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Dr. Amba Agarwal

Assistant Professor (Senior Grade)

amba.agarwal@jiit.ac.in

Biography

Dr. Amba Agarwal is an academician and economist, currently serving as Assistant Professor-III (Senior Grade) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT), Noida, where she has been contributing since July 2010. With a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Lucknow, she holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the same university with First Division. She has also qualified the UGC-NET-JRF examination.

Dr. Agarwal began her teaching career at the University of Lucknow and has taught at prestigious institutions including the Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi. Her strong roots in teaching and research were further reinforced by her early achievements as a Junior and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lucknow. Her scholarly journey spans over two decades, marked by academic excellence, research productivity, and active participation in institutional development.

Her research interests include Micro and Macro Economics, Public Finance, Development Economics, and Fiscal Decentralization. Her doctoral research focused on "Alternative Sources of Panchayat Finances in India: An Inter-State Analysis." She has guided Ph.D. students in areas such as food inflation, monetary policy, and health economics, with one scholar successfully awarded a Ph.D. under her supervision. She has published extensively in Scopus and ABDC-indexed journals. She has also played a vital role in developing several core and elective courses for the B.Tech curriculum. She has organized and participated in numerous national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops, contributing significantly to faculty development and academic discourse. Her contributions also extend to editing and reviewing academic publications in reputed international journals.

Research Highlights

Dr. Amba Agarwal’s research spans the domains of Micro and Macro Economics, Public Finance, Development Economics, and Fiscal Decentralization. Her Ph.D., awarded by the University of Lucknow in 2003, focused on “Alternative Sources of Panchayat Finances in India”, laying the foundation for her enduring interest in fiscal federalism and grassroots finance.

She has published extensively in reputed international journals indexed in Scopus, ABDC, and UGC CARE, covering topics such as food inflation volatility, rural-urban income inequality, monetary policy linkages, and the effects of fiscal deficit on economic growth. Her empirical work applies advanced econometric techniques, including ARDL models, Granger causality analysis, and quantile regression. Over the years, she has expanded her focus to include monetary economics, health finance, infrastructure development, and income inequality, particularly within the Indian and broader South Asian contexts.

Dr. Agarwal has authored and co-authored various high-impact journal articles and contributed chapters to edited volumes on disaster finance, women entrepreneurship, and infrastructure funding. Her book "Fiscal Decentralization: Financing to Panchayati Raj Institutions in India" is a notable contribution to policy-relevant literature in Indian public finance.

She has successfully supervised one Ph.D. on food inflation and its interlinkages with monetary variables, and is currently guiding another doctoral candidate in the area of Health Economics. Additionally, she co-authored a chapter for the Tripura State Development Report, commissioned by the Planning Commission.

Dr. Agarwal actively presents her research at various national and international conferences. Her work is characterized by analytical depth, policy orientation, and a commitment to applied economic research.

Areas Of Interest

Public Finance
Micro and Macro Economics
Fiscal Decentralization
Development Economics
Inflation & Money Supply

Publications

Mishra, A. K. Dash, and A. Agarwal, “Quest of dynamic linkages between monetary factors and food inflation in India,” Theoretical and Applied Economics, vol. 30, no. 2(635), pp. 199–210, summer 2023.
Mishra and A. Agarwal, “Food commodity price volatility and its nexus with monetary factor: An empirical analysis of India,” International Journal of Management Practice (IJMP), accepted, 2020. [Online]. Available: Inderscience Publishers. (Scopus Indexed)
Mishra and A. Agarwal, “Do infrastructure development and urbanization lead to rural-urban income inequality? Evidence from some Asian countries,” International Journal of Sustainable Economy (IJSE), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 167–183, 2019, DOI: 10.1504/IJSE.2019.099054. (Scopus Indexed and ABDC)
Mishra and A. Agarwal, “Core inflation and economic growth, does nonlinearity matter? A nonlinear Granger causality analysis,” Iranian Economic Review (IER), vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 941–961, Dec. 2019, DOI: 10.22059/IER.2019.72998. (Scopus Indexed)
Mishra and A. Agarwal, “How does economic expansion react to educational expenditure, financial development, and financial integration? A nonlinear Granger causality and quantile regression analysis in Asian perspective,” International Journal of Education Economics and Development (IJEED), vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 167–183, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1504/IJEED.2019.100667.