Curriculum Vita
REZA  OLADI
                                                                                                
Department of Economics
Utah State University
3530 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-3530

E-mail: reza.oladi@usu.edu
 
Fields:  ♦International Economics ♦Microeconomics 
 
Citizenship: Canadian, US Permanent Resident
 
Education:
• PhD, Economics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2000
• MA, Economics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 1991                                       
• BA, Economics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 1989 
                        
Employment:
• Associate Professor of Economics (Tenured), 2008-present..
• Assistant Professor of Economics (Tenure-track), Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2004-
2008.
• Assistant Professor of Economics (Tenure-track), University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 2000-
2004.
• Part-time Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal, Canada 1998-2000.
 
Research:
I. Publications:
1.  “A Geometric Comparison of the Transformation Loci with Specific and Mobile Capital,” (with J.
Gilbert), Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming. 
2. “Asymmetric Adjustment Costs in LDCs,” (with S. Sarker and J. Gilbert), Review of Development
Economics, forthcoming. 
3. “Foreign Direct Investment, Non-traded Goods and Wages,”(with J. Gilbert and H. Beladi), Pacific
Economic Review, forthcoming.
4.  “Non-traded Goods, Technical Progress and Real Wages,” (with H. Beladi), Open Economies
Review, forthcoming.
5. “Partial Compliance with International Economic Sanctions,” (with H. Beladi), Review of
Development Economics, forthcoming. 
6. “Capital Specificity, Imperfect Labor Mobility and Growth in Developing Economies,” (with J.
Gilbert), International Review of Economics and Finance, forthcoming.
7. “Is Regionalism Viable?” (with H. Beladi), Review of International Economics 16, 2008: 293-300. 
8. “Multinational Corporations and Export Quality,” (with H. Beladi and N. Chau), Journal of
Economic Behavior and Organization 65, 2008, 147-155.
9. “Migration and Real Wages,” (with H. Beladi), Economics Bulletin 6, 2007, 1-8. 
10.  “Simulating Tariffs vs. Quotas with Domestic Monopoly,” (with J. Gilbert), B.E. Journal of
Industrial Organization Education 2, 2007, Article 1.
11. “Does Foreign Aid Impede Foreign Investment?” (with H. Beladi), Frontiers of Economics and
Globalization: Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid 1 (Invited volume series), 2007. 
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12. “Strategic Advertising: Fat-cat Effect and Stability,” (with H. Beladi), Mathematical Social Sciences
51, 2006, 125-146. 
13. “Uniform Technical Progress: Can It Be Harmful?” (with H. Beladi and S. Marjit), Pacific Economic
Review 11, 2006, 33-38. 
14. “A Simulated Experiment of a Customs Union,” (with J. Gilbert), Computers in Higher Education
Economics Review 18, 2006, 29-33. 
15. “Stable Tariffs and Retaliations,” Review of International Economics 13, 2005, 205-215.
16. “Foreign Investment Policies and Environment,” (with H. Beladi), Natural Resource Modeling 18,
2005, 113-126. 
17. “Strategic Quotas on Foreign Investment and Migration,” Economic Theory 24, 2004, 289-307.
18. “International Involuntary Lending and Contingent Default Threat,” International Review of
Economics and Finance 12, 2003, 237-245.
19. “(Sophisticated) Stable Sets in Exchange Economies,” (with J. Greenberg, X. Loa, and B. Shitovitz),
Games and Economic Behavior 39, 2002, 54-70.
 
II. Submitted papers: 
20.  “Strategic International Outsourcing,” (with H. Beladi and J. Gilbert).
21.  “Monopolistic Competition and  North-South Trade,” (with  J. Gilbert). 
22. “Stock Exchanges as Informational and Reputational Intermediaries in the Competition for Foreign
Listings,” (with N. Tay) 
23. “Market Interconnection and Wages,”  (with H. Beladi).
 
III. In progress and nearly completed papers:
24. “A New Theory of Gravity: Relativity and Trade in Services.” 
25. “E-information and Stock Market Manipulations.”
26. “Foreign Aid, Public Inputs and Foreign Direct Investment.”
27. “Applied General Equilibrium Analysis of Trade Reforms in China.”
28. “Food Security and Trade Negotiations.”
 
Conference attendance and presentation:
• Southern Economics Association, 2006.
• American Economic Association
• Western Economic Association, 2001, 2005, 2007.
• Midwest Conference on Student Learning in Economics, 2004.
• UC-Riverside Seminars 
• Utah State University Seminars
• McGill University Seminars
 
Courses taught: 
• Microeconomics III (PhD), USU
• International Trade Theory and Policy  (PhD) USU
• International Trade Theory II (PhD), USU 
• International Economics (Undergraduate), USU
• International Trade (Undergraduate), UD
• International Trade and Business Applications (MBA), UD
• Game Theory with Business Applications (Undergraduate), UD
• Game Theory with Business Applications (MBA), UD
• Intermediate Microeconomics, UD
• Principles of Microeconomics, Department of Economics, McGill U
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• Principles of Microeconomics, Center for Continuing Education, McGill U
• Principles of Macroeconomics, Center for Continuing Education , McGill U
• Managerial Economics, Faculty of Management, McGill U
 
University services:
• Member of the Research Committee, Department of Economics, Utah State University: 2004-
Present.
• Member of the Graduate Committee, School of Business Administration, University of Dayton:
2003-2004.
 
Referee services:
• Economic Theory
• Review of International Economics
• Review of Development Economics
• Canadian Journal of Economics 
• International Review of Economics and Finance
• Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Open Economies Review
• Journal of Theoretical Politics
 
External thesis examiner:
Bodhisattva Sengupta, McGill university
Shengzu Wang, McGill University
 
Association membership:
• American Economic Association
• Canadian Economic Association
• Southern Economic Association
 
Awards:
• Researcher of the Year, Department of Economics, Utah State University, 2007.
• Researcher of the Year, Department of Economics, Utah State University, 2005.
• J.W.McConnell McGill Major Fellowship, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1997-98
• J.W.McConnell McGill Major Fellowship, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1998-99