Counter-cyclicality and income smoothing in Indian banks

......Consistency in earnings growth may not necessarily be an outcome of smoothing. Unfortunately, the term income smoothing has an unduly negative connotation. Perhaps this feeling was bolstered by the only and fleeting reference to it that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) made when they effectively banned the use of floating (”unallocated”) provisions in 2005, suggesting that banks were using them to manage earnings. But it need not be that way.........

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