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Number of RBI Working Papers since inception: 2011-26

Book Review The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics Edited by Matt Seybold and Michelle Chihara. 2019. Routledge.

StatGPT: AI for Official Statistics

The Macroeconomic Consequences of Undermining Central Bank Independence: Evidence from Governor Transitions

Rethinking India’s Healthcare System: Design is the main issue

Europe’s digital autonomy – between fault lines and vault lines

India’s 20 years of GDP misestimation: New evidence

From earth to heaven: The changing drivers of monetary policy

ChatGPT vs. DeepSeek: What 5,000 Chinese Stocks Reveal About AI’s Limits

Taxes on smoking, drinking, and sugar should keep tab on the emerging alternatives

Epstein as a moment for Democracy?

A Useful Synthesis of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences from 2020 to 2025

RTI @20 : How India’s Right To Information Act Was Gradually Weakened

9 March 2026: 250 years of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

Worlds Apart: How to narrow the gap between economics and politics

Trasformative central banker: Bank of Korea Governor Chang Yong Rhee

The Crisis of Courage in India’s Liberal Universities

Building businesses and firms that build “Made in Europe” brands

Profile of Myrto Kalouptsidi: how shipping and industrial policy shapes the global economy

History of RBI communications

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (64): Write Short and Long Poems

Why Keynes did not win the Nobel Peace Prize for “The Economic Consequences of the Peace”

Empathy without Illusions: André Béteille and Sociology as a Vocation

Book Review – Song of India: A Study of the National Anthem by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

The economics of an airline flight

A brief history of bank notes in the United States and some lessons for stablecoins

Book Review: India’s High-Tech Leap

Information Asymmetry in the Information Age –Markets, Economy & People

Brexit uncertainty and the fragility of cross-border capital flows: Switzerland vs London

Perspectives on India’s Growth: Last Four Decades to the Present

Operationalizing AI at the Federal Reserve

What India’s New Inflation Data is Hiding | The Great Confusing CPI (Consumer Price Index) Reset

Structural change—Canada at a crossroads

Sleeping Beauties in Economics: Allais, Arrow, and the 75th Anniversary of the 1952 Paris Conference on Risk

The Strategic Use of Bank Branches for Political Influence

One Affordability Battle After Another: What to do about the growing damage from the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex

Machine Learning Meets Markowitz

The Banality Of Indifference: Why Democracies Look Away While Humanity Suffers

Book Review: Moral Ambition & Humankind & Utopia for Realists

Galgotias University crisis is merely a tip of the iceberg

ICE Arrests across Trump’s First and Second Terms: Variation in Targeting, Method, and Geography

Epstein files and how humanity is such a shame

How China’s economy can pivot to consumption-led growth?

A Brief Illustrated History of the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet: 1914-2026

Strengthening State Open Schools: A Need for a Dedicated and Focused Policy for School Dropouts

The Major Achievements of Soviet Union’s Economic Development(1945-1953)

Preparing for geoeconomic fragmentation

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (63): Ethical Culture vs. Vulture Culture

The Decimal Revolution: 60 years of Decimal Currency in Australia

Bulgarian Central Bank Deputy Governor appointed Prime Minister

In financial terms, stablecoins resemble money-market fund shares or deposits in a narrow bank.

Italian cricket vs Indian football

Finally, CPI inflation has a new base year

The Cantonment Conspiracy: A Military Thriller by General Manoj Mukund Naravane

The euro as a sign of belonging

Pen is mightier than sword…

Why the arts market is not like other markets?

How Federal Reserve’s decentralised structure produced new ideas on banking policy

Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Local Public Services in India: Evidence from 1.5m Neighborhoods

The long goodbye of the History of Economic Thought course in liberal arts colleges in the US

Do Research Universities Recession-Proof Their Regions? Evidence from State Flagship College Towns

Book Review: The Precarious Migrant Worker and Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers

Asian Immigration to the United States in Historical Perspective

Keynes’s General Theory, 90 years on

A Decomposition of Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Reduction

A prayer for cricket to rise above the politics

Frenemies at the gates: Principal Trading Firms vs Banks

Geopolitical risk: a database of general and bilateral indices

New research in Industrial Organisation: A summary

Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020

Budget Speech 2026-27: No mention of air pollution!

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (62): Hustle Culture

Epstein files and the architecture of invisible influence

A.I. and our economic future

Economic Survey 2025-26: Revisit Right to Information Act

Future of Monetarism after Milton Friedman

Novak Djokovic at Australian Open 2026: When loss becomes bigger than a win

Report of Sixteenth Finance Commission for 2026-2031

Kevin Warsh nominated the new Fed Chair: How soon will Trump troll him?

