Purpose - Among the many factors fueling the inflationary tendencies in an economy such as monetary shocks, structural shocks, demand shocks, external shocks and demographic changes, the issue of inflation (INF) has also been found to be related to fiscal policy decisions of the government. The...

Maintaining a stable price level featured by low inflation rate has remained a prioritized objective of macroeconomic management of all the economies including India. Among many other determinants, this study examines the issue of inflation from the fiscal point of view. A unidirectional...

Empirical inferences about particular forms of agents' inflation expectations are crucial for the conduct of monetary policy. This paper is an attempt to explore the properties of the Reserve Bank of India's survey data of households' inflation expectations. The paper shows that survey...

The paper aims to examine the dynamic impact of openness on inflation in India applying by an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Bound testing approach. Empirical evidence shows that there is a unique and stable long-run relationship between inflation and other variables, such as trade...