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Twelfth Annual NCAER-NBER-ICRIER Neemrana Conference
18-20 December, 2010
Neemrana Fort Palace Resort, Rajasthan, India
PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
Saturday December 18 2010
| 8.00 PM – 8.30 PM Welcome, Introduction | |
| Suman Bery, DG, NCAER | |
| Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Board Chair, ICRIER | |
| Martin Feldstein, President Emeritus, NBER | |
| Montek S. Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission | |
| 8:30 PM | Acquaintance Dinner |
Sunday December 19 2010 - Theme 1: Adjustment
| SESSION I 9:00 AM -10:30 AM 1A – Global Adjustment: Towards Balanced and Sustainable Global Growth | |
| Chair | Anne Krueger |
| Panel | |
| India | Montek S. Ahluwalia |
| NBER | John Lipsky |
| NBER | Martin Feldstein |
| General Discussion | |
| Lead Discussant | Rakesh Mohan |
| 10.30 AM – 11.00 AM | TEA BREAK |
| SESSION II 11.00 AM – 1.00 PM 1B – India: Challenges of Economic Management | |
| Chair | Subir Gokarn |
| Panel | |
| India | Shankar Acharya |
| India: Challenges of Economic Management | |
| India | Surjit Bhalla |
| India | Ajay Shah |
| Concerns about Indian macro policy | |
| General Discussion | |
| Lead Discussant | T. N. Ninan |
| 1.00 PM - 2.00 PM | LUNCH |
| SESSION III 2.00 PM – 4.00 PM 1C – Finance and Corporate Governance | |
| Chair | T. N. Ninan |
| Panel | |
| NBER | Bengt Holmstrom |
| NBER | Raghuram Rajan |
| Regulation: Where Are We Now? | |
| NBER | Steven Kaplan |
| Some Facts About CEO Pay and Corporate Governance in the U.S | |
| India | Uday S. Kotak |
| General Discussion | |
| Lead Discussants | Rajiv Lall |
| K. P. Krishnan | |
| 4.00 PM - 4.30 PM | TEA BREAK |
| SESSION IV 4.30 PM - 6.00 PM 1D – Efficient Fiscal Adjustment: India and Abroad | |
| Chair | Martin Feldstein |
| Panel | |
| NBER | Alberto Alesina |
| The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments | |
| NBER | Mikhail Golosov |
| Designing Tax Code: Lessons from Public Finance Theorys | |
| India | Parthasarthi Shome |
| Efficient Fiscal Adjustment | |
| General Discussion | |
| Lead Discussants | Sanjaya Baru |
| 7:00 PM | Entertainment - Performance by Neelima Beri at NIIT University |
| 8:30 PM | GALA DINEER |
Monday December 20 2010 - Theme 2: Growth
| SESSION V 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM 2A – Development Strategies | |
| Chair | Abhijit Banerjee |
| Panel | |
| NBER | Chang-Tai Hsieh |
| Sources of Productivity Growth | |
| India | Scott Stern |
| Open Access Institutions in Life Sciences Research: Implications for Neglected Diseases and Indian Innovative Capacity (Presentation) | |
| India | Ila Patnaik |
| In praise of non-tradeables | |
| India | Arunish Chawla |
| The Role of Strategy in Planning | |
| General Discussion | |
| Lead Discussants | Suman Bery |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | TEA BREAK and CHECK OUT |
| SESSION VI 11.30 AM – 1.00 PM 2B – Health | |
| Chair | Isher Judge Ahluwalia |
| Panel | |
| NBER | Amitabh Chandra |
| The Healthcare Trilemma | |
| NBER | David Cutler |
| What Have Developed Countries Learned About Health Care? | |
| India | N. K. Sethi |
| General Discussion | |
| Lead Discussants | Abhijit Banerjee |
Theme 3: Governance
| SESSION VII 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Politics of Sustaining Growth | |
| Chair | Suman Bery |
| Panel 1 | |
| NBER | Nancy Qian |
| Local Governance: Chinese Experiments | |
| India | B. Jai Panda |
| India | Deepak Lal |
| The Entitlement Economies | |
| The Anarchical Society | |
| Post-reform Rent-seeking | |
| General Discussion | |
| Lead Discussants | Anwarul Hoda |
| 2.30 PM – 2.45 PM Closing Remarks and Tea | |
| Suman Bery, DG, NCAER | |
| Parthasarthi Shome, Director and CE (designate), ICRIER | |
| 2.45 PM - 3.30 PM | LUNCH |
| 3.30 PM - 4.30 PM | Return to Airport (Terminal 3)/Delhi |