Knowledge Themes
Reserve Bank of India Act 1934
Section 7 of the RBI Act
Monetary Policy Committee
Flexible Inflation Targeting Framework
Price Stability vs Growth Objective
Lender of Last Resort
Banking Regulation Act 1949
Repo Rate and LAF Corridor
Cash Reserve Ratio and Statutory Liquidity Ratio
Open Market Operations
Monetary Policy Transmission
Fiscal Dominance vs Monetary Autonomy
RBI Dividend Transfer to Government
Internal and External Benchmarking of Loans
Payments and Settlement Systems Act 2007
Structural Subtopics
- Evolution and composition of the Monetary Policy Committee
- Statutory basis of flexible inflation targeting
- Section 7 of the RBI Act 1934 and government's power of direction
- Conflicts over transfer of RBI's surplus reserves to the government
- Impact of demonetization on central bank independence
- RBI’s role as the lender of last resort
- Management of foreign exchange reserves and external value of the rupee
- Quantitative instruments of credit control like Repo and Reverse Repo rates
- Qualitative tools of monetary policy and moral suasion
- Role of RBI in financial inclusion and priority sector lending
- Regulatory oversight of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs)
- Risk-based supervisory model for commercial banks
- Management of public debt and banker to the government
- Challenges in monetary policy transmission to the real economy
Study Material
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