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    17 & 18 January


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IMR Doctoral Conference (IMRDC) 2025
17 & 18 January 2025
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Zoom Webinar Link: https://iim-b.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lHt8oeMpSZWugV0rVQaJuA

Schedule*

DAY 1: FRIDAY, 17th JANUARY 2025 VENUE N001
Timings Activity
8.30 am – 9.00 am Registration & Coffee
9.00 am – 9.30 am Inauguration
9.30 am – 11.00 am Banking sector in India: The Past, the Present and the Future 
Keynote Address** by Prof. Viral Acharya, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics,
 New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern)
11.00 am – 11.30 am Break
11.30 am –11.45 am Group photo IMRDC 2025
11.45 am – 1.15  pm Session 1
Paper 1: Finance & Accounting
Passive ownership and investment efficiency
Presenter: M Mareeswaran, IIM Bangalore
Discussant: Prof. Bipin Kumar Dixit, IIM Tiruchirappalli
Paper 2: Decision Sciences
Nonparametric method of structural break detection in financial data
Presenter: Archi Roy, IISER Pune
Discussant: Prof. Arnab Kumar Laha, IIM Ahmedabad
1.15 pm – 2.30 pm Lunch Break (MDC)
2.30 pm – 4.00  pm Session 2
Paper 3: Public Policy
Street safety: Fuel to girls’ secondary schooling in India
Presenter: Kumar Ashutosh, IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University
Discussant: Prof. Gitanjali Sen, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR
Paper 4: Finance & Accounting
Shortening of trade settlement cycle: Impact on trading attributes of securities
Presenter: Gouri Sankar Sahoo, IIM Calcutta
Discussant: Prof. Anirudh Dhawan, IIM Bangalore
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Break
4.30 pm – 6.00 pm Session 3
Paper 5: Public Policy
Exploring AI and labour market outcomes from a developing country perspective: Evidence from India
Presenter: Minali Grover, IIM Indore
Discussant: Prof. Sugat Chaturvedi, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University
Paper 6: Economics
Climate change, state capacity, and uneven growth - a disaggregated analysis of India
Presenter: Naveen Kumar, Delhi School of Economics
Discussant: Prof. A Damodaran, ICRIER New Delhi
7.30 pm – 9.00 pm Networking Dinner (MDC)

 

 

DAY 2: SATURDAY, 18th JANUARY 2025VENUE N001
8.30 am – 9.00 am Registration
9.00 am – 10.30 am Session 4
Paper 7: Strategy
Everything everywhere all at once: Breadth of executive attention and firm growth
Presenter: Pramendra Singh Tank, IIM Ahmedabad
Discussant: Prof. Rai Siddhant Sinha, NEOMA Business School, France
Paper 8: Organisational Behaviour/ Human Resources
Being 'liminal' selves: How individuals navigate work-work boundaries
Presenter: Aparna Sudha R, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR)
Discussant: Prof. Chayanika Bhayana, IIM Calcutta
10.30 am – 11.00 am Break
11.00 am – 12.30 pm Session 5
Paper 9: Economics
Historical fertility and income - A unified view
Presenter: Chakshu Jain, Indian Statistical Institute Delhi
Discussant: Prof. Mausumi Das, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi
Paper 10: Production and Operations Management
Electric vs flex-fuel vehicles –The impact of government policies on automaker’s choice between green technologies
Presenter: Satyajit Roy, IIM Bangalore
Discussant: Prof. Prakash Awasthy, IIM Nagpur
12.30 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch Break
2.00 pm – 3.30 pm Panel Discussion: Academic Job Market: Recruiters’ Perspective
Prof. Anirban Adhikary, IIM Udaipur
Prof. Shubhasis Dey, IIM Kozhikode
Prof. Janakiraman Moorthy, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai
Prof. Ranjeet Nambudiri, IIM Indore
Moderator: Prof Chetan Subramanian, IIM Bangalore
3.30 pm – 4.00 pm Break
4.00 pm – 4.45 pm Session 6
Paper 11: Finance & Accounting
Is the trading pattern of foreign institutional investors prior to IPOs indicative of their interest in the IPO stocks?
Presenter: Somak Mukherjee, IIM Calcutta
Discussant: Prof. Sumit Saurav, IIM Bangalore
4.45 pm -- 5.15  pm Break
5.15  pm – 5.45 pm Valedictory and Awards Ceremony
7.30 pm onwards Dinner

*Please note that the order and timings of the paper presentations are liable to change.

**Prof. Viral Acharya will provide an overview of how the banking sector was stabilized over the past decade following excesses of the prior decade (especially following the Global Financial Crisis), what are its present opportunities and challenges on the back of digital finance and competition from non-tech lenders (including "fintechs"), and what are the implications going forward for risk management and financial stability for the banking sector as well as the overall macroeconomy.