December in India, Part 3

December 19 - Conference and Injury

On Thursday morning we hired a car and drove from our hotel down to south Delhi to the campus of the Indian Statistical Institute for the conference I was attending.  This was the 9th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, sponsored by the Indian Statistical Institute
Planning and Policy Research Unit.

Campus of the Indian Statistical Institute in New Delhi

The conference was excellent and thoroughly enjoyable.  Many of the papers were not in my exact field of computational macroeconomics and public policy, but were still very interesting.  The comments on my paper with Chase Coleman, "Business Cycle Persistence in a Model with Endogenous Growth and Fluctuations", were insightful and very helpful.

Talking with Priti Mendiratta

Divya Tuteja Making me Think

 

Lunch

Presenting

The conference dinner that night was held at the French Culture Center in New Delhi.  We were taken there by bus and when getting off, I stepped in a hole a badly sprained my ankle.  It forced me to miss the rest of the conference as it swelled up so badly I could hardly get my shoe on.  So I cannot report on the rest of the conference, but the first day was excellent!

With Satya Das at the Dinner

December 20 - Day of Recovery

Due to the bad ankle we spent most of Friday in the hotel.  In the afternoon, we took a trip to visit a family living on the north side of Dehli.  Anu and Rakesh Wadhwa were the most gracious of hosts and taught Yeongmi and I a little about Indian cooking.  Yeongmi did most of the learning, I am afraid.  The visit was arranged through a local tour company via Viator.com and was probably the best experience we had while in India.

Cooking Chapati

A sad ankle :-(