Articles by Vineet Kohli

The government’s claims about the fruits of “demonetisation” of ₹500 and ₹1,000 notes are analysed. The five claims—fighting terrorism, “black money,” gaining fiscal space, reducing interest rates, formalising informal economy—are scrutinised from an economics perspective. 

Providing a critical appraisal of the new mainstream literature, which argues that successful late developers like Germany and Japan had strong stock markets in their early phase of development, this paper tries to track the size of stock markets over the 20th century using data provided by Raymond Goldsmith. It also presents historical case studies of Germany and Japan, which show that government intervention in the financial sector was rife in the early years and proved critical in shaping the size and role of stock markets in their economies. Besides, these case studies do not show that equity funding flourishes when governments adopt a hands-off approach towards the financial system.