Rate My Professor Rakesh Gupta

Associate Professor Rakesh Gupta is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance in the Business & Economics area at Charles Darwin University, affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Society's Business school. He obtained his PhD from Central Queensland University on 31 March 2009, with a thesis titled "International diversification of Australian equity portfolios into emerging equity markets." Gupta also holds an MCom in Accounting & Finance from Macquarie University, an MBA in Finance, and a BSc. Before joining Charles Darwin University, he served as a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Griffith University, where he taught finance and investments at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has established connections with universities in Australia, the USA, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and China through various collaborative projects. Additionally, Gupta has presented specialist invited lectures on international finance, corporate finance, and financial planning across the world. He holds the position of non-resident senior research fellow at the Changchun Institute of Financial Studies, Renmin University of Beijing, and HaiTian Scholar at Dalian University of Technology.

Gupta's research specializations include emerging markets, stock market volatility, international investments, market integration, regulatory quality, global power, ESG factors, and the impact of emissions on international stock markets. His work extends beyond traditional accounting and finance to areas such as carbon emissions, cryptocurrency, initial public offerings, real estate pricing, and the impact of war on economic development in African countries. Key publications feature "Global power and Stock market co-movements: A study of G20 markets" by Gupta, Haddad, and Selvanathan in Global Finance Journal (2024); "Using Carbon Tax to Reach the U.S.’s 2050 NDCs Goals—A CGE Model of Firms, Government, and Households" by Yan, Gupta, and Maheshwari in Journal of Risk and Financial Management (2023); and "Are GARCH and DCC Values of 10 Cryptocurrencies Affected by COVID-19?" by Yan, Yan, and Gupta in the same journal (2022). Recent contributions include "How Regulation and Global Standing Shape Stock Market Co-Movements: A G20 Panel Study" in International Review of Finance (2026) and "Financial Inclusion, ICT Development, and CO2 Emissions: An ARDL Approach" in Sustainable Development (2025). With over 70 peer-reviewed publications, his research informs global market interconnectivity, environmental economics, and policy implications, and has been presented at international conferences and in public lectures such as on trade nationalism and global order at Charles Darwin University.