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15th
Annual ICRIER-NBER-NCAER Conference
Neemrana
December
13-15, 2013
Draft
Program
Day
1: Friday, December 13, 2013
11.30 am
Interaction with Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India followed
by lunch at
32, Aurangzeb Road, New Delhi
3.00 pm: Departure
for Neemrana
6.30
pm – 7.30 pm
Inaugural
Session: India and the World Economy
Chair:
N. K. Singh, Member of Parliament
Speakers:
·
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy
Chairman, Planning Commission, India
·
Anne Krueger, Professor, John Hopkins
University
· Gita
Gopinath, Professor, Harvard University
7.30 pm Kathak Dance Performance followed by Dinner
Reception
Day
2: Saturday, December 14, 2013
9.30
am – 10.30 am
Session1:
Direct Benefit Transfers
Chair: Pramod Bhasin, Non-Executive
Vice Chairman and former
President and CEO, Genpact
Speakers:
·
Nandan
Nilekani, Chairman, UIDAI
·
Karthik
Muralidharan, Assistant
Professor, University of California, San Diego
10.30 am COFFEE BREAK
11.00
am – 12.30 pm
Session 2: Liquidity and Recession
Chair:
Subir Gokarn, Director of Research, Brookings
India
Speakers:
·
Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of
Economics, Harvard University
·
Jaimini Bhagwati, RBI
Chair Professor, ICRIER
·
Atif Mian, Professor
of Economics and Public Policy,
Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
· Surjit Bhalla, Managing
Director Oxus Investments Private
Limited
12.30 pm LUNCH
1.30 pm – 2.45 pm
Session 3: Gains from Trade
Chair: Shekhar Shah, Director General, NCAER
Speakers:
·
Arpita Mukherjee, Professor,
ICRIER
·
Anwarul Hoda, Professor,
ICRIER
·
Arnaud Costinot, Pentti J.K. Kourri Associate Professor, Department of Economics, MIT
·
Shang-Jin Wei, Professor
of Finance and Economics, Professor of International Affairs, and N.T. Wang
Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, Columbia University
2.45 pm COFFEE BREAK
3.00
pm – 4.15 pm
Session
4: Institutions,
Manufacturing, Trade and Growth
Chair:
Tarun Das, Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER
Speakers:
Romain Wacziarg,
·
Professor
of Economics, UCLA
·
Nathan
Nunn, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
·
Radhicka
Kapoor, Consultant,
ICRIER
· Chetan Ghate, Associate Professor, Indian Statistical Institute
4.15
pm COFFEE BREAK
4.30
pm – 5.30 pm
Session
5: Urbanization, Competitiveness and
Sustainability
Chair:
Rajiv Lall, Managing Director and CEO, IDFC
Speakers:
·
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson,
ICRIER
·
Jagan
Shah, Director,
National Institute of Urban Affairs
7.30 pm Rajasthani Dance Performance followed by
Dinner Reception
Day
3: Sunday, December 15, 2013
9.30
am – 10.30 am
Interaction
with Union Finance Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram
10.30
am: Tea with Union Finance Minister Shri
P. Chidambaram
11.00
am – 12.15 pm
Session
6: Social Policy in the U.S. and India
Chair:
Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Delhi School of Economics
Speakers:
·
Janet Currie, Henry
Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
·
Jens Ludwig, McCormick
Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy
University of Chicago
·
Kiran
Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson & MD, Biocon
·
Bruce
Weinberg, Associate
Professor, Department of Economics, Ohio State University
12.15
pm – 1.15 pm
Session
7: Technology, Innovation and
Competitiveness
Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER
Speakers:
·
Hal Varian, Chief
Economist, Google
·
Rohan Murty,
Infosys
1.15 pm LUNCH
2.15 pm – 4.00 pm
Panel
Discussion: Youth, Democracy and
Development
Chair:
Uday Kotak, Vice Chairman & MD Kotak
Mahindra Bank Ltd.
Speakers:
· Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister of State
(Independent Charge) of Power
· Sachin Pilot, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of
Corporate Affairs
·
Anne Krueger, Professor, John Hopkins
University
· B. J. Panda, Member of Parliament
· T. N.
Ninan, Chairman and Editorial Director, Business Standard
·
Karthik
Muralidharan, Assistant
Professor, University of California, San Diego
5.30 pm: Departure for Delhi