SEED 2024

Symposium on Evidence of Economic Development
July 9–10, 2024 · Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Funded by UTI Chair in Macroeconomics
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Location: SR-9, New Campus
7:30 – 8:20 AM Breakfast (IMDC)
8:20 – 8:45 AM Workshop Inauguration by the Dean of Programs, IIMA & Registration
8:45 – 9:00 AM Inaugural Remarks
Session 1: Macroeconomics I
9:00 – 9:50 AM
“How Long is the Long Run?”
Joep Lustenhouwer (University of Heidelberg), Giorgio Motta (Lancaster University), Mike Tsionas
9:50 – 10:40 AM
“Universal Basic Income for Developing Economies”
Kuldeep Singh (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore)
10:40 – 11:00 AM Tea/Coffee Break
Session 2: Macroeconomics II
11:00 – 11:50 AM
“Product Downsizing in Times of High and Low Inflation”
Anthony Priolo (Lancaster University)
11:50 AM – 12:40 PM
“Macroeconomics of Racial Disparities: Discrimination, Labor Market, and Wealth”
Srinivasan Murali (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Guanyi Yang (Colorado College)
12:40 – 2:00 PM Lunch (IMDC)
Session 3: Finance (Macro and Micro)
2:00 – 2:50 PM
“Bank Entry, Access to Credit, and Misallocation”
Pavel Chakraborty (Lancaster University), Nirvana Mitra (CAFRAL, RBI)
2:50 – 3:40 PM
“Financial Regulation, Markups, and Welfare”
Tanmay Majilla (Plaksha University)
3:40 – 4:00 PM Tea/Coffee Break
Session 4: Labor Markets
4:00 – 4:50 PM
“The Effect of Traffic Cameras on Police Effort: Evidence from India”
Emily Conover (Hamilton College), Daniel Kraynak (University of Maryland), Prakarsh Singh (Plaksha University)
4:50 – 5:40 PM
“The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies”
Sugat Chaturvedi (Ahmedabad University)
7:30 PM Dinner at “Agashiye”
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Location: SR-9, New Campus
7:45 – 9:00 AM Breakfast (IMDC)
Session 5: Applied Microeconomics and Development
9:30 – 10:20 AM
“Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System”
Aditya Shrinivas (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore), Kathy Baylis (University of California, Santa Barbara), Benjamin Crost (University of Calgary)
10:20 – 11:10 AM
“Procyclicality in Unplanned Healthcare Expenditure: Causal Evidence from the Indian Medicine Market”
Anindya S. Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Chirantan Chatterjee (University of Sussex), Samarth Gupta (Ahmedabad University)
11:10 AM – 12:00 noon
“Do Rural Roads Promote Inclusive Entrepreneurship?”
Vidhya Soundararajan (CAFRAL, RBI)
12:00 noon – 12:40 PM Tea/Coffee Break & Networking Session
12:40 – 2:00 PM Lunch (IMDC)
Session 6: Financial Markets
2:00 – 2:50 PM
“Familiarity and Investor Short-termism”
Ellapulli Vasudevan (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad)
2:50 – 3:40 PM
“Pricing Information: Evidence from Transaction-level Data on High-frequency Traders”
Anirban Banerjee (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Anindya S. Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad), Arnab Chakrabarti (FLAME University)
3:40 – 3:45 PM Vote of Thanks
7:00 PM Dinner at IMDC

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