PhD Programme

PhD Programme Chairperson's Message

IFMR GSB @ Krea has evolved continuously over the years as a dynamic, learning-based and research oriented organization. PhD scholars at IFMR GSB are carefully picked from a pool of highly competitive and qualified students. The two-year coursework imparts critical thinking skills to help them evolve as independent researchers with the ability to solve the challenges thrown by the economy and society. At IFMR GSB, we encourage students to cut across academic silos and do impactful research, which is the need of the hour. The Pandemic has tested our skills, brought us together as a community and deepened our commitment towards inter-disciplinary research.

Dr Madhuri Saripalle
Chairperson – PhD Progamme

IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University
List of Ph.D. Alumni (1990-2019)*
S. No.	Name	Area	Title of Thesis	Year Awarded
1	N Chandrasekaran	Finance	Market Structure and Financial performance – A study of the Indian Cement Industry during 1971-86	1990
2	Sucharita Kumar	Finance	Corporate Behaviour in Raising Capital – A Study of the Indian Corporate Sector	1990
3	G Ramachandran	Finance	Behaviour of Share Prices – A Statistical Analysis	1991
4	K Lakshmi	Finance	Financial Performance of Diversified Companies – A strategic analysis	1991
5	Uma Subbaraman	Economics	Exchange Rate Economics: Micro Analysis of India’s Exchange Rate Experience	1994
6	S Manjula	Finance	Working Capital Management: A case study of fertilizer industry in India	1995
7	L V Ramana	Finance	Initial Public Offerings in India: Analysis of their performance and pricing	1997
8	R Meenakshi	Finance	Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India (An Analysis of its impact on the Economy and on the Corporate Sector)	1998
9	S K Shanthi	Economics	Economics of Public Debt: India’s experience (1960-61 to 1990-91)	1999
10	B Gayathri	Finance	Credit Risk Modeling of Hire Purchase Transaction	2001
11	S Vijayalakshmi	Finance	Agency Cost, Ownership Structure and Financial Policies in the Indian Corporate Sector	2002
12	C R Aravind	Finance	Financial Structure and value of the firm – An Empirical study of Indian firms in the post liberalisation period	2003
13	P R Ramakrishnan	Finance	Corporate Bankruptcy and Restructuring of Firms in India	2003
14	Ponmudi Vasudevan	Finance	Corporate diversification, financial policies and firm value: An empirical analysis of the Indian corporate sector	2008
15	C A Yoonus	Finance	Noise Trading Model – Evidence from the Indian Capital Market	2012
16	Surenderrao Komera	Finance	Essays on Capital Structure Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy	2014
17	Dilip Kumar	Finance	Volatility Estimation and Forecasting: A Study of the Unbiased Extreme Value Volatility Estimator	2015
18	Khanindra Ch. Das	Economics	Essays on Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Developing Countries.	2015
19	Swati Dutta	Economics	Poverty and Vulnerability Analysis in India: An Asset based Approach	2015
20	Jyoti Prasad Mukhopadhyay	Economics	Interrelated Essays in Development Economics	2016
21	Praveen Bhagawan M	Finance	Corporate Risk Management: Empirical Evidence from Indian Non-Financial Firms	2016
22	Lakshmi Padmakumari	Finance	An investigation into the level dependence in the volatility of asset returns	2018
23	Parthajit Kayal	Finance	Modelling alternatives to market efficiency via excess volatility and mean reversion	2018
24	Lakshmi Viswanathan	Finance	An investigation into the empirical regularities of stock returns	2019
25	Santosh Kumar Dash	Economics	Three empirical essays on Inflation	2019
26	Muneer Shaik	Finance	Robust estimation of volatility using extreme values of asset prices	2019
* The Ph.D. degree was awarded by Madras University