Bahram Adrangi

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Oregon
MBA in Finance/Accounting, Western Illinois University
B.S. in Economics, University of Tehran, Iran

Fields of Specialization & Research Interests

Financial Economics
Business Finance
Applied Econometrics
International Economics and Finance
Transportation Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Industrial Organization

Academic Experience

University of Portland (1982 to present)
International Economics, Managerial Economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels
Quantitative Methods for Business Decisions, Statistics, Forecasting at the MBA level
Introduction to Economics

University of Oregon
Instructor, Principles of Microeconomics (Spring 1982)
Teaching fellow (1977-1982)

Portland State University (Summers 2005-2007)
International Finance and Business Finance

Washington State University, Vancouver
Money, Banking, and Financial Institutions, Labor Economics

Recent Papers & Publications

Journal & Other Refereed Publications

Do Commodity Traders Herd? The Financial Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 461-46, August 2008 (with Arjun Chatrath)

International Evidence on Purchasing Power Parity Theory: A Partial Equilibrium Empirical Investigation. International Business & Economics Research Journal, Vol. 7, No. 5, 1-13, May 2008 (with Mary Allender and Kambiz Raffiee)

Nonlinear Dependencies and Chaos in the Exchange Rate of the Dollar. Global Business and Finance Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2008 (with Arjun Chatrath, Mary Allender and Kambiz Raffiee)

Emerging Market Equity Prices and Chaos: Evidence from Indonesia and Malaysia. International Journal of Business, Vol. 13, No. 3, 237-250, Spring 2008 (with Arjun Chatrath, R. Kamath and Kambiz Raffiee)

What Puts the Convenience in Convenience Yields? Review of Futures Markets, Vol. 15, No. 2, 201-22, Fall 2006 (with A. Chatrath, T. Moore and F. Song)

Petroleum Spreads and Term-Structure of Futures Prices. Applied Economics, Vol. 38, No. 16, 2006 (with A. Chatrath, F. Song and F. Szdarvosky)

Air Cargo Shipments and Regional Employment: The Northern Nevada Case. Journal of Business & Economics Research, Vol. 5 , No. 2, February 2007 (with K. Raffiee and R Gritta)