Syllabus (including Presentations)
Lecture Notes:
LN1-2: Theories of Credit Rationing
Reading: P. Ghosh, D Mookherjee and D. Ray, Credit Rationing in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Theory
LN3: Microcredit and Joint Liability Loans
LN4-5: Microcredit, New Directions
LN6: Credit Frictions and Mis-Allocation in Agriculture
LN8-9: Risk and Insurance Market Failures
LN13-14: Political Economy Models: Median Voter and Citizen Candidates
LN15-16: Political Economy Models: Probabilistic Voting, Lobbying and Elite Capture
LN17: Models of Long-Run Instititutional Dynamics
LN18: Vote Buying and Clientelism
LN19: Gender Reservations in Elections
LN20: Political Decentralization and Governance
LN21: Political Decentralization and Inter-Village Targeting
LN22: Presentation of `Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China'