Thirteenth Annual Conference in India.

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On December 16-18, 2011 the NBER, along with India's National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), sponsored a meeting that included NBER researchers as well as economists from Indian universities, research institutions, and government departments. NBER Research Associates Abhijit Banerjee of MIT and Raghuram Rajan of the University of Chicago organized the conference jointly with Parthasarathi Shome of ICRIER.

The NBER participants, in addition to the organizers, were: Martin Feldstein, Mark Melitz, and Rohini Pande, Harvard University; Marianne Bertrand and Anil K Kashyap, University of Chicago's Booth School of Business; Anne...