Area of Specialisation

• Banking and credit related issues
• Issues relating to Development Economics
  (game theoretic modeling)
• Industrial Economics
• Labour Relations.

M.Sc Statistics: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Ph.D: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Title of the Thesis: Walrasian Equilibrium without an Auctioneer: A Study of Monetary Exchange through Trading posts and a Diagrammatic View of Disequilibria

Books

• Rajeev, Meenakshi: Against Gravity? : RIDF and the Challenges to Balanced Development of Infrastructure, ISEC Monograph, Forthcoming.

• Estimating District Income in the Indian State By Rohini Nayar, Meenakshi Rajeev and Vinod Vyasulu, Macmillan Publishers, 2002.

Articles

• B P vani, Meenakshi Rajeev and Shashank Bhide: Do Macroeconomic Indicators Matter for Agriculture?, Singapore Economic Review, Forthcoming.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi (2008): A Critical Analysis of RIDF, Economic and Political Weekly, XLIII, No.7, Feb 16-22.

• Meenakshi Rajeev and Dipankar Dasgupta (2007) Random Search in the Presence of markets. Working paper No. 204 Department of Economics and Finance, City University of Hongkong, Hongkong, Oct, 2007.

• Meenakshi Rajeev and H.P. Mahesh (2007). "Assets as Liabilities: Non Performing Assets in Commercial Banks of India", Research Monitor, Global development Network, Issue No.3, pp. 17-19.

• Shamistha Deb and Meenakshi Rajeev (2007). "Banking on Baniyas for Credit", Economic Political Weekly, Vol XLII, No 4, pp280-283.

• Mahesh H.P and Meenakshi Rajeev (2007). "Banking on Deposit Mobilisation: Efficiency Pursuits of Indian Commercial Banks", The Indian Economic Journal, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp 119-132.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi, (2007): Micro Finance, Financial Inclusion and Poverty Alleviation: Special Reference to Karnataka, Paper prepared for the ADB-NCAER Workshop on "Strategies for Poverty Reduction: Focus on Infrastructure, Financial Inclusion and Social Sector Interventions", Dec, 2007.

• Mahesh H.P and Meenakshi Rajeev (2007). "Productivity of Indian Commercial Banks in the Pre-and Post-Liberalisation Periods", The ICFAI Journal of Bank Management, Vol. VI, No. 4, pp17-30.

• Mainak Majumder and Meenakshi Rajeev (2008). "TRIPS Agreement and the Emerging In-house R & D Activity of the Indian Pharmaceutical Companies: A panel Data Analysis of the Firm Level Data", PES Business Review, Vol 3, Issue 1, pp3-23.

• Meenakshi Rajeev and B P Vani (2007). "Why Do They Not perform? Explaining Performance of Public Enterprises in Karnataka with panel Data", R Sthanumoorthy and P Sivaraja Dhanavel (eds.), Karnataka Economy, Performance, Challenge and Opportunities, The ICFAI University Press, pp159-175.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi and B P Vani, "India's Export of BPO Services: Understanding Strength, Weaknesses and Competitors', Journal of Services Research (Forthcoming).

• Rajeev, Meenakshi and B P Vani, "Direct and Indirect Benefits of Business Process Outsourcing on Indian Economy", Journal of Information Technology Impact, U S A, (Forthcoming).

• Bhide Shashanka, B P Vani and Meenakshi Rajeev, "Outsourcing of Business Processes: The Indian Experiences as an off-shore location", Philippines Economic Review, (Forthcoming).

• Rajeev, M and Sharmistha Deb, Capitalising on Credit: The Extracting Baniya as Symbiotic Entrepreneur, to appear in Trends in Social Banking : An emerging Paradigm, to be published by ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad.

• H P Mahesh and Meenakshi Rajeev, Banking on Deposit Mobilisation: Efficiency Pursuits of Indian Commercial Banks, Indian Economic Journal, forthcoming.

• Meenakshi Rajeev and B P vani, Business Process Outsourcing and India: A Macro Perspective, to appear in Studies in Indian Economy, Vol. 4, to be edited by by P. Maiti et al, Atlantic Publishers.

• Meenakshi Rajeev, 2007, Public Enterprises in Karnataka and the reform measures, in Planning Commission’s (Government of India):Karnataka Development Report, Academic Foundation, New Delhi.

• Shashank Bhide, B P Vani and Meenakshi Rajeev, 2007, Physical Infrastructure in Karnataka, in Planning Commission’s (Government of India): Karnataka Development Report, Academic Foundation, New Delhi.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi, Investing in Labour and Technology: Two ‘Faces’ in India, Comparison of SMEs in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu , to appear in "Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth", edited by David Audretsch, Max Keilbach and Jagannadha Tamvada; to be published by Springer under International Studies in Entrepreneurship Series.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi, 2006, Contract Labour in Karnataka: Emerging Issues, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLI, No. 21.

• Rajeev Meenakshi and Sarmistha Dev, Banking on Baniyas for Credit: Poor Farmers in West Bengal, Economic and Political Weekly, Forthcoming.

• Rajeev Meenakshi, 2005, Equilibrium in Disequilibrium: A Diagrammatic Exposition: Indian Economic Review, XXXIX.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi (2004): labour-Entreprenuer Relationship and Technological Investment, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol 47.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi (2003): A search for an optimal policy in a corrupt system, Journal of Developing Areas , USA.

• Rajeev, Meenakshi, A. Indira and V. Vyasulu (2002): Estimating District Income in the Indian States, Economic and Political Weekly.

• Marjit, S., M. Rajeev and D. Mukherjee (2001) : "Incomplete information as a deterrent to corruption", European Journal of Political Economy, (Elsevier).

