Vijaya Bhaskar Marisetty
Economics & Social Sciences
Dr B R Ambedkar Chair Professor
marisetty[at]iimv[dot]ac[dot]in
About
Teaching
- Fintech
- Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
- Financial Analytics
- Investments
- Research issues in Finance
Research & Publications
- Vijaya Marisetty, Archana Narayanan and Wouter Heeswick, 2025, An Agent-Based Model of Rumor-Induced Volatility in Financial Markets, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Athira Kommat, 2025, Board Gender Diversity and Accounting Conservatism, International Review of Financial Analysis, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Shreyansh Nema, 2025, Smallholder Famers and Aggregation Success: A stakeholders’ perspective, Applied Economics, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Akhil Raju, 2025, Community Activism, Social Ties and ESG Campaign Success, Finance Research Letters, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Shoeb Mohammed, 2024, Capital Infusions and Bank Risk Taking Behavior, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Akbar Ali, 2023, Are Fintech Lending Apps Harmful? Evidence from User Experience in the Indian Market. British Accounting Review, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Sairam Moturi, 2023, Boundaries of Firm and Real Earnings Management, Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Salu Prasad, 2022, On the side effects of Mandatory Gender Diversity Laws in Corporate Boards, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, forthcoming.
- Vijaya Marisetty, Varsha Mamidi and Ewan Thomas, 2021, Clean energy transition and intertemporal socio-economic development: Evidence from an emerging market, Energy Economics, 101, 105392.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Sefa Churchill, 2020, Financial Inclusion and Poverty: A Tale of Forty-Five Thousand Households, Applied Economics, 52:16, 1777-1788.
- Vijaya Marisetty, Nhung, Jing Shi and Monica Tan, 2020, Institutional Quality, Investment Efficiency, and the Choice of Public–Private Partnerships, Accounting and Finance, 60, 1801-1834. Peter Brownell Manuscript Award
- Yogesh Chauhan and Vijaya Marisetty, 2019, Do Public-Private Partnerships Benefit the Private Sector? Evidence from an Emerging Market, Research in International Business and Finance, 47, 563-579.
- Santosh Anagol, Vijaya Marisetty, Renuka Sane, and Buvaneshwaran Venugopal, 2017, On the Impact of Regulating Commissions: Evidence from the Indian Mutual Funds Market, World Bank Economic Review, 31, 241-270.
- Saikat Deb, Petko Kalev, and Vijaya Marisetty, 2017, Volatility and Price Limits, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 45, 142- 156.
- Yangyang Chen, W. Robert Knechel, Vijaya B. Marisetty, Cameron Truong, and Madhu Veeraraghavan, 2016, Board Independence and Internal Control Weakness: Evidence from SOX 404 Disclosures. Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, 36, 45-62.
- Invited paper: Sharifa Adlina, Rubi Ahmad, and Vijaya Marisetty, Bank risk and deposit insurance premium in a dynamic panel model: Evidence from Malaysian dual banking system, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, invited for a special issue on Islamic Banking (received a research excellence award from the Journal).
- Saikat Deb, Petko Kalev, and Vijaya Marisetty, 2013, Flexible price limits: the case of Tokyo Stock Exchange, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 24, 66-84.
- M.Ariff and Vijaya Marisetty, Panel data approach to identify factors correlated with equity market risk premiums in developed and emerging markets, 2012, Quantitative Finance, 12, 107-118.
- Kiran Kotha, Varsha Mamidi, and Vijaya Marisetty, 2011, Global markets exposure and price efficiency: A case of NYSE listed Indian firms, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 21, 686-706.
- Saikat Deb and Vijaya Marisetty, 2010, The information content of the IPO grading, Journal of Banking and Finance, 34, 9, 2294-2309.
- Saikat Deb, Petko Kalev, and Vijaya Marisetty, 2010, Are price limits really bad for equity markets? Journal of Banking and Finance, 34, 10, 2462- 2471.
- Vijaya Marisetty and Marti G Subrahmanyam, 2010, Group affiliation and the performance of IPOs in the Indian stock market, Journal of Financial Markets, 13, 1, 196-223.
