Divya Kirti
Last Updated: October 14, 2024
Divya Kirti is an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he worked in the Middle East and Central Asia Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research interests include financial intermediation, macrofinance, and corporate finance. His work has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and the Journal of Banking & Finance.
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/divyakirti/
Fluent In: Hindi.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University
BA in Economics and Mathematics, Cornell University
Referee Activities:
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Financial Studies
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Risk and Insurance
Journal of Financial Intermediation
IMF Economic Review
International Journal of Central Banking
Journal of Financial Services Research
Journal of Empirical Finance
Economic & Political Weekly
Field of Expertise:
Banking
Macro-Financial Issues
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Mitigating Climate Change at the Firm Level: Mind the Laggards , Working Paper No. 2023/242 , November 24, 2023
Banks’ Joint Exposure to Market and Run Risk , Working Paper No. 2023/200 , September 22, 2023
What Policy Combinations Worked? The Effect of Policy Packages on Bank Lending during COVID-19 , Working Paper No. 2023/025 , February 03, 2023
Tracking Economic and Financial Policies During COVID-19: An Announcement-Level Database , Working Paper No. 2022/114 , June 03, 2022
India’s Banks: Lending to Productive Firms? , Working Paper No. 2022/073 , April 29, 2022
Limits to Private Climate Change Mitigation , Working Paper No. 2021/112 , April 29, 2021
How Do Changing U.S. Interest Rates Affect Banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries? , Working Paper No. 19/268 , December 06, 2019
Lending Standards and Output Growth , Working Paper No. 18/23 , January 26, 2018
When Gambling for Resurrection is Too Risky , Working Paper No. 17/180 , August 01, 2017
How is the likelihood of fire sales in a crisis affected by the interaction of various bank regulations? , Working Paper No. 17/68 , March 24, 2017
What Are Reference Rates For? , Working Paper No. 17/13 , January 27, 2017
Why Do Bank-Dependent Firms Bear Interest-Rate Risk? , Working Paper No. 17/3 , January 18, 2017
IMF Country Reports
2018 - Saudi Arabia - IMF Country Report No. 18/263 - Article IV Consultation
2019 - Qatar - IMF Country Report No. 19/146 - Article IV Consultation
2019 - Saudi Arabia - IMF Country Report No. 19/290 - Article IV Consultation
iMFdirect Blog Posts
In Major Economic Shocks, Best Response Combines All-Out, Large-Scale Policies, February 27, 2023
Chart of the Week: When High Yield Goes Boom, June 26, 2018
Selected Issue
2019 - Qatar - Policies to Drive Diversification for Qatar - IMF Country Report No. 19/147
Other Published Materials
Impact of COVID-19 on Insurers, 2020, Special Series on COVID-19.
How Developed and Inclusive are Financial Systems in the GCC?, 2018, Policy Paper.
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
When gambling for resurrection is too risky, 2024, Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 162, 107125.
What are reference rates for?, 2022, Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 144, 106635.
Publications in Books and Conference Volumes
Other Published Materials
The impact of COVID-19 on insurers, VoxEU (June 2020)
Limits to private climate change mitigation, VoxEU (June 2021)
Divya Kirti is an Economist in the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he worked in the Middle East and Central Asia Department. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research interests include financial intermediation, macrofinance, and corporate finance. His work has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and the Journal of Banking & Finance.
Personal WebPage: https://sites.google.com/site/divyakirti/
Fluent In: Hindi.
Education:
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University
BA in Economics and Mathematics, Cornell University
Referee Activities:
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Financial Studies
Journal of Economic Theory
Journal of Risk and Insurance
Journal of Financial Intermediation
IMF Economic Review
International Journal of Central Banking
Journal of Financial Services Research
Journal of Empirical Finance
Economic & Political Weekly
Field of Expertise:
Banking
Macro-Financial Issues
IMF Books and Working Papers:
Mitigating Climate Change at the Firm Level: Mind the Laggards , Working Paper No. 2023/242 , November 24, 2023
Banks’ Joint Exposure to Market and Run Risk , Working Paper No. 2023/200 , September 22, 2023
What Policy Combinations Worked? The Effect of Policy Packages on Bank Lending during COVID-19 , Working Paper No. 2023/025 , February 03, 2023
Tracking Economic and Financial Policies During COVID-19: An Announcement-Level Database , Working Paper No. 2022/114 , June 03, 2022
India’s Banks: Lending to Productive Firms? , Working Paper No. 2022/073 , April 29, 2022
Limits to Private Climate Change Mitigation , Working Paper No. 2021/112 , April 29, 2021
How Do Changing U.S. Interest Rates Affect Banks in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries? , Working Paper No. 19/268 , December 06, 2019
Lending Standards and Output Growth , Working Paper No. 18/23 , January 26, 2018
When Gambling for Resurrection is Too Risky , Working Paper No. 17/180 , August 01, 2017
How is the likelihood of fire sales in a crisis affected by the interaction of various bank regulations? , Working Paper No. 17/68 , March 24, 2017
What Are Reference Rates For? , Working Paper No. 17/13 , January 27, 2017
Why Do Bank-Dependent Firms Bear Interest-Rate Risk? , Working Paper No. 17/3 , January 18, 2017
IMF Country Reports
2018 - Saudi Arabia - IMF Country Report No. 18/263 - Article IV Consultation
2019 - Qatar - IMF Country Report No. 19/146 - Article IV Consultation
2019 - Saudi Arabia - IMF Country Report No. 19/290 - Article IV Consultation
iMFdirect Blog Posts
In Major Economic Shocks, Best Response Combines All-Out, Large-Scale Policies, February 27, 2023
Chart of the Week: When High Yield Goes Boom, June 26, 2018
Selected Issue
2019 - Qatar - Policies to Drive Diversification for Qatar - IMF Country Report No. 19/147
Other Published Materials
Impact of COVID-19 on Insurers, 2020, Special Series on COVID-19.
How Developed and Inclusive are Financial Systems in the GCC?, 2018, Policy Paper.
Publications in Journals (Refereed)
When gambling for resurrection is too risky, 2024, Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 162, 107125.
What are reference rates for?, 2022, Journal of Banking & Finance, Volume 144, 106635.
Publications in Books and Conference Volumes
Other Published Materials
The impact of COVID-19 on insurers, VoxEU (June 2020)
Limits to private climate change mitigation, VoxEU (June 2021)