WazirX: Socialisation of losses and need for financial regulation
The cryptocurrency exchange WazirX recently faced a security breach resulting in huge losses for its users. In this post, Nipuna Varman evaluates the ‘loss socialisation’ recovery plan that was in...
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Nipuna Varman
10 October, 2024
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How RBI’s macroprudential policies shape housing loan decisions
The recent surge in housing finance in India calls for a robust regulatory framework to ensure financial stability and avert overheating of the housing market. Using data on individual mortgage loans ...
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Debasis Rooj
Asish Saha
Reshmi Sengupta
27 September, 2024
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Green is good: Risk insights into Indian green stocks
While consistent financial flows towards climate resilience are crucial, there is a recent global trend of withdrawal of investment from ‘green assets’. Given the centrality of potential risk-adju...
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Gagari Chakrabarti
Chitrakalpa Sen
26 June, 2024
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When is corporate debt a threat to macroeconomic stability?
Since the 2007-08 Global Financial Crisis, policymakers have focused on household debt as the primary risk factor for macroeconomic stability. Should they be similarly worried about corporate debt? Ba...
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Victoria Ivashina
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan
Luc Laeven
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18 October, 2024
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WazirX: Socialisation of losses and need for financial regulation
The cryptocurrency exchange WazirX recently faced a security breach resulting in huge losses for its users. In this post, Nipuna Varman evaluates the ‘loss socialisation’ recovery plan that was in...
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Nipuna Varman
10 October, 2024
- Perspectives
How RBI’s macroprudential policies shape housing loan decisions
The recent surge in housing finance in India calls for a robust regulatory framework to ensure financial stability and avert overheating of the housing market. Using data on individual mortgage loans ...
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Debasis Rooj
Asish Saha
Reshmi Sengupta
27 September, 2024
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RBI’s extraterritorial influence on the rupee market
The emergence of the offshore non-deliverable forward market in the rupee has made it more challenging for the RBI to maintain exchange rate stability. In this post, Datta and Sengupta explain the dri...
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Pratik Datta
Rajeswari Sengupta
24 July, 2024
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India’s foreign reserves and global risk
India’s foreign exchange reserves, relative to GDP, have been on the rise. This article examines the motives behind the hoarding of reserves by central banks, and if adequate reserves are held for p...
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Chetan Ghate
Kenneth Kletzer
Mahima Yadav
12 July, 2024
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Green is good: Risk insights into Indian green stocks
While consistent financial flows towards climate resilience are crucial, there is a recent global trend of withdrawal of investment from ‘green assets’. Given the centrality of potential risk-adju...
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Gagari Chakrabarti
Chitrakalpa Sen
26 June, 2024
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Embracing the melody of dissent: A symphony in policymaking
In recent times, members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India, have expressed views that are contrary to the MPC’s official stance. This article investigates the influence o...
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Unninarayanan Kurup
Rajendra N. Paramanik
Rounak Sil
24 June, 2024
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The silent reshaping of India’s credit landscape
India’s credit landscape has been undergoing major changes in recent years. In this post, Sengupta and Vardhan discuss five key trends – consumerisation of bank credit, decline in bank deposits, g...
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Rajeswari Sengupta
Harsh Vardhan
20 May, 2024
- Perspectives
Irrationality in financial decisions: A policy proposal
The high valuations of small- and mid-cap stocks in the Indian market seem indicative of irrational exuberance. In this context, Gurbachan Singh discusses the prevailing policy framework to deal with ...
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Gurbachan Singh
18 March, 2024
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16th Finance Commission: Towards vertical and horizontal balance
The recommendations of the recently constituted Sixteenth Finance Commission (FC16) will govern the sharing of revenues between the Union and states during 2026-2031. In this post, Ganguli and Sinha l...
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Barna Ganguli
Bakshi Amit Kumar Sinha
13 February, 2024
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Emergence of a private credit market in India
The last few years have seen the growth of a private credit market in India, which offers financing to small and mid-sized firms with a relatively high default risk. In this piece, Datta and Sengupta ...
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Pratik Datta
Rajeswari Sengupta
30 January, 2024
- Perspectives
A more focused RBI: Creating capacity to tackle ‘true’ market failure
Large, routine payments to the government by the public lead to liquidity crunch in the economy, necessitating interventions by the central bank. However, Gurbachan Singh argues that the RBI is better...
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Gurbachan Singh
10 January, 2024
- Perspectives
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India’s insurance sector: Challenges and opportunities
While India’s insurance sector has been growing dynamically in recent years, its share in the global insurance market remains abysmally low. This article traces the journey of the Indian insurance s...
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