Economic Survey and Air Pollution

The forgotten friction: How the “smallest coin problem” amplified the Great Depression

Book Review: Erasing History – How fascists rewrite the past to control the future

How Do Banks Build Equity Capital?

World Premiere of the musical Wealth of Nations

Demographic Transition in India – Implications for State Finances

Book review: Keynes Hayek, the Clash that Defined Modern economics,

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (61): Multicultural Bonhomie

Can the Federal Reserve be split in two?

When broadband comes to banks: Credit supply, market structure, and information acquisition

Bank of Korea Rejects M2 Growth as Cause for High Exchange Rate

Nuclear Operations with a High Penetration of Renewables: The Case of France

What we can learn from public debt reductions in OECD countries

Economics Math obsession: Delhi University’s BA (Hons) economics criteria

A Brand Under Stress: Did Chicago School Economists Become Keynesians During the Great Recession?

Why Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx?

Book Review:  Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson

The Central Bank Balance-Sheet Trilemma

How central banks are using creativity and deploying visuals to communicate monetary policy

Spillover effect: New Zealand foreign minister criticises RBNZ Governor for Powell statement

Russia plans new economics textbook reviving Stalin-era ideas

America is now being led by gangsters and its least moral individuals

Evaluation of the Riksbank’s monetary policy: 2015-2024

The economics of natural capital

EcoFinBench – a natural language processing benchmark for economics and finance

International central bankers on the statement by Federal Reserve Chair Powell

Book Review : Thank You, Gandhi.

Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve

The days after dictatorship: What happens next for Venezuela?

To whom is NPCI accountable?

Obituary for Prof Madhav Gadgil

A Framework for Understanding the Vulnerabilities of New Money-Like Products

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (60): What’s in Store for Us?

BSE Sensex @40

Nicholas Maduro: Another dictator bites dust..

Switzerland to hold five days of mourning after 40 killed in resort fire…

Economics of the Attention Economy

In the Shadow of Bank Runs: Lessons from the Silicon Valley Bank Failure and Its Impact on Stablecoins

RBI’s Official Podcast – RBI Talks: Paisa to Policy

Happy New Year to the visitors and well-wishers.

Lessons from 18 years of editing VoxEU

Scanning White House website: Welcome to the Golden Age!

Book Reviews: Indian history books by Audrey Truschke, William Dalrymple, Virat Chirana and Satish Y. Deodhar

Why central bank independence matters – lessons from the past 50 years

How foreign capital changed Indian banks and their lending

Will AI Improve Undergraduate Economics Education?

Book Review – The Diane Elson Reader: Gender, Development and Macroeconomic Policy.

Case of Bulgaria: from hyperinflation to Euro

The cost of state-building: evidence from Germany

Trillions for War, Pennies for People: How Soaring Military Spending Fails Americans

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (59): How Do You Look at the World? Through Which Lenses?

Teaching economics of populism and hate

100 years of Central Bank of Chile

Tech stock performance across US and China: what explains the differences?

A simple measure of monetary policy transmission

Emerging Market Resilience: Good Luck or Good Policies?

Reforms to Reduce China’s High Household Savings

Goodbye Libor, hello basis traders: unpacking the surge in global interest rate derivatives turnover

How to Build a Diverse Nation: Lessons from the Indonesian Experience

Euro works, Europe doesn’t?

Book Review: The Corporation & The Corporation in the 21st Century

Understanding Stablecoins

Why Civilizations Flourish and Fail: From Athens to the Abbasids to today’s Anglosphere

SEBI penalising another finfluencer

From data scarcity to data plenty: Now What?

The real impact of FinTech: Evidence from mobile payment technology in Singapore

Stablecoins and the double standard of money

CityFinance.in: A platform for credible financial information on India’s cities

The rise of non-bank financial institutions: implications for monetary policy

Tullock, Downs, and the Beginning of the Virginia School of Political Economy

Why we all make sacrifices to the human-created God called “The Economy”?

