Speeches

2020

Talk at the American Economic Association in the Session on Deaths of Despair (a forthcoming book by Angus Deaton and Anne Case), January 2020 My talk starts at minute 52 and is largely on The Third Pillar and its relationship to the topic of teh session, but you may be interested in everything.

2019

OP Jindal Lecture 2: The Vision Thing, Brown University October 2019

OP Jindal Lecture 1: India's Economy: How did we get here?, Brown University October 2019

2018

Bhattacharya Lecture at University of California, Berkeley, November 2018

Feldstein Lecture NBER Summer 2018

Liquidity and Leverage AEA/AFA Lunch talk 2018

Slides accompanying Liquidity and Leverage

2016

India in the Global Economy, First Ramnath Goenka Lecture, March 12 2016

Towards Rules of the Monetary Game, Talk at IMF ASia Conference, March 12 2016

Financial Reforms, CD Deshmukh Lecture at NCAER, January 29, 2016

2015

Tolerance and Respect, Speech at the IIT Delhi Convocation, October 2015

The Global Financial System and the Rules of the Game, Speech at the 65th Anniversary of the Bank of Sri Lanka, October 2015

Modernizing the Financial Sector, Speech in memory of CK Prahalad, September 2015

Going Bust for Growth, Speech at the Economic Club of New York, April 2015

Democracy, Inclusion, and Prosperity, D.D. Kosambi Lecture, February 2015

2014

Make in India, Largely for India, Dr Bharat Ram Lecture, December 2014

Saving Credit, The Third Verghese Kurien Lecture, November 2014

Finance and Opportunity in India, The Lalit Doshi Memorial Lecture, August 2014

Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Committee: What to do and when, speech delivered at State Bank of India Conference, June 2014

Concerns about competitive monetary easing, speech delivered at Bank of Japan, May 30 2014

Competition in the Banking Sector: Opportunities and Challenges, Second Annual Day Lecture, Competition Commission of India, May 20, 2014.

Competitive Monetary Easing: Is it yesterday once more, Speech delivered at Brookings Institution, April 2014

Fighting Inflation, speech at FIMDA, February 2014

Financial Inclusion: Technology, Institutions, and Policies, speech at Nasscom and V.N. Gadgil Memorial Lecture, February 12, 13, 2014

2013

The Five Pillars of RBI's Financial Sector Policies, Speech at Bankcon, November 2013

Filtering out the Real India, Speech at Harvard Business School, October 2013

Opening Statement on taking over as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, September 4, 2013

A step in the dark: unconventional monetary policy after the crisis, The Inaugural Andrew Crockett Memorial Lecture delivered at the Bank for International Settlements, June 23 2013

2009

The Crisis, Obama, and Change, remarks delivered to the Samsung Global Investors Conference, May 11, 2009 (PowerPoint)

Too Systemic to Fail, written statement to the Senate Banking Committee, May 6, 2009

The Credit Crisis and Cycle Free Regulation, the Homer Jones Lecture at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, April 15, 2009

2008

Crisis and Change, convocation speech at the University of Chicago, December 2008

Is There a Threat of Oligarchy in India?, speech to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, September 10, 2008

Financial Sector Reforms in India and the Global Crisis, speech to the Institute for Economic Growth, Delhi, March 2008

A View of the Liquidity Crisis, speech in Chicago, February 2008 (Charts)

Russia in the Mirror of Other Emerging Markets, speech in Moscow, January 30, 2008

Financial sector reforms in India: Why? Why Now? How?, speech in New Delhi, January 16, 2008

2007

A Tale of Two Liquidities, speech to Conference on Liquidity at Naples, December 17, 2007

Foreign Capital and Economic Growth, Tinbergen Lecture at Amsterdam, October 26, 2007

Saving Growth from Unequal Influence, Conference on Growth in Mexico City organized by World Bank

2006

Is There a Global Shortage of Fixed Assets?, December 1, 2006

Investment Restraint, The Liquidity Glut, and Global Imbalances, November 16, 2006

Benign Financial Conditions, Asset Management, and Political Risks: Trying to Make Sense of Our Times, Conference on International Financial Instability: Cross-Border Banking and National Regulation, organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, October 6, 2006

Foreign Capital and Economic Growth, at a conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 25, 2006, based on Foreign Capital and Economic Growth (with Eswar Prasad and Arvind Subramanian)

Monetary Policy and Incentives, at the Bank of Spain Conference on Central Banks in the 21st Century, June 8, 2006

The IMF in A Changing World: Keynote Address, given at the Arison School of Business in Israel, May 17, 2006

The Ebbing Spirit of Internationalism and the International Monetary Fund, the 2006 Krasnoff Lecture at the Stern School, New York University, March 8, 2006

Perspectives on Global Imbalances, at the Global Financial Imbalances Conference, London, January 23, 2006

India: The Past in its Future, at the Forum for Free Enterprise, Mumbai, January 20, 2006

2005

Revitalizing Reforms in Europe, the Ludwig Erhard Lecture, Brussels, December 8, 2005

The Greenspan Era: Lessons for the Future, given at a symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 27, 2005

Convocation Address at the Indian Institute of Management, given in Ahmedabad, India, April 2, 2005

India: A Hub for Globalization, given at the Pravasi Bharati Divas in Mumbai, January 2005

2004

How can India be a G-5 power?, given at the India Today Conclave in Delhi, March 2004

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