FARHAD RASSEKH

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Department of Economics                                                                51 Richmond Lane     
Barney School of Business and Public Administration                     West Hartford, CT 06117

University of Hartford                                                                       (860) 236-1723

West Hartford, CT  06117

(860) 768-5007 Fax (860) 768-4911

rassekh@mail.hartford.edu

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. in Economics, 1983, University of Houston, Houston, Texas.

M.A. in Economics, 1978, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.

B.A. in Economics, 1976, National University of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

EMPLOYMENT:

        Department of Economics, Barney School of Business, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, since 1989; tenured in 1996; promoted to the rank of full Professor in 2000.

1983 – 1989, Department of Economics, Cameron School of Business, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

       “Does Trade Cause Higher Growth in Lower-Income Economies? An Empirical Inquiry,”  forthcoming, Review of Development Economics.

       “Empirical Factor Abundance with Many Factors and Countries” (with Henry Thompson, Mostafa Malki, and Myeongjoo Kang), forthcoming International Review of Economics and Finance.

         “The Interplay of International Trade, Economic Growth, and Income Convergence: A Brief Intellectual History of Recent Developments,” The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 13/4, December 2004, 371-395. (Lead Article)

           “A Model of Growth and Convergence in the Presence of Input-Enhancing Factors: An Empirical Study,” (with Michael Panik) Economic Inquiry 40 (2), April 2002, 158-165.

         “Measuring Factor Abundance across Many Factors and Countries,” (with Henry Thompson), Open Economies Review 13, 2002, 237-249.
           “The Baha’i Faith and the Market Economy,” The Journal of Baha’i Studies 11 (3/4),
          September-December 2001, 31-61.
              
         “A Test of the Convergence Hypothesis: The OECD Experience, 1950-1990,” (with Michael Panik and Bhrat Kolluri), International Review of Economics and Finance 10, 2001, 147-157.

         “Smith, Friedman, and Self-Interest in Ethical Society,” (with Harvey James), Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (3), 2000, 659-674.

 “Micro Convergence and Macro Convergence,” (with Henry Thompson), Pacific   Economic Review 3(1),February 1998, 3-13.

“The Convergence Hypothesis: History, Theory, and Evidence,” Open Economies Review   9, 1998, 85-105.

“Adjustment in General Equilibrium: Some Industrial Evidence,” (with Henry Thompson), Review of International Economics 5, (1), February 1997, 20-31.

“An Evaluation of Batra’s ‘Fallacy of Free Trade’,” Review of International Economics 2 (1), February 1994, 76-84.

“International Trade and the Relative Dispersion of Industrial Wages and Production  Techniques in 14 OECD Countries, 1970-1985,” Open Economies Review 4, 1993, 325-344.

“Factor Price Equalization: Theory and Evidence,” (with Henry Thompson), Journal of Economic Integration 8(1), Spring 1993, 1-32. (Lead Article)

“The Role of International Trade in the Convergence of Per Capita GDP in the OECD, 1950-1985,” International Economic Journal 6(4), Winter 1992, 1-15. (Lead Article)

“The Effect of Import Price Changes on Domestic Inflation: An Empirical Test of the Ratchet Effect,” (with Barry Wilbratte), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, May 1990, 263-267.

“Tendency Towards Factor Price Equalization Among OECD Countries”  (with Manouchehr Mokhtari), Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1989, 636-642.

“The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in U.S. Capital Outflows,” (with Roy Ruffin), American Economic Review, December 1986, 1126-1130.

“The Employment Effects of the Steel Trigger Price Mechanism on the U.S. Steel and Motor Vehicle Industries,” Atlantic Economic Journal, March 1986, 39-49.

BOOK CHAPTERS:

          “Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit,” (with Harvey James), in   Perspectives in Business Ethics, by Laura Hartman, Second Edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2002, 248-256.

          “Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit,” (with Harvey James), Reprinted from the preceding book (Hartman’s) in Business Ethics, Vol. 1, Ethical Theory, Distributive Justice, and Corporate Social Responsibility, Edited by Fritz Allhoff and Anand Vaidya, 2005, London: Sage Publications, 310-319.

           “Smith and Friedman on the Pursuit of Self-Interest and Profit,” (with Harvey James) Reprinted from Hartman’s book in Ethics, Edited by D. Wasieleski (ed.), Pearson Custom Publishing, forthcoming.

