Invited Speakers Accepted Papers Committee Programme Venue Presenters Important Information

Programme on December 23,2008
_________________________________________________________________________________


Conference on Empirical Issues
December 24,2008
(Tentative Programme Schedule subject to change)


09.00 AM – 11.00 AM -- Parallel Session 3

Session 3A (H. J. Bhaba Hall): Analysis of Capital Flows
Chair: Patha Sen, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Saurabh Ghosh and Snehal Herwadkar, Department of Economic Analysis and Policy, Reserve Bank of India. Foreign Portfolio Flows and their Impact on Financial Markets in India.
Smruti Ranjan Behera, Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics (DSE), University of Delhi. FDI and Technology Spillover: Evidence across Indian Manufacturing Industries.
Gulasekaran Rajaguru, Bond University, Australia and Sadhana Srivastava, AUT Business School, Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand. Analyzing the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) – Export nexus in Developing Asia : An Unbalanced Dynamic Panel VAR Approach.



Session 3B (S. N. Bose Hall): Sector Specific Issues in Trade
Chair: Kala Krishna, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
Saswati Sanyal, Department of Economics, Rammohan College, Kolkata and Sarmila Banerjee, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta. India’s Leather Export in a Globalized World : Quantity versus Quality.
Debdeep De, Institute for International Management and Technology, Gurgaon. Regional Trade and International Production Networks: The Context of Automobile Industry in Asia.
Debdeep De, Institute for International Management and Technology, Gurgaon. Regional Trade and International Production Networks: The Context of Automobile Industry in Asia.


11.00 AM – 11.15 AM -- Tea Break
11.15 AM – 01.15 PM -- Parallel Session 4




Session 4A (C. V. Raman Hall): Panel Discussion
Topic: Making Sense of the Proliferation of RTAs


Chair: TBA
Rajesh Mehta, Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries, New Delhi
Monoj Pant, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
TBA




Session 4B (H. J. Bhaba Hall):TBA
Chair: Sarmila Banerjee, Department of Economics, University of Calcutta
Soma Roy, Department of Economics, Dum Dum Motijheel College, Kolkata and Rajat Acharyya, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University. Trade Liberalization, Process Innovation and Welfare.
Anindita Adhikary, Bedanta Bora, Department of Management Studies, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Rangpo Sikkim, Sujit Sikidar, Department of Commerce, Guwahati University, Guwahati. Export Performance of North East India: Few Empirical Issues.
Atanu Ghoshray, University of Bath, UK. Smooth Transition Effects in Price Transmission : The Case of the International Wheat Export Prices


01.15 PM – 02.15 PM -- Lunch
02.15 PM – 04.15 PM -- Parallel Session 5




Session 5A (H. J. Bhaba Hall): Globalization & Trade
Chair: TBA
Rahul Sen, School of Economics AUT Business School, Auckland, New Zealand. Preferential Trading in ASEAN: Implications for Asian Economic Integration.
Chukwuma Agu, African Institute for Applied Economics, Enugu Uchenna Amaeze, Department of Economics, University of Nigeria, Uchenna Amaeze, Department of Economics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Frank Amagwu, First City Monument Bank, Garden Avenue, Enugu. Intra-Group Trade in the South: Story of a Lost Decade and Prophecy of Yet – to – be Lost Decades.
Boutaleb Kouider and Chaib Baghdad, University de Tiemcen Algerie. The International trade policies in the context of neo-liberal Globalization: Which prospects for the countries of the South?


Session 5B (S. N. Bose Hall): Banking and Financial Inflows
Chair: TBA
Joseph George, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. Case for Compensatory Restrictions on National Treatment in Services Trade: An Example from Indian Commercial Banking.
Sharanjit S. Dhillon, Punjab School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Manjinder Kaur, Dept. of Commerce, Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College. Foreign Financial Inflows in India and Domestic Policy.
Manjinder Kaur, Department of Commerce, Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College, Sharanjit S. Dhillon, Punjab School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. Foreign Institutional Investment in India and Macroeconomics Aggregates.


04.15 PM – 04.30 PM -- Tea Break
04.30 PM – 05.30 PM -- Valedictory Session (C. V. Raman Hall)



____________________________________________________________
TBA:To be announced