Sonali Das

Last Updated: April 15, 2024

Sonali Das is a deputy division chief in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, where she contributes to surveillance priorities, including operationalization of the IMF’s Integrated Policy Framework. Prior to her current assignment, she was a senior economist in the Research Department, contributing to the World Economic Outlook, and in the Asia and Pacific Department, where she was the senior desk for China and a desk economist on the India, Nepal, and Fiji teams. She previously worked as SPR economist on an IMF program with Pakistan. She holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University.

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University, 2012

M.A., Economics, McGill University, 2005

B.Sc., Hon., Economics and Statistics, University of Toronto, 2004


Previous Experience:

Research Associate, The Brookings Institution, Global Economy and Development Program, Washington DC, summer and fall 2010

Intern, Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, summer 2010


Country work or Mission Assignment:

Senior Economist/Economist, China Team, Asia and Pacific Department

Economist, India and Nepal Teams, Asia and Pacific Department

SPR Economist on Pakistan Team, Strategy Unit, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department

Intern, Monetary and Capital Markets Department


Field of Expertise:

Monetary Policy

Macro-Financial Issues

International Finance

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Monetary Policy Transmission and Policy Coordination in China , Working Paper No. 2022/074 , April 29, 2022

Sectoral Shocks and Spillovers: An Application to COVID-19 , Working Paper No. 2021/204 , July 30, 2021

After-Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospects for Medium-Term Economic Damage , Working Paper No. 2021/203 , July 30, 2021

China’s Evolving Exchange Rate Regime , Working Paper No. 2019/050 , March 07, 2019

The Effect of Leverage on Asset Sales Between Financial Institutions , Working Paper No. 17/200 , September 08, 2017

Financial Frictions, Underinvestment, and Investment Composition : Evidence from Indian Corporates , Working Paper No. 17/134 , June 08, 2017

Monetary Policy in India : Transmission to Bank Interest Rates , Working Paper No. 15/129 , June 23, 2015

Women Workers in India: Why So Few Among So Many? , Working Paper No. 15/55 , March 16, 2015

How Risky Are Banks' Risk Weighted Assets? Evidence From the Financial Crisis , Working Paper No. 12/36 , January 01, 2012

Other Published Materials

IMF Policy Paper, Integrated Policy Framework—Principles for the Use of Foreign Exchange Intervention, with ICD, MCM, RES, SPR team, Dec 2023

April 2022 WEO, Chapter 2, Private Sector Debt and the Global Recovery, with S. Albrizio, C. Koch, J. Natal, and P. Wingender

October 2021 WEO, Chapter 2, Inflation Scares, with F. Caselli, C. Koch, P. Mishra, and P. Wingender.

April 2021 WEO, Chapter 2, After-Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospects for Medium-Term Economic Damage, with W. Lian, G. Magistretti, E. Pugacheva, and P. Wingender.

Sonali Das is a deputy division chief in the IMF’s Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, where she contributes to surveillance priorities, including operationalization of the IMF’s Integrated Policy Framework. Prior to her current assignment, she was a senior economist in the Research Department, contributing to the World Economic Outlook, and in the Asia and Pacific Department, where she was the senior desk for China and a desk economist on the India, Nepal, and Fiji teams. She previously worked as SPR economist on an IMF program with Pakistan. She holds a PhD in economics from Cornell University.

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University, 2012

M.A., Economics, McGill University, 2005

B.Sc., Hon., Economics and Statistics, University of Toronto, 2004


Previous Experience:

Research Associate, The Brookings Institution, Global Economy and Development Program, Washington DC, summer and fall 2010

Intern, Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, summer 2010


Country work or Mission Assignment:

Senior Economist/Economist, China Team, Asia and Pacific Department

Economist, India and Nepal Teams, Asia and Pacific Department

SPR Economist on Pakistan Team, Strategy Unit, Strategy, Policy, and Review Department

Intern, Monetary and Capital Markets Department


Field of Expertise:

Monetary Policy

Macro-Financial Issues

International Finance

IMF Books and Working Papers:

Monetary Policy Transmission and Policy Coordination in China , Working Paper No. 2022/074 , April 29, 2022

Sectoral Shocks and Spillovers: An Application to COVID-19 , Working Paper No. 2021/204 , July 30, 2021

After-Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospects for Medium-Term Economic Damage , Working Paper No. 2021/203 , July 30, 2021

China’s Evolving Exchange Rate Regime , Working Paper No. 2019/050 , March 07, 2019

The Effect of Leverage on Asset Sales Between Financial Institutions , Working Paper No. 17/200 , September 08, 2017

Financial Frictions, Underinvestment, and Investment Composition : Evidence from Indian Corporates , Working Paper No. 17/134 , June 08, 2017

Monetary Policy in India : Transmission to Bank Interest Rates , Working Paper No. 15/129 , June 23, 2015

Women Workers in India: Why So Few Among So Many? , Working Paper No. 15/55 , March 16, 2015

How Risky Are Banks' Risk Weighted Assets? Evidence From the Financial Crisis , Working Paper No. 12/36 , January 01, 2012

Other Published Materials

IMF Policy Paper, Integrated Policy Framework—Principles for the Use of Foreign Exchange Intervention, with ICD, MCM, RES, SPR team, Dec 2023

April 2022 WEO, Chapter 2, Private Sector Debt and the Global Recovery, with S. Albrizio, C. Koch, J. Natal, and P. Wingender

October 2021 WEO, Chapter 2, Inflation Scares, with F. Caselli, C. Koch, P. Mishra, and P. Wingender.

April 2021 WEO, Chapter 2, After-Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospects for Medium-Term Economic Damage, with W. Lian, G. Magistretti, E. Pugacheva, and P. Wingender.

Publications in Journals (Refereed)

"Monetary policy transmission and policy coordination in China” with W. Song, China Economic Review, vol 82, Dec 2023

"Long COVID? Prospects for economic scarring from the pandemic" with P. Barrett, G. Magistretti, E. Pugacheva, P. Wingender, Contemporary Economic Policy, Nov 2022

"Sectoral Spillovers Across Space and Time” with G. Magistretti, E. Pugacheva, P. Wingender, Journal of Macroeconomics, vol 72, Jun 2022

Publications in Books and Conference Volumes

"Monetary Policy Transmission in the Presence of Goods and Labor Market Frictions: The Case of India," with Rahul Anand and Purva Khera, in Monetary Policy in India: A Modern Macroeconomic Perspective, edited by Chetan Ghate and Ken Kletzer (Springer Verlag, 2016)

“International Policy Coordination: Why, When, and How?,” with Narayanan Raman and Lucy Qian Liu, in Managing Complexity: Economic Policy Cooperation after the Crisis, edited by Tamim Bayoumi, Stephen Pickford, and Paola Subacchi (Brookings Institution Press, 2016)