Name	Area	Title of Thesis	Year Awarded
N Chandrasekaran	Finance	Market Structure and Financial performance – A study of the Indian Cement Industry during 1971-86.	1990
G Ramachandran	Finance	Behaviour of Share Prices – A Statistical Analysis	1991
K Lakshmi	Finance	Financial Performance of Diversified Companies – A strategic analysis.	1991
Uma Subbaraman	Economics	Exchange Rate Economics: Micro Analysis of India’s Exchange Rate Experience	1994
S Manjula	Finance	Working Capital Management: A case study of fertilizer industry in India	1995
L V Ramana	Finance	Initial Public Offerings in India: Analysis of their performance and pricing	1997
R Meenakshi	Economics	Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India (An Analysis of its impact on the Economy and on the Corporate Sector)	1998
Sucharita Kumar	Finance	Corporate Behaviour in Raising Capital – A Study of the Indian Corporate Sector.	1998
S K Shanthi	Finance	Economics of Public Debt: India’s experience (1960-61 to 1990-91)	1999
B Gayathri	Finance	Credit Risk Modeling of Hire Purchase Transaction	2001
S Vijayalakshmi	Finance	Agency Cost, Ownership Structure and Financial Policies in the Indian Corporate Sector	2002
C R Aravind	Finance	Financial Structure and value of the firm – An Empirical study of Indian firms in the post liberalisation period	2003
P R Ramakrishnan	Finance	Corporate Bankruptcy and Restructuring of Firms in India	2003
Ponmudi Vasudevan	Finance	Corporate diversification, financial policies and firm value: an empirical analysis of the Indian corporate sector	2008
C.A. Yoonus	Finance	Economics of Public Debt: India’s experience (1960-61 to 1990-91)	2012
Surenderrao Komera	Finance	Essays on Capital Structure Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy	2014
Dilip Kumar	Finance	Volatility Estimation and Forecasting: A Study of the Unbiased Extreme Value Volatility Estimator	2015
Khanindra Ch. Das	Economics	Essays on Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Developing Countries	2015
Swati Dutta	Economics	Poverty and Vulnerability Analysis in India: As Asset based Approach	2015
Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay	Economics	Interrelated Essays in Development Economics	2016
Praveen Bhagawan M	Finance	Corproate Risk Management:Emprical Evidence from Indian Non-Financial Firms	2016
Lakshmi Padmakumari	Finance	An Investigation into the Level Dependence in the Volatility of Asset Returns	2018
Parthajit Kayal	Economics	Modelling Alternatives to Market Efficiency via Excess Volatility and Mean Reversion	2018
Lakshmi Viswanathan	Finance	An Investigation into the Level Dependence in the Volatility of Asset Returns	2019
Santosh Kumar Dash	Economics	Three Empirical Essays on Inflation	2019
Muneer Shaik	Economics	Robust Estimation of Volatility using Extreme Values of Asset Prices	2019
Priyanka Menon	Economics	Essays on Financial Development	2022
George Varghese	Finance	Empirical Essays on Nonlinear Dynamics in Primary Crude Oil Benchmarks	2022
Kunal Saha	Management	Long Memory and Anti-Persistence in Exchange Traded Funds and Underlying Indices: An Analytical Study	2022
Kanvinde Mukta Pushkar	Economics	Testing Market Efficiency: A Random Walk Approach	2022
Aishwarya Krishnaswamy	Economics	Modelling Alternatives to Market Efficiency via Excess Volatility and Mean Reversion	2022
Aiswarya Thomas	Economics	Essays on International Spillovers of Monetary Policy	2022
Blessy Augustine	Economics	Empirical Essays on Debt	2023
Gourab Chakraborty	Management	Measurement of Extreme Market Risks – An Empirical Analysis across Asset Classes and Financial Markets	2023
Ann Mary	Economics	A Study on Spatial Inequalities and Policy Responses in India	2023
Anjali K	Economics	Essays in Financial Economics
Gurmeet Singh	Economics	Empirical Essays on Inflation and Financial Markets	2024
Sruthy Babu	Psychology – Management Studies	Impact Of Cultural Intelligence On Work Outcomes And Wellbeing Among Expatriates In Gcc	2025
The PhD degree was awarded by Madras University​