Webinar Series
Reflections on Development Economics
The Economics Department, Presidency University regularly organizes online lectures by distinguished faculty members from renowned institutes in India and abroad.
Interested persons are welcome to register. Participants should register for each event separately using the link given with each event. Registration event will close two days before the event. A Google meet link will be sent on the day of the event to all those who register before the deadline.
Please note that we are not providing any certificate, e-certificate or feedback form.
Lectures to be held in April-July 2022
Prof. Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales:
Co-ordination and economic development (online) 23 April 2022, 10.30 AM IST.
Kaustav Das
Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting at the University of Leicester, School of Business
Exogenous Shock and Electoral Outcomes: Re-examining the Rational Voter Hypothesis
Co-authored with Atisha Ghosh (Warwick University) and Pushkar Maitra (Monash University)
Date: 24 August, 2021 (Tuesday) at 5.00 PM IST
Sanchari Roy
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics, Department of International Development, King’s College, London
The gendered crisis: Livelihoods and mental well-being in India during COVID-19 Co-authored with Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi) and Amrita Dhillon (King's College London)
Date: 20 August, 2021 (Friday) at 5.00 PM IST
Professor Abhirup Sarkar of Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, will deliver a lecture on “Understanding the Economic Consequences of Farm Bills” on February 15, 2021 at 6.00 PM. Professor Soumyen Sikdar of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta will chair the session.
The lecture is in honor of Prof. Amita Dutta, former faculty of the department (1969-1983).
Mon 15 Feb 2021 17:45 – 20:15 India Standard Time - Kolkata
Prof. Jonathan Morduch: The past and future of microcredit
Date: 8 January (Friday) 2021
Time: 7.30 PM IST (9.30 AM New York Time)
Prof. Jonathan Morduch is currently Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, University of New York. He is a development economist most well known for his significant academic contributions to assessing the impact of microfinance since the early years of the movement.
Prof. Morduch has taught on the Economics faculty at Harvard University, and has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, Hitotsubashi University, and the University of Tokyo. Prof. Morduch has worked with the United Nations and World Bank, and advises global NGOs.
Video of his talk is posted on Youtube.
Prof. Kaivan Munshi: Cooperation in Networks
Date: 16 & 17 December 2020
Time: 7.30 PM IST (9.00 AM Connecticut Time)
Prof Kaivan Munshi is currently Professor of Economics at Yale University and previously Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His research career has been devoted to the analysis of social institutions and their interaction with economic activity.
His current research focuses on the relationship between economic development and health and on the community origins of entrepreneurship in India and China.
He was the recipient of the Infosys Prize in the Social Sciences in 2016.
Lecture 1: 16 December (Wednesday)
Social capital and social quilts: Network patterns of favor exchange
Lecture 2: 17 December (Thursday)
The community origins of private enterprise in China
Please register using this link.
Past lectures in series
Anindya Sundar Chakrabarti,
Assistant Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Pandemics and economic development: Evolution of institutions, inequality and technology
6th August (Thursday), 5.00 PM
Anup Kumar Sinha
Professor, Economics Group,
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
COVID-19: Managing health and wealth
14th August (11.30 AM)
Sumon K Bhaumik
Chair Professor of Finance, Management School, University of Sheffield & Research Development Director (Finance), Accounting & Financial Management division.
Governance: Some issues
21st August (Friday) at 5.00 PM IST
Dr. Kaushik Chaudhuri
Leeds University Business School
Dr. Anindita Chakrabarti
Leeds University Business School
Mortality from COVID-19: The interaction of ethnicity and deprivation, and its spillover in England
Ranjit Manchanda
Professor of Gynaecological Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London
Population testing: A new paradigm for cancer prevention
28th August (Friday), 5.00 PM
Chinmay Tumbe
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
India and the influenza epidemic of 1918
1st September (Tuesday), 11.00 AM
Lakshmi Iyer
Associate Professor, Economics
Notre Dame University, USA
Title: Gender quotas and crimes against women: Evidence from India and Indonesia
Date: 7 September 2020 (Monday) at 7.00 PM
Subhasish Dey
Economics Department,
University of Warwick
Does a legal ban on pre-natal sex determination improve female educational attainment? Evidence from India
Date: 11 September, 2020 (Friday) at 5.00 PM
Maitreesh Ghatak, FBA
Professor of Economics, London School of Economics
Parikshit Ghosh
Associate Professor, Delhi School of Economics
On the design of a safety net for the poor
Date: 17 September, 2020 (Thursday) at 5.00 PM
Sushanta Kumar Mallick
Professor of International Finance,
School of Business and Management,
Queen Mary University of London
Does easing access to foreign financing matter for firm performance?
Date: 18 September, 2020 (Friday) at 5.00 PM
Sudipta Sarangi
Professor & Head
Economics Department,
Virginia Polytechnic & State University
Chandan Kumar Jha
Assistant Professor,
Madden School of Business,
Le Moyne College, USA
Arable land in antiquity and modern gender inequality
Date: 25 September 2020 (Friday) at 6.30 PM
Pushkar Maitra
Professor, Dept. of Economics,
Monash University, Australia
The long shadow of infrastructure development: Railways in Colonial India
Date: 2 October 2020 (Friday) at 11.30 AM IST
Tridip Ray
Professor, Economics & Planning Unit,
Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Congested Markets: Public versus Private Provision, Inequality and Competition
Date: 16 October, 2020 (Friday) at 5.00 PM
