1st April, 2017
Seanza Conference Hall, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research, Mumbai
The IGIDR workshop on household finance seeks research to answer questions about the investment choices of investors and households in financial assets. The research includes the one-time investment allocation decisions as well as how investors respond to changes in news and information. This research also seeks to understand the behaviour of financial service providers and intermediaries as well as the impact of law and regulations in this area.
The agenda for the workshop is as follows:
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Registration, Coffee and Tea |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Welcome address A. N. Roy, Vandana Foundation |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Report of the RBI Committee on Household Finance Tarun Ramadorai, Professor of Financial Economics, Imperial College London, and Chairman of the RBI committee on household finance Panelist: Praveen Chakravarty, IDFC Institute Monika Halan, Mint Renuka Sane, ISI Delhi |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | When is microcredit unsuitable? [presentation] Vaishnavi Prathap and Rachit Khaitan, IFMR Foundation Discussant: Kaushik Krishnan, True North |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | IRDA regulations and compensation for insurance intermediaries [presentation] Monika Halan, Mint Discussant: Susan Thomas, IGIDR |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 13:00 | Panel: FinTech: Barriers and opportunities for financial inclusion Panelist: Shinjini Kumar, PayTM, Varad Pande, Dalberg Global Development Advisors Malavika Raghavan, IFMR Finance Foundation |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Stock market participation in the aftermath of an accounting scandal [presentation] Renuka Sane, NIPFP Discussant: Harsh Vardhan, Bain Advisors |
| 16:15 - 17:15 | Towards a Privacy Framework for India in the Age of the Internet [presentation] Vrinda Bhandari, Independent scholar, and Renuka Sane, NIPFP Discussant: Rahul Matthan, Trilegal |