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Case Finance 3 -  How the RBI uses the interest rates to control inflation   ?

Solution - By Amlan Dutta

The central bank (country's bank )is RBI...the other bansk which do business with common audiences is called commercial banks ...we can hold accounts and do operations with the commerciall banks but we cannot have accounts  or do operations with the RBI

RBI only does operations with the commercial banks of the country  and therein lies the gist of the note

Now when RBI lends money to the commercial banks i.e SBI , ICICI etc , the rate at which it offers such funds is called repo rates .

The rate at which it borrow's money from the commercial banks is called the reverse repo rate

Increasing the repo rate as also the reverse repo rates helps arrest inflation .How ?

(1) Increasing the Repo rates

If The central bank increases the rate of interest for lending , any commercial bank will exercise constraint in taking loans ...so available capital in the market will be reduced

Obviously , then money made available to the public for spending wil reduce thereby reducing spending ....so obviouisly demand for all products will fall down and so inflation wil get arrested

(2) Increasing the Reverse Repo rate

Here the central bank borrows money from the commercial banks

if it offers a healthy rate of interest, then it but natural that the commercial banks will flock to the central bank to park their capital because of 2 reasons

(1) More security because RBI is the govt's bank and so there is no chance of default

(2) Good rate of return

Even in same rate of return , it is always preferable for commercial banks to park money with RBI for security , because common borrower can always default but RBI cant ( govt can mint money )

Now  when the commercial banks give money to the central bank , again money from the system reduces ....i,e money available with the commercial banks for giving to public

Now , so public will not be freely available to raise capital and even if , raises it , it does it at very high cost!

So obviously public think's before making such investment and so gradually such loans gets less sold ....finally affecting spending and thereby the demand and so consequently the prices come down and therefore th inflation

Voila , we have seen how the RBI can use powers it has as far as increasing /decreasing interest rates are concerned to reduce inflation ,

Hopefully when you read next the role of the RBI governor to reduce inflation , this is something that may come to his mind !

Humble regards ,

Amlan Dutta

I am set out to make make knowledge free to the best of my capacity and i will do everything i can to that effect !

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