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Prof. Rahul Arora

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Finance, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

6165D, Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Pilani Campus - 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Research Publications

Edited Books

  1. Mathur, S.K., Arora, Rahul. & Singh, S. (2017). Theorizing International Trade: An Indian Perspective. An Edited Book. Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom. ISBN: 978-981-10-1758-2.
  2. Mathur, S.K., Arora, Rahul. & Singh, S. (2016). Methods and Applications in Trade Policy Research. An Edited Book. Athena Academic Ltd., London, United Kingdom. ISBN: 978-19-1039-005-4.

Journal Publications

  1. Shukla, V., Arora, Rahul, Gupta, S. (2024). Unveiling Non-Communicable Disease Trends among Indian States: Predicting Health Outcomes with Socioeconomic and Demographic Factors. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Accepted on 10 April 2024. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2024-0131/full/html [ABDC: B, SJR Q1, Scopus Indexed]
  2. Bourai, S., Arora, Rahul & Yadav, N. (2024). Evaluating Strategies to Persist for Digital Platform Firms in a Post-Digitalization Era: An Empirical Evidence from Indian Platform Firms, Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Accepted on 7 April 2024 [ABDC: C]
  3. Pandey, S., Mohapatra, G. & Arora, Rahul (2024). A temporal and spatial assessment of water stress with water poverty index: A case study of Rajasthan. Natural Resources Forum, Accepted on 28 Feb 2024, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1477-8947.12453 [SJR Q1]
  4. Arora, Rahul, Arora, N. & Bhattacharjee, S. (2024). Quantification of the Sector-specific Impact of COVID-19 on Indian Economy- An Application of Computable General Equilibrium Modeling. Indian Growth and Development Review, Accepted on 9 Feb 2024. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IGDR-12-2022-0138/full/html [ABDC: C, SJR Q3, and Scopus Indexed]
  5. Bourai, S., Arora, Rahul & Yadav, N. (2024). Structure-conduct-performance (SCP) paradigm in digital platform competition: a Conceptual Framework. Journal of Strategy and Management, Accepted on 20 Jan 2024. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JSMA-07-2023-0184/full/html [ABDC: B, SJR Q1, and Scopus Indexed]
  6. Sharma, S. & Arora, Rahul (2023). Institutional imbalance moderating the linkage between GVC participation and economic growth: empirical evidence, Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print, https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JEAS-12-2022-0271/full/html [ABDC: C] – 23 Oct 2023
  7. Pandey, S., Mohapatra, G. & Arora, Rahul (2023). Groundwater quality, human health risks and major driving factors in arid and semi-arid regions of Rajasthan, India. Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139149 [ABDC: A, SJR Q1, and Scopus Indexed] – 10 Oct 2023
  8. Singh, S., Ali, J. & Arora, Rahul (2023). Linkage between Forest Cover and Trade in Forest Products: An Empirical Evidence from BRICS and EU Nations, European Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 143, pp. 19-31. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10342-023-01603-7 [SJR Q1 and Scopus Indexed]
  9. Shukla, V. & Arora, Rahul (2023) The Economic Cost of Rising Non‑communicable Diseases in India: A Systematic Literature Review of Methods and Estimates, Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 21(5), 719-730. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40258-023-00822-8 [SJR Q1, ABDC C, and Scopus Indexed]
  10. Sharma, S., Mundhada, Y.P. & Arora Rahul (2023). Which Combination of Trade Provisions Promotes Trade in Value Added? An Application of Machine Learning to Cross-Country Data., Economic Papers: Journal of Applied Economics & Policy, Accepted. https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-3441.12398 [ABDC B, SJR Q2, and Scopus Indexed] – 5 June-2023
  11. Giri, A.K. & Arora, Rahul (2023). Energy Poverty and Human Development: Empirical Evidence from Rural Rajasthan, India. Millennial Asia, Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1177/09763996221141519 [ABDC: C, Q1, and Scopus Indexed] – 25 Feb-2023
  12. Sharma, S. & Arora, Rahul (2023). Macroeconomic Determinants of India’s Participation in Global Value Chains: An Empirical Evidence. Journal of Asian Economic Integration, 5(1), 7-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/26316846221147577 [UGC Care List]
  13. Arora, N., Malik D. & Arora, Rahul (2022). Which Combination of Impossible Trinity Choices Ensures Output and Price Stabilities in India? A Sign-Restricted Vector Autoregressive Analysis. Economic Papers: Journal of Applied Economics & Policy, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 260-275. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1759-3441.12364 [ABDC B, SJR Q2, and Scopus Indexed]
  14. Pandey, S., Mohapatra, G. & Arora, Rahul (2022). Examining the Interstate Variations and Interlinkage between Water Poverty and Multidimensional Poverty in India: Evidence from Household-level data. International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 1551-1568. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJSE-12-2021-0731/full/html [ABDC: B, SJR Q2, and Scopus Indexed]
  15. Pandey, S., Mohapatra, G. & Arora, Rahul (2022). Water Poverty Index and its changing trend in India. Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print, Online available from April 2022. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JEAS-12-2021-0268/full/html [ABDC: C] – 13 Apr 2022
  16. Sekhri, R., Kala, S. & Arora, Rahul (2022). Linking Entrepreneurial Ability with Profitability: A Study of Registered Women Entrepreneurs from Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh. Indian Journal of Economics and Development, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 19-30. https://www.soed.in/article/523 [SJR Q4 and Scopus Indexed]
  17. Pandey, S., Mohapatra, G. & Arora, Rahul (2022). Mapping and situation analysis of Water Poverty at household level in Rajasthan: Evidence from a nationally representative survey. Empirical Economic Letters, Accepted in Feb 2022. http://www.eel.my100megs.com/volume-21-number-july-2-special-issue.htm [ABDC: C] – July 2022
  18. Mohapatra, G., Arora, Rahul & Giri, A.K. (2022). Establishing the Relationship between Population Aging and Health Care Expenditure in India. Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Online available from Feb 2022. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEAS-08-2021-0144 [ABDC: C] – 11 Feb 2022
  19. Mathur, S.K., Arora, Rahul, Ghoshal, I. & Singh, S. (2016). Domestic Energy Consumption and Country’s Income Growth: A Quantitative Analysis of Developing and Developed Countries Using Panel Causality, Panel VECM, Panel Cointegration and SURE. Journal of Quantitative Economics. Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 87-116. DOI 10.1007/s40953-015-0021-4. ISSN: 0971:1554. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40953-015-0021-4. [SJR Q3 and ABDC: B]
  20. Singh, S, Arora, Rahul & Mathur S.K. (2016). Measurement of Trade Costs, Its Determinants and Trade Growth Accounting for India with Its Asian Trading Partners. Public Enterprise Quarterly Journal. Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 35-55. ISSN: 0351-3564. Published by International Center for Promotion of Enterprises. http://www.icpe.int/now-available/918-public-enterprise-half-yearly-journal-2016-issue-22-vol-1-article-3. [SCOPUS]
  21. Arora, Rahul, Singh, S. & Mathur S.K. (2015). Assessment of the Proposed India-China Free Trade Agreement: A General Equilibrium Approach. JCC: The Business and Economics Research Journal. Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 81-108. Published by Emerald. ISSN: 1851-6599. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jcc/8/2.
  22. Arora, Rahul & Mathur S.K. (2015). Welfare Implications of India’s Trade Liberalization with Its Asian Partners: A General Equilibrium Analysis. Trade and Development Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 69-95. ISSN: 0974-4347 (Published by Jadavpur University, Kolkata). http://www.tdrju.net/index.php/tdr.
  23. Srivastava, A., Arora, Rahul & Mathur, S. K. (2013). Industrial Heterogeneity and Trade Flows of India: A Fixed Effect Vector Decomposition Approach. Journal of Industrial Statistics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 33-44. ISSN: 2278-4667. http://mospi.nic.in/Mospi_New/upload/JIS_2012/Industrial-Heterogreneity-Somesh%20K%20Mathur_JISVol-2_Num-1_mar2013.pdf.
  24. Arora, N. & Arora, Rahul (2011). Do The Countries Form Convergence Club in the World? An Econometric Analysis. Journal of International Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp 38-53, ISSN: 0976-0792. Published by Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad - India.
  25. Verma, S. & Arora, Rahul (2010). Does the Indian Economy Support Wagner’s law? An Econometric Analysis. Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 77-91. ISSN: Print: 1694-5948 and Electronic: 1694-5972. http://ejbe.org/EJBE2010Vol03No05p77VERMA-ARORA.pdf [ABDC Ranking: C]
  26. Verma, S. & Arora, Rahul (2009). Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in India: A Macro-Economic Appraisal. The Asian Economic Review, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 229-248. ISSN: 0004-4555. https://www.econbiz.de/Record/foreign-direct-investment-and-economic-growth-in-india-a-macroeconomic-appraisal-verma-satish/10003900828

