This paper examines the contributions of real (permanent) and nominal (temporary) shocks on the nominal and real exchange rates of the Indian Rupee against the US dollar in the period since 1993, using the long-run structural VAR technique. If nominal shocks account for most of the movement in...

This article reappraises the financial repression hypothesis for India in light of the partial liberalization of the financial sector in the early 1990s, using for the first time state-of-the-art multivariate cointegration and vector error correction models (VECM). From this more robust testing...