Today my guest is Pravin Krishna is the Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University, at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Department of Economics. We talked about history of preferential trade agreements, India’s approach to trade liberalization, whether such agreements are trade creating or diverting, and much more.

Recorded November 12th, 2024.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:00:59) - Essential Components of the Postwar Multilateral Trade System

(00:04:38) - India’s Role in the GATT and the Special Status of Developing Countries

(00:06:31) - India in the Global Trade System After 1991

(00:09:10) - The Decline of the WTO and New Trade Dynamics

(00:17:45) - Understanding the Small Percentages of Preferential Trade

(00:20:19) - Indian Trade Liberalization and Alliances from 2010–2020

(00:26:18) - Viner: Trade Creation and Trade Diversion

(00:33:35) - More Optimistic View of Equilibrium

(00:38:46) - Foreign Lobbies in Domestic Markets

(00:49:3) - Just pick a number

(00:55:21) - The Impact of Trade Liberalization

(01:04:05) - Labor Elasticity in Relation to Trade Openness

(01:11:17) - Predicting the Near Future Impact of U.S. Trade Tariffs

(01:19:52) - How the New Administration’s Plans Might Impact India

(01:25:58) - Future Trade Relations Between India and China

(01:30:52) - Outro

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I spoke with Deepti Sharma, who's an Assistant Professor at Ahmedabad University. She completed her PhD in public policy from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Management of Health Services at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Her current research focus is empirical methods, applied microeconomics, public health and gender studies. We discussed her job market paper, Does it matter who you ask for Time Use Data? We talked about the systematic bias in proxy reporting when compared to self-reporting in time use surveys, some techniques used to fix those biases, the gendered nature of these biases, policy implications of using these time use surveys and much more.

Recorded September 12th, 2024.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:12) - Grand Tamasha

(00:02:42) - Proxy-Reporting Versus Self-Reporting in Time-Use Surveys

(00:07:16) - Gender Bias and Systematic Bias in Proxy-Reported Data

(00:10:27) - How Cultural Norms and Gender Perceptions Shape Reporting

(00:16:59) - Challenges in Collecting Accurate Time-Use Data

(00:19:34) - Methodological Approaches to Working with Proxy-Reported Data

(00:24:43) - Suggested Approaches to Conducting Time-Use Surveys

(00:31:21) - Impact of Climate Change on Gendered Agricultural Work

(00:33:17) - Hysterectomy Rates and Health Insurance Policies in India

(00:36:03) - Outro

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I spoke with Kushagr Bakshi is a Michigan International and Comparative Law Scholar and an SJD candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, where he also received his LLM. He received his first law degree from NUJS in West Bengal. We discussed a chapter of his dissertation called “The Country Without a Post Office: Jammu and Kashmir and the Imaginations of Freedom Within a Federation. We talked about assymetrical federalism versus hetererarchy, constitutional values and imagination for federalism in India, and much more.

Recorded October 24th, 2024.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:01:06) - Grand Tamasha

(00:04:12) - Asymmetric Versus Heterarchical Federalism

(00:19:37) - Isn’t this Asymmetric Federalism?

(00:31:39) - Democracy in Local Governments

(00:43:27) - Rethinking the Rajya Sabha

(00:53:30) - Outro