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Radhika Pandey holds a Ph.D. in economics. She is an associate professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. Her core areas of work are macroeconomics, business cycles, financial sector legislative reforms, and capital controls. One of the key areas of her work has been to improve measurement of the economy through a research programme on empirical macroeconomics which includes identifying well-measured data; seasonal adjustment; and identifying and dating business cycle conditions.
She was part of research teams for a number of Ministry of Finance instituted expert committees such as Financial Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC), Panel on External Commercial Borrowings and Report of the Working Group on Foreign Investments in India.
Posts by Radhika Pandey
The challenge of identifying economic activities of firms
The reliability of India’s GDP estimates has been debated extensively. A key challenge in the construction of macro-aggregates lies in the proper identification of firms’ economic activities as fi...
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Radhika Pandey
Amey Sapre
Pramod Sinha
23 August, 2018
- Perspectives
Explainer: Conceptual foundations of cryptocurrencies
In recent times, cryptocurrencies have become a subject of intense deliberations among policymakers, market participants, investors, and other stakeholders. Whether cryptocurrencies will revolutionis...
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Radhika Pandey
Bhavyaa Sharma
31 May, 2018
- Explainers
Facilitating foreign investment in rupee-denominated debt
On 22 September 2017, the RBI notified that rupee-denominated offshore bonds – popularly known as ‘masala bonds’ – will no longer form part of the limit for investment in corporate bonds by fo...
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Radhika Pandey
Sanhita Sapatnekar
27 November, 2017
- Perspectives
What does the new IIP series tell us about the state of manufacturing in India?
In May 2017, the Central Statistics Office released the new series of the Index of Industrial Production with 2011-12 as the base year, after a comprehensive revision of computation methods. The serie...
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Radhika Pandey
Amey Sapre
Pramod Sinha
02 August, 2017
- Articles
Will demonetisation lead to a protracted economic slowdown?
In this article, Pandey and Sengupta argue that the impact of the contractionary demand shock triggered by the note ban will gradually radiate from cash-intensive activities to virtually every sector ...
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Radhika Pandey
Rajeswari Sengupta
15 December, 2016
- Perspectives