Inflation targeting requires appropriately defined price index - be it wholesale price index or consumer price index. For an open emerging economy like India, where inflation targeting may not be the sole objective of the monetary authority, interrelation among the measures of inflation,...

Generally it is believed that the central monetary authority can, and should, exercise control over the exchange rate only in case of fixed/pegged exchange rate regime. However, such a regulation is essential even in an economy that has adopted floating exchange rate policy. This is because no...