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Inflation, uncertainty and monetary policy in India: a regime-switching analysis

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  • Sudhanshu Kumar

    (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi)

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Based on the characteristics of the inflation data for India, the paper first identifies the possible number of significantly different regimes using Kernel density estimates; and then it estimates a Markov-switching model using the Maximum Likelihood Estimation. Estimated results suggest that high inflation uncertainty in India has not only been a feature of very high levels of inflation but is also associated with the low levels.

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  • Sudhanshu Kumar, 2015. "Inflation, uncertainty and monetary policy in India: a regime-switching analysis," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 35(4), pages 2213-2219.
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    Keywords

    Inflation; Uncertainty; Monetary Policy; Markov-switching; Bootstrap Multimodality test;
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    JEL classification:

    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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