Financial Reforms in India - Theory and Application
2026 | 268 pages

Mahendra Pal

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INR 1800
ISBN: 9789349370098

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This book is based on the special Class Room Lectures on "Financial Economics" delivered (1994-2017) at the Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics (DSE), South Campus, and SOL, University of Delhi. Policy shifting from Financial Repression to Financial Liberalization and from Debt Creating to Non-Debt Creating foreign capital served as an underlying backbone of New Economic Policy of 1991 initiated by Dr Manmohan Singh. How to control financially repressed economy after liberalization?, the book tries to answer. It deals with the detailed analytics of the theories of Financial Repression and Liberalization (McKinnon-1973); Financial Deepening (Shaw-1973); Financial Dualism and Crowding Out (Taylor-1988) and Adverse Selection (Stiglitz-2000). How IMF stabilization model works to resolve the crisis in the problem ridden country? It provides an analytical derivation of yield curve in a simple language. It also deals with three important theories of term structure such as: Pure Expectation Theory (Hicks-1939); Market Segmentation Theorem (Malkiel-1966); and Preferred Habitat Theory (Modigiliani and Rechard-1966). The study also deals with a detailed analysis of Flow of Fund Matrix in India, the area where India has served as the founder member in 1951. Book also provides the changing phases of Banking Industry in India, total conversion of DFIs, and major reforms in monetary policy of India. Further, empirical findings have been made available in a simple language for the benefits of readers. This book avoids superfluous and overlapping language to save the time of readers.

Mahendra Pal, Ph.D. (Economics), Emeritus Fellow at Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. He has taught Money, Finance and African Economies in Delhi University for three decades. He is an acclaimed author of the book, "World Bank and the Third World Countries of Asia" (1985). His recent studies include "Foreign Capital and Economic Growth in India: Time Series Estimation" (2023) at Macmillan, Springer and "Foreign Aid Revisited: a Case Study of the International Development Association and India (1960-2023)"(2025) at Ethics International Press, London. His work domain includes testing the five economic models empirically with the Indian data: Polak (IMF Monetary Model-1957); Ohlin (Grant Element Model-1966); McKinnon (Complementarity Model-1973); Shaw (Financial Deepening Model-1973) and Bacha (IMF-World Bank Joint Model-1985). He has nearly 34 international-national publications and has delivered academic talks across the globe. His current research includes "Economics of Africa-Time Series Econometrics" and "Finance Growth Nexus in India - Time-Series Analysis".

1. Introduction
2. Foreign Capital and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence
3. Financial Deepening and Economic Development: Theory and Evidence
4. Theories of Term Structure: An Application in Indian Economy
5. Banking Industry in India-Changing Phases (1948-2023)
6. Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in India in Flow of Funds - a Move Towards Universal Banking
7. Monetary Policy Reforms in India
8. Flow of Funds Matrix-Theory and Application
9. Summary and Conclusions.

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