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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
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...
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Nidhi Aggarwal
Susan Thomas
07 February, 2018
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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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Nidhi Aggarwal
Sudha Narayanan
10 November, 2017
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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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Nidhi Aggarwal
Sargam Jain
Sudha Narayanan
02 January, 2017
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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...
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Nidhi Aggarwal
Sudha Narayanan
30 November, 2016
- 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...
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Nidhi Aggarwal
Susan Thomas
30 October, 2016
- IGC Research on India