Ammu Lavanya on How Foreign Capital Changed Indian Bank Lending

Our seventh and final scholar in the series is Ammu Lavanya , a PhD candidate in Economics at George Washington University. Her research is in the areas of International Finance, Monetary Economics, Empirical Banking and Financial History. We spoke about her job market paper titled International Financial Flows, Credit Allocation and Productivity . We talked about financial liberalization in India, the 2004 banking reform that increased the ceiling on raising foreign equity its impact on market value, lending capacity and increasing productivity through credit in India, the difference between private versus state owned banks, and much more. Recorded October 9th, 2025. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links. Connect with Ideas of India

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Ammu Lavanya on How Foreign Capital Changed Indian Bank Lending is an episode from Ideas of India by Shruti Rajagopalan.

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This episode was published on Dec 4, 2025.

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