Seminars
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Past Seminars
2026
| Sr. No. | Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 29, 2026 | Productivity and the two tails: Firm responses when workers are un-informed | Dr. Pranav Mimani (European University Institute) |
| 2 | April 8, 2026 | Contract Design in Renewable Energy Auctions: Evidence from India | Dr Anshuman Bhakri (Indian School of Business) |
| 3 | April 1, 2026 | Immigration Status and Skill Mismatch in the UK Labour Market | Prof. Subhasish Dey (University of Warwick) |
| 4 | March 25, 2026 | Understanding education inequality across social groups in Rural India | Dr. Neha Bailwal (Flame University) |
| 5 | March 11, 2026 | Estimating the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) with Fat-tailed Events | Mr. Kaustubh (Reserve Bank of India) |
| 6 | February 25, 2026 | Trade and Climate Change: Do imported inputs increase energy efficiency in Indian manufacturing? | Prof. Aparna Sawhney (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) |
| 7 | February 24, 2026 | Building Human Capital Where It Matters: Homes, Neighborhood and Work | Dr. Joana Silva (World Bank Group) |
| 8 | February 18, 2026 | Firm responses to legislation on workplace sexual harassment | Professor Sonia Bhalotra (The University of Warwick, UK.) |
| 9 | February 11, 2026 | Auctioning Annuities Under Two-sided Private Information | Dr. María Florencia Gabrielli (Universidad del Desarrollo) |
| 10 | January 28, 2026 | Impact of Government Supply Intervention on Market Prices: A study of Export Ban and Open Market Sale of Wheat | Dr. G V Nadhanael (Reserve Bank of India) |
| 11 | January 21, 2026 | Sequential Search with Flexible Information | Dr. Salil Sharma (Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Delhi) |
| 12 | January 14, 2026 | Compliance without conservation when second-best instruments interact | Dr. Anshuman Tiwari (Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago). |
2025
| Sr. No. | Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 26, 2025 | Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis | Prof. Dilip Nachane (IGIDR) |
| 2 | November 19, 2025 | Breaking Barriers to Financial Access: Cross-Platform Digital Payments and Credit Markets | Dr. Nirupama Kulkarni (CAFRAL) |
| 3 | September 29, 2025 | Freebies or Rights?, The Right(s) Perspective” | Professor Reetika Khera (IIT, Delhi) |
| 4 | September 26, 2025 | Electric vehicles and their hidden implications for India | Professor Saumen Majumdar (IIM, Tiruchirappalli) |
| 5 | September 24, 2025 | An Informational Theory of Alliances | Dr. Raghul Venkatesh (IISER, Bhopal) |
| 6 | September 17, 2025 | Learning from others: when social learning helps | Dr. Srijita Ghosh (Ashoka University) |
| 7 | September 11, 2025 | Speed is good? An analysis of the configuration of retail payment systems (joint with Erhao Xie, Bank of Canada) | Dr. Narayan Bulusu Surya (Bank of Canada) |
| 8 | September 10, 2025 | Bureaucrat cadre assignment mechanisms: Theory and evidence | Dr. Jeevant Rampal (IIM, Ahmedabad) |
| 9 | July 30, 2025 | Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India | Dr. Priyadarshi Amar (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| 10 | July 21, 2025 | Deadweight Losses or Gains from In-kind Transfers: Experimental Evidence | Professor Gaurav Datt (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) |
| 11 | May 21, 2025 | How much Debt is Optimal for the Major Indian States? Economic Growth vs. Debt Sustainability | Dr. Rudrani Bhattacharya (NIPFP Delhi ) |
| 12 | May 14, 2025 | Stochastic Choice: Attributes and Limited Attention | Dr. Anuj Bhowmik (ISI Kolkata) |
| 13 | April 30, 2025 | Demonetization and Child Health: Evidence from India | Dr. Shampa Bhattacharjee (Shiv Nadar University) |
| 14 | April 23, 2025 | What levels of development can humanity sustainably aspire to? | Dr. Chirag Dhara (KREA University) |
| 15 | April 16, 2025 | What explains surges in foreign direct investment inflows in developing countries? | Dr. Jagadish Prasad Sahu ( Indian Institute of Management Kashipur ) |
| 16 | April 2, 2025 | Ignoring The Left Tail | Speaker: Dr. Kaushalendra Kishore (CAFRAL) |
| 17 | February 19, 2025 | Conflicts and Consumption (with Anindya S. Chakrabarti (IIMA) and Abhishek Shaw (IIMA)) | Speaker: Dr. Rohan Gudibande (KREA University) |
| 18 | February 14, 2025 | The Economics of Climate Change: An Agenda for Future Research | Speaker: Prof. Paresh Kumar Narayan (Monash University) |
| 19 | February 12, 2025 | Journey to the (North, South, East, and) West: Global Spillovers of Chinese Monetary Policy | Speaker: Dr. Anirban Sanyal (Reserve Bank of India) |
| 20 | February 6, 2025 | In search of sustainable food transitions | Dr. Alon Shepon (Tel Aviv University), |
| 21 | February 5, 2025 | Beneath the Thread: Decoding Worker Turnover and its Implications for the Indian Textile Industry | Dr. Vidya Mahambare (Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai), |
