Raju Parakkal, MA, PhD

• Parakkal, Raju (2024), “Second Image Reversed” and Covid-19: A Global Comparative Analysis of the Pandemic’s Early Phase.” The IUP Journal of International Relations vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 29-66.
• Parakkal, Raju (2023), The Contemporary Global Economy: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Print ISBN: 9781792466090. Publisher: Kendall Hunt. Book Website: https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/contemporary-global-economy-multidisciplinary-approach
• Parakkal, Raju, Joseph Johnson, and Sherry Bartz-Marvez (2023), “The Drivers of Successful Regional Expansion: Evidence from Multinational Corporations in Latin America During 1990-2005”. Transnational Corporations Review vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 27-42. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tncr.2023.100003  
• Parakkal, Raju (2022), “Antitrust Legislative Action Against Big Tech: Lessons from Arlen Specter’s Antitrust Campaign Against American Sports Leagues.” Arlen Specter Center Research Fellowship Paper #8. https://jdc.jefferson.edu/ascps_fellowship/8
• Parakkal, Raju (2021), “Foreign Investments in Emerging Economies: Do Competition Laws Help or Hinder?” NLS Business Law Review, Vol. 7, No. 1. Advance Article. 
• Parakkal, Raju (2020), “Economic Reforms in Developing and Transition Countries: An Analysis of Post-1990 India and Romania.” In Edu Tudor, Georgiana L. Schifor, Diane P. C. Vancea, and Rodica Milena Zaharia (Eds.), Enterprise in the Global Economy: Challenges of the Current Global Environment, pp. 193-198. Bologna, Italy: Filodiritto Editore. 
• Parakkal, Raju (2020), “Antitrust in the Digital Era: Rethinking Dominance and its Abuse.” In Udai S. Mehta and Ujjwal Kumar (Eds.) Competition and Regulation in India, 2019, pp. 28-56. Jaipur, India: CUTS. 
• Johnson, Joseph, Raju Parakkal, Sherry Bartz, Gang Ren, and Mitsunori Ogihara (2019), “Survival of the Fastest: Using Sequential Pattern Analysis to Measure Efficiency of Complex Organizational Processes.” 2019 International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, Vol. 1, pp. 830-837. 
• Parakkal, Raju (2019), “Economic Returns from Social and Political Globalization: Does Signaling Help Developing and Transition Countries to Attract Foreign Direct Investment?” ACTA VŠFS Economic Studies and Analyses, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 8-28. 
• Laine, Evan E. and Raju Parakkal (2017), “National Security, Personal Insecurity, and Political Conspiracies: The Persistence of Americans’ Beliefs in 9/11 Conspiracy Theories.” The IUP Journal of International Relations, Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 16-41.
• Parakkal, Raju and Evan E. Laine (2016), Symposium Guest-Editors’ Introduction. “Capitalism, Antitrust, and Democracy: Perfect Partners or Strange Bedfellows?” The Antitrust Bulletin Vol. 61, No. 2/June 2016, pp. 231-235. 
• Parakkal, Raju (2016), “Ordoliberalism in European Competition Policy: The Logic of Democratic Capitalism in Talbot’s Essay.” The Antitrust Bulletin Vol. 61, No. 2/June 2016, pp. 290-292. 
• Parakkal, Raju (2016), “Developing Countries, Political Clientilism, and Weymouth’s ‘Tug of War’ Model of Antitrust Reform.” The Antitrust Bulletin Vol. 61, No. 2/June 2016, pp. 317-319. 
• Parakkal, Raju and Sherry Bartz-Marvez (2013), “Capitalism, Democratic Capitalism, and the Pursuit of Antitrust Laws.” The Antitrust Bulletin Vol. 58, No. 4/Winter 2013, pp. 693-729. 
• Parakkal, Raju (2012), Guest Editor, “Symposium: Trusting Antitrust: Tracing the Global Embrace of Antitrust Laws.” The Antitrust Bulletin Part I: Vol. 57, No. 2/Summer 2012, pp. 195-366 and Part II: Vol. 57, No. 3/Fall 2012, pp. 409-589. 
• Parakkal, Raju (2011), “Political Characteristics and Competition Law Enactment: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis.” The Antitrust Bulletin Vol. 56, No. 3/Fall 2011, pp. 609-629.  

CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), ICFAI, India, 1994-2002 (certified in 2007)

• Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 2024. (This award recognizes a faculty member who distinguishes themselves through innovation and sustained excellence in teaching.)
• President’s Award for Excellence, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA, April 20, 2017. (This faculty award is given annually by Philadelphia University to one faculty member in recognition of their extraordinary scholarship and academic accomplishments.)
• Nexus Learning Award, Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, PA, 2014. Project (Group Member): Academic and Community Engagement Sessions (ACES). The Center for Teaching Innovation and Nexus Learning, Philadelphia University. (Nexus Learning Awards at Philadelphia University are granted for implementing active, collaborative, and real world learning experiences infused with the liberal arts.)
• Grand Prize, International Studies Association (ISA) – South Conference, Savannah, GA, October 25-27, 2007. (This award is given annually to the best graduate student paper presented at this conference; the ISA is the professional association for scholars, practitioners and graduate students in the field of international relations/studies.)

I am an international and comparative political economist with research interests in global competition and antitrust laws, foreign investments, economic development, and currency reserves. I also have a research and scholarly interest in the politics, economics, and culture of the Indian sub-continent and transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe (particularly, Romania). In general, my research in political economy is focused mostly on developing countries and transition economies. Most of my recent publications have been in the area of global competition and antitrust laws that have explored the spread of these laws among developing and transition economies. Lately, my interest in competition/antitrust laws has turned towards issues related to the market power of major technology firms (“Big Tech”) and the socio-economic and political implications of this dominance. My most notable recent publication is a textbook on the global economy, The Contemporary Global Economy: A Multidisciplinary Approach, that was published by Kendall Hunt Publishing Company in 2023.