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CAFRAL aims to conduct high quality research in areas of banking and finance, particularly in areas of policy interest. Our research areas include financial institutions, sovereign and corporate bond markets, financial networks and stability, behavioral finance, corporate finance, household finance and related areas of macro-finance such as monetary economics and international finance. CAFRAL aims to build capacity in these areas by developing internal data and analytic resources, capabilities, and collaborations with research institutions with similar missions.
 
We list some of the working papers and publications of current CAFRAL researchers

1. Anatomy Of A Liquidity Shock On Non-Banks
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni, K. M. Neelima and Sonalika Sinha Date Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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2. Cash Is King: The Role Of Financial Infrastructure In Digital Adoption
Author(s) Bhavya Agarwal, Nirupama Kulkarni and S. K. Ritadhi Date Thursday, August 17, 2023
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3. The Unholy Trinity: Regulatory Forbearance, Government-Owned Banks And Zombie Firms
Author(s) Anusha Chari, Lakshita Jain and Nirupama Kulkarni Date Thursday, August 17, 2023
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4. Employment Protection Legislation And Informality: Theory And Evidence From India
Author(s) Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Chiplunkar and Vidhya Soundararajan Date Wednesday, July 12, 2023
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5. Distributional Implications Of Bank Branch Expansions: Evidence From India
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni, Kanika Mahajan and S. K. Ritadhi Date Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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6. Bank Deposit Franchise, Interest Rate Risk, And Credit Booms: Evidence From India
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni and Akshat Singh Date Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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7. Political Constraints And Sovereign Default
Author(s) Marina Azzimonti and Nirvana Mitra Date Friday, December 2, 2022
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8. Credit Constraints, Bank Incentives, And Firm Export: Evidence From India
Author(s) Yogeshwar Bharat and Raoul Minetti Date Thursday, November 24, 2022
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9. Does Facetime With The Boss Matter? Soft Information Communication And Organizational Performance
Author(s) Samarth Gupta and Kaushalendra Kishore Date Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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10. Homeownership Segregation
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni and Ulrike Malmendier Date Tuesday, May 10, 2022
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11. Multinational Entry And Exit, Technology Transfer, And International Business Cycles
Author(s) Gautham Udupa Date Friday, April 29, 2022
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12. International Business Cycles - The Role Of Technology And Resource Transfers Via Multinationals
Author(s) Gautham Udupa Date Friday, December 3, 2021
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13. Dollar Liquidity, Trade Invoicing And Real Effects: Evidence From India
Author(s) Apoorva Javadekar, Shekhar Tomar and Gautham Udupa Date Thursday, July 29, 2021
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14. Mortgage Policies And Their Effects On Racial Segregation And Upward Mobility
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni and Ulrike Malmendier Date Thursday, July 8, 2021
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15. Consumption Tax Reform And The Real Economy: Evidence From India’S Adoption Of A Value-Added Tax
Author(s) S. K. Ritadhi, Nirupama Kulkarni and Abhay Aneja Date Thursday, July 8, 2021
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16. Resolving Zombie Lending With Collateral Reform
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni Date Friday, March 26, 2021
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17. Unearthing Zombies
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni, S. K. Ritadhi, Siddharth Vij and Katherine Waldock Date Friday, March 26, 2021
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18. Zombie Lending Due To The Fear Of Fire Sales
Author(s) Kaushalendra Kishore and Nirupama Kulkarni Date Wednesday, March 10, 2021
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19. Sovereign Credit Ratings: An Assessment Of Methodologies And Rating Biases
Author(s) CAFRAL Date Wednesday, December 30, 2020
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20. Consumption Tax Reform And The Real Economy: Evidence From India’s Adoption Of A Value-Added Tax
Author(s) Abhay Aneja, Nirupama Kulkarni and S. K. Ritadhi Date Monday, December 7, 2020
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21. COVID-19, Fiscal Stimulus, And Credit Ratings
Author(s) Anuragh Balajee, Shekhar Tomar and Gautham Udupa Date Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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22. Fiscal Situation Of India In The Time Of COVID-19
Author(s) Anuragh Balajee, Shekhar Tomar and Gautham Udupa Date Wednesday, May 13, 2020
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23. Credit Insurance, Bailout And Systemic Risk
Author(s) Kaushalendra Kishore, Research Director, CAFRAL Date Friday, February 21, 2020
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24. Why Risk Managers?
