How effective are monetary policy signals in India?

The signalling mechanism of monetary policy is of vital importance as it conveys the central bank's assessment of the economy and its future outlook. In the Indian context, changes in the policy environment since the later half of the 1990s have brought about shifts in the operating procedure o...

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Published in:Journal of policy modeling 2008, Vol.30 (1), p.169-183
Main Authors: Bhattacharyya, Indranil, Sensarma, Rudra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capital market
Central banks
Economic models
Finance
Financial markets
India
Monetary policy
Securities markets
Structural vector auto regression
Studies
Vector-autoregressive models
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Summary:The signalling mechanism of monetary policy is of vital importance as it conveys the central bank's assessment of the economy and its future outlook. In the Indian context, changes in the policy environment since the later half of the 1990s have brought about shifts in the operating procedure of monetary policy. As a result, beside the traditional instruments, new indirect instruments have emerged as tools of monetary policy signalling. Against this backdrop, we examine the efficacy and robustness of alternative monetary policy instruments in transmitting policy signals and its impact on financial market behaviour. Employing a SVAR model, we ascertain whether the gradual emphasis on indirect instruments have facilitated the task of conveying the monetary policy stance and also provide evidence of asymmetric response of financial markets to monetary policy shocks.
ISSN:0161-8938
1873-8060
DOI:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2007.07.003