We analyze reallocations within the international bond portfolios of US investors. The most striking empirical observation is a steady increase in US investors' allocations toward emerging market local currency bonds, unabated by the global financial crisis and accelerating in the post-crisis...

We analyse India's exchange rate regime through the prism of exchange market pressure. We estimate the various regimes that India’s de-facto exchange rate has been through during the period from 2000 to 2020. We find four specific regimes of the Indian rupee differentiated by the degree of...

In this paper we evaluate the current account patterns of China and Germany. We point out that China’s current account surplus as a share of global GDP in recent years resembles that of Germany’s. Yet, an important difference is that the Euro block’s current account inclusive of Germany...

We present new measures of monetary policy shocks for India using high-frequency data, creating a publicly available event study dataset as a byproduct. In addition to capturing surprises to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) policy rate, our shocks suggest that financial markets infer...

We explore the real effective exchange rate (REER) effects on the share of exports of Indian non-financial sector firms for the period 2000–2010. Our empirical analysis reveals that, on average, there has been a strong and significant negative impact from currency appreciation and currency...

We examine the role of external debt financing (EDF) in shaping the credit cycle and output fluctuations in nine major emerging economies. We show that sharp fluctuations in EDF flows are significantly associated with credit surge and stop episodes in emerging market economies (EMEs). However...

We study the relationship between cross border flows and risks to macroeconomic stability for a sample of ten major emerging market economies (EMEs) from 2000-2017 in the presence of external shocks. We examine this relationship with a focus on two key channels of cross border flows, namely...

In this paper we analyse the beneficiaries of productivity gains in the Indian banking sector during the period from 1992 to 2019. We document the relative efficiency of different groups of banks by ownership. We find that the Indian banking sector, particularly the public sector banks...