Neerja Aggarwal

Neerja Aggarwal is a Lecturer of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), School of Social Sciences, aligning with the Business & Economics faculty. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine and maintains her office at 3239 Social Science Plaza B. Aggarwal is extensively involved in undergraduate instruction, teaching foundational and intermediate courses including ECON 20B: Basic Economics II, ECON 100A: Intermediate Microeconomics I, ECON 100B: Intermediate Microeconomics II, ECON 100C: Intermediate Microeconomics III, and ECON 140: Managerial Economics. These courses equip students with essential economic principles, microeconomic theory, and applications to business decision-making.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Aggarwal contributes to faculty development as a mentor in UCI's Summer Teaching Apprenticeship Program (STAP) through the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation. She highlights the rewards of mentoring by stating, "Helping the scholars grow in teaching, and learning from them." Her scholarly work focuses on international trade policy, evidenced by her presentation in the UCI Economics Department Econometrics Seminar on November 28, 2007, titled "The Formation of Non-Tariff Barriers: An Integrated Framework for Empirical Analysis." This research led to a key publication: "The formation of non-tariff barriers: an integrated framework for empirical analysis," appearing in the International Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Optimisation in 2014 (Volume 5, Numbers 1/2, pages 131-152). The work integrates political-economic theories into an empirical model for analyzing non-tariff barriers. Through her multifaceted roles in teaching, mentoring, and research, Aggarwal enriches the academic environment in Business & Economics at UCI.

Professional Email: nagg@uci.edu