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IGIDR Publication: India’s credit landscape in a post-pandemic world
NO: WP-2022-019 AUTHOR: Rajeswari Sengupta and Harsh Vardhan TITLE: India’s credit landscape in a post-pandemic world ABSTRACT : In this paper we study the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the financial sector of the Indian economy, specifically on the banking sector, the non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and the bond […]
IGIDR Publication: Assessing the accuracy and adequacy of India’s national energy balances: Implications for tracking sustainable development and climate goals
NO : WP-2022-018 AUTHOR : Manisha Jain TITLE : Assessing the accuracy and adequacy of India’s national energy balances: Implications for tracking sustainable development and climate goals ABSTRACT : National energy balances are essential for estimating various socioeconomic and environmental development indicators, including carbon-dioxide emissions. The Ministry of Statistics and […]
IGIDR Publication: Assessing Central Bank Commitment to Inflation Targeting: Evidence From Financial Market Expectations in India
NO: WP-2022-017 AUTHOR: Vaishali Garga, Aeimit Lakdawala and Rajeswari Sengupta TITLE: Assessing Central Bank Commitment to Inflation Targeting: Evidence From Financial Market Expectations in India ABSTRACT : We propose a novel framework to gauge the credibility of central banks’ commitment to an inflation-targeting regime. Our framework combines survey data on macroeconomic […]
IGIDR Publication: Covid-19 Pandemic: Impact, Recovery, and the Road Ahead for the Indian Economy
NO: WP-2022-016 AUTHOR: S. Mahendra Dev and Rajeswari Sengupta TITLE: Covid-19 Pandemic: Impact, Recovery, and the Road Ahead for the Indian Economy ABSTRACT : In an earlier paper (Dev and Sengupta, 2020) we had discussed the potential and immediate impact of the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic on various segments of […]
IGIDR Publication: Energy efficiency targets and tracking savings: Measurement issues in developing economies
NO: WP-2022-015 AUTHOR: Manisha Jain TITLE: Energy efficiency targets and tracking savings: Measurement issues in developing economies ABSTRACT : Energy efficiency plays a central role in climate change mitigation policies, but their impact on economy-wide energy consumption is uncertain. Improved methods to measure energy efficiency savings are adopted mainly in countries […]
IGIDR Publication: Competitive Equilibria and Robust Efficiency with Club Goods
NO : WP-2022-014 AUTHOR : Anuj Bhowmik and Japneet Kaur TITLE : Competitive Equilibria and Robust Efficiency with Club Goods ABSTRACT : The paper establishes an equivalence theorem (which states that an allocation is a club equilibrium allocation if and only if it is robustly efficient) in a setting where individuals […]
IGIDR Publication: What Drives Indian Inflation? Demand or Supply
NO : WP-2022-013 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Abhishek Kumar TITLE : What Drives Indian Inflation? Demand or Supply ABSTRACT : Understanding the drivers of inflation is an important issue in business cycle research and has been a matter of debate. In this paper, using data from a large emerging […]
