The conventional wisdom in the literature on capital controls and growth argues that capital controls increase the ability of a government to tax capitalists which proves detrimental for growth. To address this issue, we construct an OLG model to study the effect of capital controls on human...

This handbook reflects India's growing economic importance on the world stage, and features research on core topics by leading scholars to understand the Indian economic miracle and the obstacles India faces in transforming itself into a modern 21st-century economy.

Chapter 1: Overview of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 2: Critiques of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 3: A Stochastic Version of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 4: Open Economy Extensions of the 2-sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 5: Overview of the 4 Sector...

The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given the relatively free flows of capital, labor and commodities across state borders. We use a new data set of district level income and socio-economic data to explore the...

This book presents research that applies contemporary monetary theory and state-of-the-art econometric methods to the analysis of the monetary and financial aspects of the Indian economy and the impact of monetary policy on economic performance. Indian monetary policy has attracted significant...