• Rajeev, M. (1998): "Marketless set-up vs trading posts: A comparative analysis" , Annales d'Economie et de Statistiques, INSEE, France.

• Rajeev, M. and S. Deb (1998) : "Institutional and noninstitutional credit to agriculture : A case study on Hoogli district of West Bengal", Economic and Political Weekly.

• Rajeev, M. (1997) : "Large monetary trade, market specialisation and strategic behaviour", Game Theoretical Applications to Economics and Operations Research, T. Parthasarathy, Bhaskar Dutta, J. Potters , D. Ray et al (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

• Dasgupta, D. and M. Rajeev (1997) : "A note on feasibility criteria in monetary trade", Japanese Economic Review (Blackwell).

• Dasgupta, D. and M. Rajeev (1994) : "Choice under disequilibrium : A Diagrammatic Exposition", Journal of Quantitative Economics.

Book Review: Title of the Book : "Theory of incomplete markets" by Michael Magill and Martine Quinzii - MIT Press, 1996. Reviewed for the Journal : International Review of Economics and Finance, Vol 7, No. 4, 1998.

Web Articles

• Shashank Bhide, B P Vani, Meenakshi Rajeev (2006): Outsourcing of Business Processes: The Indian Experience as an Offshore location, http://www.developmentgateway.org .

• Mahesh H P and Meenakshi Rajeev (2006): Liberalisation and Productive Efficiency of Indian Commercial Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis, MPRA Paper 827, University Library of Munich, Germany. http://ideas.repec.org/e/pra176.html

• Rajeev, Meenakshi & Ranade, Ranjeet & Deb, Sarmistha, 2006. "Why do poor farmers default less?: Case of Indian informal credit market A game theoretic exploration," MPRA Paper 768, University Library of Munich, Germany, http://ideas.repec.org/e/pra176.html

Contributions as book chapters (forthcoming)

• ‘Small Scale Industries Sector in India’ in SME Development and Practices in Asia Pacific RIM , to be edited by Prof. Nelson Ndubisi, Monash University.

• ‘ IT industry in Tamil Nadu’ in Volume on Tamil Nadu (for Macolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust) to be edited by V K Natraj and A. Vaidyanathan.

Working Papers

• Meenakshi Rajeev, Rural Infrastructure Development Fund : Need for a Track Change. (forthcoming).

• Meenakshi Rajeev and B P Vani, In Pursuit of India’s Export Earning: An Assessment of IT-enabled Services Industry ( forthcoming).

• Rajeev, M. (1995) : "The medium of exchange role of money and the competitive economy with trading posts", Technical Paper No. ERU/7/90, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.

• M. Rajeev and D. Dasgupta (1996) : "Is trading under the social Institution of markets always desirable ?" : Paper presented at the International Conference on "Game Theory and Economic Applications" and "International Symposium on Dynamic games and applications", Dec. 1996, in JAPAN.Rajeev, M. (1996) : Money and markets, Occasional Paper, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.

• Marjit Sugata, Meenakshi Rajeev and D. Mukherjee, 1997, Incomplete Information as a Deterrent to Corruption, Discussion Paper No. A-555, University of Bonn, Germany.

• Indira, A, Rajeev Meenakshi, Vinod Vyasulu, 2001, Estimating District Income in India, Working Paper, Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, 2001.

• Rajeev, M (2003): Collusion in a Corrupt System: A Game Theoretic Approach, Working Paper No. 121, ISEC.

• Rajeev, M (2003):A Search for a Theory of Entreprenuership, Working Paper No.129, ISEC.

• Rajeev, M (2003): Random Search in the Presence of Markets, paper presented in the 12^th European Workshop on General Equilibrium Theory, Germany.

• Rajeev, M (2004): Karnataka Public Enterprise Reform Program: A Review, Working Paper, ISEC

• Rajeev, M and B P Vani : Performance of Public Enterprises in Karnataka: A Panel Data Analysis, Working Paper, ISEC

• Bhide, S, M. Rajeev & B P Vani (2004): Do Macroeconomic Conditions matter for Agriculture?: The Indian Experience, Working Paper, ISEC. 

• Rajeev, Meenakshi, 2006, Contract Labour Act in India : A Pragmatic View, Working Paper No. 175, ISEC.

• India’s Export of Selected BPO Services: Understanding Strengths and Weaknesses: Ministry of Commerce and Industry, GoI.

• Rural Infrastructure Development: Role of RIDF: Ministry of Agriculture, GoI.

• Methodologies for Estimating District Income in the Indian States: Planning Commission, Government of India.

• Institutional frame-work for industrial development: joint project of CSSS, Calcutta, and Roskilde University (Denmark).

• Public Enterprise Reform Program: Karnataka: World bank.

• Contractual Labour in Selected manufacturing enterprises : Sir Ratan Tata Trust.

• New Dimensions of Rural Indebtedness in India: An Assessment of the Challenges to the Credit Institutions.

• Assets as Liability? : Non Performing Asset in the Indian Commercial Banks , Funded by South Asian Network of Economic Institutes.

• Norges Bank, Central Bank of Norway, 2007.

• Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo , Norway, 2007.

• Norwegian institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo, Norway, 2007.

• Visiting assistant professor, University of California, San Diego.

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Michigan University

• Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University

• Cornell University, USA

• University of Caen, France

• University of Essex, U.K. 

• Maison des Sciences de'Lomme, Paris.

• Centre D'Etudes et de Recherches Sur Le Developpement, France

• Member of the State Level Coordination Committee for Conduct of IV Census on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Directorate of Industries and Commerce, Government of Karnataka, 2008.

• Member of the International Society for Dynamic Games, Helsinki.

• Asian Law and Economics Association, Seoul , Korea.

• Member , Banking and Finance Committee, Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce, Bangalore.