Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 06 Capital Structure, Ownership and Crisis: How Different Are Banks? @Saibal Ghosh and Goutam Chatterjee Abstract 1Employing data for 1992-2012, the article examines the factors affecting the capital structure of publicly listed Indian banks from a corporate finance perspective and compares the findings by exploiting a comparable sample of largest (based on their average market capitalization of last three years) non-financia

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Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 04 Is Exchange Rate The Dominant Factor Influencing Corporate Profitability in India? @Shaoni Nandi, Debasish Majumder and Anujit Mitra Abstract 1 Profitability of the non-financial private corporates is one of the key indicators of the macroeconomic activities and financial health of a nation. In India, list of major factors influencing profitability has altered over time. In particular, the gradual opening up of the econo

Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 03 Inter-sectoral Linkages in the Indian Economy @Rajib Das, Binod B. Bhoi, Pankaj Kumar and Krittika Banerjee Abstract 1The paper develops a series of structural equations outlining relations within and across sectors of the macro-economy in India. The economy is conceived as a network of five sectors, the output (GDP and its components), prices (WPI and its components), monetary (money supply and interest rates), governme

Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 02 Public Debt Management in India and Related Issues @L. Lakshmanan & R. Kausaliya Abstract *The public debt management in India has clearly traversed from a passive system to a market driven process with developed institutions, instruments, widespread investors, intermediaries for market making and efficient market infrastructure. Towards the PDM objective of minimising the cost of borrowing over the medium to longer t

Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 01 Estimating Sacrifice Ratio for Indian Economy – A Time Varying Perspective @Pratik Mitra, Dipankar Biswas and Anirban Sanyal Abstract *This paper estimates sacrifice ratios for the post liberalization period for India. ‘Sacrifice Ratio’ is defined as the loss of output sustained by the economy to achieve reduction in the long-run inflation by one percentage point. Deriving sacrifice ratio by estimating Aggregate Supply Cur

Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 11 Forecasting Major Macroeconomic Variables in India – Performance Comparison of Linear, Non-linear Models and Forecast Combinations @Anirban Sanyal and Indrajit Roy Abstract 1 This paper adopts linear, non-linear time series models along with forecast combination (of linear and non-linear) for forecasting major macroeconomic variables (Monthly series of Index of Industrial production –IIP and quarterly series of GDP) in res

Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 10 Analytics of Food Inflation in India @Thangzason Sonna, Dr. Himanshu Joshi, Alice Sebastian and Upasana Sharma Abstract *Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein items, increases in minimum support prices (MSPs) and

Press Release RBI Working Paper Series No. 09 Business Cycles Approach to Dynamic Provisioning: An Indian Case Study @Tulasi Gopinath and Thangjam Rajeshwar Singh Abstract There is a broad consensus in the literature that the financial system is procyclical in nature. The procyclicality of the financial system accentuates the phases of booms and busts of the business cycle with severe spillover implications for the real economy. In the wake of the recent global financ