Dr. Raghavendra received his PhD degree from Jawaharalal Nehru University, New Delhi and his doctoral dissertation was in the area of Macroeconomics in the traditions of Keynes and Kalecki. His current research focuses on the dynamics of interaction between the monetary/financial sector and real sector from the point of view of describing the instability of the macroeconomy. His other research areas include Complex Systems and Financial economics. Dr. Raghavendra is currently the Associate Director in the Whitaker Institute.

Selected Publications:

[1] “Economics, Politics and Democracy in the Age of Credit-Rating Capitalism", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol - XLVIII, No. 05, February, 2013.
 
[2] Arbitrage-Free Parity Theory for the CDS and Bond Markets”, in M. Cummins et al. (eds) Topics in Numerical Methods for Finance, Springer: New York, 2012. [with Kitty Moloney]

[3] “Testing for non linear dependence in the Credit Default Swap Market” Economics Research International, 2011 (with Kitty Moloney)

[4] “Stocks Scanner Evaluator for Stocks or Options”, in IEEE:Computational Intelligence and Financial Engineering, 2009 (With Daniel Parashicv and V. Laurentiu)
 
[5] “Decomposition Methods for Analyzing Intra-regional and Inter-regional Income Distribution”, in Peter Flaschel and Michal Landesmann (edited) Mathematical Economics and Dynamics of Capitalism in Honor of Richard Goodwin, London: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 2008. [ISBN 978-0-415-45145-1]

[6] "Limits to Investment Exhilarationism”, in Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2006, 87(3): 257-280.

[7] “Effective Demand and Income Distribution: A Review” in Review of Development and Change, 2004, 3(2): 151-164.
 
[8] "Hollywood Blockbusters and Long-Tailed Distributions: An Empirical Study of the Popularity of Movies”, European Physical Journal B, 2004, Vol. 42, (with Sitabhra Sinha).