How to make homes affordable in India (6 July, 2025; revised  25 August, 2025, Puliyabazi) 

High home prices: The problem and the solution (forthcoming, THE PRIME DIRECTORY-2025)

The BEST interest rate policy (THE PRIME DIRECTORY-2024) 

Irrationality in financial decisions: A policy proposal (18 March 2024, Ideas for India)

· Why is land expensive in India and what can be done about it? (29 February, 2024, Ideas for India; Hindi version, 17 May, 2024, Ideas for India)

· A more focused RBI: Creating capacity to tackle ‘true’ market failure (10 January, 2024, Ideas for India)

· A more focused RBI: Why and how (THE PPRIME DIRECTORY-2023)

Need for a More Focused Central Bank (Artha, The Shri Ram Economics Journal 2023)

· An alternative fiscal policy for Abraham Lincoln (2022, Artha, The Shri Ram Economics Journal, p. 209-11)  

· Budget 2022-23: Capital gains tax, and asset price stability (February 4, 2022, Ideas for India)

· Budget 2021-22: Missed opportunity for increasing tax collection (February 4, 2021, Ideas for India)

· Inflation targeting and capital flows (Ideas for India, January 6, 2021)

· A ten point programme for economic recovery (October 20, 2020, Ideas for India)

· Going beyond passive investing (September 9, 2020, Ideas for India)

· Covid-19, recession, and policy lessons from other countries (July 27, 2020, Ideas for India)

· Covid-19, and the way to avoid a blunt interest rate policy (June 16, 2020, Ideas for India)

· Covid-19: Does the Government of India really have limited fiscal space? (May 29, 2020, Ideas for India)

· Covid-19: Getting the fiscal policy right (May 7, 2020, Ideas for India)   

· Covid-19: Reserves to the rescue (April 4, 2020, Ideas for India)

· Raising coverage under deposit insurance: A soft option (December 2, 2019, Ideas for India)

· Does the current economic slowdown warrant a fiscal boost? (November 4, 2019, Ideas for India)

· Transfer of funds from RBI to the GOI (September 2, 2019, Ideas for India)

· A new interest rate policy (May 4, 2019, Ceteris Paribus)

· Huge bank losses, frauds, and economic risks (Ideas for India, March 9, 2018; abridged version in Mint, March 9, 2018)

· Large self-employment in India: Diagnosis and policy (Ideas for India, January 22, 2018; abridged version in Mint, January 22, 2018)

· Bubble in Bitcoin or Elsewhere? (Ideas for India, December 11, 2017; abridged version in Mint, December 11, 2017)

· Recapitalisation of public sector banks, and financial repression (Ideas for India, November 5, 2017; abridged version in Business Standard, November 5, 2017)

· 400 billion Dollars of Reserves: Some Concerns (Ideas for India, October 3, 2017; abridged version in Mint, October 3, 2017)

· Purchasing Power Parity: Some Concerns (Ideas for India, September 4, 2017; abridged version in Mint, September 5, 2017)

· Towards Financial Prescription (Ideas for India, July 24, 2017)

· Reconsidering the 4% inflation target (Ideas for India, January 16, 2017; abridged version in Livemint, January 16, 2017)

· Demonetization: Some very counterintuitive effects in practice (Ideas for India, December 18, 2016; abridged version in Business Standard, December 18, 2016)

· Demonetization: A closer look (Ideas for India, 13 November, 2016; abridged version in Business Standard, 13 November, 2016)

· The tussle between the Reserve Bank of India and the Ministry of Finance: A different dimension (August 18, 2016, Ideas for India)

· Public sector banks: the more things change, the more they stay the same (July 21, 2016, Ideas for India)

· Recapitalizing the public sector banks by disinvesting in the RBI: Right and wrong (Ideas for India, May 9, 2016;  abridged version in Mint)

· Land in India: Market price vs fundamental value (Ideas for India, February 29, 2016, included in the list of 'most read' columns in |4|)

· Fiscal deficits and growth slowdown (Ideas for India, February 17, 2016; abridged version in Mint)

· Reining in gold imports (Ideas for India, June 12, 2015)

· Inflation targeting in India: Right and wrong (Ideas for India, January 31, 2014)

· What is mitigating a financial crises in India? (Ideas for India, November 8, 2013; abridged version in Mint)

· The market for inflation-indexed bonds (Ideas for India, May 31, 2013)

· Why India should not further delay a credit line from the IMF (Ideas for India, April 3, 2013; abridged version in Mint)