Thursday, December 7
9.00 am: Registration and welcome
9.15 am: Opening remarks: Dr. Urjit Patel, Governor, Reserve Bank of India
9.30 am: Pratiti Chatterjee, UC Irvine
Uncertainty Shocks, Financial Frictions and Business Cycle Asymmetries Across Countries
Discussant: Sanjay Chugh, Ohio State University
10.30 am: Coffee break
10.45 am: Chetan Ghate, ISI Delhi
A Monetary Business Cycle Model for India
Discussant: Colin Caines, Federal Reserve Board
11.45 am: Franklin Allen, Imperial College London
On Interest Policy and Asset Bubbles
Keynote talk
12.45 pm: Lunch
1.45 pm: Alok Johri, McMaster University
The Rise and Fall of India’s Relative Investment Price: A Tale of Policy Error and Reform
Discussant: Chetan Subramanian, IIM Bangalore
2.45 pm: Coffee break
3.00 pm: Nirupama Kulkarni, CAFRAL
Creditor Rights and Allocative Distortions: Evidence from India
Discussant: Shashwat Alok, ISB
4.00 pm: Viral Acharya, Reserve Bank of India
Monetary Easing, Investment and Financial Stability
Keynote talk
Friday, December 8
9.30 am: Jasmine Xiao, University of Notre Dame
Corporate Debt Structure, Precautionary Savings and Investment Dynamics
Discussant: Michal Szkup, University of British Columbia
10.30 am: Coffee break
10.45 am: John Leahy, University of Michigan
Keynote talk
11.45 am: Ayhan Kose, World Bank
How Important Are Spillovers from Emerging Markets?
Discussant: Arpita Chatterjee, UNSW
12.45 pm: Lunch
2.00 pm: Krishnamurthy Subramanian, Indian School of Business
Free Riding in Teams
Discussant: Igor Livshits, University of Western Ontario and FRB Philadelphia
3.00 pm: Coffee break
3.15 pm: Martin Uribe, Columbia University
The Neo-Fisher Effect
Keynote talk
4.15 pm: Thanks and adjourn