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Raghuram Rajan

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Bachelors Electrical Engineering IIT Delhi

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According to Wikipedia, Raghuram Govind Rajan is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Chief Economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund. From September 2013 through September 2016 he was the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. In 2015, during his tenure at the RBI, he became the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements.

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Raghuram Rajan's Published Works

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Financial Dependence and Growth (1996) (8131)
What Do We Know About Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data (1994) (7281)
The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small Business Data (1994) (4984)
Insiders and Outsiders: The Choice between Informed and Arm's-Length Debt (1992) (3702)
The Effect of Credit Market Competition on Lending Relationships (1994) (3379)
The Great Reversals: The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century (2001) (2437)
Does Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution in Small Business Lending (2000) (2149)
Trade Credit: Theories and Evidence (1996) (2100)
Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation, and Financial Fragility: A Theory of Banking (1999) (1968)
The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment (1998) (1779)
Does Function Follow Organizational Form? Evidence from the Lending Practices of Large and Small Banks (2002) (1728)
Entry Regulation as a Barrier to Entrepreneurship (2004) (1579)
A Theory of Bank Capital (1999) (1512)
Aid and Growth: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show? (2005) (1405)
Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier? (2005) (1323)
Power in a Theory of the Firm (1996) (1182)
Covenants and Collateral as Incentives to Monitor (1995) (1141)
The Paradox of Liquidity (1995) (971)
Foreign Capital and Economic Growth (2007) (843)
Why Bank Credit Policies Fluctuate: A Theory and Some Evidence (1994) (817)
Liquidity Shortages and Banking Crises (2002) (796)
The Real Effect of Banking Crises (2005) (776)
Has Finance Made the World Riskier? (2006) (750)
Which Capitalism? Lessons from the East Asian Crisis (1998) (690)
Analyst Following of Initial Public Offerings (1997) (671)
What Undermines Aid's Impact on Growth? (2005) (631)
Rethinking Capital Regulation (2008) (583)
The Credit Crisis: Conjectures About Causes and Remedies (2009) (559)
Is the Glass-Steagall Act justified? A study of the U.S. experience with universal banking before (1994) (556)
The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy: A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms (1998) (545)
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (2010) (529)
The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies (2003) (525)
Fear of Fire Sales, Illiquidity Seeking, and Credit Freezes (2011) (511)
What Determines Firm Size? (1999) (509)
Aid, Dutch Disease and Manufacturing Growth (2011) (496)
Saving capitalism from the capitalists : unleashing the power of financial markets to create wealth and spread opportunity (2004) (473)
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) (457)
FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE, AND GROWTH (2001) (449)
India's Pattern of Development: What Happened, What Follows? (2006) (432)
The Governance of the New Enterprise (2000) (430)
The Benefits of Firm-Creditor Relationships: Evidence from small business data. * (1993) (428)
Banks and Markets: The Changing Character of European Finance (2003) (387)
Finance and Growth: Theory, Evidence, and Mechanisms (2003) (265)
Banks, Short Term Debt and Financial Crises: Theory, Policy Implications and Applications (2000) (264)
Illiquid Banks, Financial Stability, and Interest Rate Policy (2011) (260)
Money in a Theory of Banking (2003) (254)
The Internal Governance of Firms (2009) (254)
A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization (2008) (243)
Does aid affect governance (2007) (238)
Business Environment and Firm Entry: Evidence from International Data (2004) (226)
Fear of Fire Sales and the Credit Freeze (2009) (194)
The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms (2001) (179)
