The book discusses Indian post-independence monetary history in the context of the country’s development and the global changes of the period. The conceptual framework used is the SIIO (Structure, Ideas, Institutions and Outcomes) paradigm. That is, structure and ideas become embedded in institutions and affect outcomes. Narrative history, data analysis and research reports demonstrate the dialectic between ideas and structure with respect to monetary history, aspects of India’s development, and the global institutions and events that impacted monetary choices. The history of the economy and of the global changes that affected it covers a time when major changes took place both in India and internationally. India’s greater openness is important both for it and for the world, but it occurred at a time of major global crises. How did these impact monetary choices and how did the latter help India navigate the crises while maintaining its trajectory towards greater liberalization? The book explores these and other relevant but under-analyzed questions. The initial combination of ideas and structure created fiscal dominance and made monetary policy procyclical. An aggregate supply-and-demand framework derived from forward-looking optimization subject to Indian structural constraints is able to explain growth and inflation outcomes in the light of policy actions. Using exogenous supply shocks to identify policy shocks and to isolate their effects, demonstrate that policy was sometimes exceedingly strict despite the common perception of a large monetary overhang. Surges and sudden stops in capital flow also constrained policy. But the three factors that cause a loss of monetary autonomy—governments, markets and openness—moderate each other. Markets moderate fiscal profligacy and global crises moderate market freedoms and ensure openness remains a sequenced and gradual process. The book argues greater current congruence between ideas and structure is improving institutions and contributing to India’s potential.

This book presents research that applies contemporary monetary theory and state-of-the-art econometric methods to the analysis of the monetary and financial aspects of the Indian economy and the impact of monetary policy on economic performance. Indian monetary policy has attracted significant attention from Indian and international macroeconomists over the last several years. Interest in how monetary policy influences economic performance and how monetary policy is conducted in India is growing. The prospects for further financial sector reform and ongoing inflation in India have sparked new interest in the role of money and monetary policy in India among economists, policy makers and students alike. The book should also interest economists outside India because it studies monetary economics in a major emerging market economy and makes advances in the analysis of how financial market imperfections and structural constraints influence the effects of monetary policy.

While offering many growth-enhancing opportunities, India's ever-increasing integration with the world economy has given rise to a host of new challenges in managing the economy. This book provides an up-to-date empirical assessment of some of India's crucial policy challenges pertaining to its monetary and external sector management.

The Book Advanced Study In Money & Banking : Theory & Policy Relevance In The Indian Economy Is A Complete Treatise On Banking And Global Financial Developments With Special Reference To Dmcs And The Indian Economy. It Provides An Invaluable, Up-To-Date And Refreshing Approach To Key Development Issues Pertaining To Monetary Theory, Banking, And Policy Matters. The Theoretical, Institutional And Historical Approaches Have Been Skilfully Integrated To Explore And Elucidate The Interrelationships Of Money And Banking And The Functioning Of The Economy As A Whole. The Analytical Study Of The Main Operational Ratios Of Banks For The Period 1998 To 2003 Gives An Overview Of The Bank Street Scenario. In Its Wide Perspective, The Book Includes A Comprehensive Study Of Banking And Information Technology, Mechanism Of International Payments, And International Monetary Policies And Monetary Cooperation. Above All, Against The Backdrop Of Economic Uncertainty And The Low Ebb In Economic Activity, Volatility In Stock Markets And Significant Fluctuations In Major Currencies Of The World, The Indian Monetary Policy During The Period Of 1952-2003 Has Been Extensively Discussed. Simple Graphs And Up-To-Date Economic Models Provided In The Book Enable The Readers To Have An Easy And Accurate Understanding Of The Subject.The Book Would Be Of Great Interest And Use For Students And Teachers Of Economics, Commerce And Business Management. The Bankers And Legislators Concerned With Monetary And Banking Policies Would Find The Book Highly Useful.

This paper provides new evidence on the credit channel of monetary policy transmission in India. Using stepwise estimation of vector error correction models, the analysis finds significant, albeit slow, pass-through of policy rate changes to bank interest rates in India. There is evidence of asymmetric adjustment to monetary policy: the lending rate adjusts more quickly to monetary tightening than to loosening. In addition, the speed of adjustment of deposit and lending rates to changes in the policy rate has increased in recent years.

This paper empirically evaluates the operational performance of the McCallum rule, the Taylor rule and hybrid rules in India over the period 1996-2011 using quarterly data, with a view to analytically informing the conduct of monetary policy. The results show that forward-looking formulations of both rules and their hybrid version - setting a nominal output growth objective for monetary policy with an interest rate instrument - outperform contemporaneous and backward-looking specifications, especially when targeting core components of GDP and inflation, and combine the best parts of efficiency and discretion.