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It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial sector reforms in 1992. Using annual data on scheduled commercial banks for the period 1996-2004, the paper evaluates the validity of this claim in the Indian context. The...
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The easing of controls on interest rates has led to higher interest rate volatility in India. Hence, there is a need to …
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The optimal provision of loan guarantees or deposit insurance is examined in the context of an overlapping generations model. It is demonstrated that even in the face of a market imperfection that precludes diversification of the private sector’s loan portfolio to eliminate risk, full...
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This paper examines whether financial deregulation in the 1980s has reduced the importance of liquidity constraints in consumption patterns. Data for six industrialized countries are used to estimate a simple model incorporating liquidity constraints and forward looking behavior. It is concluded...
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Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China''s WTO accession for India''s trade, using both econometrics and … computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The paper analyzes how India stands to lose or gain from China''s WTO entry in terms …
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The paper examines the association and corporate behavior for a sample of manufacturing firms in India for the post …-reform period 1992-2003. The findings suggest that a contractionary monetary policy lowers overall debt including bank debt …, although the lagged response is positive, and listed firms increase their short-term bank borrowings, after monetary tightening …
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market developments, reforms and performance, external sector, trade policy, and structural policy developments in India. The …
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indicators are improving, and medium-term economic prospects are favorable. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) efforts are used to …In this study, economic developments of India are discussed. Growth is among the fastest-growing in the world, social …
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India faces a range of money laundering and terrorist financing risks. India continues to be a target for terrorist … groups and has been the victim of numerous attacks. Based on a threat assessment, it was found that India's major sources for … terrorist financing (FT) were funds/resources from organizations outside India, counterfeiting of currency, and criminal …
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In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al. (2004) model, costs of transportation play a critical role in the decision about whether to serve foreign customers by exporting, or by producing abroad. We consider the case of...
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