“Smith, Friedman, and Self-Interest in Ethical Society,” (with Harvey James), Business Ethics Quarterly 10 (3), 2000, 659-674. Reprinted in Religious Perspectives in Business Ethics: An Anthology, Edited by Thomas O’Brien and Scott Paeth, 2005, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

BOOK REVIEWS:

           Leonard Gomes, The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: An Historical Review, Cheltenham, UK/Northampton, MA, USA Edward Elgar, 2003, Review of International Economics, Vol. 14, Issue 1, February 2006, 175-177.

           Douglas Irwin, Free Trade Under Fire, Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
          2002, Kyklos, Vol. 56 2003– Fasc.3, 421-422.

           John Berdell, International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies. The   Classical Dynamics of Hume, Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus, Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2002, Kyklos, Vol. 56 2003– Fasc.2, 267-269

           Jagdish Bhagwati, Free Trade Today, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,
            2002, Kyklos, Vol. 55 2002– Fasc.4, 575 – 576.

            William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth, Economists’ Adventures and   Misadventures in the Tropics, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2001, Kyklos, Vol. 55 2002– Fasc.4, 583 - 584.
       
 Jagdish Bhagwati, The Winds of the Hundred Days, How Washington Mismanaged Globalization, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 2000, Kyklos, Vol. 55 2002 – Fasc.1, 99-100.

            Kevin H. O’Rourke and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and History-Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy, Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1999, Kyklos, Vol. 53 2000 – Fasc.4, 605-607.

            Richard E. Baldwin, Daniel Cohn, Andre Sapir, and Anthony Venables (eds.) Market Integration, Regionalism and Global Economy, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999, Kyklos, Vol. 53 2000 – Fasc.2, 204 - 206

           Andrea Maneschi, Comparative Advantage in International Trade, A HistoricalPerspective, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 1998, Kyklos, Vol. 52 1999 – Fasc.4, 608-610.

            David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, little, Brown and Company, 1998,
  Kyklos, Vol.52-1999-Fasc.2, 276-278.

 Jeffery Williamson, Industrialization, Inequality and Economic Growth, Cheltenham, UK/Brookfield, USA Edward Elgar, 1997, Kyklos, Vol.51-1998-Fasc.2, 310-311.

Angus Maddison, Monitoring the World Economy 1880-1992, Paris: OECD, 1995, Review of International Economics 5 (4), 1997, 557-558.

Douglas A. Irwin, Against the Tide-An Intellectual History of Free Trade, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, Kyklos, Vol.50-1997-Fasc.2, 271-272.

Op-ed Publications:

“No Confidence in the Consumer Confidence Index,” Connecticut Business Magazine, June 2006, p. 11.

 “The Moral Case for Globalization,” (with John Speir) The Informer, (The University of Hartford) January 2005,  p. 7

“This Is Not The Time to Cut State Spending,” The Hartford Courant, October 19, 2001, p. A 19

"In My Opinion," Hartford Business Journal, June 16-22, 1997, p.5

"Key to Job Creation: Economic Growth," The Hartford Courant, July 17, 1994 p. E2

GRANTS:

Recipient of Summer Research Grant from Barney School of Business in 1990, 1991, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

        “The Ethics and Economics of Free Trade,” (with John Speir)

        A book, titled, An Intellectual History of Four Central Propositions of the Market Economy: Conception, Evolution, and Applications; Under Review by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
.

• Chapter One: The Invisible Hand Proposition – Completed
• Chapter Two: Comparative Advantage – in Progress
• Chapter Three: Say’s Law – in progress
• Chapter Four: The Quantity Theory of Money – in Progress

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Economic Growth in Open Economies, Applied international Trade, Central Ideas in Economics

TEACHING FIELDS:

International Trade, Economics Growth, Managerial Economics, Business and Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

         “The Impact of Economic Globalization on Poverty and Income Inequality: An Empirical Presentation,” Humanities Center Lecture Series on Globalization, The University of Hartford, April 11, 2005

         “Does Trade Cause Higher Growth in Lower-Income Economies? An Empirical Inquiry,” Southern Economic Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 2002.

          “International Trade, Economic Growth, and Income Convergence: A Review Essay,” Southern Economic Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 2002.

         “A Distance Measure of Factor Abundance,” Southern Economic Meetings, Alexandria, VA, November 2000.
       
          “A Growth Model of Non-Neutral Technical Change in the Presence of Input-Enhancing
          Factors: A Panel Study,” EIFS at American Economic Meetings, Boston, MA, January
         2000 and Southern Economic Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 1999.

“A Test of the Convergence Hypothesis”, Southern Economic Meetings, Baltimore, MD,  November 1998.

“Factor Abundance with Many Factors and Many Factors and Countries”, Southern  Economic Meetings, Atlanta, GA, November 1997.

