CONFLUENCE 2010

The Student Organizing Committee would like to thank the students of all colleges for attending Confluence 2010, and making our effort a grand success. Thank you for participating in the hosted events. We hope our blog has been helpful in the days leading up to Confluence 2010. Therefore with this final post, we would like to close our blog. However, to all our friends, who have been regularly visiting this blog, one final information before we close.

Students of MUC Womens' College & Jadavpur University are requested to kindly collect their prizes from us. You can drop in on any working day, from Monday to Saturday. However, since we will be having classes, please inform us prior to your arrival. This will enable us to assist you better.

So until we meet again,

Thanking you,
Yours truly
Student Organizing Committee.

Event Details : Corporate - Academic Discussion

Prof  Ambarnath Ghosh, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University has agreed to be the moderator for the event

Event Details: Corporate Academic Discussion

We are glad to announce that Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta, former Professor at ISI kolkata and Prof. Avirup Sarkar, Professor at ISI Kolkata have kindly agreed to represent the academicians in our event, "Corporate Academic Discussion".

So you think you can teach?

The following students have been selected to participate in the final round of the event, "So you think you can teach?":

1. Sampriti Biswas (Gurudas College)
   Topic : CES Production function
2. Shankho Bannerjee (Presidency College)
   Topic : BBM
3. Aruni Mitra (St. Xavier's College)
   Topic : Tariffs and quotas under perfect competition
4. Jayapria Dev (Basanti Devi College)
   Topic : Backward bending supply curve
5. Nikhi Choudhari (Shri Shikshayatan)
   Topic : Philips Curve
6. Sreetama Bhattacharya (Loreto College)
   Topic : Sticky wage and aggregate supply
7. Piyasmoni Pal (Muralidhar Girls' College)
   Topic : Liquidity Trap and Monetary Policy
8. Md. Moshi-ul-alam (Jadavpur University)
   Topic : LR Equilibrium in Monopolistic Competition

Budding Economist

The following have been chosen to participate in the final rounds of the event, "Budding Economist":

1. Pratanu Mitra (Presidency College)
2. Tanuj Daga (Scottish Church College)
3. Lydia De Salma (Surendranath College for Women)
4. Ayaskanta Ghosh (Jaipuria College)
5. Shatadru Chatterjee (Vidyasagar College)
6. Sampriti Biswas (Guru Das College)
7. Mahasweta Mitra (Jadavpur University)
8. Shivangi Shah (St. Xavier's College)

EVENT DETAILS: Lecture Series

The details for our event Lecture Series are as follows:

Prof. Biswajit Chatterjee, Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University, and President, Bengal Economic Association, has kindly agreed to deliver a lecture on Macroeconomics.

Prof. Tarun Kabiraj, Professor at ISI, Calcutta, has kindly agreed to deliver a lecture on Microeconomics.

Prof. Swati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, Rabindrabharati University, has kindly agreed to deliver a lecture on Development & Gender.


There will be an interactive session with the speakers afterwards.

EVENT DETAILS: Inauguration

We are happy to announce that Confluence 2010 will be inaugurated by our Chief Guest for this year, Prof. Mihir K. Rakshit.,  Director, Monetary Research Project at ICRA, Calcutta, President of Annual Econometric Society. He is also the Editor-in-Chief , Money and Finance.

Parley

The motion for the final round of the event "Parley" is:

• "This house believes that Innovation works best when the Government does least"

The following colleges have been selected for the final round:

1. Scottish Church College
2. Ashutosh College
3. Presidency College
4. Ramkrishna Mission Vidyamandira
5. St. Xavier's College

Final Participants for the event "So you think you can sell?"

The following students have been selected to participate in the final round of the event, "So you think you can sell?"

1. Sayali Shankar - Gurudas College
2. Sayantani Chackraborty - Gokhale Memorial College
3. Soumendra Bhattacharya - Presidency College
4. Debmitra Roy - S.A. Jaipuria College
5. Nikita Agarwal - Loreto College
6. Somrwita Guha - Jadavpur University
7. Kasturi Chatterjee - Bidhannagar College
8. Sayon Ghosh - St. Xavier's College

SELECTED PAPERS FOR PAPER PRESENTATION

The following papers have been selected for presentation during Confluence 2010. The listing given here is the order in which the papers were submitted. The final day order of presentation will be decided by a drawing of lots, prior to the commencement of the event on 27th, September 2010.

1. St. Xavier's College - Inflation in India


by Subhashita Basu, Aruni Mitra, Anirban Palit



2. Vidyasagar College – Food Security in India

by Satadru Chatterjee, payel Chakraborty, Saswata Basak, Upama Mandi



3. St. Xaviers College – Public and Private Health

by Arpita Ghosh, Soumik Banerjee, Ankita Bose, Sayon Ghosh



4. Presidency College – Food Security in India

by Rudradip Saha, Aritri Das, Arka Pratim Ghosh, Sounak Thakur



5. Ashutosh College – Food Security in India: Not a utopian idea

by Shiny Kundu, Sreeya Brahma, Suparna Halder



6. Lady Brabourne College – Food Security in India

by Dweepobotee Brahma, Soumika Mukherjee, Chirasree Pal



7. Jogomaya Devi College – Recent Inflation in India: Trend, causes and its impact

Economic Inequality

by Sweta Singh, Aditi Sarkar, Porichita Roy, Navita Shaw



8. Presidency College – The Economics of Public & Private Health in India –

choice, equilibrium and Macroeconomic implications

by M Waled Aadnan, Pratanu Mitra, Nikita Kamath, Akshay Govind Dixit



 

9. MUC Women’s College – Inflationary Paradox of India with special reference to

unemployment and the existence of Philips Curve in

Indian Economy

by Debika Nandi, Debika Dutta, Mahamaya Samanta, Bidisha Chatterjee

Selected participants should send two additional hard copies and a copy of the powerpoint presentation (which may be mailed but must be compatible with Ofiice 2003) on Wednesday from 2 PM to 4 PM

PAPER PRESENTATION

The final date for paper presentation submission was 15th September, 2010.

NO FURTHER PAPER SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ENTERTAINED.

The selected papers for the final day will be uploaded after Sunday, on this blog. Date for the submission of the power point presentation will be declared then.