State University): "Majority Rule and Utilitarian Welfare" (with John Morgan, University of California, Berkeley)
10.30 - 11.15: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.15 - 1.00: Parallel Sessions 3
3(a) Gender (Conference Room) 3(b) Corruption (Seminar Room 1) 3(c) Political Economy I (Seminar Room 2) 3(d) Open Economy Macroeconomics (Class Room 13) 3(e) Fiscal Policy (Class Room 14) 3(f) International Trade I: Theory (Auditorium)
1.00 - 2.30: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.30 - 4.15: Parallel Sessions 4
4(a) Education I (Conference Room) 4(b) Behavioural Issues (Seminar Room 1) 4(c) International Trade II: Empirics (Seminar Room 2) 4(d) Process of Development (Class Room 13) 4(e) Inequality and Mobility (Class Room 14) 4(f) Contracts and Information (Auditorium)
4.15 - 4.45: Coffee/Tea Break
4.45 - 6.30: Parallel Sessions 5
5(a) Education II (Conference Room) 5(b) Indian Manufacuring (Seminar Room 1) 5(c) Discrimination (Seminar Room 2) 5(d) Monetary Economics (Class Room 13) 5(e) Empirical and Data Issues (Class Room 14) 5(f) Political Economy II (Auditorium)
Day 3: 19 December, Wednesday
9.00 - 9.30: Coffee/Tea
9.30 - 11.00: Plenary Session 3 (Conference Room)
Raghuram Rajan (University of Chicago and Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India): "Financial Development: Lessons from American Banking in the Early 20th Century"
Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Zurich): "Using Private Politics to Discipline Biased Regulators" (with Julien Daubanes, Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich)
11.00 - 11.45: High Tea (Guesthouse Lawn)
11.45 - 1.30: Parallel Sessions 6
6(a) Health (Conference Room) 6(b) Networks (Seminar Room 1) 6(c) Labour Market (Seminar Room 2) 6(d) Topics in Macroeconomics (Class Room 13) 6(e) Growth Theory (Class Room 14) 6(f) Industrial Organization (Auditorium)
1.30 - 2.45: Lunch (Guesthouse Lawn)
2.45 - 4.30: Parallel Sessions 7
7(a) Poverty (Conference Room) 7(b) Political Economy and Corruption (Seminar Room 1) 7(c) Microfinance and Debt (Seminar Room 2) 7(d) Emerging Economies (Class Room 13) 7(e) Topics in Applied Microeconomics (Class Room 14) 7(f) Game Theory (Auditorium)
4.30 - 5.00: Coffee/Tea Break
5.00 - 6.30: Panel Discussion on Obstacles to High Growth in India (Conference Room)
[The Panel Discussion is co-organized with the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi]