Chapters in Edited Books

  1. Shukla, V. & Arora, Rahul (2023). Economic Burden of Non-Communicable Diseases and Challenges of Health Insurance Coverage: Insights from Primary Survey. In Sharma, S.K., Goyal, P. & Chanda, U. (2eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Management Practices in Business, Ist edition, Taylor & Francis, ebook ISBN: 9781003415725 – Feb 2023
  2. Bourai, S., Yadav, N. & Arora, Rahul (2023). Winner-Take-All Strategy in Digital Platform Market: A Theoretical Exposition. In Sharma, S.K., Goyal, P. & Chanda, U. (2eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Management Practices in Business, Ist edition, Taylor & Francis, ebook ISBN: 9781003415725 – Feb 2023
  3. Arora, N., Arora, Rahul (2021). Output and Employment Linkages of the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Sectors in the Indian Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Analysis. In: Bathla, S., Kannan, E. (eds) Agro and Food Processing Industry in India. India Studies in Business and Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9468-7_3 
  4. Saxena, K.K., Singh, S., Arora, Rahul (2013). Output Growth in Post Liberalized India: An Input–Output Structural Decomposition Analysis. In: Verma, N. (eds) Recession and Its Aftermath. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0532-6_9
  5. Arora, Rahul & Verma, S. (2011). Financial Development, Foreign Investment Inflows and Economic Growth in India. Chapter 14, In: Pradhan, R.P. (eds) Infrastructure Finance: Issues and Challenges, Macmillan Publishers India Ltd. ISBN: 978-0230-33215-7 http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/778113787.pdf

Policy Brief

  1. Arora, Rahul, Singh, S. & Mathur, S.K. (2015). Impact of Integration in Asia and the Pacific Region. Policy Brief, 04/15, GIFTA Project Briefing Series, UK http://giftaproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Policy-Brief-4-2_Arora-et-al-2015.pdf

Working Paper

  1. Mathur, S.K., Arora, Rahul & Bhardwaj, M. (2016). Relative Benefits/Losses of India Aligning with RCEP and BRICS Countries under the Conjecture of Free Trade Area in Goods. ARTNeT Working Paper Series, No. 160, Bangkok, UNESCAP http://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/AWP%20No.%20160.pdf

Book Review

  1. Arora, Rahul (2021). Changing Dynamics of International Trade and India. Journal of Asian Economic Integration, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 254-259. UGC – Care I – of Book Ajitava Raychauduri, Prabir De and Suranjan Gupta (Eds.), World Trade and India: Multilateralism, Progress, and Policy Response.