Finance Research Group

Emerging Markets Finance Conference, 2012

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17^th - 18^th December 2012
Venue: The Grand Hyatt
next to Bandra-Kurla Complex
Bombay.

Programme committee:

Viral Acharya, NYU
Bhagwan Chowdhury, UCLA
Tarun Ramadorai, Said Business School, Oxford
Subrata Sarkar, IGIDR Bombay
Ajay Shah, NIPFP Delhi
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, UCLA
Ram Thirumalai, ISB Hyderabad
Susan Thomas, IGIDR Bombay
Pradeep Yadav, Univ. of Oklahoma

17^th December 2012

09:00 - 10:00	Registration, Coffee and Tea
09:50 - 10:00	Welcome address
Session I: Markets and microstructure Chairperson: Venky Panchapagesan, IIM Bangalore
10:00 - 10:50	Measuring and explaining the asymmetry of liquidity [paper] Rajat Tayal and Susan Thomas, IGIDR Finance Research Group Discussant: Kiran Kumar, NISM
10:50 - 11:40	Scalpel or Hatchet? Program Trade Regulation, [paper] Woo-Baik Lee, Korea National Open University, Jong Won Park, University of Seoul and Steven J. Jordan, Econometric Solutions Discussant: Susan Thomas, IGIDR FRG
11:40 - 12:30	Market Imperfections and Regulatory Intervention: The Case of Insider Trading Regulation in the Indian Stock Market [paper] Yogesh Kumar Chauhan, ICFAI, Kiran Kumar Kotha, NISM and Vijaya B. Marisetty, RMIT University Discussant: Ram Thirumalai, ISB
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
Session II: Macroeconomics and Finance
13:30 - 14:20	The Real Effects of Foreign Investment: Productivity and Growth [paper] Neviana Petkova, University of Oregon Discussant: Ajay Shah, NIPFP
14:20 - 15:10	Bank Involvement in Firm Management, Panacea or a Pain? [paper] Amit Bubna Indian School of Business and Radhakrishnan Gopalan, Washington University Discussant: Rajendra Vaidya, IGIDR
15:10 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 17:30	Policy Roundtable: High Frequency Trading Chairperson: U K Sinha, SEBI Panel: Sanjiv Shah, Goldman Sach Asset Management Co. Susan Thomas, IGIDR FRG Sandeep Tyagi, Estee Advisors Ltd.
19:00 - 21:30	Dinner

18^th December 2012

Session III: Corporate Governance Chairperson: K. Vaidyanathan, Mahindra & Mahindra
10:00 - 10:50	Discipline or Disruption? Stakeholder Relationships and the Effect of Takeover Threat [paper] Ling Cen, University of Toronto, Sudipto Dasgupta and Rik Sen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Discussant: Poonam Mehra, NISM
10:50 - 11:40	Collusion, incentives and information: The role of experts in corporate governance [paper] Sanjay Banerji, University of Nottingham and Tianxi Wang, University of Essex Discussant: Subrata Sarkar, IGIDR
11:40 - 12:30	Changes in distance-to-default as a timely indicator of changes in credit ratings [paper] Nidhi Aggarwal, IGIDR Finance Research Group, Manish Kumar Singh, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and Susan Thomas, IGIDR Finance Research Group Discussant: Rik Sen, HKUST
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
Session IV: Household Finance Chairperson: Bindu Ananth, IFMR Trust
13:30 - 14:20	How does micro-credit matter: Evidence from a large-scale natural experiment [paper] Renuka Sane, IGIDR Finance Research Group. Discussant: Sripad Motiram, IGIDR
14:20 - 15:10	Do Stock Traders Learn from Experience? Evidence from an Emerging Market [paper] John Y. Campbell, Harvard University, Tarun Ramadorai, Said Business School, University of Oxford and Benjamin Ranish, Harvard University Discussant: Renuka Sane, IGIDR FRG
15:10 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 17:30	Policy Roundtable: Macroeconomic and financial policy challenges, 2012 Panel: Subir Gokarn, RBI K. P. Krishnan, Govt. of Karnataka Josh Felman, IMF Ajay Shah, NIPFP
17:30 - 17:45	Closing address and an announcement

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