Aqib Mujtaba

About

Dr. Aqib Mujtaba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Akal University Bathinda Punjab. Previously, he worked at the NITI Aayog (Planning Commission) in the infrastructure, connectivity & E-Mobility vertical. He completed his PhD in economics from the School of Economics, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra, Jammu and Kashmir, India and his PDF from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISERB), MP, India. He is an awardee of the National Fellowship for Higher Education of ST students and has worked as a senior research fellow of the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA), Government of India (GoI). Dr. Mujtaba has qualified the University Grant Commission National Eligibility test (UGC-NET) in Economics. He completed his master's degree (M.A. in Economics) from Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University, Rajouri Jammu and Kashmir, India. Undergraduate from the University of Jammu. He is an active energy and environmental economics researcher who has presented his research at various national and international conferences. He also participated in various Research Methodology workshops on data visualization and modelling. Dr. Mujtaba has basic knowledge of econometric Tools/Software like Eviews, STATA, SPSS, and R-software. He has published his research work in reputed international high-impact factor journals indexed in SCOPUS, WoS-Science Citation Index (SCI), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), ABDC ranked and UGC-CARE listed journals.

Employment

• Akal University Assistant Professor
  2024 - Present
• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal Post Doctoral Fellow
  2023 - Present
• Institute of Economic Growth Research Analyst
  2022 - 2023

Education

• Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University PhD
  2017 - 2021

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Toward Achieving the SDG‐13: Unveiling the (A)Symmetric Role of Environmental Efficiency, Energy Prices, Disaggregated GDP, and Energy in India
  Natural Resources Forum 2026 DOI: 10.1111/1477-8947.70032
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• Macroeconomic Modelling Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goal-13 in India
  Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking 2025 DOI: 10.59091/2460-9196.2377
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• Nexus Between the Energy Market, Industrialization, and Economic Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region
  Energy RESEARCH LETTERS 2023 DOI: 10.46557/001c.32631
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• Examining asymmetric impact of climatic factors on crop yields in India
  Applied Economics Letters 2023 DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2064416
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• Assessing the Driving Factors of Carbon Dioxide and Total Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Maintain Environmental Sustainability in Southeastern Europe
  International Journal of Environmental Research 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s41742-022-00486-7
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• Exploring the nature of EKC hypothesis in Asia’s top emitters: role of human capital, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption
  Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-21551-w
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• Do Economic Growth, Energy Consumption and Population damage the Environmental Quality? Evidence from Five Regions Using the Nonlinear ARDL Approach
  Environmental Challenges 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.envc.2022.100554
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• Sri Lankan crisis: The perils of inherited fallacies and economic mismanagement
  ORF 2022
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• Symmetric and asymmetric impact of economic growth, capital formation, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on environment in OECD countries
  Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112300
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• Analyzing asymmetric impact of economic growth, energy use, FDI inflows, and oil prices on CO2 emissions through NARDL approach
  Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-12660-z
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