REMYA TRESSA JACOB

Faculty Profile

REMYA TRESSA JACOB

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Area:

Accounting, Economics and Finance

Edu:

MSc (Five Years Integrated), PhD, Postdoc

Date of Joining:

10^th November 2022

Biography

Remya worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the India Competence Centre (ICC-FIM), University of St.Gallen, Switzerland prior to joining TAPMI. She holds a PhD in Management (Economics area) from the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), India. She was also awarded Commonwealth Split-Site Scholarship to pursue the final year of her PhD at the Department of Economics, University of Essex, UK. She has completed MSc (Five Years Integrated) in Economics from Pondicherry University. Her broad areas of research interests include development finance, financial literacy, banking and financial services.

Teaching

Not Applicable

Research

Household finance
Development Economics
Financial Inclusion
Financial Literacy
Financial Technology
Financial Innovation

Publications

Jacob, R. T., Sensarma, R., & Nair, G. (2022). Is rural household debt sustainable in a financially included region? Evidence from three districts of Kerala, India. Oxford Development Studies, 50:4, 389-405. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2022.2088718.
Gangopadhyay, K., Jacob, R. T., & Jayanth, R. S. S. (2020). “How effective is Theory Based Learning of Ethics in India?”. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 9(1), 55-61. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2277975219889778

Conferences and Workshops

Cornell conference on 100 Years of Economic Development, Cornell University, US, September 2022
Departmental Seminar, Department of Economics, University of Essex, UK, December 2021
10th India Finance Conference (IFC) 2021, Bangalore, December 2021
Eighteenth AIMS International Conference on Management, Indore, March 2021
4th National conference on Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons and Challenges in VUCA World, UP, March 2021
2nd Rajagiri Conference on Economics and Finance, Ernakulam, November 2020
National Conference on Convergence of Management Practices in the Era of Industry 4.0 (CMPEI), Suratkal, July 2020
2nd National Level Symposium on Money, Banking & Finance, Puducherry, January 2020
7th Annual International Conference on Sustainability (SUSCON VII), Shillong, November- December 2018

Awards

Commonwealth Split-Site Scholarship by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom
Second prize in the AIMS-Jaipuria Doctoral Paper Award in the Eighteenth AIMS International Conference, 2021
Second prize in the best paper awards in the 7th Annual International Conference on Sustainability (SUSCON VII), 2018
Gold Medal for outstanding performance in the MSc in Economics (Five-Years Integrated Course), Pondicherry University, 2015
Qualified Junior Research Fellowship (JRF),University Grants Commission, 2014.

Media Coverage

Not Applicable