Organization Structure and Credibility: Evidence from Commercial Bank Securities Activities Before the Glass-Steagall Act (1995) (172)
Illiquidity and Interest Rate Policy (2009) (162)
Banks and Liquidity (2001) (159)
Patterns of international capital flows and their implications for economic development (2006) (154)
The Past and Future of Commercial Banking Viewed through an Incomplete Contract Lens (1998) (154)
Are perks purely managerial excess (2006) (151)
The Benefits of Lending Relationships: Evidence from Small (1994) (147)
Are Perks Purely Managerial Excess? (2004) (142)
Trade Credit Contracts (2010) (141)
Competitive monetary easing: is it yesterday once more? (2014) (140)
Sovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector (2011) (125)
Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century (2009) (120)
The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s (2012) (113)
Forthcoming in the American Economic Review (2006) (112)
Presidential Address: The Corporation in Finance (2012) (107)
The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Institutions, Human Capital or Constituencies (2006) (101)
Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm (2006) (99)
The Tyranny of Inequality (1995) (96)
Banks and Cross-Border Capital Flows: Policy Challenges and Regulatory Responses Committee on International Economic Policy and Reform (2012) (88)
Rent Preservation and the Persistence of Underdevelopment (2006) (86)
The Contributions of Stewart Myers to the Theory and Practice of Corporate Finance (2008) (75)
THE FIRM AS A DEDICATED : A THEORY OF THE ORIGINS AND GROWTH OF FIRMS ∗ (2000) (73)
Barriers to Entrepreneurship (2004) (72)
Aid and Growth (2005) (71)
Bank Bailouts and Aggregate Liquidity (2002) (69)
The Effect of Market Conditions on Initial Public Offerings 1 (2002) (69)
The Cost of Diversity : The Diversi cation Discount and Ine cient Investment (1997) (68)
The Paradox of Capital (2007) (66)
The Entry of Commercial Banks into the Securities Business: A Selective Survey of Theories and Evidence. 1 (1995) (64)
The Great Reversals (2000) (59)
Methodology for CGER Exchange Rate Assessments; November 8, 2006 (2006) (57)
Going the Extra Mile: Distant Lending and Credit Cycles (2018) (55)
The Credit Crisis and Cycle-Proof Regulation (2009) (55)
The Tyranny of the Inefficient: An Enquiry into the Adverse Consequences of Power Struggles (1997) (54)
Dollar Shortages and Crises (2004) (47)
The Future of the IMF and the World Bank (2008) (46)
The Corporation in Finance (2012) (45)
The Decline of Secured Debt (2019) (43)
The Persistence of Underdevelopment: Constituencies and Competitive Rent Preservation (2006) (43)
WHY BANKS HAVE A FUTURE: TOWARD A NEW THEORY OF COMMERCIAL BANKING (1996) (43)
Rethinking central banking: committee on international economic policy and reform (2011) (40)
Progress and confusion : the state of macroeconomic policy (2016) (38)
Controlled Capital Account Liberalization: A Propasal (2005) (36)
An Investigation into the Economics of Extending Bank Powers (2002) (36)
The Emergence of Strong Property Rights: Speculation from History (2003) (34)
Pledgeability, Industry Liquidity, and Financing Cycles (2017) (32)
Managerial Entrenchment and Debt Maturity : Theory and Evidence ∗ (2006) (30)
DEBT, FOLKLORE, AND CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES IN FINANCIAL STRUCTURE (1998) (29)
Aid and growth: the policy challenge. (2005) (29)
The Road to Prosperity: Saving Capitalism from Capitalists (2003) (27)
India's Pattern of Development (2006) (26)
Constituencies and Legislation: The Fight Over the Mcfadden Act of 1927 (2011) (25)
Rules of the Monetary Game (2016) (23)
Policy issues in the Indian securities market (2007) (22)
The Global Roots of the Current Financial Crisis and its Implications for Regulation (2008) (19)
Make in India, largely for India (2015) (19)
Market institutions, financial market risks, and the financial crisis (2012) (18)
Local Financial Capacity and Asset Values: Evidence from Bank Failures (2014) (18)
Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation and Financial Fragility: A Theory of Banking (1998) (17)
The Eclipse of the U.S. Tire Industry (2000) (17)
Draft Report of the Committee on financial Sector Reforms (2008) (17)
The Post-Washington Consensus: Development after the Crisis - Working Paper 244 (2011) (17)
Making Capitalism Work for Everyone (2004) (17)