- Vijaya Marisetty, 2010, Corporate Governance: A holistic view for altruistic practice, IIMB Management Review, 23 (1), 30-18.
- Ramachandran Kavil, Vijaya Marisetty, 2009, Governance challenges for family-controlled firms while globalizing, The Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 45 (1), 54-61.
- Vijaya Marisetty, Alastair Marsden, and Madhu Veeraraghavan, 2008, Price effects surrounding rights issues in the Indian stock market, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 16, 3, 316-340.
- Francis In, Robert Faff, and Vijaya Marisetty, 2008, Analysing the Performance of Managed Funds using the Wavelet Multiscaling Method, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 31, 51-70.
- Keryn Chalmers and Vijaya Marisetty, Corporate ownership and earnings informativeness of Indian firms, International Review of Finance, Conditionally Accepted.
- Robert Faff, Ben Langford, and Vijaya Marisetty, 2006, On the choice of Australian superannuation funds, Journal of Financial Services Research, 29, 255-279 (received citation of excellence award for being one of the top 50 cited papers among 15,000 papers in all areas of management science).
- Vijaya Marisetty and George Woodward, 2005, Introducing non-linear dynamics to two-regime market model, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance,45, 4/5, p559-581 (Lead article and ranked 7th in the TOP 25 papers published in this journal).
- M.Ariff, D.K Malhotra, and Vijaya Marisetty, 2005, Cost Efficiencies in the Management of Superannuation Funds in Australia, International Journal of Finance, Volume 17, Number 3.
Research Grants
- Niti Ayog, Government of India, INR 18,99,800
- International Financial Services Center, INR 9,56,000
- Australian Government Alumni Grant, INR 10,00,000
- Department of Science and Technology, Government of India grant. INR 75,00,000
- Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India grant. INR 100,00,000.
- Institute of Eminence grant, University of Hyderabad. INR 3500000.
- Synchrony IT (formerly, GE Capital) CSR grant for building blockchain to poor farmers with their lenders, for reducing their cost of borrowing. INR. 23,00,000.
- Institute of Eminence grant, University of Hyderabad. INR 21,00,000.
- Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India, grant – INR 19,00,000
- NSE-NYU India Research Initiative Grant (2020) USD 7,500.
- SPARC Grant, Ministry of Human Resource Development, India (in partnership with RMIT University); AUD. 100,000 or INR 48,00,000; Women empowerment through Fintech.
- Reserve Bank of India Faculty fellowship; INR. 200000; Financial inclusion and poverty.
- NSE-NYU New York University India Research Initiative Grant (2013): USD.7,500; Earnings Management Following Insider Share Pledging Decisions.
- 11. Australian Center for Financial Studies Grant (2011); Grant amount: AUD.18,300; Topic: On the role of Audit Committee in corporate governance: theory and evidence.
- 12. Australian Center for Financial Studies Grant (2009); Grant amount: AUD.9,000; Topic: Board Structure, Fee-setting and Performance of Australian Superannuation Funds.
Training & Consulting
- Fintech and Crypto currencies – NACIN mid-career training for Indian Revenue Service Officers with 8- 15 of service experience.
- Blockchain and Crypto currencies – Digital Leadership Program, State Bank of India general managers program
- Emerging technologies in financial services – Bank of Maharashtra senior leadership program
- Emerging technologies in financial services – IDBI Bank senior leadership program
- Financial Acumen for senior leaders- JSW group senior leadership program
- Financial Acumen for senior leaders – TVS group senior leadership program
- Financial Analytics – Advanced Management Program in Business Analytics for Working Executives – running since 2022
- Financial Analysis for Decision Making for Leadership Team -NIIT
- Financial Concepts and Frameworks for Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, Government of India.
- Financial and Business Acumen- Coramadel Group
- Facilitates Performance for excellence – Aditya Birla Group
Award And Recognition
Year 2026:
Election Commission of India Award (received from the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, India) for exemplary work through academic support for election management (Award for the highest enrollments in 2025) on the 25th January 2026, 16th National Voters Day celebrations.
