This paper examines the operation of credit channel of monetary policy transmission in India during the post-Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) period of 2001:3 to 2011:3. Drawing on the literature, two reduced form equations — one representing nominal bank credit, and the other, real bank...

Using a structural VAR model on quarterly data from 2000Q1 to 2011Q1, this paper estimated the impact of monetary policy on aggregate demand in India. The overall impact on aggregate demand is then decomposed to observe the differential impact among the various components. It finds that an...