Explaining shape of future banking using cricket analogy

From modeling rational expectations to modeling diagnostic/behavioral expectations

The Washington Consensus: A Narrative Review of its Evidence, Impacts, and Transformations

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (58): Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy

Reserve Bank of India issues consolidated Master Directions

The Great Indian Poverty Debate 3.0

Impact of GST Rate Restructuring on Consumers’ GST Liability in India

The value of trading relationships in FX derivatives: evidence from Credit Suisse’s collapse

Walking the talk? Green party politicians and pollution patterns

Multivariate Core Trend Inflation: A New Measure of Core Inflation

Lessons from the Greek sovereign debt crisis

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (57): Alternatives to Modernity/Development

How ECB’s balance sheet has changed over the years

Report of the High-Level Committee on Conflict of Interest, disclosures and related matters in respect of Members and Officials of SEBI

Exploring EU-UK trade and investment four years after Brexit

Economic Development According to Chandler

Credit and product innovation in emerging markets: Evidence from India

Stablecoins: A Revolutionary Payment Technology with Financial Risks

Central Bank Accounting Practices: The Reserve Bank of India and Global Approaches

Why Markets Panic When Democracy Spreads: Interview with Max Miller

What drives the substitution between bank deposits and money market funds?

Macroeconomic effects of lowering South Africa’s inflation target

Three decade migration of high skilled indivduals from Asia to the United States

Book Review: The 5 Types of Wealth

Florence as a laboratory of financial innovation

Speaking of debt: Framing, guilt, and economic choices

Mamdani’s Win and the Price of Urban Life: Why City Voters Are Seeking Change

Industrial Policy Since the Great Financial Crisis

An Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Response to the 2008 Financial Crisis Through the Eyes of Milton Friedman

The Great World War 2 Afterparty is over

100 years of Syndicate Bank: An anniversary that could not be celebrated

Is the quantity of money informative for future inflation? The Swiss case

How Kerala ended extreme poverty: Former Kerala CS Sarada Muraleedharan shares inside story

Cameroon’s Electoral Farce: How Paul Biya, Cameroon’s 92-Year-Old President, Won’t Let Go At Any Cost

The International Monetary System in the Last and Next 20 Years Redux

Planes Overhead: How Airplane Noise Impacts Home Values

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (56): Valiumed Economics

Calcutta Stock Exchange- A Swan’s Song

Is this the most interesting time for monetary economics in a generation?

Confusopoly unveiled: How firms use complexity to raise prices

Building Interest in Economics: The Role of Early Exposure

Innovation as Destiny: The Global Life of a Nobel Winning Theory

Bring back liberal nationalism

The transformation of the life insurance industry: systemic risks and policy challenges

Economics and its role in undermining democracy

The Flawed Welfare Foundations of Pro-Free Trade Arguments

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (55): Redeeming Inhuman Economics

The Economic Consequences of War

Fundraising by Indian Small and Medium Enterprises through IPO: Recent Trends and Developments

In Memoriam: Robert E. Lucas Jr. (September 15, 1937–May 15, 2023)

Private Law Frameworks for Tokenized Assets: Lessons from Switzerland, Germany, France, and the United States

The quiet engine of progress: Scholar networks before the Industrial Revolution

The new curse of critical minerals: resersing of democracy

2025 economics Nobel: A Nobel for Innovation

Turning openness into strength: the moment of the euro

Two Peas in A Pod: Democracy and Capitalism

Two paths to prosperity: Europe vs China

Nobel Economics 2025: Smith and Schumpeter Award

Nobel economics 2025: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt

China’s Lending to Developing Countries: From Boom to Bust

Emerging Market Resilience: Good Luck or Good Policies?

Linking Equity (Justice) with Efficiency (Reason): Remembering John R Commons

María Corina Machado: Bitcoin is a lifeline for Venezuelans

Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela

How wars have led to innovation in money and payments

Unlocking America’s Political Finance History: Campaign Data from 1912-1974

From Mundell Fleming approach to Integrated Policy Framework: Lessons from South Korea

Book Review: The Book of Hope – A Survival Guide for Trying Times by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

Adam Smith’s Impartial Spectator Rises

How the US South caught up: A century of manufacturing productivity convergence

Fractional Ownership and Copyright Licensing: Evidence from the Music Industry

A Teacher Writes to Students Series (54): Monetary Economic Bunk

Witch Hunts, Autocracy, and the Age of Algorithmic Empires

Permanent Capital Losses after Banking Crises

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications

The product of the railways is the timetable

Tanzania’s ruling party has crushed the opposition – the elections are a mere formality

Introduction of risk based premium framework for deposit insurance in India

Türkiye’s Homemade Crises

Five megatrends shaping the rise of nonbank finance

Reserve Bank of New Zealand opens consultation on use of the term ‘bank’

Political polarization in Europe