Speeches
To invite Dr. Rajan for private speeches, please contact Radhika Puri rpuofc@gmail.com
To check out his most recent op-eds and posts, as well as recent interviews, please go to Dr. Rajan's LinkedIn page
2024
Knowing when to stop: The unintended consequences of monetary policy -- Talk at Chicago's Becker Friedman Center.
Interview with Martin Wolf on Democracy
Talk on my recent India book at the Brookings Institution
Interview with Vir Sanghvi before Indian elections
Interview with Fareed Zakaria before Indian elections
Interview with Ranveer Allahbadia, another of India's most popular interviewers
Interview with Akash Banerjee, a popular interviewer.
2023
Interview with Professor Bhagwan Chowdhry at the Indian School of Business
Speech in London followed by fireside chat.
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
Talk on my book, the Third Pillar, at Northeastern University.
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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