CESP Young Scholars' Seminar March 12-13, 2012 Committee Room, SSS I Committee Room, SSS II Conference Schedule

March 12, 2012

Registration (09.00 am-09.15 am) Session I (09:15 am-11.15 am) Inaugural Lecture (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: Zoya Hasan, Dean, School of Social Sciences Inaugural Lecture: Pronab Sen Tea Break (11.15 am-11.30 am): SSS I Committee Room Session II (11.30 am-1.00 pm) Track A (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: C.P. Chandrasekhar Kirti Gupta: Capital Flows, Monetary Policy and Financial Fragility in India Bharatee Bhusana Dash and Angara V. Raja: Do Political Determinants Affect Public Expenditure Allocation? A Study of the Indian States Rahul Menon: Crisis, Instability and Growth: The Effects of Finance on the Real Sector Discussant: Prasenjit Bose Track B (SSS II Committee Room) Chair: Praveen Jha Sandeep Kumar Kujur: The Development, Structure and Growth of Indias Pulp and Paper Industry Amit Sadhukhan: Trade, Technology, and Institutions: How Do They Affect Wage Inequality? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Suresh R Suri: Economic Reform and Labour in Indias Electronics Industry: Unit level study Discussant: Jesim Pais Lunch (1.00 pm-2.00 pm): University Cafeteria, JNU

Session III (2.00 pm-3.00 pm) Track A (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: Surajit Mazumdar Hiranya Lahiri and Ambar Nath Ghosh: Food Inflation and Speculative Buffering: The Case for Government Intervention Jagadish Prasad Sahu: Inflation dynamics in India: A hybrid NKPC approach Discussant: Surajit Das Track B (SSS II Committee Room) Chair: Sujoy Chakraborty Rittwik Chatterjee: Tullock Contest with Multiple Types Srobonti Chattopadhyay: Subdivided Multiple Unit Auctions Discussant: Suchismita Tarafdar Tea Break (3.00 pm-3.15 pm): SSS-I and SSS-II Committee Rooms Session IV (3.15 pm-4.15 pm) Track A (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: Jayati Ghosh Namrata Thapa: Employment Status and Human Development of Tea Plantation Workers in West Bengal Smriti Sharma: Hate Crimes in India: An Economic Analysis of Violence and Atrocities against Dalits Discussant: Asmita Kabra Track B (SSS II Committee Room) Chair: Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar Saswatee Mukherjee and Bhaswar Moitra: Lenders Risk Hypothesis in a Multi-period Model Susmita Mitra: Inter-temporal Emissions Trading in the Presence of Market Power and NonCompliance: Is Borrowing better than only Non-Borrowing? Discussant: Rajendra Kundu Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial Lecture (4.00 pm-6.00 pm) (SSS I Auditorium) All conference participants are invited by the Chairperson, CESP to attend the Krishna Bharadwaj Memorial lecture and tea thereafter. Conference Dinner (8.00 pm-10.00 pm): University Cafeteria, JNU

March 13, 2012

Session V (09.30 am-10.30 am) Track A (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: Saumen Chattopadhyay Mushahid Hussain: Macroeconomic aspects of financialization Sudatta Banerjee: Economic Growth and the Quality Composition of Human Capital Discussant: Rohit Track B (SSS II Committee Room) Chair: Atul Sood Sujit Kumar Saha: Social Sector Expenditure in India in the Post-reform Period: An Exploratory Study Robin Singhal: Oil Insecurity: An Indian Perspective environment Discussant: Arindam Banerjee Session VI (10.30 am-11.30 am) Track A (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: Amaresh Dubey Niladri Sekhar Dhar: Labour Absorption in Crop Production: Evidence from Andhra Pradesh Anchal Arora: Diffusion of Bt cotton in India: Impact of Seed Prices and Varietal Approval Discussant: Himanshu Track B (SSS II Committee Room) Chair: Jayan Jose Thomas Bibhunandini Das: Dissemination of Knowledge in Agriculture: Where does Old ICT stand in Disseminating Knowledge among Farmers? Baldev Singh Shergill: National innovation system of India: The dynamics of science and technology indicators and empirical considerations Discussant: Saradindu Bhaduri Tea Break (11.30 am-11.45 am): SSS-I Committee Room Session VII (11.45 am-1.30 pm) Special Lecture: Studying an Adivasi Village Chair: Arun Kumar, Chairperson, CESP Lecture: V.K. Ramachandran Remarks: N. Ram Vote of thanks Lunch (1.30 pm-2.30 pm): University Cafeteria, JNU

Session VIII (2.30 pm-4.00 pm) Track A (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: Sugato Dasgupta Sumeetha M: Labour Process in the Gold Jewellery Making Industry in Kerala: A PostLiberalisation Scenario Saumya Chakrabarti: Interrogating Inclusive Growth: Formal-Informal Complementarities and Conflicts Reji K. Joseph: Policy Reforms in the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector since 1994: Impact on Exports and Imports Discussant: Jayan Jose Thomas Track B (SSS II Committee Room) Chair: Sanchari Roy Mukherjee Sujata Basu and Meeta Keswani Mehra: Endogenous Human Capital Formation, Distance to Frontier and Growth Seher Gupta, Tridip Ray, Mausumi Das and Shoumitro Chatterjee: Education Financing Policy: Income Contingent Loans and Educational Poverty Traps Devika Bhatia and Sangeeta Bansal: Determining Transfer Prices in an Incentive Compatible Framework Discussant: Partha Chatterjee Tea Break (4.00 pm-4.15 pm): SSS-I and SSS-II Committee Rooms Session IX (4.15 pm-5.45 pm) Track A (SSS I Committee Room) Chair: S.K. Sasikumar Anamitra Roychowdhury: The Labour Market Flexibility Debate in India: Re-Examining the Need for Signing Voluntary Contracts Bikash Kumar Malick: Patterns of Spatial Concentration in Manufacturing Industries in India: A Pre & Post Reform Interstate Analysis Punarjit Roychowdhury and Mousumi Dutta: Regulation, Governance and Informality: Investigating Linkages Discussant: Satyaki Roy Track B (SSS II Committee Room) Chair: JBG Tilak Alekha Chandra Mohanty: An Empirical Analysis of Educational Attainment and Distribution of Earnings Anjali Dash: Access to Health Care in Rural Odisha, India Sushma Kumari: A Comparative Study of the economy of India and China Discussant: Indranil Mukhopadhyay Tea (5.45 pm-6.00 pm): SSS-I Committee Room