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Arun J. Prakash

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 1981Rising activity

Publications

188

Citations

2,253

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

45

Publishing since 1981

Research summary
AI-generated

The bibliographic record attributed to this name is inconsistent, mixing papers on financial markets (stock index effects, exchange-traded funds, corporate diversification, dual-class firm earnings) with unrelated work in gut microbiome immunology, tokamak fusion engineering, computational mechanics, and toy safety surveys. This suggests the publication list likely aggregates multiple different researchers sharing the same name rather than one coherent research program. Prospective students should verify which specific papers and topics belong to the actual PI before drawing conclusions about their expertise.

Financial markets and asset pricingCorporate finance and governanceExchange-traded funds and index investingComputational and numerical methods (likely unrelated body of work)Miscellaneous topics across unrelated fields (name ambiguity)

Publication counts fluctuate irregularly over the last decade (from 2 to 9 per year) with a recent uptick in 2024-2025, but this pattern likely reflects merged records from multiple authors rather than one steady research trajectory.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 4.0/year recently
2017: 8 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 4 publications202021: 4 publications212022: 3 publications222023: 3 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 9 publications92526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×4
  • Journal Of Big Data×2
  • Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics×2
  • Applied Economics×2
  • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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