The current debate on financial inclusion pays little attention to whether financial inclusion is pro-cyclical with the fluctuating business cycle. This article investigates the relationship between financial inclusion and the business cycle. The findings reveal that the level of savings and the...

The paper uses Markov Switching AR approach to model business cycles in Indian economy during the period 1982-2009, using quarterly data on industrial production. For the current cycle, the MS (2)-AR (4) model predicts that the probability of expansion is higher than the probability of...