Capital Markets, Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Economic Growth
Shilpa Aggarwal and Amit Seru, Organizers
December 16-17, 2023
Format: Authors will have 25 minutes to present their papers, discussants 15 minutes for comments, and there will be an additional 20 minutes for general discussion
| Saturday, December 16 | ||||
| 9:00 am | Coffee and Tea | |||
| 9:30 am |
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, University of Michigan Tamanna Singh Dubey, University of Michigan Can Cashless Payments Spur Economic Growth?
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| 10:30 am |
Kumar Rishabh, HEC Lausanne Beyond the Bureau: Loan Screening and Monitoring under Open Banking
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| 11:30 am | Break | |||
| 12:00 pm |
Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore Shashwat Alok, Indian School of Business Shiv Dixit, Indian School of Business Tejaswi Velayudhan, University of Michigan Impact of the GST on Corporate Tax Evasion: Evidence from Indian Tax Records
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| 1:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| 2:00 pm |
Vaishnavi Surendra, Precision Development (PxD) The Moneylender as Middleman: Formal Credit Supply and Informal Loans in Rural India
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| 3:00 pm |
Marshall Mo, Stanford University Dian Jiao, Columbia University Bank Expansion, Firm Dynamics, and Structural Transformation: Evidence from India’s Policy Experiment
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| 4:00 pm | Break | |||
| 4:30 pm |
Panel Discussion: How Digital Payments are Driving Financial Inclusion Chair: Karen Mills, Harvard Business School and NBER Panelists: Sharath Bulusu, Google Gopalaraman Padmanabhan, Axis Bank (formerly Reserve Bank of India) Chetna Sinha, Mann Deshi Mahila Sahkari Bank |
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| 6:30 pm | Dinner | |||
| Sunday, December 17 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Tea | |||
| 9:00 am |
Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University and NBER Lorenzo Spadavecchia, Bocconi University Mobile Money, Interoperability and Financial Inclusion
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| 10:00 am |
Nandini Gupta, Indiana University Ashish K. Sedai, University of Texas at Arlington Disentangling the Effects of Financial Inclusion on Household Well-Being
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| 11:00 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Apoorv Gupta, Dartmouth College Jacopo Ponticelli, Northwestern University and NBER Andrea Tesei, Queen Mary University of London Information Frictions and Take-up of Government Credit Programs
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Sean Higgins, Northwestern University Aisling Scott, University of California at Berkeley Enrique Seira, Michigan State University Using Lotteries to Attract Deposits
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| 2:30 pm |
Subrata Kumar Ritadhi, Ashoka University Muhammad Yasir Khan, University of Pittsburgh Equilibrium Effects of ``Financial Affirmative Action'': Evidence from India
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| 3:30 pm | Adjourn | |||