Hamid Falatoonzadeh Ph.D.

• Ph.D., Ag. Economics, Finance, and Policy, Texas A&M
• M.B.A., Finance, California State Polytechnic, Pomona
• B.A., Accounting and Finance, National Iranian Oil Company College of Accounting and Finance, Tehran, Iran

• Economic and Political Integration of Asian Countries for Currency Unification
• Economic Impact of Technological Innovations
• Exchange Rate Volatility
• Stock Market Volatility
• Currently working on Telecommunication policy assessments and industry Growth in Asia and Latin America

Previous Teaching Experience

• Faculty at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California State University, Los Angeles, and Chapman University

Previous Relevant Work Experience

• Tax and financial consultations for individual, partnership and corporations

• Research grant for three years during my study as PhD candidate in Texas A&M
• Research grant as part of Small Business Administration grant

Invited Presentations

• Falatoon, Hamid, and Mohammad Safarzadeh. "Leading Indicators of Business Cycles: A Practical Component Approach" Presented at the Western Economic International Conference in Seattle, Washington, July 2007.
• Falatoon, Hamid, and Mohammad Safarzadeh. "Some Economic Indicators of Asset Market Bubbles" Presented at the Western Economic International Conference in San Diego, CA, July 2006.
• Falatoon, Hamid, and Mohammad Safarzadeh. "Does Economic and Political Integration of Asian Countries Justify Currency Unification?" Presented by H. Falatoon at the Western Economic International Conference in San Francisco, CA, July 2005.
• Falatoon, Hamid, and M.R. Safarzadeh organized and chaired a session entitled "Applied Time Series Analysis" at the Western Economic Association International Conference in San Francisco, Ca, July 2005.
• Falatoon, Hamid, and Navarrete, Carlos J. "Telecommunication Policy Assessment and Industry Growth in Asian Countries." Presented at Global Information Technology Management (GITM) World Conference of the Fifth Annual GITM, San Diego, CA, June 13-15, 2004.
• Falatoon, Hamid, " Economic Impact of Market Liberalization on Telecommunications Services" presented at INFORM conference in Atlanta, October 2003.
• Falatoon, Hamid. "Technological Innovations and Economic Prosperity: A Time Series Analysis." presented at Western Economic Association International Conference in Seattle, Washington, , July 2002.
• Falatoon, Hamid, and M.R. Safarzadeh Organized and Chaired a session entitled "Applied Time Series Analysis" at the Western Economic Association International Conference in Seattle, Washington, CA, July 2002.
• Falatoon, Hamid, "Predictive Power of The Yield Curve As a Leading Indicator of The Business Cycles" presented at American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences in Los Vegas, Nevada, February,2002.
• Falatoon, Hamid. "Using Symbolic Computation in Deriving Economic Rules: Application of "Mathematica" to Consumer Theory." presented at Western Economic Association International Conference in San Francisco, CA, July 2001.
• Safarzadeh, Mohammad, Hamid Falatoon, and Paul Sarmas. "Application of Quantitative Software in Economics and Decision Science." Accepted for presentation in the International Conference on Electronic Business, Hong Kong, December 19-21, 2001 is published in the proceedings for the same conference.
• Safarzadeh, Mohammad, and Hamid Falatoon. "Announcement Effect, Herd Mentality, and Stock Market Volatility." Presented by H. Falatoon at Western Economic Association International Conference in Vancouver, Canada, June 29 – July 3,2000 Consulting Experience Tax and Financial Consulting

• Exchange Rates Analysis
• Economic Integration
• Telecommunication in Asia and Latin America Countries
• Statistics
• Telecommunication Strategies in Developing Countries
• Exchange Rate Management