Schedule

 

April 18 2014
8:30-5:00pm
61 Kirkland Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room (8:30am-2:00pm)
CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, K354 (2:00pm-5:00pm)

 

8:30am
Productivity in the Indian Brick Industry
Dan Keniston, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
Disscussant: Andrea Szabo, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Houston

9:30am
How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China
Kala Krishna, Liberal Arts Research Professor, Department of Economics, The Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Dan Keniston

 

10:30-11:00 Tea Break

 

11:00am
In With the Big, Out With the Small: Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Shanti Nataraj, Associate Economist, RAND Corporation
Discussant: Nicholas Ryan, Prize Fellow in Economics, History, and Politics, Harvard University

12:00pm
Is There An Energy-efficiency Gap?: Experimental Evidence from India
Nicholas Ryan
Discussant: Kala Krishna

 

1:00-2:00pm Lunch


New Location: CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, K354


2:00pm
Measuring Firm-level Inefficiencies in the Ghanian Manufacturing Sector
Andrea Szabo
Discussant: Hunt Allcott, Assistant Professor of Economics, NYU

 

3:00-3:30pm Tea Break

 

3:30pm
How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Productivity? Evidence from India
Hunt Allcott
Discussant: Shanti Nataraj

4:30
Closing Remarks
Abhijit Banerjee, Professor of Economics, MIT (to be confirmed)