12:30 pm Arrival
1 pm Lunch at N. K. Singh’s residence
2:30 pm Departure for Neemrana Fort
6 pm Welcome Remarks
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER
Opening Remarks
Rajat Kathuria, Director and Chief Executive, ICRIER
6:15 pm India: The State of the Economy
Chair:
Anne O. Krueger, Senior Research Professor of International Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Senior Fellow at the Stanford Center for International Development
Speaker:
Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, Government of India
Open discussion
7:30 pm Cultural Event followed by dinner
9 am Session 1: The World Economy
Chair:
N. K. Singh, Chairman, 15th Finance Commission, Government of India
Speakers:
Karen Dynan, Professor of the Practice, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy
10:30 am Tea / Coffee Break
10:45 am Session 2: Banking and Finance
Chair:
Uday Kotak, Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Kotak Mahindra Bank; Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER
Speakers:
P. Jayendra Nayak, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Ayana Renewable Power /Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Associate Professor of Finance and Executive Director, Centre for Analytical Finance, Indian School of Business
Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Statistics, the College and Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Brent Neiman, Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Research Associate, NBER
Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University
12:30 pm Address by Viral V. Acharya, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Chair:
Subir Gokarn, Executive Director for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka, International Monetary Fund
Discussion
1:15 pm Lunch
2:15 pm Session 3: Agriculture, Economic Growth, and Financial Inclusion
Chair:
Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Former Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Government of India
Speakers:
Alan L. Olmstead, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics,Department of Economics, University of California, Davis
Ashok Gulati, Infosys Chair Professor for Agriculture, ICRIER
3:15 pm Tea/ Coffee Break
3:30 pm Session 4: Urbanisation
Chair:
Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Chairperson, ICRIER
Speakers:
Junaid Ahmad, India Country Director, World Bank
Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute
5:00 pm Session 5: Public Finance and the Macroeconomy
Chair:
Y. V. Reddy, Honorary Professor, Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad, India; Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Speakers:
Joshua D. Rauh, Ormond Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
M Govinda Rao, Professor Emeritus, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, India
Owen Zidar, Assistant Professor of Economics, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago; Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
Sajjid Z. Chinoy, Chief India Economist, J.P. Morgan
7.00 pm Cultural Event followed by Dinner
9 am Session 6: Labour Market and the Challenge of Job Creation
Chair:
Shekhar Shah, Director General, NCAER
Speakers:
Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Fellow, ICRIER
Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor of Economics and Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Economics, University of California, San Diego; Research Associate, NBER
Amanda Pallais, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy and Social Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Research Fellow, NBER
10:45 am Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 am Session 7: Education and Skill Development
Chair: Pramod Bhasin, Founder, Genpact Ltd.; Chairman, Clix Capital Services; Member, Board of Governors, ICRIER
Speakers:
K.P. Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship, Government of India
Pankaj Vashisht, Fellow, ICRIER
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, MIT
12:30 pm Lunch Talk:
Lars Peter Hansen, David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Statistics, the College and Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
01:30 pm Session 8: Growth, Inequality, and Inclusion
Chair:
Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER
Speakers:
Surjit Bhalla, Senior India Analyst for the Observatory Group; Chairman, Oxus Research and Investments
Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities, University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Moll, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, and Cyril E. Black University Preceptor, Princeton University
3.00 pm Departures