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Catastrophic Decline in Women Ownership of Firms in India: 2014-2022
NO : WP-2024-008 AUTHOR : Rozi Kumari and Rupayan Pal TITLE : Catastrophic Decline in Women Ownership of Firms in India: 2014-2022 ABSTRACT : Level playing field for women to participate in decision making and leadership positions is key to progress of a nation. Analysing widely used nationally representative datasets from the World […]
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 […]
A new mechanism for trade agreements to revitalize the Global Value Chains
NO : WP-2024-001 AUTHOR : Himanshu Jaiswal & A. Ganesh-Kumar TITLE : A new mechanism for trade agreements to revitalize the Global Value Chains ABSTRACT : The import tariff system has made a harmful dent on the global trading system. To avoid this, many countries have chosen the second-best option- ‘an FTA’; because […]
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 […]
Bank Capital and Monetary Policy Transmission: Analyzing the Central Bank’s Dilemma in the Indian Context
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 […]
Bankruptcy Regime Change and Credit Risk Premium on Corporate Bonds: Evidence from the Indian Economy
NO: WP-2023-001 AUTHOR: Rajeswari Sengupta and Harsh Vardhan TITLE: Bankruptcy Regime Change and Credit Risk Premium on Corporate Bonds: Evidence from the Indian Economy. ABSTRACT : Enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) in 2016 marked a watershed event in the commercial credit landscape in India,and represented a major enhancement in […]
Budget 2024: On the escape route
NO : WP-2024-020 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : Budget 2024: On the escape route ABSTRACT : Continuity was necessary for the budget, since current policy has delivered macroeconomic stability with growth, but as the first budget of a new government it was also expected to reveal policy directions required to fulfil its […]
Can effects of weather variation predict future economic downturn? Evidence from systemic risk in Indian financial markets by Pratik Thakkar
NO : WP-2025-006 AUTHOR : Pratik Thakkar TITLE : Can effects of weather variation predict future economic downturn? Evidence from systemic risk in Indian financial markets ABSTRACT : We examine how weather variation influences economic activity through its impact on sys¬temic risk in financial markets, an underexplored channel for a developing economy like […]
Central Bank Transparency, the Role of Institutions and Inflation Persistence
NO : WP-2023-012 AUTHOR : Taniya Ghosh and Yadavindu Ajit TITLE : Central Bank Transparency, the Role of Institutions and Inflation Persistence ABSTRACT : With the transparency revolution across the world, this paper aims to investigate the effect of increased central bank transparency on inflation dynamics. We use the-oretical and empirical methods to […]
