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The Monetary Policy Committee is entrusted with the task of fixing the benchmark policy rate (repo rate) required to maintain inflation within the specified target level. As per the provisions of the RBI Act, three of the six Members of the Monetary Policy Committee will be from the RBI and the other three Members will be appointed by the ...
Monetary policy is the outcome of a complex interaction between monetary institutions, central banker preferences and policy rules, and hence human decision-making plays an important role. [88] It is more and more recognized that the standard rational approach does not provide an optimal foundation for monetary policy actions.
The interest rate channel plays a key role in the transmission of monetary impulses to the real economy. The central bank of a major country is, in principle, able to trigger expansionary and restrictive effects in the real economy, by varying the federal funds rate and hence the short-term nominal interest rate.
The composition of the current monetary policy committee is as follows: [1] Governor of the Reserve Bank of India – Chairperson, ex officio - Sanjay Malhotra; Deputy Governor of the Bank in charge of monetary policy – Michael Debrata Patra [6] Executive Director of the Bank in charge of monetary policy – Rajiv Ranjan [7]
Until the Monetary Policy Committee was established in 2016, [5] it also had full control over monetary policy in the country. [6] It commenced its operations on 1 April 1935 in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. [7] The original share capital was divided into shares of 100 each fully paid. [8]
An easy money policy is a monetary policy that increases the money supply usually by lowering interest rates. [1] It occurs when a country's central bank decides to allow new cash flows into the banking system. Since interest rates are lower, it is easier for banks and lenders to loan money, thus likely leading to increased economic growth. [2]
An expansionary monetary policy resulting in an incipient outward shift of the LM curve would make capital flow out of the economy. The central bank under a fixed exchange rate system would have to instantaneously intervene by selling foreign money in exchange for domestic money to maintain the exchange rate.
The monetary transmission mechanism is the process by which asset prices and general economic conditions are affected as a result of monetary policy decisions. Such decisions are intended to influence the aggregate demand , interest rates , and amounts of money and credit to affect overall economic performance.