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Author: Parthapratim Pal

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Should MFs call for Direct RBI Support?

  • May 21, 2020
  • Parthapratim Pal and Partha Ray
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

Franklin Templeton (FT) has shut down six of its debt funds with an aggregate AUM (assets under management) of Rs. 25,856 crore (as on April 2020). Faced with such a situation, there are clamours for support from Reserve Bank of…

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It Takes Two to Tango: Can monetary stimulus compensate for an inadequate fiscal stimulus in India?

  • May 4, 2020
  • Parthapratim Pal and Partha Ray
  • Finance, Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

Monetary policy can only make credit cheaper, it cannot bring money into the hands of workers. It cannot compensate for a fiscal stimuli, especially when India is in a  liquidity trap. For such an unprecedented crisis, fiscal spending has been…

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External Commercial Borrowings: Difficult times ahead

  • October 12, 2018
  • Parthapratim Pal and Ahana Bose
  • World Economy
  • 0 Comments

The Federal Reserve of United States has raised short term benchmark interest rates for the third time this year. With this increase, the benchmark rates have crossed the 2 percent mark for the first time since 2008. The FED has…

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