Our fifth scholar in the series is Karthik Narayan, who is a doctoral candidate in Economics at Nuffield College and at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford. His research focuses on monetary policy, macroeconomics and finance in developing countries.
We spoke about his job market paper titled, Macroeconomic Effects of Scheduled and Unscheduled Monetary Policy Surprises.
We talked about how the Reserve Bank of India makes and announces its policies, its impact on interest rates, inflation expectations and output, measuring the impact of policy announcements, the Lucas Critique and much more.
Recorded August 28th, 2025.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:03:22) - Measuring Causality Is Hard
(00:11:16) - What Counts as a Policy Surprise?
(00:13:27) - OIS and MIBOR: Expectation Thermometers
(00:21:11) - Short term versus long term effects on asset prices
(00:27:18) - Noise and Fiscal-Monetary Coordination
(00:32:46) - Inflation Before and After the MPC
(00:37:24) - The Lucas Critique
(00:40:51) - Practical Implications
(00:45:48) - Other Research Interests
(00:47:39) - Outro
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