The Spillovers from Easy Liquidity and the Implications for Multilateralism (2020) (17)
India: The Past and Its Future (2006) (16)
Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States (2008) (16)
Financial Fire Sales: Evidence from Bank Failures (2014) (16)
Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest ? (1998) (15)
Pricing commodity bonds using binomial option pricing (1988) (14)
Global Imbalances and Financial Reform with Examples from China (2006) (14)
Crises and the Development of Economic Institutions: Some Microeconomic Evidence (2016) (14)
Is there a global shortage of fixed assets (2007) (14)
Towards Rules of the Monetary Game (2016) (13)
Competitive Rent Preservation, Reform Paralysis, and the Persistence of Underdevelopment (2006) (11)
NBER Conference on corporate alliances (2006) (11)
March, 2009 (2009) (10)
The True Lessons of the Recession (2012) (10)
The Role of Firewalls in Universal Banks: Evidence from Commercial Bank Securities Activities before the Glass-Steagall Act (1994) (9)
Is there a future in banking? Towards a new theory of the commercial bank. (1996) (9)
Why Banks Have a Future: An Economic Rationale (1996) (9)
Managing Financial Policy: Evidence from the Financing of Major Investments (2001) (9)
Banking and the Evolving Objectives of Bank Regulation (2017) (8)
The Financial Crisis and the Death (or Hegemony) of Development Economics (2010) (8)
Global Imbalances or why are the Poor Financing the Rich? (2008) (8)
Do We Still Need Commercial Banks (1998) (8)
Institutional Reform and Sovereign Debt Crises (2005) (7)
Liquidity, Liquidity Everywhere, Not a Drop to Use - Why Flooding Banks with Central Bank Reserves May Not Expand Liquidity (2022) (7)
Democracy, Inclusion, and Prosperity (2015) (7)
Liquidity, Pledgeability, and the Nature of Lending (2021) (7)
Secured Credit Spreads (2020) (7)
The Relationship Dilemma: Organizational Culture and the Adoption of Credit Scoring Technology in Indian Banking (2019) (6)
STRUCTURE? SOME EVIDENCE FROM INTERNATIONAL DATA (6)
Digital Currencies and Stablecoins: Risks, Opportunities and Challenges Ahead (2020) (6)
The Fight against Inflation: A Measure of our Institutional Development (2016) (6)
Chapter 9. Credit Default Swaps, Clearinghouses, and Exchanges (2010) (6)
The Secured Credit Premium and the Issuance of Secured Debt (2020) (6)
Chapter 6. Regulation of Executive Compensation in Financial Services (2010) (6)
Creditor Rights and Allocative Distortions – Evidence from India (2019) (6)
THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF EUROPEAN FINANCE (2003) (6)
The Relationship Dilemma: Why Do Banks Differ in the Pace at Which They Adopt New Technology? (2019) (6)
Whither Bank Regulation: Current Debates and Challenges (2018) (5)
Chapter 7. An Expedited Mechanism to Recapitalize Distressed Financial Firms: Regulatory Hybrid Securities (2010) (5)
Liquidity and the rise of financial intermediation (1995) (5)
Market Institutions and Financial Market Risk (2012) (5)
Finance and Opportunity in India (2014) (5)
The Independence of the Central Bank (2016) (5)
Strong Sustainable Growth for the Indian Economy (2015) (5)
Currencies Aren't the Problem (2011) (5)
The Persistence of Underdevelopment : The Role of Constituencies and Competitive Rent Preservation (2005) (5)
When is Debt Odious? A Theory of Repression and Growth Traps (2020) (5)
Working Paper No . 2005-14 Asset Salability and Debt Maturity : Evidence from 19 th Century American Railroads (2005) (4)
American Economic Association Financial Dependence and Growth (4)
Financing Capacity and Fire Sales: Evidence from Bank Failures (2013) (4)
Creating Constituencies for Reform (2005) (4)
Failed States, Vicious Cycles, and a Proposal (2011) (4)
Creating Constituencies for Reform 1 (2005) (4)
Tire Industry (2000) (4)
Chapter 3. A New Information Infrastructure for Financial Markets (2010) (4)
India: The Past and Its Future. Asian Development Review, Vol. 23(2), pp. 36-52 (2006) (4)
Separate and unequal. (2006) (4)
IMF Research Bulletin, December 2006 (2006) (4)
Can soft power help the IMF make the world more stable? (2011) (4)
Kill Zone (2020) (4)
Resolving Stress in the Banking System (2016) (4)
The role and governance of the IMF : Further reflections on reform (2008) (3)
Liquidity Dependence: Why Shrinking Central Bank Balance Sheets is an Uphill Task (2022) (3)
India's Pattern of Development; What Happened, What Follows? (2006) (3)
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community (2019) (3)
