Last Date for submission: April 16, 2025

Gerzensee, Switzerland

Last Date for submission: June 30, 2025

Warsaw, Poland

The RBIDATA mobile app, launched by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), provides macroeconomic and financial statistics on the Indian economy in an interactive format. It offers access to over 11,000 economic data series, allowing users to visualize time series data through graphs and charts, download information, and explore key details such as data sources, frequency, and recent updates. Key features include Popular Reports, a Search function for easy access, a Banking Outlet locator, and data on SAARC countries. The app connects to RBI’s Database on the Indian Economy (DBIE) and is available for iOS and Android (version 12+), catering to researchers, students, and the public.

International Economics and Economic Policy, January 2025

This paper examined the effectiveness of the intervention of the central bank and macroeconomic indicators with the exchange rates among BRICS countries. We found that foreign exchange intervention in Russia, India, and China can reduce exchange rate volatility; thereby, they may be presumed effective in reducing...

World Development, February 2025

The relationship between microcredit and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been explored in numerous quantitative studies. These alternately claim that microcredit exacerbates, reduces or has no impact on IPV. These contrasting findings are problematic, however, particularly as hundreds of billions of dollars...

International Journal of Finance & Economics, February 2025

This study explores the impact of Indian non-financial firms' capital structure on corporate zombification. The study uses a logit model, with the capital structure mix as a covariate, to determine the likelihood of a firm becoming a zombie. Panel data from 1999 to 2020 for...

Journal of Economics and Business, February 2025

We aim to understand the relative impact of traditional financial inclusion (FI) and digital financial inclusion (DFI) on perceived financial resilience (FR). We use Global Findex data for the years 2014 and 2021. Our sample includes 33933 individuals from 13 emerging economies. FI indicators include bank...

Applied Economics, February 2025

We study the effect of an exogenous shock (Covid-19) on microcredit repayment behaviour of subsistence women entrepreneurs. We combine big data (Google mobility, Night-time lights and infection rates) with an original panel dataset of 2345 subsistence women entrepreneurs from rural India. Using random effects and hybrid...

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, February 2025

Exports from high-income countries are three times more diversified than from low-income economies. We provide a new tech-based interpretation of the stages of diversification accompanying the economic growth paths of countries. Using the decomposition properties of the relative Theil index...