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1 Conference on New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical Economics The Economics Group of IIM Calcutta is hosting an international conference on New Directions in Economic Theory and Empirical Economics on August 17-18, 2018 at IIM Calcutta. You are cordially invited to submit your research paper for consideration at the conference. The two-day conference aims to promote exchange of research ideas in Theoretical and Empirical Economics; authors are welcome to submit papers that fall within these broad areas of research. We shall be particularly interested in papers in the following areas: Behavioural and Experimental Economics, Econometrics, Economic Development and Macroeconomics. Important Dates: Registration Deadline: July 9 th, 2018 Conference dates: August 17 th -18 th, 2018 For More Information: Please write to econconf@iimcal.ac.in Please visit:

2 E C O N O M I C S C O N F E R E N C E NEW DIRECTIONS IN EC ONOMIC THEORY AND E M PIRICAL ECONOMICS 17 TH A N D 1 8 TH A U G U S T, I N D I A N I N S T I T U T E O F M A N A G E M E N T, C A L C U T T A PROGRAM SCHEDULE Day 1: 17 th Aug, Registration Amphitheatre Welcome and Opening Remarks Director, IIM Calcutta Dean Academic, IIM Calcutta Plenary Session Professor Jeffrey S Racine, McMaster University Amphitheater Amphitheater Tea Break Amphitheater Micro Theory - I Empirical Micro - I Lunch Tata Hall/Corridor Micro Theory - II Macro - I Tea Break Corridor Dev Eco - I Macro - II Tea Break Plenary Session Dr. Amartya Lahiri, Director of CAFRAL Amphitheatre Onwards Dinner MDC Additional Instructions: Transportation will be provided from MDC to Esplanade Metro Station after the dinner through the Institute Bus.

3 E C O N O M I C S C O N F E R E N C E NEW DIRECTIONS IN EC ONOMIC THEORY AND E M PIRICAL ECONOMICS 17 TH A N D 1 8 TH A U G U S T, I N D I A N I N S T I T U T E O F M A N A G E M E N T, C A L C U T T A PROGRAM SCHEDULE Day 2: 18 th Aug, Poster and Tea NAB Plenary Session Professor Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics Amphitheater Tea Break Amphitheater Micro Theory - III Empirical Micro - II Lunch Tata Hall/Corridor Dev Eco - II International Economics Tea Break Corridor Dev Eco - III Vote of Thanks Dean NIER, IIM Calcutta Amphitheatre Page 2

4 SESSION DETAILS Micro Theory I o Jaw-Jaw And War-War: A Game-Theoretic Exploration Of Violence In Electoral Politics Soumyanetra Munshi o Differences In Preferences, Learning By Doing Effect And Impact Bidisha Chakraborty Of Domestic Policies On Child Labour o Impossibility Theorems For Menu Dependent Collective Preference Somdeb Lahiri Functionals o Optimal Incentive Contracts With A Spiteful Principal: Single Agent Swapnendu Banerjee Micro Theory II o Pareto Efficient Combinatorial Auctions: Dichotomous Preferences Komal Malik Without Quasilinearity o Incentive Conscious' Agents And Moral Hazard Oindrila Dey o Participation Constraints For Sequencing Mechanisms Sreoshi Banerjee o Treating Symmetric Buyers Asymmetrically Shraman Banerjee Micro Theory III o R&D Incentives Under Incomplete Information And Uncertainty About Success Srobonti Chattopadhyay o Selling To A Naive Agent With Two Rationales Kolagani Paramahamsa o Voting Paradoxes In Four Candidate Elections Santanu Gupta Macro I o Impact Of Trade Competition On Employment And Wages Shihas Abdul Razak o Investment Slowdown In India Ananya G. Dastidar o Monetary Policy Transmission In India: Interest Rate Puzzle Kajleen Kaur o The Determinants Of Foreign Ownership Of Domestic Stocks: Firm- Level Evidence From India Jyoti Kumari Macro II o An Empirical Treatment Of Lucas Paradox In Asia Samrat Roy o Macroeconomics Of Development And Banking Sector Reforms In India Mainak Bhattacharjee o Neo-Dualism: Formal-Informal-Agriculture Relations In India Kasturi Sadhu o Quantifying The Fiscal Cushion For The US: Piyali Das Page 3

5 SESSION DETAILS Empirical Micro I o Do Cattle Slaughter Bans During Early Life Affect Anemia Decades Aparajita Dasgupta Later? o Ethnic Fragmentation And School Provision In India Bharti Nandwani o Gender Peer Effects In High Schools: Evidence From India Arka Roy Chaudhuri o How Does Competition Among MFIS Affect Lenders And Borrowers? An Evaluation Based On PKSF Data In Bangladesh Prabal Roy Chowdhury Empirical Micro II o The Impact Of System Of Rice Intensification: Evidence From A Debayan Pakrashi Large Scale Two-Period Randomized Field Experiments o Women Agency In India: What Really Matters? Neha Verma o Do Post-Offices Compete With Banks On Household Savings? Cledwyn Fernandez Empirical Evidence Across All States In India o Partial Identification Of Economic Mobility: With An Application To The United States Punarjit Roychowdhury Dev Eco I o Political Economy Of Third Party Interventions Souvik Dutta o Negotiating with the future: incorporating imaginary future Yoshi Saijo generations into negotiations o Labor Market Effects Of High School Science Majors In A High Stem Economy Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay o Social Connections And Public Healthcare Utilization Tarun Jain Dev Eco II o Role Of Caste Based Reservations On Allocation Of Goods Through Panchayat o The Impact Of Electronic Voting Machines On Electoral Frauds, Democracy, And Development o Identity And Learning: A Study On The Effect Of Student Teacher Gender Interaction On Student's Learning o Group Size And Political Representation Under Alternate Electoral Systems Saheli Bose Sisir Debnath Anirban Mukherjee Sabyasachi Das Page 4

6 SESSION DETAILS Dev Eco III o Caste Discrimination In India: Experimental Evidence From The Healthcare Market" o Industrialization Led Feminization Of Labour Evidence From Special Economic Zones o Productivity And Caste Networks: Evidence From Indian Garment Manufacturing o Inequality in the quality of employment in India: An analysis across rural- urban areas, social groups and gender Dr. Asad Islam Sazzad Parwez Swati Sharma Anamika Moktan International Eco o Spatial Spillovers From Foreign Direct Investment Pranab Kumar Das o Trade Openness And Labour Market Unrest: Evidence From Indian M Parameswaran Manufacturing Industry o Examining Interdependence Between The Commodities Market Salim Shamsher And The Foreign Exchange Market An Indian Perspective o Sports Sentiment And Behaviour Of Stock Prices? Evidence From T- 20 And Indian Premier League Cricket Matches Gourishankar S. Hiremath Page 5