M.E.S Vasant Joshi College of Arts & Commerce

Principal Dr. Manasvi M. Kamat

Principal Dr. Manasvi M. Kamat

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Currently Principal and Professor in Economics at MES Vasant Joshi College of Arts & Commerce, Zuarinagar – Goa. A column writer publishing 06 columns in each month on higher education, every Thursday on Daily Goan and every forth nightly on daily Tarunbharat. Outstanding scholastic record in the area of expertise in subjects like International Business, Banking and Finance & Economic Policy being a Gold Medalist and an University topper both at BA (Economics) and MA (Economics) level. Has a post graduate diploma in Management (Marketing), Post Graduate Diploma in International Business, PhD. (International Business) in 2007 and UGC-NET in 1998.

Teaching experience of 25 years with 14 years of PG teaching experience having taught at Goa Institute of Management - Ribandar; IMTR - Margao; at Faculty of Management Studies, Faculty of Commerce, and Dept of Computer Sciences, Goa Instutute of Management and at the Goa University. Worked as Officiating Principal at SSPES’s Goa Multi-Faculty College, Dharbandora since Sept. 2014 to December 2018.

Gold Medalist at UG & PG level and a Research Guide in the subject of Economics for PhD. in Goa University. Have authored 03 books on Economics and 50 research papers in Journals, Completed 03 Research Projects, also serves as the Member of Editorial / Advisory Board of 05 International Journals. Presented research papers in 65 Conferences and spoken as a Resource Person in 14 National Academic events. Member of Board of Studies in Economics, Goa University.

For contribution in the field of Research and Teaching bagged the National Teaching Award the Bharat Shiksha Ratan Award by Global Society for Education, New Delhi in the year 2013 and Education Excellence Award by Indo-Global Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture in 2015.

For outstanding research awarded Teacher Fellowship by the UGC-Delhi, Research Fellowship by ICSSR-Mumbai, Prof. Manubhai Shah Award, Citation and a Gold Medal for Best paper in Finance and the Best Research Paper Award at the International Conference in Accounting.

Had been member of Jaycees, and is a Trustee of the Educational Trust that runs a CBSE school in Ponda, the Gurukul Academy. She is also NAAC assessor for Peer Team Visit.

Besides academics, research and administration has deep interest in music, gardening and working for social cause. She is the recipient of Goa Star Women Award in the field of education by State Government of Goa. Recently she has been awarded with Goa Prestigious Orchid Award 2025 in the field of education.
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  1. Corporate Dividend Policy in India: Do regulated and Unregulated Firms Behave Differently?
  2. An Evaluation of the Perceptions in Carbon Accounting and Reporting in India
  3. Estimation of the Export Supply Function for Iron-ore Exports from Goa
  4. Implications of the WTO on Indian Marine Industry, Issues and Policy Perspectives
  5. The New Information Age and the Stock Market Growth Puzzle
  6. What Kind of Indian Firms Omit Dividend?
  7. An Application of Partial Adjustment Equation in Determining Payout Behavior using an Extended Instrumental Variable Approach
  8. An Examination of Carbon Disclosure Practices in India
  9. Economic reforms, determinants and stability of dividends in a dynamic setting
  10. On Choosing an Optimal Dividend Policy in India: A Test of Substitution Hypothesis, 1999–2016
  11. Iron-Ore Export Instability and the Market Concentration: Temporo-Spatial Analysis in a Regional Context
  12. Does Market Instability and Concentration Impede Goa’s Iron-ore Exports? Time-series Analysis in a Multivariate Setting
  13. Iron-ore Exports and Goa’s Economy, 1962-2012: A Time-series and Cross-sectional Analysis
  14. Corporate Dividend Policy in India – Application of Dynamic Partial Adjustment Equation using Extended Instrumental Variable Approach
  15. Implications of the WTO-GATS on Indian Marine Industry, Issues and Policy Perspectives
  16. FROM STRUGGLE TO STRENGTH: IMPACT OF COUNSELING ON MARITAL WELLBEING
  17. INTER-FIRM PERFORMANCE OF GOA'S IRON - ORE EXPORTS: ANALYSIS USING MICRO - LEVEL DATA
  18. Perceived Ethical Crisis in Accounting Practices
  19. The Plight of Women Empowerment in the Context of Globalization
  20.  Indian Agriculture in the New Economic Regime, 1971-2003: Empirics Based on the Cobb Douglas Production Function
  21. Does Financial Growth Lead Economic Performance in India? Causality-Cointegration Using Unrestricted Vector Error Correction Models
  22. Financial Infrastructure and Economic Performance ?
  23. Implications of the Provisions of Companies Act 2013 on Audits, Auditors and Audit Profession
  24. Ethical Governance Issues in Accounting and Reporting: Dilemmas of the Accountant
  25. Export Market Dynamics of Goa’s Iron-Ore Extracting Firms: Panel Data Analysis Using Fixed and Random Effect Estimator
  26. 'Good' Jobs and the 'Bad' Jobs?: A Study of Job Satisfaction in an IT Unit
  27. An Application of Fixed-Effects Model (FEM) to Evaluate Financial Performance of the Indian Life Insurance Industry
  28. IS INDIA’S RURAL ECONOMY TURNING BY ITS SIDE? SOME QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE
  29. Financial Intermediation and Stock Market Activity Growth: A Causality- Co-Integration Approach
PHD Thesis
Goa's Iron-ore Exports: an eEmpirical investigation into growth, contribution and competitiveness
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