24 July, 2024India’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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Chetan Ghate Kenneth Kletzer Mahima Yadav 
12 July, 2024
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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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Gagari Chakrabarti Chitrakalpa Sen
- 26 June, 2024
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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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Unninarayanan Kurup Rajendra N. Paramanik Rounak Sil
- 24 June, 2024
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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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Neha Bairoliya Areendam Chanda
- 25 April, 2022
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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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Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
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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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Viral Acharya Amartya Lahiri
- 05 April, 2022
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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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Aeimit Lakdawala Rajeswari Sengupta
- 09 March, 2022
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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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Gurbachan Singh
- 04 February, 2022
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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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Vidya Mahambare Jalaj Pathak
- 31 January, 2022
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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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K. Srinivasa Rao
- 14 January, 2022
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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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Rajeswari Sengupta Harsh Vardhan
- 15 November, 2021
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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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K. Srinivasa Rao
- 22 October, 2021
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Impact of information disclosure on consumer behaviour: The case of high-risk bonds
In April 2021, Yes Bank was fined by India’s market regulator for inadequate information disclosure – high-risk bonds were mis-sold to high net-worth investors without accurately informing them ab...
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Niyati Agrawal Monami Dasgupta Monika Halan Misha Sharma Madhu Srinivas
- 09 August, 2021
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‘Consumerisation’ of banking in India: Cyclical or structural?
Over the past decade, India’s banking sector has undergone a transformation in terms of the proportion of credit extended to consumers and industry – with consumer credit now accounting for a larg...
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Rajeswari Sengupta Harsh Vardhan
- 23 July, 2021
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A decade of credit collapse in India
The government and the Central Bank have undertaken various measures to protect the banking and finance sector from the adverse impact of the Covid-19 crisis. However, despite historically low interes...
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Harsh Vardhan
- 25 June, 2021
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