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Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan

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Raghuram G. Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author, most recently, of Monetary Policy and Its Unintended Consequences (The MIT Press, 2023).

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  1. The Danger of Forgetting the 2023 Banking Crisis
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    The Danger of Forgetting the 2023 Banking Crisis

    Feb 8, 2024 Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya worry that smaller banks’ troubles remain unresolved, and that the episode perpetuated moral hazard.

  2. Raghuram G. Rajan on inflation, financial risks, interest rates, and more
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    Raghuram G. Rajan on inflation, financial risks, interest rates, and more

    Jan 9, 2024 Raghuram G. Rajan says when the US Federal Reserve might start cutting rates, considers how to mitigate monetary-policy spillovers, proposes measures to boost financial stability, and more.

  3. The World Needs a Humble Approach to Central Banking
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    The World Needs a Humble Approach to Central Banking

    Dec 8, 2023 Jacob Frenkel, et al. explain why monetary policymakers must accept a deliberately narrow mandate.

  4. When More Financial Regulation Is Not Better
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    When More Financial Regulation Is Not Better

    Oct 31, 2023 Raghuram G. Rajan warns that higher capital requirements for banks become counterproductive beyond a certain point.

  5. The Populist Advantage
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    The Populist Advantage

    Aug 18, 2023 Raghuram G. Rajan explains why so many previously discredited economic policies have become easier to sell to the public.

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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

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    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.
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    Trump’s Plans for the Fed Would Revive 1970s-Style Inflation

    Maurice Obstfeld thinks the presumptive GOP nominee’s policies reflect an outdated understanding of the economy.

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