“Micro Convergence and Macro Convergence”, Southern Economic Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 1995.

“Some Industrial Evidence on the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem and the Specific Factors Model of Production”, Southeastern Economic Theory and International Trade Conference, University of Virginia, October 1994.

“Some Aspects of Converging Economies of OECD, 1950-1988”, Southeastern Economic Theory and International Trade Conference, Duke University, October 1993.

“The Scientific Status of the Factor Price Equalization Theorem,” Eastern Economic Meetings, New York, NY, March 1992.

“International Trade and the Convergence of Industry Level Wages and the Production Techniques in 14 OECD Countries, 1970-85,” Southern Economic Meetings, Nashville, TN, November 1991.

“The Role of International Trade in the Convergence of Per Capita GDP in the OECD, 1950-1985,” Southern Economic Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 1990.

“The Effect of Import Price Changes on Domestic Inflation,” Eastern Economic Meetings, Baltimore, MD, March 1989.

Presented a paper entitled “The Invisible Victims of the Debt Crisis,” at a press conference sponsored by UNICEF on December 20, 1988 in Houston, Texas on the occasion of the release of “The State of the World’s Children 1989”.

“Wage Movements and Trade Openness in the OECD,” Western Economic Meetings, Vancouver, Canada, July 1987.

“The Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Domestic Inflation: The Question of Asymmetry,” Atlantic Economic Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, August 1986.

“International Economic Cooperation,” Convocation of all Texas Catholic Colleges, San Antonio, Texas, February 1985.

“The Employment Effects of the Steel Trigger Price Mechanism on the U.S. Steel and Auto Industries,” Western Economic Meetings, Las Vegas, Nevada, July 1984.

DISCUSSING PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS:

       The American Economic Meetings, Boston, MA, January 2006.
  
       The Southern Economic Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 2002.

       The Southern Economic Meetings, Alexandria, VA, November 2000.

       The Southern Economic Meetings, Baltimore, MD, November 1998.

       The Southern Economic Meetings, Atlanta, GA, November 1997.

The Southern Economic   Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 1995.

The Southeastern Economic Theory and International Trade Conference, University of Virginia, October 1994.

The Southeastern Economic Theory and International Trade Conference, Duke University, October 1993

The Southern Economic Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 1990.

The Eastern Economic Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1990.

The Southwestern Economic Meetings, Houston, TX, March, 1988.

OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:

Chair of several sessions at the Southeastern Economic Theory and International Trade Conference, Duke University, October 1993.

Participated as a Guest Expert in “Great Decision Program” to discuss “U.S. Trade and Global Markets,” Houston, Texas, March 1988.

Reviewed numerous books on International Trade and Finance as well as Principles of Economics.

SERVICE ACTIVITIES:

University Committees:

• Sabbatical Committee, Chair 2006

• Dean Search Committee (appointed by the Provost) 2003 – 2005

• Sabbatical Committee, Chair 2002 and 2003; Member,1999-2001

• The All University Curriculum Committee, 1994 - 1996

• The University Library Committee, 1990 - 1994

• The Faculty Senate, 1991-1992. Served on of two Senate committees

• Judicial Board of the University, 1990 - 1991

Barney School Committees:

• Graduate Programs Committee, Member , 2006 - 2007

• Faculty Search Committee, Management Position, 2005 - 2006

• Undergraduate Program Committee, Member, 2003 - 2004

• Graduate Programs Committee, Member, 2000 – 2003

• Faculty Search Committee, Accounting Position, 2001 – 2002

• Chair, Faculty Workshop Committee, 2000, vice chair 1999

• MBA Continuous Improvement Committee, 1999-2000

• Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1997-1999, and 2003 - 2004

• Co-Chair, MBA Curriculum Committee, 1996 - 1997

• MBA Curriculum Committee, since 1997

• Graduate Programs Committee, 1995 - 1996

• Chair, Academic Standards Committee, 1994 - 1995

• International Programs and Studies Committee, 1993 - 1994

• Educational Resource Committee, 1991 - 1992

• Professional Development Committee, 1989 - 1991; 1992 -1993

• Faculty Search Committee for Public Administration Department, 1993, 1994, and 1995

Departmental Committees:

• Faculty Search Committee, Economics Position, 2006 2007

• Faculty member in charge of hiring, assigning, and supervising graduate assistants 1992-2001

• Chair, Faculty Search Committee, 2000

• Co-chair, Faculty Search Committee, 1996

• Program Director of Master of Arts in Economics and Chair of the MAEc Committee 1990 – 94

• Chair, Professional Development Committee, 1990 - 1991, coordinating monthly seminars, 1990 and 1991