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Saga of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (1984-2022) reminds one of...

The RBI announced that Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMCB) has finally been amalgamated with Unity Small Finance Bank Ltd. The crisis and it eventual amalgamation took me to history lane of...

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Do foreign investors improve the quality of domestic institutions?

BIS paper by Deniz Igan, Alexandre R. Lauwers and Damien Puy look at the question of whether foreign investors improve quality of domestic institutions: The conventional wisdom is that financial...

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Exciting world of digital payments: From online to offline

My new article in Moneycontrol arguing about how digital payments ecosystem is moving from online solutions to offline solutions.

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Federal Reserve policy explained in poetic lines

Suyash Choudhary Head of Fixed Income at IDFC Asset Management explains the Fed policy/dilemma using poetry: And so the Fed Chair took his seat As he does now after every FOMC meet A brief nudge to the...

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Why do supervisors rate banking organizations?

James Bergin and Kevin Stiroh in this NY Fed paper: This article addresses a question that at first may appear simple: why do supervisors rate banking organizations? Prudential supervisors have a...

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How do we make money?

Gary B. Gorton, Chase P. Ross & Sharon Y. Ross in this NBER paper ask the question on how do we make money and more importantly get it accepted: It is difficult for private agents to produce money...

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Virtual/Digital banking and beyond: Thinking about several interconnected issues

Sally Chen, Derryl D’Silva, Frank Packer and Siddharth Tiwari in this BIS paper look at several issues in virtual banking: The integration of technology, finance and services is rapidly changing the...

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Currency Undervaluation and Comparative Advantage

Paul Bergin in the recent NBER paper discusses tradeoffs of currency undervaluation as a growth strategy: This paper highlights a tradeoff implied by a policy of export-led growth through currency...

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Tracking Development through 11 Satellite Images & Cartography

Economic Survey 2021-22 has an interesting chapter which only has satellite images and maps tracking India’s development. An important theme of this year’s Economic Survey is the use of new forms of...

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History and evolution of the Economic Survey

Economic Survey 2021-22 has gone back to being single volume report. This is welcome as the Survey was becoming way too wordy and bulky. The preface discusses the history of the Survey and how it has...

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