“Glossy green” banks: the disconnect between environmental disclosures and...
ECB economists Mariassunta Giannetti, Martina Jasova, Maria Loumioti and Caterina Mendicino in this paper point to glossy green banks: Using confidential information on banks’ portfolios, inaccessible...
View ArticlePolitical determinants of newspaper markets in India
Julia Cagé, Guilhem Cassan and Francesca R. Jensenius in this IdeasforIndia article: Newspapers are an important source of political information for Indian voters. This article looks at how political...
View ArticleProfile of Lawrence Katz: The Inequality economist
IMF Finance & Development profiles Lawrence Katz. This bit caught my eye: Certainly a pillar of his legacy are the 239 PhD economists Katz has trained. He maintains an up-to-date nine-page list of...
View ArticleFintech vs bank credit: How do they react to monetary policy?
Giulio Cornelli, Fiorella De Fiore, Leonardo Gambacorta and Cristina Manea in this BIS paper: Fintech credit, which includes peer-to-peer and marketplace lending as well as lending facilitated by major...
View ArticleThe year 2023 in articles/opeds: 70 in total
In 2023, I wrote 70 articles across four platforms/media outlets: Moneycontrol: 40, Deccan Herald: 17 Financial Express: 12 (one link not available) TheIndiaForum: 1 Thanks to all the editors for...
View ArticleCentral banks’ operational frameworks – an international perspective and...
Denise Hansson and Ingrid Wallin Johansson in this Riksbank research paper compares the monetary policy frameworks across the economies: Central banks use monetary policy operational frameworks to...
View ArticleAdoption of Artificial Intelligence in Indian Banks
RBI released its statutory annual Report on Trends and Progress of Banking in India (2022-23). One of the section in the report is on AI in Indian banking (pg 16-19). Indian banks mainly private ones...
View ArticleHow is monetary policy implemented in practice?
Anders Vredin and Per Åsberg Sommar of Riksbank provide an introduction to how monetary policy is implemented in practice: When central banks’ decisions on what is commonly referred to as monetary...
View ArticleBook of 2023: What I learned about investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad
Books on investments are usually the same type with similar lessons: Invest for a long term, do not buy/sell a lot, invest in larger number of assets and so on. It has been a while since I stopped...
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