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 (on leave)

Vice President

US Bank, Credit Risk Assessment 

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

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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

 
  I am presently on leave from UW-Milwaukee, serving as Vice President at the Risk Assessment Division of US Bank to assist in the development of risk and probability of default measures on commercial loans in compliance with BASEL II accord. Below are some of my most recent areas of research interest. These interests focus on risk, risk management, finance, information, growth, trade and governance.  A sample of my papers and publications are given here.  
       
 

On Risk

Hamid Mohtadi "Public versus Private Information in Banks' Evaluating the Risk of Commercial Borrowers" (work in progress)

Hamid Mohtadi and Antu Murshid “The Risk of Catastrophic Terrorism: An Extreme Value Approach” June 2007 forthcoming: Journal of Applied Econometrics (Funded Research) 

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

Hamid Mohtadi, Swati Agiwal and Jean Kinsey "Optimal Security Investments and Extreme Risk" American Economic Association, January 2008 (Funded Research)

Swati Agiwal, Hamid Mohtadi and Jean Kinsey “Security-Preparedness of Firms in U.S. Food Supply Chain” 2008 Sloan Industry Studies Working Paper Series

Hamid Mohtadi “Assessing the risk of Terrorism using Extreme Value Statistics,” Proceedings of the Institute of Food Technologists’ First Annual Food Protection and Defense Research Conference, November 3-4, 2005, (Proceedings of the Institute of Food Technologists’ First Annual Food Protection and Defense Research Conference (Atlanta, GA) 2006

Hamid Mohtadi “Developing Risk Metrics to Estimate Risks of Catastrophic Biological and Bioterrorist Events: Applications to the Food Industry” Wiley Handbook of Science and Engineering for Homeland Security forthcoming

Hamid Mohtadi and Antu Murshid “Analyzing Catastrophic Terrorist Events with Applications to the Food Industry,” (with A. Murshid) in The Economic Costs and Consequences of Terrorism, Harry Richardson (ed), Edward Elgar 2006 (London, UK), ISBN #1845427343

Hamid Mohtadi and Antu Murshid “A Global Chronology of Incidents of Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear Attacks: 1950-2005” published at the website of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD) at http://www.fpd.umn.edu/

Rob Kauffman and Hamid Mohtadi “Open Vs. Proprietary Systems in B2B E-Procurement: A Risk-Augmented Transaction Cost Perspective,”  Management Information Systems 2004, 21: 137-166

 

 
 

On Financial Markets 

 “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).

 		  
   
   
   
 

On Information and Information Management

“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.

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

  
 

On Governance

“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).  

  
 

On Growth and Trade

“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).