Banks and cross-border capital flows: challenges and regulatory responses (2012) (3)
Benign Financial Conditions, Asset Management, and Political Risks: Trying to Make Sense of Our Times (2007) (3)
Secured Credit Spreads and the Issuance of Secured Debt (2020) (3)
Chapter 2. A Systemic Regulator for Financial Markets (2010) (2)
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics (2017) (2)
Saving Growth from Unequal Influence (2006) (2)
Raghuram Rajan: Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Committee Report (FSLRC) - what to do and when? (2014) (2)
Essays on Banking (1991) (2)
Comment on Interbank Lending and System Risk (1996) (2)
The Mayekawa Lecture: Whither Bank Regulation; Current Debates and Challenges (2018) (2)
Policy and Evidence (2016) (2)
Firewalls in universal banks (1995) (1)
The Internal Governance of Firms 1 Viral (2008) (1)
Raghuram Rajan: IDRBT Banking Technology Excellence Awards - Governor's remarks (2016) (1)
Financial Reforms - Past and Present (2016) (1)
The Third Pillar (2020) (1)
Raghuram Rajan: Sustainable growth in the financial sector - 2015 C K Prahalad Lecture (2015) (1)
Chapter 10. Prime Brokers, Derivatives Dealers, and Runs (2010) (1)
TWO. Exporting to Grow (2011) (1)
Controlled Capital Account Liberalization (2005) (1)
Dealing with corporate distress, repair, and reallocation (2021) (1)
Debt Maturity and the International Financial Architecture -- Olivier Jeanne -- July 1, 2004 -- IMF Working Paper No. 04/137 (2004) (1)
Collateral , debt capacity , and corporate investment : Evidence from a natural experiment â ̃ † (2018) (1)
Financial conditions, alternative asset management and political risks: trying to make sense of our times (2007) (1)
Some evidence on the separation of commercial and investment banking (1992) (1)
Pricing bank loans (1993) (1)
Program report: Corporate finance (2000) (1)
Raghuram Rajan: The changing paradigm for financial inclusion (2016) (1)
Raghuram Rajan: Financial inclusion - technology, institutions and policies (2014) (1)
Why Are Structural Reforms So Difficult ? The benefits of structural reforms aren ’ t always as obvious as the smaller , short-term costs (2004) (1)
FROM THE EDITOR BANK RESTRUCTURING 44 View from the Inside The Korean CEO who managed Seoul Bank ' s restructuring and successful privatization in 2000-02 recounts his experience (2004) (1)
Forthcoming in the American Economic Review Modernizing China ’ s Growth Paradigm (2006) (1)
Tolerance and Respect for Economic Progress (2015) (1)
Unconventional monetary policy and the role of central banks (2017) (1)
Can the tide turn (2003) (0)
Video: Frontiers of Research on Financial Institutions - Featured Panel (2010) (0)
Book review (1996) (0)
National Conference - Evolving as a Smart College: Concepts, Opportunities and Challenges (2016) (0)
Working Paper No. 226 “Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century” (2012) (0)
American Economic Association Does Aid Affect Governance ? (2015) (0)
Chapter 5. Reforming Capital Requirements (2010) (0)
NINE. Improving Access to Opportunity in America (2011) (0)
Industry Liquidity , and Financing Cycles (2017) (0)
FOUR. A Weak Safety Net (2011) (0)
Country Study: Canada (2006) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Democracy, inclusion, and prosperity (2015) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Tolerance and respect for economic progress (2015) (0)
SIX. When Money Is the Measure of All Worth (2011) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Reserve Bank of India celebrates its 80th anniversary (2015) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Concerns about competitive monetary easing (2014) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Money and education (2016) (0)
Timely Papers Session: Additional Papers to be Submitted (2010) (0)
Chapter 4. Regulation of Retirement Savings (2010) (0)
A new Bretton Woods (2009) (0)
India in the Global Economy (2016) (0)
ONE. Let Them Eat Credit (2011) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Towards rules of the monetary game (2016) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Saving credit (2014) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Interesting, profitable, and challenging - banking in India today (2016) (0)
TEN. The Fable of the Bees Replayed (2011) (0)
THE EFFECF OF CREDIT MARKET (1994) (0)
