2012 Sessions for Shankha Chakraborty

 
Friday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
SEA
Session 12B
Human Capital, Technology, and Economic Growth

Organizers:

Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University
Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky

Session Chairs:

Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky

Papers:

"Human Capital Formation and International Trade"
Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

"Inequality, Aspirations and the Tunnel Effect"
Jeff Allen, University of Oregon (Contact Author)
Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon

"Directed Technological Change: A Quantitative Analysis"
Michal Jerzmanowski, Clemson University (Contact Author)
Robert Tamura, Clemson University

"Population, Technology, and Fragmentation: The European Miracle Revisited"
Nils-Petter Lagerlöf, York University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Yoto V. Yotov, Drexel University
Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University
Gunjan Sharma, University of Missouri
Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston

 

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Friday
1:00 - 2:45 p.m.
SEA
Session 12C
Regional Differences in Economic Growth

Organizers:

Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University
Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky

Session Chairs:

Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon

Papers:

"Poor Regions of the European Union"
Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

"Accounting for Bihar’s Productivity Relative to India’s: What Can We Learn from Recent Developments in Growth Theory?"
Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

"Determinants of Clusters in Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure, Governance, Education, and Industrial Policy"
Gunjan Sharma, University of Missouri (Contact Author)
Ana Margarida Fernandes, The World Bank

Discussants:

Michal Jerzmanowski, Clemson University
Chris Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund
Santanu Chatterjee, The University of Georgia

 

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Friday
3:00 - 4:45 p.m.
SEA
Session 12D
Resource Allocation in Economic Growth

Organizers:

Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University
Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky

Session Chairs:

Areendam Chanda, Louisiana State University

Papers:

"The Efficiency of Human Capital Allocations in Developing Countries"
Dietrich Vollrath, University of Houston (Contact Author)

"The Public and Private Marginal Product of Capital"
Chris Papageorgiou, International Monetary Fund (Contact Author)
Fidel Perez-Sebastian, University of Alicante
Matthew Lowe, University of Oxford

"Fiscal Policy and the Real Exchange Rate"
Santanu Chatterjee, The University of Georgia (Contact Author)
Azer Mursagulov, International Monetary Fund

Discussants:

Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon
Jenny Minier, University of Kentucky
Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University

 

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