Dr. Arif Billah Dar

Ph.D. in Economics  – Pondicherry Central University  (2014)

M.A. in Economics – University of Kashmir (2009)

Associate Professor, School of Economics 
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University  (January, 2025–Present)

Assistant Professor, School of Economics 
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University  (July, 2017–December, 2024)

Assistant Professor, Economic, Environment and Policy 
IMT Ghaziabad (June, 2014– July, 2017)

Academic Associate 
IRMA Anand, Gujarat (December, 2013–May, 2014)

 India’s financial inclusion – Determinants and Impediments Sponsored by ICSSR New Delhi (2020 -2021)

Did PMGKY work during Covid 19 Pandemic: Impact assessment of red zone of Jammu and Kashmir Sponsored by ICSSR New Delhi  (2021-2022)

• Zubair Ahmad Parrey, Arif Billah Dar, Manas Paul (2024) Revisiting precious metal mining stocks and precious metals as hedge, diversifiers and safe-havens: a multidimensional scaling and wavelet quantile correlation perspective. Empirical Economics https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-024-02659-z (Springer) ABDC A rated
• Umar Farooq, Arif Billah Dar (2024) What Drives the Demand for Renewable and Non-renewable Energy Consumption in India? The Role of Financial Development and Geopolitical Uncertainty. (Forthcoming) Indian Economic Journal(Sage) ABDC B rated
• Arif Billah Dar, Niyati Bhanja, Manas Paul, Arif Billah Dar (2024) Shaping a greener tomorrow: Analysing the impact of environment-friendly technology on ecological footprints in emerging asian economies. Journal of Cleaner Production 452, 1, 142130 (Elsevier)  ABDC A rated
• Umar Farooq, Niyati Bhanja, Sartaj Rasool Rather, Arif Billah Dar (2024) From pollution to prosperity: Using inverted N-shaped environmental Kuznets curve to predict India’s environmental improvement milestones Journal of Cleaner Production 434, 1, 140175 (Elsevier)  ABDC A rated
• Adil Ahmad Shah, Niyati Bhanja, Arif Billah Dar (2023) Do gold and the US dollar diversify global sectoral risk? Evidence from connectedness and Dynamic Conditional Correlation measures The Journal of Economic Asymmetries 28, November 2023, e00304 (Elsevier) ABDC B rated

• Supervised 3 Ph.D. candidates
• Mentored 40 Master’s students.

• Invited to deliver a talk on “Exchange rate: Determination and Volatility in India” by the School of Social Sciences BITS Pilani Dubai Campus on 6^th November 2018
• Invited to a deliver a talk on “Global financial system evolution: Implications for Indian Economy” at the Central University of Punjab, Bathinda  on 27^th March 2019
• Resource Person for the Workshop on “Marketing Research and Business Analytics with Econometric Applications in Business Management” on 16 May 2019 at the SMVDU
• Resource person for the FDP on Econometric Application Using Eviews an R on 22 May 2019 at the workshop on Econometrics Methods at the SMVDU
• Invited talk on “International Financial System-Evolution” at the Central University of Jammu on 26^th November 2019
• Invited to deliver a talk on “Basic Regression analysis in Social Science Research” on 08-10-2020 at Ten Days Research Methodology course for Research Scholars in Social Sciences at the Central University of Kashmir
• Invited to deliver a talk on “Role of Markets, State and Community in Economic Development  at the Central University of Punjab, Bathinda  on 29^th March 2021
• Invited to deliver a talk on ECM in Finance at the Central University of Madhya Pradesh Sagar on 18-09-2021
• Invited to deliver a talk on Cointegration and Error Correction Mechanism on 27-05-2022 at Christ University Pune Lavasa Campus
• Invited as a resources person for the workshop on Applied Econometrics in Social Sciences Using Eviews on 16-08-2023 at Lovely Professional university, Jalandhar Punjab
• Invited a deliver Lecture series on Balance of payments position, exchange rates, and the Mundell Fleming model  between 10th of October 2023 to the 12th of October 2023 at the PGP Ex students at IMT Ghaziabad

• Part of GSERM on Advanced Time-series Econometrics at the Global School in Empirical Research Methods, University of St. Gallen Switzerland (2016)
• Attended Teacher Training Program on Monetary Policy by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta USA in February 2020 held at 1000, Peachtree St NE, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (2020)
• Taught Macroeconomics as a visiting faculty at IMT Ghaziabad (2023)

2017 M J Manohar Rao Young Economist Award by the Indian Econometric Society

International Finance 

Macroeconomics I