Research

Economics Papers

1. Bakhtiari (2023); "Changing Nature of Patents in Australia", Australian Economic Review, 56(3), 288-307.

2. Bakhtiari (2023); "Growing by Outsourcing: a Tale of Two Growths", Empirica, 50(2), 411-439.

3. Bakhtiari (2021); "Government Financial Assistance as Catalyst for Private Financing", International Review of Economics and Finance, 72(1), 59-78.

4. Bakhtiari (2021); "Trends in Market Concentration of Australian Industries", Australian Economic Review, 54(1), 57-75.

5. Bakhtiari (2020); "Do Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in Australia Have (or Develop) a Productivity Advantage?", Journal of Productivity Analysis, 53(3), 321-338.

6. Bakhtiari, Breunig, Magnani, and Zhang (2020); "Financial Constraints and Small and Medium Enterprises: A Review", Economic Record, forthcoming.

7. Bakhtiari and Bruno (2020); "Government Commercialisation Grants and Business Performance", Singapore Economic Review, 65(5), 1271-1291.

8. Bakhtiari (2019); "Entrepreneurship Dynamics in Australia: Lessons from Micro-data", Economic Record, 95(308), 114-140.

9. Bakhtiari, Minniti and Naghavi (2019); "Multinationalization and the Scope of Innovation", Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(5), 1057-1077.

10. Bakhtiari (2018); "Coming Out Clean: Australian Carbon Pricing and Clean Technology Adoption", Ecological Economics, 154, 238-246.

11. Bakhtiari, Breunig (2018); "The Role of Spillovers in Research and Development Expenditure in Australian Industries", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 27(1), 14-38.

12. Bakhtiari (2017); "Corporate Credit Rating: Selection on Size or Productivity?", International Review of Economics and Finance, 49, 84-101.

13. S.Bakhtiari and R.Breunig (2017); "New Outsourcing, Demand Uncertainty and Labor Usage", Review of Industrial Organization, 50(1), 69-90.

14. S.Bakhtiari (2016); " Assortative Outsourcing with Exit " (formerly "Outsourcing with Heterogeneous Firms"), B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 16(1), 119-142.

15. S.Bakhtiari (2015); " Productivity, Outsourcing and Exit: The Case of Australian Manufacturing", (formerly "Size and Outsourcing: theory and evidence from Australian manufacturing") Small Business Economics, 44(2), 425-447.

16. S.Bakhtiari and R.Breunig (2013); "Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Exploration of the Dynamic Relationship" B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 13(1), 395-418.

17. S.Bakhtiari (2012) " Offshoring, Wages and the Growing Skill Gap: Advocating Offshoring without Sectoral Reallocation"; International Review of Economics and Finance, 23, 46-58.

18. S.Bakhtiari (2012) " Markets and the Non-Monotonic Relation between Productivity and Establishment Size"; Canadian J. of Economics, 45(1), 345-372. material

Book Chapters

1. S.Bakhtiari, A.Minniti, A.Naghavi (2018); "Offshoring, Product Scope, and Firm Performance" in Developments in Global Sourcing, Edited by Wilhelm Kohler and Erdal Yalcin, MIT Press, 191-208.

Working Papers and Reports

1. Bakhtiari; "Centrality of Government and Universities to Innovation in the United States: A Social Networking Analysis".

2. Bakhtiari; "Centrality of Government to Innovation in Australia: A Patent-based Analysis".

3. Bakhtiari; "Dissecting Productivity Gains from Trade".

4. Bakhtiari & Magnani; "Firms' Demand for Liquidity and Employment Decisions: Evidence from Australia".

5. Bakhtiari; "Market power and entrepreneurship change: the case for Australia".

6. Bakhtiari; "Clean Technology, Regulation, and Government Intervention: The Australian Experience", Under revision for Review of Industrial Organization.

7. S.Bakhtiari, J.Haltiwanger, K.Sandusky (2008) "Comparing Annual Job Flows: LEHD-QWI versus US Self-Employment Register"; LEHD Mimeo, US Census Bureau.

8. S.Bakhtiari, J.Haltiwanger (2005) "Growth and Turnover: Building the Relation from Quarterly Workforce Indicators"; LEHD Mimeo, US Census Bureau.

Engineering and Applied Math

1. S.Bakhtiari; " Contributions to Primal-Dual Interior-Point Methods for Nonlinear Programming"; Master's Thesis in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Aug.2003.

2. 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.

3. 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. of Optimization, Vol.14, No.1, 2003, pp.173-199.

4. S.Bakhtiari,P.Jabedar-Maralani;" An Introduction to Qualitative Modeling and Control"; J. faculty of Engineering, The University of Tehran,Vol.34,No.2, Sept.2000, pp.1-10.