Impact of Capital Flows in The Money Supply Process of India
Abstract
Among the potential factors imparting endogeneity to the money
supply process, one is the influx of foreign capital that affects
the balance sheet of the central bank. In the presence of significant
capital flows into the economy concurrent with the on-going process of
financial liberalisation in India, we find that capital flows imparted
an endogenous impact on monetary aggregates through the route of variable
interest rates in a deregulated interest rate regime. The paper assesses
the frameworks used to analyse the impacts of capital flows. Adopting
an interest rate reaction function approach, the paper finds that capital
flows into the economy have
significant monetary impacts.