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**IIM Calcutta-NYU Stern
India Research Conference**

**Hosts**
The Financial Research and Trading Laboratory, IIM Calcutta
Center for Global Economy and Business, NYU Stern

**Date**
October 8, 2021

**Program Summary**     9:00 AM ET/
6:30 PM IST
**Welcome and Introductory Remarks
[Kose John](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/kose-john),** NYU Stern School of Business
9:10 AM ET/
6:40 PM IST
**Research Paper Session I
Moderator: Jennifer Carpenter**, NYU Stern School of Business

**[Bank Presence and Health](https://977e4cdc-976c-4573-ba7c-7a9497377a42.filesusr.com/ugd/8bc8ea_a6ce5b5a3ce743cab80280ead2eccbaf.pdf)
Kim Cramer,** Columbia Business School

Discussant: **Arpit Gupta**, NYU Stern School of Business

[**Winds of Change: Gender Quota on Boards in the Face of Patriarchy**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Naaraayanan%20Nielsen%20-%20Winds%20of%20Change--Gender%20Quota%20on%20Boards%20in%20the%20Face%20of%20Patriarchy.pdf)
**S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan**, London Business School
Kasper Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School

Discussant: **Lalitha Naveen**, Temple U Fox School of Business
10:20 AM ET/
7:50 PM IST
**Break**
10:35 AM ET/
8:05 PM IST
**Research Paper Session II
Moderator: David Yermack**, NYU Stern School of Business

[**Do Firms Have a Preference Order While Repaying Lenders? Relationship vs. Transaction Banking**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Vishen%20-%20Do%20Firms%20Have%20a%20Preference%20Order%20While%20Repaying%20Lenders_%20Relationship%20vs%20Transaction%20Banking.pdf)
**Nitin Vishen**, Indian School of Business Hyderabad

Discussant: **Vikrant Vig**, Northwestern U Kellogg School of Management and London Business School

[**Pre-Trade Opacity, Informed Trading, and Market Quality**](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Kumar%20Thirumalai%20Yadav%20-%20Pre-Trade%20Opacity%2C%20Informed%20Trading%2C%20and%20Market%20Quality.pdf)
K. Kiran Kumar, Indian Institute of Management Indore
Ramabhadran S. Thirumalai, Indian School of Business Hyderabad
Pradeep K. Yadav, U Oklahoma Price College of Business

Discussant: **Jonathan Brogaard**, U Utah Eccles School of Business
11:45 AM ET/
9:15 PM IST
**Break**
12:00 PM ET/
9:30 PM IST
**Keynote Speech**
**Raghuram Rajan**, Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

[The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology?](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Mishra%20Prabhala%20Rajan%20-%20The%20Relationship%20Dilemma--Why%20Do%20Banks%20Differ%20in%20the%20Pace%20at%20Which%20They%20Adopt%20Technology_.pdf)

Introduction by **Viral Acharya**, NYU Stern School of Business
1:05 PM ET/
10:35 PM IST
**Closing Remarks**
[**Sudhir Jaiswall**](https://www.iimcal.ac.in/users/sudhir), India Institute of Management Calcutta