NO : WP-2017-018 AUTHOR : S. Mahendra Dev TITLE : Recent Changes in Measurement of India’s GDP: Overall Issues and Some Focus on Agriculture ABSTRACT : This paper discusses (a) changes in measurement in industry and services (b) changes made in agriculture sector and (c) major issues on the measurement of GDP in […]
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IGIDR Working Paper: Monetary transmission in India: Working of price and quantum channels
NO : WP-2017-017 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Deepak Kumar Agarwal TITLE : Monetary transmission in India: Working of price and quantum channels ABSTRACT : We examine the strength and efficacy of transmission from the policy rate and liquidity provision to market rates in India, using event window regression analysis. We find the […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Estimating the Relationship between the Current Account, the Capital Account and Investment for India
NO : WP-2017-016 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Vaishnavi Sharma TITLE : Estimating the Relationship between the Current Account, the Capital Account and Investment for India ABSTRACT : Causality from the capital account (KA) to the current account (CA) of the balance of payments indicates disruption from capital flows while the reverse can […]
IGIDR Working Paper: An analysis of revisions in Indian GDP data
NO : WP-2017-015 AUTHOR : Amey Sapre and Rajeswari Sengupta TITLE : An analysis of revisions in Indian GDP data ABSTRACT : In this paper we study revisions in the annual estimates of India’s GDP data. The objective of our analysis is to understand the revision policy adopted by the Central Statistical Organisation […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Slowdown in bank credit growth: Aggregate demand or bank non-performing assets ?
NO : WP-2017-014 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Akhilesh Verma TITLE :Slowdown in bank credit growth: Aggregate demand or bank non-performing assets? ABSTRACT : This paper tests the bank lending channel against the aggregate demand channel as an explanation for slow credit growth by estimating the determinants of credit and of non- […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Drivers of farmers’ income: The role of farm size and diversification
NO : WP-2017-013 AUTHOR : Varun Kumar Das and A. Ganesh-Kumar TITLE :Drivers of farmers’ income: The role of farm size and diversification ABSTRACT : The basic objective of this study is to analyse the role of farm size and diversification in determining farmers’ income. Using data from NSS 70th round […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Watching India’s insolvency reforms: a new dataset of insolvency cases
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IGIDR Working paper: The Plutocratic Bias in the Indian CPI
NO : WP-2017-011 AUTHOR : Dilip M. Nachane, Aditi Chaubal TITLE : The Plutocratic Bias in the Indian CPI ABSTRACT : The Laspeyres-type consumer price index (CPI) is traditionally used to measure the changes in cost-of-living over time. Studies indicate this CPI suffers from a plutocratic bias, attaching greater weightage to expenditure […]
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Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta, Assistant Professor has been awarded a Scholarship by the Reserve Bank of India
Dr. Rajeswari Sengupta, Assistant Professor has been awarded a Scholarship by the RBI under their “Scholarship Scheme for Faculty Members from Academic Institutions – 2017”. This scheme aims at bringing on board scholars, who would be able to undertake and pursue critical projects successfully and thereby contribute to the Reserve […]
