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Nidhi Aggarwal

Indian Institute of Management Udaipur
nidhi5.2003@gmail.com

Nidhi Aggarwal is a researcher at the Finance Research Group, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR). In the past, she has worked extensively on policy issues related to Indian equity markets. Her research interests include market microstructure, commodity markets, high-frequency trading, risk management and firm financing. She obtained her Ph.D. and M.Sc in Economics from IGIDR.

Posts by Nidhi Aggarwal

How open is India's capital account?

Although India began opening up its capital account in the mid-1990s, the approach towards financial liberalisation has been cautious. Tracing changes in the de-facto openness of the country’s capi...

  • Perspectives

Do exchange listings help ease financial constraints of SMEs?

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are viewed as an engine of economic growth and source of job creation. In an attempt to ease their financial constraints, India and some other countries, have exper...

  • Articles

What did demonetisation do to domestic agricultural markets?

When the note ban was announced a year ago, many feared that it would hit agriculture and informal sectors the hardest given the widespread use of cash for transacting in these sectors. Based on analy...

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Unified agricultural markets: Where are the reforms lacking?

In April 2016, Modi government launched the e-National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) platform – a pan-India electronic marketplace for trading of agricultural commodities. However, rather than ushering...

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Demonetisation and agricultural markets

In this article, Aggarwal and Narayanan contend that demonetisation alone cannot turn agricultural markets cashless. Such a shift would require sustained and focussed effort to expand the reach of for...

  • Perspectives

Assessing the impact of listing on access to finance for small and medium enterprises

Small and medium enterprises are globally viewed as an engine of economic growth. However, growth in this sector is often limited by access to external finance due, in part, to SMEs being informationa...

  • IGC Research on India