Venkatesh Panchapagesan

Venkatesh Panchapagesan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Management. His research interests include market microstructure (including financial market liquidity, trading costs, volatility, high frequency and algorithmic trading strategies), mutual funds, and real estate.

Can Governments Increase Revenues By Lowering Taxes? A Study of Competing Policies To Reduce Tax Evasion During House Purchase in India
In the specific context of India, this project studies which of the two tools – the stamp duty or the guidance value – leads to higher truthful reporting of property prices. Using a hedonic model developed from appraisal reports on residential properties

Effectiveness fo E-Auctions in Emerging Economies
The primary research goal of this project is to examine whether governments in emerging economies can increase revenues by selling land through e-auctions (anonymous auctions conduced online over a period of time) rather than through traditional 'physical place' auctions (auctions where buyers and sellers come together in physical space and time).

Estimating economic value to the State from land title regularisation: Evidence from India
Nearly one in every six urban Indian residents lives in a slum that is created on encroached land. More than half of this land belongs to the government which often, for a variety of political, social and legal compulsions, is able to neither retrieve the land nor formally hand it over to the slum dwellers.
