Bora, Siddhartha

Siddhartha S. Bora is an Assistant Professor of Agribusiness Management and Applied Economics at West Virginia University. His research spans commodity markets, natural resources, agricultural finance, time-series analysis, and big data analytics. At WVU, he teaches courses in commodity markets, agricultural policy, agribusiness finance, agribusiness sales, and natural resource economics. 

Siddhartha earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University in 2022. His work has appeared in leading agricultural economics journals including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. In 2021, Siddhartha received the Outstanding Research Award from the Agricultural Finance and Management section of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.

Publications

1. Fiechter, C., Bora, S., & Kuethe, T. H. (2025). The Loss Function of USDA Forecasters: Evidence from WASDE Animal Product Price Forecasts. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2025.10031 
2. Francis, E., Mackereth, I., Bora, S., Arbogast, D., & Deng, J. (2025). Parameterized Reports for Data-driven Tourism, Parks, and Recreation Management using Quarto and Multimodal AI. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. https://doi.org/10.18666/JPRA-2025-13124 
3. Goswami, A., & Bora, S. (2025). Short-term and Long-Term Response of Planting Behavior to Climate in the U.S. Corn Belt. Review of Regional Studies, 55(1), 59–76. https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.137492 
4. Bora, S., & Katchova, A. (2024). Multi-step Commodity Forecasts using Deep Learning. Agricultural Finance Review, 84(4–5), 269–296. https://doi.org/10.1108/AFR-08-2023-0105 
5. Bora, S., Katchova, A. L., & Kuethe, T. H. (2023). The Accuracy and Informativeness of Agricultural Baselines. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 105(4), 1116–1148. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12350 
6. Kuethe, T. H., Bora, S., & Katchova, A. L. (2022). Improving ERS’s Net Cash Income Forecasts using USDA Baseline Projections. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 47(2), 246–261. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.310528 
7. Bora, S., Katchova, A. L., & Kuethe, T. H. (2021). The Rationality of USDA Forecasts under Multivariate Asymmetric Loss. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(3), 1006–1033. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12142 
8. Raj, A., Dey, A., Boyce, S., Seth, A., Bora, S., Chandurkar, D., Hay, K., Singh, K., Das, A., Chakraverty, A., Ramakrishnan, A., Shetye, M., Saggurti, N., & Silverman, J. (2017). Associations between Mistreatment by a Provider during Childbirth and Maternal Health Complications in Uttar Pradesh, India. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21, 1821–1833. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-017-2298-8