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Soumya Bhadury is an Associate Fellow at NCAER (National Council of Applied Economic Research) with primary research interests in macroeconomics, international economics, and time series econometrics. Soumya is interested in the areas of monetary transmission mechanism, monetary theory and policy, and exchange rates. At NCAER, he is currently involved in developing a ‘Now-casting’ model for the Indian economy. Now-casting is defined as the prediction of the present, the near future and the recent past, and runs through a large set of economic predictors, including both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ data, consumer survey, business sentiments etc. Soumya received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kansas, US. His research also focusses on the role of correctly measured monetary aggregates like ‘Divisia’ in exchange rate determination for open economies.