Year 2024:
Best Paper Award at the 2nd International Finance and Accounting Conference, 2024, IIM Jammu
Paper title: Do Social Ties and Cultural Embeddedness Enhance Crowdfunding Campaign? Akhil Raju and Vijaya B Marisetty
Best Paper Award (2nd Prize) at the ISDSI Global Conference, IIM Ranchi.
Paper title: Investor Behavior and Home Bias, Akhil Raju and Vijaya B Marisetty
Year 2023:
Listed in the TOP 100 Global Innovation Pioneers, book released at the G20 Digital Innovation Alliance Summit, Bangalore, August, 2023.
Best Paper Award: Research Symposium in Economics and Finance, 2023, Krea University. Paper title: “Do Repeated Government Infusions Help Financial Stability? Evidence from an Emerging Market”, co-authored with Madhu Kalimipalli, RL Shankar and Olaleye Morohunfolu.
Year 2022:
Winning team: National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) Blockchain Hackathon for building a fractionalized bond market on the blockchain.
Winning team: International Blockchain Hackathon, Dubai
Year 2021:
Peter Brownell Manuscript Award from the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and Wiley Publishers for Institutional quality, investment efficiency, and the choice of public-private partnerships by Nhung Hong Dao, Vijaya Bhaskar Marisetty, Jing Shi, Monica Tan.
Year 2019:
Best paper award, 28th annual conference of the Multinational Finance Society 2019, July 2019, Jerusalem, Israel. Paper: “Do underwriters misuse discretionary powers” by Nirav Parikh, Vijaya B Marisetty and Monica Tan.
Year 2018:
Reserve Bank of India (Indian central bank) Faculty Fellowship for understanding the role of financial inclusion in poverty reduction.
Year 2015:
RMIT University Teaching Recognition Award for getting 100% in both, Overall Satisfaction Rate and General Teaching Scale.
Year 2013:
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal Research Excellence Award for the paper (jointly co-authored with Sharifa Adilna and Rubi Ahmad) titled: Bank risk and deposit insurance premium in a dynamic panel model: Evidence from Malaysian dual banking system.
Year 2012:
1. Selected as Peer Reviewer for Excellence in Research in Australia (ERA) 2012 review process constituted by the Australian Research Council.
2. Best paper award at the Internal Conference of Banking and Finance, Bangalore, India (Private placements to owner managers: theory and evidence, joint co-authored with Ravi Anshuman and Marti Subrahmanyam).
Year 2011:
1. Chartered Financial Analysts Institute (CFA, USA) Best Paper Award at the Asian Finance Association Meetings 2011, Macau, China. (Private placements to owner managers: theory and evidence, jointly co-authored with Ravi Anshuman and Marti Subrahmanyam).
2. RMIT University Business Research Excellence Award for the year 2011. 3. Deepak C Jain Award for best doctoral conference paper for the year 2011, IMR Doctoral Conference, 2011 (awarded to my doctoral student Narahari Hansoge for jointly co-authored paper titled: Economic Transition and the Value of Business Group Affiliation-Evidence from the Indian Market).
Year 2007:
Best research paper award at the First National Conference on Indian Capital Market: Emerging Issues, 2007 (Order flow dynamics and market efficiency when local markets compete with global markets, jointly co-authored with Kiran Kumar).
Year 2006:
Citation of Excellence Award from Emerald Publishers Group for outstanding contribution to the literature and body of knowledge (jointly co-authored with Robert Faff and Ben Langford, On the choice of Australian superannuation funds, Journal of Financial Services Research, 29, 255-279 (June 2006))
Year 2005:
1. Best research paper award at the International Conference on Emerging Markets, SEBI-ICFAI 2005 conference, Mumbai, India. (jointly co-authored with Keryn Chalmers, Corporate ownership and earnings informativeness of Indian firms).
Year 2003:
1. Best research paper award at the International Conference of Business and Finance (Philadelphia University, USA), December 2003 (A generalized approach to measure market timing skills of fund managers: Theory and evidence, jointly co-authored with George Woodward).


