Economics - AACSB - The University of Texas at San Antonio

1985 - Present Courses Taught Undergraduate courses taught:
Micro principles. Macro principles. Business statistics. Intro to
political economy. Aggregate economic analysis. Mathematical
economics.
Pedagogy - Dissertation Committees
Year Type Description
2008 - 2010 Dissertation
Committees
Dissertation committee member, Humayun Zafar, Information
Systems, UTSA, 2008-2010.
2004 - 2009 Dissertation
Committees
Pedagogy - Other Teaching Activity
Dissertation committee member:
Umesh Kumar, Finance, UTSA 2008-2009.
Paramita Bandyopadhyay, Finance, UTSA 2005-2006.
Sinan Yildirim, Finance, UTSA, 2005-2006.
Ju Xiang, Finance, UTSA, 2004-2005.
Year Type Description
1990 - Present Other Teaching
Activity
Graduate and undergraduate independent study and internship
courses.
Pedagogy - Thesis Committee Chair
Year Type Description
2004 - 2004 Thesis Committee
Chair
MA Thesis chair:
Jacob Kells, Economics, UTSA, 2004.
Research Interests - Research Interests
Economic theory, econometrics, quant/math methods
Journal Publications - Journal Article - Refereed Journal
Westerlund, J., S. Mahdavi, F. Firoozi, "The tax-spending nexus: Evidence from a
panel of U.S. state-governments", Economic Modeling, 2011, 28, 885-890.
Firoozi, F., D. Lien, S. Mahdavi, and L. de la Vina, “A linear model test of
sufficiency for non-orthogonality of matrices”, Advances and Applications in
Statistics, 2011, 22(2), 119-127.
Firoozi, F. and D. Lien, “On capital structure and entry deterrence”, Handbook of Quantitative
Finance and Risk Management, 2010, 1, 1381-1390.
Bao, Y., F. Firoozi, and M. Lo, “A Monte Carlo power comparison of the classical and one-sided
procedures for testing linear inequalities”, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2008, 6(1&2), 233-
239.
Lien, D. and F. Firoozi, “Offshore bidding and currency futures”, International Journal of
Business and Economics, 2008, 7(2), 125-136.
Beladi, H., C. Co, and F. Firoozi, “The link between domestic R&D and inflow of FDI: A gametheoretic
analysis”, Pacific Economic Review, 2008, 13(2), 209-222.
Firoozi, F., D. Hollas, R. Rutherford, and T. Thomson, “Property assessments and information
asymmetry in residential real estate”, Journal of Real Estate Research, 2006, 28(3), 275-291.
Beladi, H., L. de la Vina, and F. Firoozi, “On information value and mean-preserving
transformations”, Applied Mathematics Letters, 2006, 19, 843-848.