Eighth Annual NBER-NCAER Neemrana Conference

Neemrana Fort Palace Resort, (Rajasthan)

January 21 to 23, 2007

Sunday January 21, 2007

10.15 AM Assembly and Roll Call (The Imperial Hotel, Janpath, New Delhi)

10.30 –10.45 AM Departure from Delhi from the Imperial Hotel by car convoy

1.00 PM Arrival and lunch at Neemrana Fort Palace

1.30 - 2.00 PM Check in (as rooms are cleaned and become available)

2.15 PM - 2.30 PM                Welcome and Introductions

Martin Feldstein, President, NBER

Bimal Jalan, President, NCAER

 

Day I : The Global Economy

Session I

2.30 PM – 4.30 PM               Indian Economy

Co-Chairs: P. Chidambaram/Bimal Jalan/Martin Feldstein

(10 minutes for Chairs to provide an overview of the topic; 20 minutes for each speaker and 70 minutes for general discussion and summing up)

Panel

P. Chidambaram, Finance Minister

Montek S Ahluwalia, Planning Commission

General Discussion

4.30 PM – 5.00 PM                 Tea break

Session II

5.00 PM – 7.00 PM                 Global Imbalances and Global Economic Governance

Chair: I. J. Ahluwalia

(10 minutes for Chairs to provide an overview of the topic; no more than 20 minutes for each speaker and 70 minutes for general discussion and summing up)

Presentations/Panel

Anne O. Krueger, NBER

Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University

Comments

N. K. Singh, Deputy Chairman, Planning Board, Government of Bihar

T. N. Ninan, Business Standard

 

General Discussion

7.30 PM                                Bharat Natyam Performance

Performer: Mrs. Rasika Mohan and Troupe

8.30 PM                                Cocktails and Dinner

Monday January 22, 2007

Day 2

Session III

8.45 AM – 10.45 AM             India, the US and the Global Economy

Chair: Bimal Jalan

Presentations/Panel

Martin Feldstein, NBER

John Lipsky, IMF

Suman Bery, NCAER

General Discussion

10.45 – 11.15 AM                        Tea Break

 Indian Economy

Session IV

11.15 AM - 1.15 PM                    FDI, Entrepreneurship and India’s Resurgent Private Sector

Chair: Rakesh Mohan

(5 minutes for Chair to provide an overview of the topic; no more than 20 minutes for each speaker and 35 minutes for general discussion and summing up)

Presentations/Panel

Antoinette Schoar, MIT

Subir Gokarn, Crisil

Arvind Virmani, Planning Commission

Rajiv Kumar, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

Comments

Swaminathan A Aiyar, The Economic Times

General Discussion

1.15 PM - 2.15 PM                    Lunch

Session V

2.15 PM – 4.15 PM                     Financing Public and Private Investment

Chair: C. Rangarajan

(5 minutes for Chair to provide an overview of the topic; no more than 20 minutes for each speaker and 55 minutes for general discussion and summing up)

Presentations/Panel

R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University

Mihir A. Desai, Harvard University

Ila Patnaik/Ajay Shah, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Comments

 Shashanka Bhide, NCAER

General Discussion

4.15 - 4.45 PM                     Tea break

Session VI

4.15 PM – 6.15 PM               Banking and Capital Markets

Chair: Martin Feldstein

(5 minutes for Chair to provide an overview of the topic; no more than 20 minutes for each speaker and 35 minutes for general discussion including comments)

 

Presentations/Panel

Andrew Rose, University of California

Oliver D. Hart, Harvard University

Ritu Anand, State Bank of India

Saumitra Chaudhuri, ICRA

Comments

Mythili Bhusnurmath, The Economic Times

General Discussion

7.30 PM                                Cocktails and Dinner

Tuesday January 23, 2007

Day 3: Growth and Governance

Session VII

8.45 AM – 11.00 AM                 Long Term Growth

Chair: Kirit Parikh

(5 minutes for Chair to provide an overview of the topic; no more than 20 minutes for each speaker and 50 minutes for general discussion and summing up)

Presentations/Panel

Allan Drazen, University of Maryland

Kala Krishna, The Pennsylvania State University

Surjit Bhalla, Oxus Research

Raghuram Rajan, Chicago University

Comments

Sunil Jain, Business Standard

General Discussion

11.00 – 11.30 AM                      Tea Break

Session VIII

11.30 AM – 1.30 PM                 Growth, Governance and Inclusion

Chair: Kirit Parikh

(5 minutes for Chair to provide an overview of the topic; no more than 20 minutes for each speaker and 35 minutes for general discussion and summing up)

 

Presentations/Panel

Bruce D. Meyer, Chicago University

Kaivan Munshi, Brown University

Hari Nagarajan, NCAER

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Centre for Policy Research

Comments

Rupalee Ruchismita, IFMR

General Discussion

1.00 PM - 1.10 PM                     Closing Remarks

1.10 PM                                     Lunch

2.30 PM                                     Departure for Delhi