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Abheek Barua: Too big to de-allocate?

The coal cancellation brings back unpleasant memories to investors of earlier 'retrospective' actions

Rishi Shah & Abheek Barua: An old index, but new insights

In obsessing over interest rates in the public discourse, we often miss the other variables that monetary policy impacts, as our monetary conditions index shows

Abheek Barua: Super Mario's not so super plans

ECB boss Mario Draghi's measures on deposit rates and asset-backed securities might not work unless the euro zone's economies revive

Abheek Barua: More government, more growth?

The author asks: how much growth can good governance get us?

Abheek Barua: How to regulate shadow banks

Ring-fencing banks will help but it does not mitigate the risks that the sheer size of the 'shadow system' poses for the larger economy

Abheek Barua: The rising vulnerability of emerging markets

Emerging markets could be affected by a combination of lower liquidity and higher dollar interest rates caused by a hike in the US Fed funds rate

Abheek Barua: Not a bang, but not a whimper either

Abheek Barua: Wanted - a model

The Budget speech should outline a consistent policy world view

Abheek Barua: Hot potatoes, big bazookas & bloodlust

The ECB will need more than just minor tweaks if it hopes to resolve Europe's growth woes

Abheek Barua: The Gujarat model revisited

The author discusses the specific achievements of Gujarat, and whether they give India reason to believe

Abheek Barua: The productivity question

The US needs to worry about the dip in productivity growth since it seems to be affecting a whole swathe of industries

Abheek Barua: An agenda for the next Budget

The new government should tell the truth about dodgy numbers, and take real steps towards a fiscal clean-up

Abheek Barua: Emerging market anathema

The tension in Ukraine and other nations, and the murky picture in China, is fuelling the disenchantment

Abheek Barua: Inflation targeting redux

The author wonders whether inflation targeting makes sense if core consumer price inflation doesn't respond to the interest rate

Abheek Barua: Some puzzles to solve

Commodity rates are holding up despite the winding down of quantitative easing and concerns over China's growth

Abheek Barua: Spirit fine, but is the maths right?

Abheek Barua: A menu of choices

The author explains why it matters for economic policy who wins the 2014 election

Abheek Barua: After taper, the deluge?

It seems the Fed will focus on the US' dynamics and won't be swayed by the collateral damage that its actions cause in emerging markets

Abheek Barua: Mapping the global economy

The developed world's recovery, particularly that of the US, is not necessarily a positive for the Indian market

Abheek Barua: Black gold and yellow metal

While euphoria over the Iran deal has waned sharply, the current account deficit has gone into remission due to a collapse in gold demand