* Repo Rate increased to 7.25 per cent from 7.0 per cent. * The flexibility to conduct overnight repo or longer term repo including the right to accept or reject tender(s) under the LAF, wholly or partially is retained. * Reverse Repo Rate, Bank Rate and CRR kept unchanged. * GDP growth forecast...

This paper considers the causal relationship between economic and financial development, making some allowance for financial liberalization. The measures of financial development (and variants thereof) advocated in the literature are utilized, supplemented by some simple quantitative mesures.

Direct foreign investment (DFI) has played an important role in the economic development of China in the past 15 years. It contributed to the Chinese domestic capital formation and industrial growth, and promoted export expansion and employment creation. This paper provides an empirical...

Intervention by the Reserve Bank of Australia on foreign exchange markets from 1993 to 1997 is conjectured to have been determined by exchange rate trend correction, exchange rate volatility smoothing and profitability considerations. Using Probit and friction models, we show that these factors...