Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 1983.
M.S., Applied Physics, Columbia University, 1975.
B.S., Physics, Miami University, 1973.

 

  
 

Professor

Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

 

Past Visiting Positions:

Columbia University: School of International Affairs & Public Policy

University of Denver: Graduate of School of International Studies

University of Minnesota: Department of Applied Economics

 

  
       
 

Contact Information:

Department of Economics                         University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

P.O.  Box 413                                          

Milwaukee, WI 53201                           

Office: (414) 229-5334                                 

mohtadi@uwm.edu                        

 

   

 
 

Also,

 

Affiliated with:

Department of Applied Economics

University of Minnesota

 

Additional Contact Information:

Department of Applied Economics             

University of Minnesota                             

1994 Buford Street            

St. Paul, MN 55108            

Office: (612) 625-8241            

mohta001@umn.edu

 		  
 

Faculty Research Associate:

MIS Research Center

Carlson School of Management

University of Minnesota

    
       
 

Research Fellow:

Economic Research Forum

(A World Bank sponsored initiative with a regional research focus)

 

    
 

Associate Editor:

International Economic Journal

    
 
  RESEARCH

Select Papers & Publications -- Past 5 Years

 
  Below are some of my most recent areas of research interest. My research interests have focused on public economics from an international perspective, as well as on inequality, growth, environment, trade, governance and international knowledge diffusion. Recently, I have also had a number of research projects in the area of risk and risk management from a global perspective.  A sample of my papers and publications over the past  5-7 years are:.  
       
 

“Democracy, Rent Seeking, Public Goods and Growth,” Journal of Public Economics Vol. 87, 2003, pp. 445-466.  

 “Democracy, Corruption and Growth,”  Working Paper, University of Wisconsin, 2002 (With S. Agarwal).   

“Lobbying, Growth & Public Goods,” European Journal of Political Economy, 1998, 14.4: 453-573.  (with T. Roe).  

“Trade, Transparency and Corruption: An Information Signaling Game.” (with S. Polasky and T. Roe) Working paper, University of Minnesota and Wisconsin.

“Endogenous Imitation And Technology Absorption In a Model Of North-South Trade,” (with Anusua Datta) Appeared in International Economic Journal  2006, 20: 431-459.

“International Trade, Technology and Aggregate Growth: An Overview of New Growth Theory,” Review of Agricultural Economics 2001, 23: 423-440 (with T.  Roe).

 “Financial Markets and the Financing Choice of Firms in Developing Countries: Exposition with Panel Data” Global Finance Journal 2004, 15: 57-70 (with S.  Agarwal)

“Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Developing Countries,” Working Paper  Working Paper, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (With S. Agarwal, Bank of America).

“International Stock Market Interdependence” (with S. Agarwal& M. Kandil).

“The Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An Extreme Value Approach” June 2007 forthcoming: Journal of Applied Econometrics (with A. Murshid). (DHS Funded Research) 

“Optimum Investments to Mitigate Catastrophic Risk: Application to Food Industry Firms” May 2007 (with J. Kinsey) Sloan Industry Center Working Paper Series # WP 2007-23 (Funded Research) 

“Proprietary and Open Systems Adoption in E-Procurement: A Risk-Augmented Transaction Cost Perspective” Published in Journal of Management Information Systems, Summer 2004. Nominated for Best paper in Digital Economy Track of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences HICSS, January 2002.  (with R. Kauffman). 

  
 

“Analyzing Interorganizational Information Sharing Strategies in B2B E-Commerce Supply Chains” 2003 Winner of Best Paper Award, INFORMS-CIST conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2003. Working Paper, University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management.  (with Rob Kauffman).  

“Information Exchange and IT Adoption in Supply Chains: Application to the Food Sector.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2005, 87: 582-599 (funded research by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation) (with Jean Kinsey).

 “The Empirics of Information Sharing and IT Adoption in Food Supply Chains.” Working paper, University of Minnesota and Wisconsin.