Master of Commerce (M.Com.) Monetary Economics Syllabus - Mumbai University
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Syllabus for Monetary Economics
Module I: Introduction to Monetary Economics(2 Credits)
- Unit 1 Meaning, Objectives and Monetary Economics Framework in India
- Definition of monetary economics: Objectives of monetary policy-Scope of monetary policy.
- Historical overview of monetary policy in India: Key milestones in the development of India's monetary policy framework.
- Structure of India's monetary policy framework: Role of the Monetary Policy Committee
- (MPC) in setting monetary policy and recent changes in in the monetary policy framework
- Unit 2 Instruments of Monetary Policy
- Overview of instruments: Reserve requirements, open market operations, and the repo
- rate.
- The Taylor's Rule: Application of the Taylor's Rule in India's monetary policy.
- Criticisms and limitations of Taylor's Rule in the Indian context.
Module II: Monetary Policy: Transmission Channels and Recent Trends in Monetary
- Policy (2Credits)
- Unit 3 Definition and Meaning of Monetary Policy Transmission
- Monetary Policy Transmission: Definition, meaning and working.
- Interest rate and credit channels: Meaning and working.
- Exchange rate and expectations channels: Meaning and working.
- Unit 4 Recent Trends in Monetary Policy
- Unconventional Monetary Policy Tools (UMPTs): Meaning, role and Tools (Negative
- Interest Rate Policies (NIRPs), Extended Lending or Term-Funding Operations (ELO/TFO), Asset Purchase Programmes (APPs), and Forward Guidance (FG).
- Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC): Meaning, features, and justification for adoption.
- Climate Change and Monetary Policy: Climate change- Monetary Policy Interaction:
- Economic and financial impacts, Green monetary tools as an instrument of policy response.
- SuggestedReferences:
- 1 Adil MH, Rajadhyaksha N (2021). “Evolution of monetary policy approaches: A case study of Indian
- Economy”. J Public Affairs. 2021;21:e2113. https://doi.org/10. 1002/pa.2113
- 2 Blinder, Alan (2018): “Through a Crystal Ball Darkly: The Future of Monetary Policy Communication”.
- Princeton Open Access Repository.
- 3 D’Souza R and Tanya Rana (2020): “The Role of Monetary Policy in Climate Change Mitigation” ORF
- Research Brief, Issue No. 350, April 2020 www.orfonline.org/wp
- content/uploads/2020/04/ORF_IssueBrief_350_MonetaryPolicy-Climate_Change.pdf
- 4 Das, Shaktikanta (2020): “Seven Ages of India’s Monetary Policy” Address by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India at the St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi on January 24, 2020.
- 5 Dua, P.(2020). “Monetary policy framework in India”. Ind. Econ. Rev. 55, 117–154 (2020).
- 6 Ghate, C and Kenneth M Kletzer, Ed. (2016)Monetary Policy in India: A Modern Macroeconomic
- PerspectiveSpringer, 2016; pp xiii+652.
- 7 Handa, J (2008): Monetary Economics, Routledge.
- 8 Jhingan, M.L (2012): Monetary Economics, 7th ed. Vrinda Publications Pvt. Ltd., Delhi.
- 9 Michele Ca’ Zorzi, Luca Dedola, Georgios Georgiadis, Marek Jarociński, LivioStracca, Georg Strasser
- (2020): “Monetary policy and its transmission in a globalised world”. European Central Bank Discussion
- Paper, No 2407 / May 2020.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3599928
- 10 Manu Sharma, Arvind Kumar Jha, Anoop K. Suresh and BikashMaji (2021): “Monetary Policy
- Transmission Through the Lens of Monetary Conditions Index for India” RBI Occasional Papers, Vol.
- 42, No. 1: 2021, pg.123- 162.https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Content/PDFs/3MONETARYPOLICYTRANSMISSION4E85BC99339
- 547CEBBDC0D89D2ED24DB.PDF
- 11 Mishkin, F. S. (2018). The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (12th ed.). Pearson.
- 12 Mohanty, D (2013): “Efficacy of Monetary Policy Rules in India”, RBI Monthly Bulletin April 2013, pg. 83-
- 90 https://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Bulletin/PDFs/08SP_B080413.pdf.
- 13 Rangarajan. C (2021): “Evolving Contours of Monetary Policy”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue No. 20, 15 May 2021.
- 14 https://oar.princeton.edu/jspui/bitstream/88435/pr14b4j/1/pandp.20181080.pdf
- 15 Reserve Bank of India (2021): “Unconventional Monetary Policy in Times of COVID-19” RBI Monthly
- Bulletin, March 2021, pg.41-56.
- D.PDF
- 16 Reserve Bank of India (2022): Concept Note on Central Bank Digital Currency, Fintech Department, October 2022 C2C24FFB6.PDF
- 17 RBI(2024): Monetary Policy in India, https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/FS_Overview.aspx?fn=2752
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