IIM Bangalore to host 2nd edition of Symposium on Evidence of Economic Development on June 28, 29

Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore will host the second edition of the Symposium on Evidence of Economic Development (SEED) on June 28 and 29. The two-day event at the Economics area, IIM Bangalore will bring together global scholars for discussions about behavioural economics, firm dynamics, and developmental outcomes.

The IIMB economic development event will take place in Classroom P-22 on campus. The symposium at IIM Bangalore is jointly curated by Pavel Chakraborty, University of Lancaster, Anindya Chakrabarti, IIM Ahmedabad, and Ritwik Banerjee, chairperson of the economics area at IIMB.

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IIM Bangalore: SEED events

The SEED day one event will include four sessions. Session one, on ‘Behaviour’, will begin with a presentation by Tarun Jain, IIM Ahmedabad, on the topic “When Science Feels Like Math: The Role of Quantitative Framing in Science Gender Gaps,” followed by a presentation by Shilpa Aggarwal, ISB, on the topic “A Road for all Seasons: Market Access and Inter-temporal Arbitrage in Rural India”.

Session two of the IIM Bangalore event will begin with a presentation by Moumita Roy, Ahmedabad University, on the topic “Achieving Peace in Conflicts with Spillovers.” Roy will talk about strategic behaviour in individual conflicts that has an effect on the rival. The IIMB economic meet will next see a presentation from Jeevant Rampal, IIM Ahmedabad, on the topic “Bureaucrat Assignment Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence”, where he will discuss senior Indian bureaucracy.

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The symposium on economic evidence will begin its session three on ‘Firms’ with the presentation “Spillover Effects in Complementary Markets: A Study of the Indian Cellphone and Wireless Service Markets” by Debi Prasad Mohapatra, UMass Amherst.

It will be followed by “Identity, Market Access, and Demand-led Diversification”, delivered by Akhil Ilango, Young Faculty Research chair, IIMB, who will explain intersectionality in society and its relation with access to markets.

The final sessions for day one will include presentations on “Credit Supply Shocks, Firm Performance, and Aggregate Productivity Growth” by Vidhya Soundararajan, Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), and “Trade Costs and Industrialisation” by Kunal Dasgupta, chairperson, admissions and financial aid, IIMB.

IIM Bangalore: SEED day 2

On day two of the symposium on economic evidence at IIMB, discussions will be held on the ‘Development’ aspect. Tanika Chakraborty, IIM Calcutta, will present “The Roads to Hospital and Healthcare Access”, which will explore the low social insurance schemes in India despite high medical expenditure and will be followed by “Green Spaces for Saffron Growth” by Yatish Arya, Ashoka University.

Abhishek Shaw, Azim Premji University, will present “Consumption and Borrowing: Land-holding Inequality and the Effects of Cash Transfers”, which will focus on household borrowing and cash transfers in the light of land inequality.

The symposium at IIM Bangalore will come to a close with a presentation on “Attitudes and Norms about Intimate Partner Violence: What Makes Women More Impressionable?”, delivered by Manini Ojha, Jindal Global University. It will discuss intimate partner violence, drawing on data from the National Family Health Survey of India.