RBI's First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement 2014-15 - Full Text

RBI's Second Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement 2014-15 - Full Text

Full Text of RBI Third Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2014-15 - 5th August 2014

Full Text of RBI Fourth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2014-15 - 30th September 2014

Full Text of RBI Fifth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2014-15 - 3December 02, 2014

Full Text of RBI Sixth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2014-15 - Feb 3, 2015

Full Text of RBI First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2015-16 - April 7, 2015

RBI monetary policy council to now decide interest rates

Central banks have powerful tools to affect national economies but they are being challenged by innovative financial practices

Foreign-currency exposures on an economy’s external balance sheet may jeopardize financial stability when the exchange rate depreciates.

Foreign-currency exposures on an economy’s external balance sheet may jeopardize financial stability when the exchange rate depreciates.

Policy responses to climate change can have important implications for monetary policy and vice versa. Different approaches to imposing a price on carbon will impact energy and other prices differently; some would provide stable and predictable price outcomes, and others could be more volatile. In "Climate change and monetary policy: Dealing with disruption" (PDF), Warwick…

25 February 2019 - Corporate bond markets have become an increasingly important source of financing for non-financial companies since the global financial crisis. The total outstanding debt in the form of corporate bonds reached USD 13 trillion as of end-2018. In real terms, this is twice as much as in 2008. This paper documents a number of associated risks and vulnerabilities.

In the wake of the Great Recession, a massive monetary policy stimulus was provided in the main OECD economies. It helped to stabilise financial markets and avoid deflation. Nonetheless, GDP growth has been sluggish and in some countries lower than expected given the measures taken, and estimated economic slack remains large.

How far to go – and to remain – in the direction of highly expansionary monetary policy hinges on the balance of marginal benefits and costs of additional monetary easing and its expected evolution over time. This paper sketches a framework for assessing this balance and applies it to four OECD economic areas: the euro area, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The set of monetary policy instruments has expanded since the start of the global financial crisis in the many OECD economies. Against this background, this paper analyses whether some of the new instruments should be retained in the long term when broader financial stability objectives are likely to feature more prominently as monetary policy goals than prior to the crisis.

This paper analyses two-way interactions between monetary policy and inequality in selected advanced economies. In the context of a highly accommodative monetary stance over recent years, the analysis focuses on the effects of monetary policy on inequality over the business cycle via its impacts on returns on assets, the cost of debt servicing and asset prices.

Governments should borrow more to stave off secular stagnation

Total 32 issues of 33 industry category of Topix index were in positive territory, with Marine Transportation, Iron & Steel, Nonferrous Metals, Air Transportation, Electric Appliances, Real Estate, and Glass & Ceramics Products issues being notable gainers.

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RBI has to not only take MPC into confidence but has to see if ultimately the purpose of providing relief to the ailing sectors is served

Monetary Policy and Financial Stability in a World of Low Interest Rates Conference (2017 : Sydney, N.S.W.)

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