Agricultural markets and pricing
Digital platforms
Gender studies
Charitable giving
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Nikita Gupta
Associate Professor, Finance and EconomicsNikita Gupta completed her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM A) and received the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Economics. While pursuing her M.Phil., she taught courses like microeconomics. Her thesis focuses on the rise of alternate marketing channels and their impact on farmer and consumer welfare, stakeholder profits, and channel substitution. In her research, she employs time series analysis, game theory modelling, and causal inference, which she has also applied in other published projects.
Her work has been published in top-tier journals such as Gender, Work and Organization (ABDC-A) and Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (ABDC-B). Her primary research interests lie in agricultural markets and digital platforms, with secondary interests in gender studies and charitable giving. Driven by a commitment to unravelling the complexities surrounding farmer welfare, market dynamics, and agricultural system resilience, she has also contributed to consulting projects with the International Food Policy Research Institute and worked on projects related to APMC and price analysis, farmer producer companies, and the FABLE Consortium. She has presented her research at international conferences such as the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), where her thesis paper was amongst the top few papers awarded with an honorarium. Additionally, her work has been selected for international conferences such as the Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society, the American Marketing Association (AMA), and ANZMAC.
EDUCATION
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Ph.D. Agricultural Economics 2024
Panjab University, Chandigarh
M.Phil. Economics,
M.A Economics
Himachal Pradesh University
B.A Economics Honours
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Nikita Gupta, Vidya Vemireddy, Abhishek Shaw. Food Supply Chains and Resilience to Shocks: Evidence from India’s Covid-19 lockdown. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 45,2023. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aepp.13365 ABDC-B
Nikita Gupta. Gender and work in global value chains: Capturing the gains? Development trajectories in global value chains. Gender, Work and Organization. 2022. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gwao.12899 ABDC-A
Reforms Farming Needs -Poornima Varma, Nikita Gupta (Indian Express) (https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-reforms-that-farming-really-needs-7786339/)
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CONFERENCES
Understanding Donation Behaviour During Natural Disasters: Substitution, Persistence, and Targeting. Association of Consumer Research (ACR-AP). July 8-11, 2024. (Accepted).
The Rise of Agri-food Platforms, Direct Procurement and Impact on Farmer Welfare 68th Annual Conference of The Australasian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society (Canberra) February 6-9, 2024. (Accepted).
Understanding individual charitable giving in natural disasters: Substitution, persistence, and targeting. SPJIMR Chicago Booth India Quantitative Marketing Conference 2023 December 15, 2023.
Rise in Alternate Marketing Channels and Spatial Price Transmission: The Case of Indian Agricultural Wholesale Markets. 18th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (Indian Statistical Institute) December 18-20, 2023.
Understanding Donation Behaviour During Natural Disasters: Substitution, Persistence, and Targeting. American Marketing Association(AMA) Summer Conference. August 2-5, 2023.
Alternate Marketing Channels and Wholesale Market Integration- An Analysis in the Context of Agricultural Market Reforms in India. Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA). (Washington DC) July 23-25, 2023.
Post-Reform Agricultural Market Integration: The Case of Indian Mandis. International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC). (Florida). December 11-13, 2022.
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WORKING PAPERS
Rise of alternate marketing channels: Impact on spatial price transmission.
Understanding individual charitable giving in natural disasters: Substitution, persistence, and targeting.
The impact of front-of-pack labelling on consumer welfare and firm profits.
Digital platforms & direct procurement: Impact on farmer and consumer welfare, stakeholder profits and channel substitution.
Gendered money-time elasticity of substitution: Estimates from India.
Price anomaly detection and classification using naive bayes classifier.
Analysing welfare impacts of digital adoption (e-NAM) on farmers & traders.
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COURSES
Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
Business Environment
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TEACHING INTERESTS
Economics of digital platform
Game theory
Applied econometrics for managerial research
Agricultural markets and pricing
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AWARDS & HONOURS
Paper titled “Post-Reform Agricultural Market Integration: The Case of Indian Mandis,” selected for an honorarium of $1500 at the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), (2022).
Awarded JRF (Junior Research Fellowship) in Economics, 2018.
Recipient Of the Best Paper Award for Presenting a Research Paper Titled “The Methodology Of Himachal Pradesh Budget: A Critical Analysis” (CHASSCONG) (2016).
Recipient Of the Best Paper Award for Presenting Research Paper Titled “Bank’s Role In Inflation” In Inter-College Economics Literary Meet (2014).
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PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Consultant- Value chain analysis and process influence mapping at GIZ and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (2024).
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), Australian and Agricultural Resource, Economics Society (AARES), The Econometric Society