Purpose – Indian monetary policy performed reasonably well in the past, while both strategy and operational framework were evolving on a par with domestic financial and monetary markets. The purpose of this paper is to document how this good track record came to an abrupt stop in recent years...

This paper asks whether and why advanced countries differ in their ability to export to China and India. We exploit a newly collected, comparable cross-country survey of 15,000 European manufacturing firms (EFIGE). The dataset contains information on firms’ international activities and...

Tracking growth in the Indian economy would be best performed using a measure like GDP. Unfortunately official estimates of this indicator are released with quarterly frequency and with considerable delay. This paper compares different approaches to the short term forecasting (nowcasting) of...