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Short-term effects of India’s demonetization on the rural poor

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  • Zhu, Heng
  • Gupta, Anubhab
  • Majumder, Binoy
  • Steinbach, Sandro

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This paper analyzes the short-run responses of poor rural households to India’s demonetization in 2016. We estimate an economic loss of 15.5% over the two months post demonetization and discuss a range of strategies that the households adopted to exchange their banned currency-denominations.

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  • Zhu, Heng & Gupta, Anubhab & Majumder, Binoy & Steinbach, Sandro, 2018. "Short-term effects of India’s demonetization on the rural poor," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 170(C), pages 117-121.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:170:y:2018:i:c:p:117-121
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2018.05.035
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    Keywords

    Demonetization; Loss; Currency shock; Financial diaries; India;
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    JEL classification:

    • E6 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
    • O2 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy
    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General

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