Ahmad Mohassel

Economics of Ports and Trade
Macro Economics
Microeconomic Principles
Principles (Micro)
Principles and Policies

Academic Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, Lamar University (September, 2018 - Present), Beaumont, Texas.

Teaching Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate, The University of Arizona (August, 2011 - May, 2016), Tucson, Arizona.

Consulting Experience

2017:  Integra FEC, Performed economics and financial consulting on fraud in financial markets. Investigated fraud in health care market. Conducted research on fraud in construction industry.

Professional Service

2016:  Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017.   Paper reviewer for the paper "Predicting the Containerized Cargo Quantities for the Port of New Orleans using Time Series, Artificial Neural Network, and Regression Approaches" for 2017 TRB annual meeting in DC.
Academic Conference: Discussant
2015:  Midwest Economics 2015 Annual Meeting Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  
2015:  62nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Portland, Oregon.  
2015:  2015 Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
2015:  Session chair for "Congestion and Congestion Pricing", Portland, Oregon.  Session chair for "Congestion and Congestion Pricing"  
2015:  Travel Grant Judge.   Served as travel grant reviewer for multiple travel grant request from graduate students at the University of Arizona.

Institutional Services

Department Assignments
2018-2019:  Jacob Bumgarner  
2018-2019:  Mohammad Tariquel Islam  
2018-2019:  Mohammad Tariquel Islam  

Member:
2018-2019:  Behnam Rahimi  

• Mohassel, A. (2015). The Effect of Highway Construction Spending on Congestion: Evidence from California. 62nd North American Regional Science Council, Portland, Portland, Oregon.

• Mohassel, A. (2016). The Effect Of Parking Price Adjustment On Drivers Behavior Evidence From SF Park Program.2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee.

• Mohassel, A. (2015). The Effect of Highway Construction Spending on Congestion: Evidence from California. 2015 Southern Economics Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Presentations of Non-Refereed Papers

National

• Mohassel, A. (2015). Does More Highway Spending Improve Congestion? Evidence from California Department of Transportation. Midwest Economics 2015 Annual Meeting Program, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Mohassel, A. (2018). "The External Cost of Congestion Relief: How Do Highway Construction Activities Adversely Affect Drivers?."
• Mohassel, A. (2018). "The Effect of Highway Construction Spending on Congestion: Evidence from California."
• Mohassel, A. (2018). "Drivers' Response to Temporal & Spatial Parking Price Adjustment: Evidence from SFpark Project."