Author(s) Kaushalendra Kishore, Research Director, CAFRAL Date Friday, February 21, 2020
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25. International Business Cycles- The Role Of Technology And Resource Transfers Within Multinationals
Author(s) Gautham Udupa, Research Director, CAFRAL Date Friday, February 21, 2020
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26. The Unintended Consequences Of Regulatory Forbearance
Author(s) Anusha Chari, Lakshita Jain and Nirupama Kulkarni Date Friday, February 21, 2020
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27. Unearthing Zombies
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni, S. K. Ritadhi, Siddharth Vij and KatherineWaldock Date Friday, February 21, 2020
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28. Inflation Forecasting In Emerging Markets: A Machine Learning Approach
Author(s) Kriti Mahajan and Anand Srinivasan Date Thursday, February 20, 2020
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29. Stress Testing Of Firm Level Credit Risk
Author(s) Kriti Mahajan, Manjusha Senapati and Anand Srinivasan Date Thursday, February 20, 2020
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30. Global Spillover Effects Of US Uncertainty
Author(s) Saroj Bhattarai, Arpita Chatterjee and Woong Yong Park Date Monday, January 6, 2020
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31. Banking Relationships And Creditor Rights
Author(s) Vidhan K. Goyal, S. Lakshmi Naaraayanan and Anand Srinivasan Date Wednesday, October 16, 2019
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32. Anatomy Of A Banking Panic
Author(s) Viral Acharya, Abhiman Das, Nirupama Kulkarni and Prachi Mishra Date Monday, March 25, 2019
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33. Creditor Rights And Allocative Distortions { Evidence From India
Author(s) Nirupama Kulkarni Date Monday, March 25, 2019
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34. Elimination Of Tax Distortions On Capital Goods Through The VAT And Capital Investments By Financially Constrained Firms: Evidence From Indian States
Author(s) Abhay Aneja, Nirupama Kulkarni and S. K. Ritadhi Date Monday, March 25, 2019
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35. Rating Efficiency In The Indian Commercial Paper Market
Author(s) Dr Anand Srinivasan, Additional Director (Research), CAFRAL Date Monday, March 11, 2019
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36. Who Values Access To College?
Author(s) Kartik Athreya, Felicia Ionescu, Urvi Neelakantan and Ivan Vidangos Date Monday, February 25, 2019
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37. Consumption And Saving Response To A Tax-Subsidized Saving Policy
Author(s) Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Pulak Ghosh and Man Zhang Date Friday, February 22, 2019
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38. Central Bank Equity: Facts And Analytics
Author(s) Sujan Bandyopadhyay, Rishab Devnani, Sudipta Ghosh and Amartya Lahiri Date Sunday, December 30, 2018
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39. The Unsettling Behavior Of Exchange Rates Under Inflation Targeting
Author(s) Dr. Paul Beaudry and Dr. Amartya Lahiri Date Monday, October 1, 2018
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40. Is Better Access To Markets A Substitute For Educated Parents? Evidence From Rural India
Author(s) Reshad N. Ahsan, Arpita Chatterjee and Shahe Emran Date Saturday, September 1, 2018
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41. Stock Market Participation: The Role Of Human Capital
Author(s) Kartik Athreya, Felicia Ionescu and Urvi Neelakantan, Date Thursday, August 30, 2018
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42. Multinational Firms, Trade, And The Trade-Comovement Puzzle
Author(s) Dr. Gautham Udupa Date Tuesday, August 21, 2018
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43. Relationship Bank Behavior During Borrower Distress
Author(s) Yan Li, Ruichang Lu, Anand Srinivasan Date Friday, March 9, 2018
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44. The Effect Of Government Bank Lending: Evidence From The Financial Crisis In Japan
Author(s) Yupeng Lin, Anand Srinivasan and Takeshi Yamada Date Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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45. Unintended Consequences Of Government Bailouts: Evidence From Bank-Dependent Borrowers Of Large Banks
Author(s) Yupeng Lin, Xin Liu and Anand Srinivasan Date Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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46. Bank Dependence And Bank Financing In Corporate M&A
Author(s) Sheng Huang, Ruichang Lu and Anand Srinivasan Date Wednesday, November 8, 2017
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47. Urbanization, Structural Transformation And Rural-Urban Disparities In China And India
Author(s) Viktoria Hnatkovska and Amartya Lahiri Date Monday, November 6, 2017
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48. Explaining World Savings
Author(s) Colin Caines and Amartya Lahiri Date Monday, November 6, 2017
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49. Urban Sprawl And Rural Development: Theory And Evidence From India
Author(s) Viktoria Hnatkovska and Amartya Lahiri Date Monday, November 6, 2017
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50. Effects Of Demonetization: Evidence From 28 Slum Neighborhoods In Mumbai
Author(s) Deepa Krishnan and Stephan Siegel Date Tuesday, August 29, 2017
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