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WORKSHOP ON ECONOMIC REFORMS AND THE EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTIVITY IN INDIAN MANUFACTURING
18-19 March 2011
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Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Organized by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research, Dharwad IDPM, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK
Sponsored by Economic and Social Research Council, UK
WORKSHOP ON ECONOMIC REFORMS AND THE EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTIVITY IN INDIAN MANUFACTURING
18-19 March 2011
Programme (Venue: Conference Hall (Gr. Floor), Jal Vihar Guest House, IIT Bombay) 18 March 2011 (DAY 1) 08.30 – 09.00 Registration 09.00 – 09.30 Opening Session Session Chair: HOD, SJMSOM, IIT Bombay Opening Remarks: Dean R&D, IIT Bombay 09.30-10.30 Keynote Session I Session Chair: Prof K Narayanan, Dept of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay Title of the lecture: Reforms and Productivity Change in Indian Industry Speaker: Prof Bishwanath Goldar, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi Discussant: Prof Kunal Sen, IDPM, University of Manchester, UK Rapporteur: Purnima Purohit, University of Manchester, UK 10.30 – 11.00 COFFEE BREAK 11.00 – 13.00 Technical Session I – Studies on Aggregate Productivity Session Chair: Prof K L Krishna 1) The effects of Economic Reforms on manufacturing dualism: Evidence from India (Vinish Kathuria, Rajesh Raj S N and Kunal Sen) 2) A Study of Productivity Growth in the Registered Manufacturing Sector of India: 1980-81 to 2003-04 (Arundhati Dutta, University of Kalyani, West Bengal) 3) Productivity Growth in a Liberalising Economy: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry (M. Parameswaran, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum) 4) Productivity, Technical Progress and Scale Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing: New Evidence using a Non-Parametric Approach (V. Pradeep, Anup K Bhandari, Mita Bhattacharya and Jong-Rong Chen) 13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 16.00 Technical Session II – Trade, FDI and Labour Market Session Chair: Prof Kunal Sen 1) Market Imperfections, Trade Reform and Total Factor Productivity: Theory and Practices from Indian Manufacturing (Dibyendu Maiti, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi) 2) MNEs, Export Spillover and Firm Heterogeneity: a Case of Indian Manufacturing Industries 3) The relation between pay and performance across Indian industrial firms (Bent Jesper Christensen, University of Aarhus and Amaresh Dubey, Jawaharlal Nehru University) 4) The Role of Trade Policy variables on Total Factor Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing Sector: Evidence from a Non -parametric Data Envelopment Approach (Arpita Ghose, Jadavpur University and Paramita Roy Biswas, Victoria Institution)
16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK 16.30 – 17.30 Keynote Session II Chair: Mr Nilachal Ray, Formerly with CSO Title of the lecture: Current Status of Industrial Statistics in India Mr. G.C. Manna, CSO Delhi Discussant: Dr S L Shetty, EPW Research Foundation Mumbai Rapporteur: Purnima Purohit, University of Manchester, UK
19.30 CONFERENCE DINNER (Venue: Conference Hall, Jal Vihar Guest House, IIT Bombay) 19 March 2011 (DAY 2)
08.45 – 11.00 Technical Session III – Reform and Productivity Session Chair: Prof. Pushpa Trivedi, IIT Bombay 1) Is small beautiful? An evaluation of India’s product reservation policy for SSEs (Ishani Tiwari, Brown University, USA) 2) Catching up or sliding down? Reforms and regional manufacturing productivity in India (Suresh Babu M, IIT Madras and Rajesh Raj S N, CMDR, Dharwad) 3) Manufacturing in India: Has there been a Revival since the 1990s? (Jayan Jose Thomas, IIT Delhi) 4) J Curve Hypothesis of Productivity and output growth: A case study of Indian manufacturing in the post-reforms period (Danish A. Hashim, CII, Delhi, Ajay Kumar, CII, Delhi and Arvind Virmani, IMF, Washington) 5) Small versus Large: How Efficient they are? (B N Goldar, and Arup Mitra, IEG Delhi)
11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE BREAK 11.30 – 13.00 Panel Discussion Theme: “Economic Reforms and Manufacturing Performance: The Way Forward” Chair: Prof K L Krishna, Former Director Delhi School of Economics, Delhi Panelists: Prof Pulapre Balakrishnan, CDS, Trivandrum Dr. Subir Gokarn, Deputy Governor, RBI, Mumbai Prof. Rajendra Vaidya, IGIDR Bombay Dr. Atindra Sen, Director General, Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) Rapporteur: Purnima Purohit, University of Manchester, UK
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 Technical Session IV – Early Career Researchers Session Chair: Prof. BN Goldar, IEG Delhi 1) Conditional technology spillovers from FDI: Evidence from Indian manufacturing industries (Sanjaya Kumar Malik, CDS, Trivandrum) 2) Total Factor Productivity and Energy Intensity in Indian Manufacturing: A Cross-sectional Study (Santosh K. Sahu and K. Narayanan, IIT Mumbai) 3) Interaction between Technical Efficiency and Capital Structure: Evidence from Indian corporate sector (Kaushik Basu, ISEC, Bangalore) 4) (In)Efficiency in the Manufacturing Industry in India: A stochastic Frontier Approach (Swati Mehta, Punjabi University, Patiala) 5) A Study on Total Factor Productivity Growth of Rubber and Rubber Products Manufacturing Industries during the Liberalisation Period Using Malmquist Productivity Index (Anish C Aniyan and Dr. A. Palaniappan, Erode Arts & Science College, Erode) 6) Productivity in Indian Electronic Industry (Ms Irfana Samdani, Department of Economics, Osmania University, Hyderabad) 15.30 – 16.00 COFFEE BREAK 16.00 – 18.00 Technical Session V – Industry and Regional Studies Session Chair: Dr Suresh Babu, IIT Madras, Chennai 1) Product Patent, Emerging Strategies and Productivity & Efficiency of the firms: A Malmquist-Meta-Frontier Approach (Mainak Mazumdar, CSH, New Delhi and Meenakshi Rajeev, ISEC, Bangalore) 2) Productivity, Efficiency and Capacity Utilisation in Jute Industry under Economic Reforms in India: Non-Parametric Frontier Analysis with Firm Level Data (Panchanan Das, IDS, Kolkata) 3) Productivity Growth, Efficiency Change and Technical Progress: A Study of Registered Manufacturing Sector in Orissa (Badri Narayan Rath, IIT Hyderabad and Poulomi Bhattacharya, IBS Hyderabad) 4) Total Factor Productivity Growth in India in the Reform Period: A Disaggregated Sectoral Analysis (Deb Kusum Das, ICRIER Delhi, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Suresh Aggarwal, Deepika Wadhwa) |
