Indian School of Business-NBER Research Conference, 2023

The Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, India, hosted the second meeting in an annual joint NBER conference series on December 16-17, 2023. The meeting, on "Capital Markets, Technology, Financial Inclusion, and Economic Growth," was co-organized by Shilpa Aggarwal of ISB and Amit Seru of Stanford University and NBER. The program included ten papers that studied new developments in the financial sector, particularly the diffusion of new digital technologies in India and other emerging markets, as well as the links between the financial sector and the real economy. The meeting also included a panel discussion on how the rise of digital payment systems in both the public and private sectors has affected financial inclusion.