NO : WP-2024-019 AUTHOR : Rajeswari Sengupta, Harsh Vardhan and Akhilesh Verma TITLE : Bank Capital and Monetary Policy Transmission: Analyzing the Central Bank’s Dilemma in the Indian Context ABSTRACT : This paper explores the role of bank capital in monetary policy transmission within the Indian economy, where the banking sector is the […]
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Inflation Expectations and Keeping Up With the Joneses
NO : WP-2024-018 AUTHOR : Taniya Ghosh and Abhishek Gorsi TITLE : Inflation Expectations and Keeping Up With the Joneses Abstract The paper analyzes the role of personal income change and social comparisons in explaining the heterogeneity and upward bias in Indian households’ inflation expectations by using repeated cross-sectional data from the Reserve […]
Merit List for Spot Admission for the M.Sc.(Economics) Programme 2024
Notification for Spot Admission for the M.Sc.Programme 2024
Access to clean cooking fuel and women outcomes
NO : WP-2024-017 AUTHOR : Bharti Nandwani and Manisha Jain TITLE : Access to clean cooking fuel and women outcomes ABSTRACT : This paper examines the impact of India’s Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), a clean cooking policy that offered free Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) connections to women from economically and socially disadvantaged households, on […]
Impact of Teacher Gender and Role Models on Student Outcomes in India
NO : WP-2024-016 AUTHOR : Eshita Goswami TITLE : Impact of Teacher Gender and Role Models on Student Outcomes in India ABSTRACT : This study estimates the impact of teacher gender and tests for role model effects on various student outcomes such as test scores, transferrable skills, attendance and attitudes. We perform the analysis for […]
Money and output asymmetry: the unintended consequences of central banks’ obsession with inflation by Taniya Ghosh and Abhishek Gorsi
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A historical perspective on India’s inflation persistence: a quantile analysis
NO : WP-2024-015 AUTHOR : Yadavindu Ajit and Taniya Ghosh TITLE : A historical perspective on India’s inflation persistence: a quantile analysis ABSTRACT : This study investigates historical inflation persistence in India under three distinct regimes: monetary targeting, multiple indicator, and inflation targeting (IT). Previous stud- ies for India relied heavily on mean-based […]
Inflation convergence across Indian states
NO : WP-2024-014 AUTHOR : Yadavindu Ajit and Taniya Ghosh TITLE : Inflation convergence across Indian states ABSTRACT : This study examines the convergence of inflation and the formation of inflation clubs across Indian states from 2012 to 2023. The empirical findings indicate a reduction in inflation dispersion among Indian states. The convergence test using […]
