Kaushik Basu 65th Birthday Conference
(more details will be added over the next few days)
17 December 2017
Venue: Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi -110007
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Welcome |
| 9:30 - 11:00 |
Plenary Session 1 Joesph E Stiglitz (Columbia University) Avinash Dixit (Princeton University) |
| 11.00 -11.30 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 11.30 - 1.00 |
Plenary Session 2 Debraj Ray (New York University) Jorgen Weibull (Stockholm School of Economics) |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Lunch Break |
| 2:30 - 4:00 |
Panel Discussion on “Policy Advice: The Role of Politics and Economics” Chair: Kaushik Basu (Cornell University) Panelists: Montek Singh Ahluwalia (former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India), Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Ashoka University), Celestin Monga (African Development Bank) and Jamie Saavedra (World Bank) |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Tea/Coffee Break |
| 4:30 - 6:00 |
Felicitation and Festschrift Presentation “Markets, Governance, and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development” edited by Ajit Mishra and Tridip Ray, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Chief Guest: Manmohan Singh (Former Prime Minister of India) Guest of Honour: Amartya Sen (Harvard University) Ashwini Deshpande (Delhi School of Economics) Garance Genicot (Georgetown University), Ranjan Ray (Monash University), and S. Subramanian (Madras Institute of Development Studies). |