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Topic: Viral Acharya

Are Adani, Ambani & other biggies behind inflation across sectors? Metal segment shows this isn’t the case

A paper by ex RBI official says dominance of 'Top-5' firms lets them excessively raise prices, but analysis of metal sector shows it's down to raw material costs, global inflation, etc.

Rajan, Acharya right to oppose corporates into banking. RBI’s poor regulation makes move risky

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Rajan, Acharya hit out at idea of corporates in banking, say borrowers shouldn’t own banks

In a paper, Raghuram Rajan & Viral Acharya have termed the recent recommendation of an RBI internal working group on allowing corporates into banking a ‘bombshell’. 

Modi govt’s reform of public banks a still-born effort, say Raghuram Rajan & Viral Acharya

Loan losses from the pandemic may be too huge for the government to pay, says a new paper authored by the former RBI governor and former RBI deputy governor.

A central bank should be allowed to say ‘no’, says former RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya

Viral Acharya, in an interview with ThePrint, says his and Urjit Patel’s dissent, resistance and exits from RBI limited the damage that could have been inflicted on financial stability.  

Ex RBI Viral Acharya: Govt pressure on central banks can lead to kiss of death from markets

In his book, Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India, the ex RBI deputy governor lists the ongoing challenges to RBI’s independence and how markets can ensure it.

Viral Acharya leaves RBI as his calls to protect its surplus reserves go unheeded

Deputy Governor Viral Acharya leaves RBI today with a sense of unfinished business on the central bank’s autonomy & the health of lenders.

It wasn’t a mistake to hire ‘Harvard’ economists, but Modi govt should’ve paid heed to them

The country is the loser when top-flight economists leave, especially when growth has slowed and there are macro-economic challenges in every direction.

A hard-hitting batsman not at the World Cup & a PM bent on flogging a ‘dead’ opposition

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Viral Acharya has left RBI, but his warnings may still come back to haunt New Delhi

Nowadays, the Finance ministry and the RBI are mostly singing from the same prayer book.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.