A Conversation with Viral Acharya, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India

Please join us on Tuesday, February 27 for a Colloquium on Business and Society with Viral Acharya, Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India. Mr. Acharya is in charge of RBI's Monetary Policy, Financial Stability, Financial Markets Operations and Regulation, Research and Statistics, and Human Resource Management. This event will be moderated by Rakesh Mohan, Senior Fellow at Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

Prior to joining the RBI, he was the C V Starr Professor of Economics at the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. His primary research interest is in theoretical and empirical analysis of systemic risk of the financial sector, its regulation and its genesis in government-induced distortions.

This event is open to the Yale community.
 

Speakers

• Viral V. Acharya

  Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
  

  Viral V. Acharya is a Deputy Governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in charge of Monetary Policy, Financial Stability, Financial Markets Operations and Regulation, Research and Statistics, and Human Resource Management. Prior to joining the RBI, he was the C V Starr Professor of Economics at the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. His primary research interest is in theoretical and empirical analysis of systemic risk of the financial sector, its regulation and its genesis in government-induced distortions. He has co-edited the books Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System, John Wiley & Sons, March 2009, Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance, John Wiley & Sons, November 2010, and Dodd-Frank: One Year On, NYU-Stern and CEPR (released on voxeu.org), July 2011. He is also the co-author of the book Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, Princeton University Press, March 2011 and Harper Collins (India), June 2011. He is the recipient of the inaugural Banque de France – Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance in 2011, and the 2017 Alexandre Lamfalussy Senior Research Fellowship of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).