Hard-cover
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2008
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9788171886357
INR 795
In conducting monetary policy, a Central Bank primarily tries to influence behaviour of the commercial banks. The response of commercial banks to monetary policy actions is, thus, a key element of monetary policy. In view of the resurgence of the credit channel of monetary policy and episodes of credit crunch, world-over the issue has gained currency.
Against the backdrop of financial sector reforms in India, this book looks into the theory, stylised facts and empirical evidence on the relationship between commercial banks’ behaviour and monetary policy. The book presents an analytical account of the credit channel of monetary transmission and looks into the modified IS-LM model with an independent banking sector. Econometric evidence of the book is pointer to the fact that not all the banks respond uniformly to monetary policy. Attributes like ownership, size, liquidity, or capitalisation play important roles in determining the nature of response. The book also examines futuristic issues like consolidation of the banking sector in light of the evidence.
"Dr. Partha Ray,in this book, has attempted to place the entire gamut of issues bearing on monetary policy in a theoretical cum institutional perspective. Modern macro econometric models are brought to bear upon important aspects of monetary policy in the Indian context.”
-Dilip Nachane,
Director, Indira Gandhi of Development Research,
Mumbai.
Partha Ray is currently Adviser to the Executive Director (India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan) at the International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. For more than a decade he, as an economist at the Department of Economic Analysis and Policy, Reserve Bank of India, has been involved with applied economic research with policy content.
He also has been associated with a number of official committees on policy matters.
Educated in Kolkata, Mumbai and Oxford, he has published extensively on issues related to banking and monetary policy in professional journals in India and abroad.
He taught economics to undergraduate students in RBC College, University of Kolkata during 1987-89.