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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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Accumulation of household debt in India: Repercussions for economic recovery

The Covid-19 crisis and the subsequent recession has brought about a shift in financial savings; households have cut back on consumption and reduced their demand for credit, and banks tightened lendin...

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Not exactly bad news: Fed tightening cycle’s implications for emerging markets

The conventional perception, that US Federal Reserve rate hikes necessarily imply capital outflows from emerging markets, is an incomplete assessment. This article disaggregates Fed hikes’ effects o...

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Can access to finance spur entrepreneurship in Indian informal sector?

Credit constraints, a consequence of the widespread failure of credit markets in developing countries, are widely regarded as a key constraint to entrepreneurship. Using 2010-11 and 2015-16 National S...

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Consumption smoothing and household savings: Role of demographics and durables

Canonical predictions of life-cycle models indicate that households will smooth consumption over their lifetimes. Conversely, empirical data from high-income countries have shown that consumption cont...

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International financial architecture and emerging economies

Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this editio...

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International financial architecture and emerging economies

Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this editio...

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How do RBI’s actions (and words) affect financial markets?

Financial markets in developed countries are known to react substantially to monetary shocks, that is, surprise changes in policy rates announced by the central bank. Based on a narrative analysis of ...

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Budget 2022-23: Capital gains tax, and asset-price stability

Although there is a need to ensure asset-price stability, the 2022-23 Budget has left the capital gains tax on equity investment unchanged. In this post, Gurbachan Singh examines the idea of a tax as ...

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Mind the tone: Text analysis of Monetary Policy Committee statements

Government of India appoints three external members on the six-member Monetary Policy Committee, and the statements of all MPC members are released after every committee meeting. Based on data from 30...

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Evaluating the risks in opening up the banking sector

The RBI (Reserve Bank of India) has accepted some of the key recommendations of the Internal Working Group (IWG) to Review Extant Ownership Guidelines and Corporate Structure for Indian Private Sector...

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Thinking about financial sector reforms in India

A key element of the economy that needs to function well in order to facilitate India’s strong and sustained recovery from the pandemic is the financial system. In this post, Sengupta and Vardhan d...

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Credit risk management policies of banks: A new approach

Despite increasing robustness of banks and multipurpose liquidity provided by the Reserve Bank of India, there is no perceptible improvement in credit growth. K. Srinivasa Rao proposes a new approach ...

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