The hoax of demonetization in Indian economy: a mathematical analysis

Debasish Roy

Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2019, vol. 22, issue 4, 678-693

Abstract: Purpose - Over one and half years have passed since the demonetization of Indian economy had occurred on November 8, 2016. The drastic step was initiated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an intention to curb the “huge” circulation of illicit or “black” money of Indian economy by means of withdrawal of high value denominations of Rupees 500 and Rupees 1,000 from the supply of broad money (M3). This step helped to demonetize around 86 per cent value of total money supply leading to an unprecedented chaos in the economy and public life. The long delays in issuing fresh currency notes at the banks and ATMs further deteriorated the sudden economic crisis. Design/methodology/approach - This research paper is aimed at exploring the proclaimed “efficacy” of demonetization policy as proposed by Reserve Bank of India by means of a mathematical approach and critically examines the effects of demonetization on the illicit money supply of Indian economy on the basis of macroeconomic theory. Findings - From the mathematical model and related estimates, it may be easily deduced that the Indian policymakers deliberately hurled the masses in one of the gravest economic crises with a clear-cut intention of creating a political gimmick, when in reality, the proportion of illegitimate money supply was not even 1 per cent of total legitimate supply of money. Originality/value - The analyses and findings related to this paper are based on mathematical modeling and logical interpretations. This paper is free of plagiarism as all the necessary sources and references are properly cited.

Keywords: Illicit nominal income (YL); Illicit supply of money (MI); Legitimate nominal income; Legitimate supply of money (ML); Velocity of circulation of illicit money supply (vL); Velocity of circulation of legitimate money supply (vI); C30; C39; E26; E52; H11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1108/JMLC-11-2018-0068

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