Arabinda Basistha

Arabinda Basistha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at West Virginia University's John Chambers College of Business and Economics. His research focuses on empirical macroeconomics using time-series methods, particularly in analyzing unobserved state variables, inflation dynamics, labor market fluctuations, and monetary policy impacts.

• Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington (Seattle), 2002

Basistha's research spans topics like the estimation of trend-cycle relationships, NAIRU (Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment) modeling, forecasting economic indicators, and studying global business cycle features. He has applied multivariate state-space models, Markov-switching frameworks, and correlated unobserved components models to analyze economic phenomena across commodities, currencies, and international markets.

His recent publications examine persistent global economic factors, volatility forecasting techniques, and predictive indicators for US economic growth. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Macroeconomics, International Macroeconomics, Time Series methods, and Monetary Economics.