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Finance for small-firm growth: Towards flexibility and innovation

While microfinance contract innovations like repayment grace periods help small-firm owners, they can increase default rates for microfinance institutions. Based on field experiments in Pakistan and K...

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Do commodity derivatives suspensions rein in food price inflation?

Since December 2021, derivatives trading on seven agricultural commodities remains suspended, driven by concerns over excessive speculation and its potential impact on food prices. This article highli...

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RBI’s costly experiments with the currency

During 2023-2024, the average annual volatility of the rupee-dollar exchange rate was 1.8% – the lowest in over two decades. In this post, Patnaik, Pandey and Sengupta explain why sudden and sharp l...

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New banks, credit, and misallocation

In the late 1990s, India opened its banking sector to new private banks – both domestic and foreign. This article shows that this resulted in greater flow of credit – but only for big firms. Highe...

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Seeking ‘greenium’

While sustainable investing is growing rapidly, it is unclear who is benefitting from this and how. Based on analysis of data on green bonds and loans, this article finds that the gainers are mainly f...

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Finance for small-firm growth: Towards flexibility and innovation

While microfinance contract innovations like repayment grace periods help small-firm owners, they can increase default rates for microfinance institutions. Based on field experiments in Pakistan and K...

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Do commodity derivatives suspensions rein in food price inflation?

Since December 2021, derivatives trading on seven agricultural commodities remains suspended, driven by concerns over excessive speculation and its potential impact on food prices. This article highli...

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RBI’s costly experiments with the currency

During 2023-2024, the average annual volatility of the rupee-dollar exchange rate was 1.8% – the lowest in over two decades. In this post, Patnaik, Pandey and Sengupta explain why sudden and sharp l...

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When is corporate debt a threat to macroeconomic stability?

Since the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis, policymakers have focused on household debt as the primary risk factor for macroeconomic stability. Should they be similarly worried about corporate debt? Ba...

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WazirX: Socialisation of losses and need for financial regulation

The cryptocurrency exchange WazirX recently faced a security breach resulting in huge losses for its users. In this post, Nipuna Varman evaluates the ‘loss socialisation’ recovery plan that was in...

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How RBI’s macroprudential policies shape housing loan decisions

The recent surge in housing finance in India calls for a robust regulatory framework to ensure financial stability and avert overheating of the housing market. Using data on individual mortgage loans ...

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RBI’s extraterritorial influence on the rupee market

The emergence of the offshore non-deliverable forward market in the rupee has made it more challenging for the RBI to maintain exchange rate stability. In this post, Datta and Sengupta explain the dri...

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India’s foreign reserves and global risk

India’s foreign exchange reserves, relative to GDP, have been on the rise. This article examines the motives behind the hoarding of reserves by central banks, and if adequate reserves are held for p...

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Green is good: Risk insights into Indian green stocks

While consistent financial flows towards climate resilience are crucial, there is a recent global trend of withdrawal of investment from ‘green assets’. Given the centrality of potential risk-adju...

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Embracing the melody of dissent: A symphony in policymaking

In recent times, members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India, have expressed views that are contrary to the MPC’s official stance. This article investigates the influence o...

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