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Feb 04, 2005
Non-Performing Loans and Terms of Credit of Public Sector Banks in India: An Empirical Assessment
Rajiv Ranjan and Sarat Chandra Dhal* This paper explores an empirical approach to the analysis of commercial banks' non-performing loans (NPLs) in the Indian context. The empirical analysis evaluates as to how banks’ non-performing loans are influenced by three major sets of economic and financial factors, i.e., terms of credit, bank size induced risk preferences and macroeconomic shocks. The empirical results from panel regression models suggest that terms of credit
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Feb 04, 2005
Allocative Efficiency of the Indian Banking System in the Post-Reform Period: A State Level Analysis
Biswa Swarup Misra* This paper examines whether allocative efficiency of the Indian Banking system has improved after the introduction of financial sector reforms in the early 1990s. Allocative efficiency has been studied for twenty three States of India. To get a comparative perspective, allocative efficiency has been estimated for two periods 1981-1992 and 1993-2001; broadly corresponding to the pre financial sector reforms and the post reforms periods, respectivel
Feb 04, 2005
The Reserve Bank of India’s Balance Sheet: Analytics and Dynamics of Evolution(Part 2 of 2)
Feb 04, 2005
Inventory Investment Behaviour -Evidence from a Panel of Indian Firms
Seema Saggar* Introduction II Review of Literature III Data IV Inventory Investment in India- Some Stylised Facts V Determinants of Inventory Investment – an empirical exercise VI Estimation Results VII Conclusions The paper augments production-smoothing specification with cash flows and monetary policy variables in its application for the Indian data. Several interesting findings emerge from the analysis. However, the results obtained need to be
Dec 29, 2003
Reserve Bank’s Clean Note Policy : An Overview
Special Notes Reserve Bank’s Clean Note Policy: An Overview R. K. Jain* Reserve Bank is charged with the responsibility of providing adequate supply of currency for facilitating transactions of the Government, banks and the public. Over the years, with the expansion of the economic activities and growth, the volume of currency in circulation has multiplied by many times. Of late, it was observed that many of the notes in circulation were soiled and mutilated a
Dec 29, 2003
Financial Infrastructure and Economic Development : Theory, Evidence and Experience
Financial Infrastructure and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Experience V. B. Angadi* Last three decades have witnessed economists’ growing interest in exploring for a possible link between financial structure and economic activities. In more recent years, the horizon of economists’ inquiry has expanded to include the interrelationship between financial infrastructure and economic development. Financial infrastructure of an economy is defined in this paper
Dec 29, 2003
Fiscal Expansion: Keynesian Recent Econometric Evidence from India
Fiscal Expansion: Keynesian Recent Econometric Evidence from India Tapas Kumar Chakrabarty* Feeling or sense of ‘adjustment fatigue’ becomes costlier. The present study tries to get some preliminary econometric evidence of fiscal impact on growth during 1990-91 to 2000-01, using data (relative fiscal variables as well as growth variable) relating to the Indian Economy. The study indicates that fiscal policy was marginally effective to influence the growth of the Ind
Dec 29, 2003
Short-term Forecast of Corporate Investment since 1970s : Three Decades in Restrospect
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