Monetary Policy in India

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 attention from Indian and international macroeconomists over the last several years. Interest in how monetary policy influences economic performance and how monetary policy is conducted in India is growing. The prospects for further financial sector reform and ongoing inflation in India have sparked new interest in the role of money and monetary policy in India among economists, policy makers and students alike.  The book should also interest economists outside India because it studies monetary economics in a major emerging market economy and makes advances in the analysis of how financial market imperfections and structural constraints influence the effects of monetary policy.

Chetan Ghate is Professor at the Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.  His primary areas of research are economic growth and development, monetary and fiscal policy in EMEs, and the Indian macroeconomy. He is a winner of the 2014 Mahalanobis Memorial Gold Medal awarded by the Indian Econometric Society (TIES). He was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee on Monetary Policy at the Reserve Bank of India from February 2013 to September 2016. He was also a member of the expert committee to revise and strengthen the monetary policy framework set up by the Reserve Bank of India in September 2013. He is currently a member of the monetary policy committee at the Reserve Bank of India.

Kenneth Kletzer is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His primary areas of research are international economics and macroeconomics, and many of his publications concern financial frictions in open economies, sovereign debt, and macroeconomic policy coordination. Kletzer has written on capital account liberalization and monetary policy for India, and is a member of the research panel for the India Policy Forum of the National Council for Applied Economics Research and Brookings Institution.