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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 O. 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, 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 D. 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
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: Rana Hasan, Principal Economist, India Resident Mission of ADB 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, Executive Chairman, IDFC Ltd. 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
10.30 am – 11.30 am	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 Bruce Weinberg, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Ohio State University Tarun Jain, Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Indian School of Business
11.30 am – 1.00 pm	Session 7: Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER Speakers: Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google Jaivir Singh, Associate Professor, JNU
1:00 pm	Lunch
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm	*Panel Discussion: Youth, Democracy and Development* Chair: Rajat Kathuria, Director & CE, ICRIER Speakers: Anne Krueger, Professor, John Hopkins University B. J. Panda, Member of Parliament T. N. Ninan, Chairman, Business Standard Ltd Surjit Bhalla, Chairman, Oxys Investments Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
5.30 pm:	Departure for Delhi

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