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"The private sector is much more likely to misuse Aadhar than the government." - Abhijit Banerjee
No full textIn May 2018, LSE South Asia Centre hosted a workshop where Abhijit Banerjee, the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT, discussed why Indian democracy doesn't to deliver more. Ahead of the event, Anshuman Tiwari interviewed Abhijit Banerjee
A Stacked Segmented Adaptive Power Amplifier in 22nm FD-SOI
No full textThis work was supported by Soitec. (Corresponding author: Aritra Banerjee.
Collected Works of K Banerjee
No full textSpl. publication on the eve of Prof. K.Banerjee Birth Celebration. Prof. K Banerjee was a pioneer in X-Ray Crystallography Research in Indi
Forecasting with factor-augmented error correction models
No full textAs a generalization of the factor-augmented VAR (FAVAR) and of the Error Correction Model (ECM), Banerjee and Marcellino (2009) introduced the Factor-augmented Error Correction Model (FECM). The FECM combines error-correction, cointegration and dynamic factor models, and has several conceptual advantages over the standard ECM and FAVAR models. In particular, it uses a larger dataset than the ECM and incorporates the long-run information which the FAVAR is missing because of its specification in differences. In this paper, we examine the forecasting performance of the FECM by means of an analytical example, Monte Carlo simulations and several empirical applications. We show that FECM generally offers a higher forecasting precision relative to the FAVAR, and marks a useful step forward for forecasting with large datasets.Published version of EUI RSCAS WP 2009/3
A new type of lattice gauge theory through self-adjoint extensions
No full textA generalization of Wilsonian lattice gauge theory may be obtained by considering the possible self-adjoint extensions of the electric field operator in the Hamiltonian formalism. In the special case of 3D U(1) gauge theory these are parametrised by a phase θ, and the ordinary Wilson theory is recovered for θ=0. We consider the case θ=π, which, upon dualization, turns into a theory of staggered integer and half-integer height variables. We investigate order parameters for the breaking of the relevant symmetries, and thus study the phase diagram of the theory, which shows evidence of a broken ℤ2 symmetry in the continuum limit, in contrast to the ordinary theory
Author Exchange
No full textAnthropologist Mukulika Banerjee and political scientist Sushmita Pati have a conversation about their recently published books set in rural Bengal and Delhi’s urban villages, respectively. They situate their analyses of the intersections between democracy, capitalism, urbanization, and globalization in events, relations, and cultures of the everyday. Their exchange offers important insights for how political subjectivities and social ties are differently constituted or, to use Banerjee’s term, “cultivated” in these two settings. The two books offer a fine-grained view of how active citizenship in rural and urban India is refracted through distinct social and institutional structures. India is home to some of the world’s largest cities while more than 900 million people continue to live in the countryside. Its democratic future is therefore inextricably tied to the evolution of political behavior and political economy in both contexts, and, as Banerjee and Pati’s joint response indicates, to how urban and rural dynamics shape each other through (but not only through) migrants and their networks.
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Review of Mukulika Banerjee’s \u27Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India\u27 by Sushmita Pati
Response from Mukulika Banerjee
Review of Sushmita Pati’s \u27Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi\u27 by Mukulika Banerjee
Response from Sushmita Pati
Joint Commentary from Banerjee and Pat
Partition as Oedipal Tragedy A Conversation between Bratya Basu and Milinda Banerjee
No full textThis is a condensed and annotated version of a conversation that took place between Bratya Basu (1969–), playwright and director, and Minister of Education of the Indian state of West Bengal, and Milinda Banerjee, on 4 July 2022. The original conversation was in Bengali; a translation is offered below. The dialogue focused primarily on Basu’s play Hridipash (2016), a Bengali adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, designed to explore the tragedy of the Partition of India in 1947. However, other plays by Basu also entered the discussion, especially Creusa, the Queen (2019), a Bengali adaptation of Euripides’ Ion
Q and A with Dr Mukulika Banerjee on cultivating democracy: politics and citizenship in agrarian India
No full textWe speak to Dr Mukulika Banerjee, Associate Professor in LSE Department of Anthropology, about her new book Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India, which explores how agrarian life in rural India creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the cultivation of democracy
Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 129:A markup model for forecasting inflation for the Euro area
No full textIn this note we use the methodology of Banerjee, Cockerell and Russell (2001) and Banerjee and Russell (2001) to develop a small model for forecasting inflation for the Euro-area using quarterly data over the period June 1973 to March 2002
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