2  BIS central bankers’ speeches  full effect of China’s slowdown and the weakening of the Yuan will likely remain to be unknown in advance. In the overall scheme of things, the linkages are difficult to assess because they involve expectations, a lot of rebalancing of financial portfolios as well as round-after-round of auxiliary consequences that are not known ex-ante.
I thank the distinguished professors who have consented to discuss various papers presented by my colleagues in DSIM: Prof. Manoj Panda (CESS, Hyderabad), Prof. N. R. Bhanumurthy (NIPFP, New Delhi), Prof. Subrata Sarkar (IGIDR, Mumbai), Prof. Surinder Kumar (CRRID, Chandigarh), Prof. Mahajan (Punjab University, Chandigarh), Prof. Chetan Ghate (ISI Delhi), Prof. Shalabh (IIT Kanpur).