Siddhartha Bora

Siddhartha Bora is a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) at The Ohio State University. Siddhartha currently serves as a Research Assistant for the Farm Income Enhancement Program led by Dr. Ani Katchova.  His current research topics include forecast evaluation, farm income forecasts, and agricultural baseline projections. His recent paper, “The Rationality of USDA Forecasts under Multivariate Asymmetric Loss”, was published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE).  This paper shows that bias in USDA forecasts on farm income and commodity prices may be explained by asymmetric loss of the forecaster. One of his working papers examines the accuracy of USDA long-run baseline projections and investigates if the projections stay informative beyond a certain year.

As a member of the Farm Income Enhancement Program, Siddhartha has contributed to several outreach reports and conferences on issues such as farm income forecasts, agricultural baselines, farmer bankruptcy, and delinquency rates. In addition to his research and outreach activities, Siddhartha has also engaged in multiple teaching assignments as a teaching assistant, most recently serving as lab instructor for Applied Quantitative Methods I (AEDECON6110) in Fall 2020. 

Advisor: Dr. Ani Katchova.