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Ratna Sahay is affiliated with the International Monetary Fund in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on economics, econometrics, and finance, with work spanning 26 publications in this main field. Within these areas, Sahay has also contributed to subfields including economics and econometrics, finance, management information systems, accounting, and information systems.

Their scholarly interests cover several key topics, including:

  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
  • Economic Growth and Development
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Banking Stability, Regulation, Efficiency
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Sahay has contributed to a range of recent papers, highlighting various aspects of financial inclusion and economic policy. Selected recent works include:

  • "Measuring Digital Financial Inclusion in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: A New Index", 2022, Asian Economic Policy Review
  • "The Promise of Fintech", 2020, Departmental Paper
  • "Is Digital Financial Inclusion Unlocking Growth?", 2021, IMF Working Paper
  • "Financial Inclusion and Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis", 2020, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development
  • "Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies", 2020, IMF Working Paper

A frequent contributor to the IMF Working Paper series, Sahay has published eight papers there. Other notable venues for their work include the SSRN Electronic Journal, Departmental Paper, Journal of Experimental Agriculture International, and the Asian Economic Policy Review.

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Sahay's professional activity, with several frequent co-authors appearing across their publications. These include Purva Khera, Sumiko Ogawa, Stephen G. Cecchetti, Machiko Narita, and Umang Rawat.

In addition to journal articles and working papers, Sahay has contributed to the International Monetary Fund's publication portfolio with at least one book titled Finance and Inequality, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Stabilization and Growth in Transition Economies: The Early Experience

    Stanley Fischer;Ratna Sahay;Carlos A. Vegh

  • Modern Hyper- and High Inflations

    Stanley Fischer;Ratna Sahay;Carlos Vegh

  • Rethinking Financial Deepening:Stability and Growth in Emerging Markets

    Ratna Sahay;Martin Cihak;Papa N'Diaye;Adolfo Barajas

  • Sovereign borrowing by developing countries: What determines market access?

    R. Gaston Gelos;Ratna Sahay;Guido Sandleris

  • Commodity currencies and the real exchange rate

    Paul Cashin;Luis F. Céspedes;Ratna Sahay

  • The Evolution of Output in Transition Economies; Explaining the Differences

    Ratna Sahay;Jeromin Zettelmeyer;Eduardo Borensztein;Andrew Berg

  • Financial Inclusion : Can it Meet Multiple Macroeconomic Goals?

    Ratna Sahay;Martin Cihak;Papa M N'Diaye;Adolfo Barajas

  • Internal Migration, Center-State Grants and Economic Growth in the States of India

    Paul Anthony Cashin;Ratna Sahay;Ratna Sahay

  • The Transition Economies after Ten Years

    Stanley Fischer;Stanley Fischer;Stanley Fischer;Ratna Sahay;Ratna Sahay

  • Financial market spillovers in transition economies

    R. Gaston Gelos;Ratna Sahay

  • The Transition Economies After Ten Years

    Stanley Fischer;Ratna Sahay

  • Economies in Transition: The Beginnings of Growth

    Stanley Fischer;Ratna Sahay;Carlos A Vegh

  • What Moves Capital to Transition Economies

    Nada Mora;Ratna Sahay;Jeromin Zettelmeyer;Pietro Garibaldi

  • Do Government Wage Cuts Close Budget Deficits? Costs of Corruption

    Nadeem Ul Haque;Ratna Sahay

  • Regional Economic Growth and Convergence in India

    Paul Cashin;Ratna Sahay

  • From transition to market: Evidence and growth prospects

    Stanley Fischer;Stanley Fischer;Stanley Fischer;Ratna Sahay;Ratna Sahay;Carlos A. Végh

  • Behavior of output during currency crises

    Poonam Gupta;Deepak Mishra;Ratna Sahay

  • Dollarization in transition economies: Evidence and policy implications

    Carlos Vegh;Ratna Sahay

  • Measuring Digital Financial Inclusion in Emerging Market and Developing Economies: A New Index

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  • The Promise of Fintech; Financial Inclusion in the Post COVID-19 Era

    Amina Lahreche;Sumiko Ogawa;Kimberly Beaton;Purva Khera

  • Financial Market Spillovers in Transition Economies

    Ratna Sahay;R. G Gelos

  • Stabilization and Growth in Transition Economies : The Early Experience

    Stanley Fischer;Carlos A. Végh Gramont;Ratna Sahay

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanley Fischer
Stanley Fischer BlackRock (United States)
Carlos A. Vegh
Carlos A. Vegh Johns Hopkins University
Martin Cihak
Martin Cihak International Monetary Fund
Paul Cashin
Paul Cashin IMF – Singapore Regional Training Institute
Ashoka Mody
Ashoka Mody Princeton University
Eduardo Borensztein
Eduardo Borensztein Inter-American Development Bank
Guillermo A. Calvo
Guillermo A. Calvo Columbia University
Douglas Laxton
Douglas Laxton International Monetary Fund
Maurice Obstfeld
Maurice Obstfeld University of California, Berkeley

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