Position/Role: Lecturer

Schools/Unit: Economics

Contact Details:

• Quadrangle Building, Room 3127
• Phone: +61 2 9385 3962
• Fax: +61 2 9313 6337
• Email: s.bakhtiari@unsw.edu.au
• URL: http://research.economics.unsw.edu.au/sbakhtiari/

 

Qualifications:

• PhD, Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Summer 2008 (expected)
• MA Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, USA 2005
• MS Electrical Eng., University of Maryland at College Park, USA 2003
• MS Electrical Eng., Summa Cum Laude, University of Tehran, Iran 1998
• BS Electrical Eng., University of Tehran, Iran

Research Areas:

• Macroeconomics
• Industrial Organization

Publications:

Economics:

1. S.Bakhtiari; "When Input Size Falls with Productivity: The Forgotten Role of Demand"; UNSW Mimeo, Sept.2008.
2. S.Bakhtiari, J.Haltiwanger, "Employment Growth and Turnover: Building the Relation from Quarterly Workforce Indicators", LEHD Mimeo, US Census Bureau, Feb.2005.

Applied Math:

1. S.Bakhtiari, A.Tits;"A Simple Primal-Dual Feasible Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Programming with Monotone Descent"; J. Computational Optimization and Application, Vol.25, No.1/2/3, 2003, pp.17-38.
2. A. Tits, A.Wachter, S. Bakhtiari, T.Urban, C.Lawrence;"A Primal-Dual Interior-Point Method for Nonlinear Programming with Strong Global and Local Convergence properties"; SIAM J. Optimization Vol.14, No.1, 2003, pp.173-199.