Dollar Shortages and Crises - IJCB - September 2005 (2018) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Finance and opportunity in India (2014) (0)
EIGHT. Reforming Finance (2011) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Words matter but so does intent (2016) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: The five Pillars of Reserve Bank of India s financial sector policies (2013) (0)
Comment on "Credit Market Freezes" (2017) (0)
Economic evaluation: a necessary evil? (1995) (0)
Conference Summary: Vienna Conference on Trade Policy Research (2006) (0)
What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders (2023) (0)
Fiduciary Duties and Equity‐debtholder Conflicts I. Fiduciary Duties and the Credit Lyonnais v. Pathe Communications Case Lawsuits Citing Credit Lyonnais Appeared in the next Several Years following Ruling. Ii. Data (0)
Chapter 8. Improving Resolution Options for Systemically Important Financial Institutions (2010) (0)
Fischer Black Prize for 2003 (2003) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Impact of Chinese slowdown on SAARC region and policy options (2016) (0)
SERIES RENT PRESERVATION AND THE PERSISTENCE OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (2020) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES INCONSISTENT REGULATORS: EVIDENCE FROM BANKING (2012) (0)
The Spillovers from Easy Liquidity and the Implications for Multilateralism (2019) (0)
Exit Interview: Rajan Reviews Experiences at Fund, Discusses Next Moves (2006) (0)
Panel on the Financial Crisis (2010) (0)
Words Matter but so Does Intent (2016) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Financial reforms - past and present (2016) (0)
Improving reliability of fertiliser plants. (2010) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Competition in the banking sector - opportunities and challenges (2014) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Issues in banking today (2016) (0)
Trial Paper Submission 1 (2010) (0)
Stimulus or Reform (2012) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Make in India, largely for India (2014) (0)
Bridge financing, delegated monitoring and corporate debt policy (1993) (0)
Income Inequality and the Financial Crisis (2011) (0)
Transition 14 (7-9) (2003) (0)
Economic and Financial Outlook (2014) (0)
SEVEN. Betting the Bank (2011) (0)
Introduction: NBER Conference on Strategic Alliances (2006) (0)
FIVE. From Bubble to Bubble (2011) (0)
Afterword to the Paperback Edition (2011) (0)
Organizations as Internal Capital Markets (2002) (0)
The Two Faces of Liquidity (2018) (0)
New-Gen Urban Cooperative Banks - Some Musings (2014) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IPO INTERVENTION AND INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA (2018) (0)
Emerging Markets Must Shift Their Focus Inwards (2008) (0)
Homeless people seek shelter under a highway ramp in San Francisco © New York Times / Redux / eyevine (2020) (0)
Homeless people seek shelter under a highway ramp in San Francisco © New York Times / Redux / eyevine (2020) (0)
Doing What Has to Be Done* (2019) (0)
Barriers to enterpreneurship (2004) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Inclusive growth and the role technology can play in it (2014) (0)
Chapter 11. Conclusions (2010) (0)
OF THE COMMITTEE FOR EVOLVING A COMPOSITE DEVELOPMENT INDEX OF STATES GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF FINANCE SEPTEMBER 2013 (2013) (0)
The Corporation in Finance 1 (2014) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Strong sustainable growth for the Indian economy (2015) (0)
Filtering Out the Real India (2013) (0)
A new report advocates a shake-up in India ’ s financial system to underpin growth (2008) (0)
Liquidity Dependence and the Waxing and Waning of Central Bank Balance Sheets (2023) (0)
Commentary on Life-cycle dynamics in industrial sectors: the role of banking market structure (2003) (0)
Mongolia's Competitiveness and Economic Growth 21 (2006) (0)
American Economic Association The Influence of the Financial Revolution on the Nature of Firms Author ( s ) : (2015) (0)
4 POLICY ISSUES IN THE INDIAN SECURITIES MARKET (2003) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: The independence of the central bank (2016) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Financial sector reforms (2013) (0)
THREE. Flighty Foreign Financing (2011) (0)
Raghuram Rajan: Bold face of India's economy speaks out (2014) (0)

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