We analyze post 1991 liberalization Indian economy using the Monetary Business Cycle Accounting framework. We use quarterly National Accounts data from 1996.Q1-2017.Q4, and we find that efficiency wedges explain up to 68% of fluctuations in output and 40% of hours worked, while investment wedges...

We study the monetary policy transmission or lack of it in Indian context using a Monetary Business Cycle Accounting (MBCA) framework. The standard MBCA setup consists of a real business cycle model with a central bank following Taylor’s rule augmented with wedges which capture the deviation...