| 22 | January 29, 2025 | Evolution of Income Inequality in India Since Independence: Results from India's Household Income Surveys | Speaker: Dr. Rajesh Shukla (People Research on India's Consumer Economy) |
| 23 | January 21, 2025 | Do status and identity shape adherence to advice?" | Prof. Pushkar Maitra (Monash University, Australia) |
| 24 | January 8, 2025 | Trade, Liquidity and Monetary Spillovers under Dollar Dominance | Dr. Ayushi Bajaj (Monash University in Melbourne, Australia) |
2024
| Sr. No. | Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 16, 2024 | Do Rural Roads Promote Inclusive Entrepreneurship? (with Ananyo Brahma)" | Dr. Vidhya Soundararajan (CAFRAL) |
| 2 | September 30, 2024 | University ambidexterity: assessing the nature of interdependence between knowledge exchange and knowledge creation in UK universities | Professor Andrew Johnston (Deputy Director of Graduate Education, Huddersfield Business School, University of Huddersfield) |
| 3 | September 18, 2024 | Caste and the Indian Census: “Old” Questions and “New” Challenges | Dr. Vikas Kumar (Azim Premji University) |
| 4 | September 11, 2024 | Macroeconomic Effects of Scheduled and Unscheduled Monetary Policy Surprises | Mr. Karthik Abhiramapuram Sridhar (Department of Economics, University of Oxford) |
| 5 | September 4, 2024 | Real Effects of Bank Shocks | Dr. Vivek Sharma (Department of Economics University of Lancaster Management School) |
| 6 | June 19, 2024 | How aggregate electricity demand responds to hourly wholesale price fluctuations | Dr. Tarun Khanna (The University of British Columbia) |
| 7 | June 12, 2024 | Does Arranged Marriage Restrict Labour Market Autonomy and Participation of Women? A Game-theoretic Model of Matching and Resource Allocation in Households. | Prof. Anirban Kar (Delhi School of Economics) |
| 8 | May 29, 2024 | Migration Inflow and School Performance of Incumbents | Dr. Demid Getik (Durham University) |
| 9 | May 8, 2024 | Do political connections reduce the propensity of drought-induced migration of farm households? Empirical Evidence from India | Dr.Sabuj Kumar Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras) |
| 10 | March 27, 2024 | Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Transmission of Health: A Recursive Partitioning Approach from Machine Learning | Dr. Dweepobotee Brahma (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur) |
| 11 | March 6, 2024 | Exploring the influence of urbanization and growth on emissions in developing and emerging economies: evidence from nonlinear methods | Dr. Supratim Das Gupta (Ahmedabad University) |
| 12 | February 28, 2024 | Are Students Really Biased against Female Professors? - Experimental Evidence from India | Dr. Moumita Roy (Ahmedabad University) |
| 13 | February 21, 2024 | Developing Economic Policies for the Digital Era | Dr. Rohinton Medhora (Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation and Professor of Practice, McGill University) |
| 14 | February 7, 2024 | Are the Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture Underestimated? A Disaggregated Analysis for India” | Professor Shreekant Gupta (Department of Economics, University of Delhi) |
| 15 | January 10, 2024 | Covid Vaccines: A Review of the Scientific Evidence” | Prof. Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) |
2023
| Sr. No. | Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 13, 2023 | Modelling bond yield: Case of Japan | Prof. Parantap Basu (Durham University) |
| 2 | December 8, 2023 | IGIDR-ISID Policy Roundtable on India and Global Economic Growth | Mr. Andrea Goldstein (Head of the India/Indonesia desk at the OECD economics department) |
| 3 | December 6, 2023 | Education and Labour Policy Agendas, Escalating Informality and Social Vulnerability: Mapping Domain & Historical Continuities within Development Agendas | Prof. Veena Naregal (IEG, Delhi) |
| 4 | November 29, 2023 | Social Welfare Programs in India: Policy Reforms and the Leviathan State | Dr. Andaleeb Rahman (Cornell University) |
| 5 | October 18, 2023 | Technology, Labour, Social Norms, and Fertility Choices | Dr. Nikita Sangwan (ISI-Delhi) |
| 6 | October 4, 2023 | The Effect of Supply Base Diversification on the Propagation of Shocks | Dr. Girish Bahal (University of Western Australia Business School) |
| 7 | September 27, 2023 | India’s Finance Ministers From Independence to Emergency (1947-1977) | Mr. Ashok K Bhattacharya (Editorial Director at Business Standard) |
| 8 | July 14, 2023 | Towards a well-targeted interest rate policy | Prof. Gurbachan Singh (Ashoka University) |
| 9 | May 24, 2023 | From Managing Crisis to Restoring Land – A Chat with Muralee | Dr. Muralee Thummarukudy (Chief of Disaster Risk Reduction in the UN Environment Programme) |
| 10 | April 28, 2023 | Targeted Subsidies for Water Conservation in Smallholder Agriculture | Prof. Ujjayant Chakravorty (Tufts University) |
| 11 | April 19, 2023 | Transition to Greener Economy: Climate Change Risks and Resilience in a State-Space Framework | Dr. Soumya Bhadury (Reserve Bank of India) |