AHMAD A. KADER, PH.D Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV,

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1 AHMAD A. KADER, PH.D. UNLV, Department of Economics 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND Ph.D., Economics, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV, June 1974 M.S., Agricultural Economics, West Virginia Univ., June 1968 B.S., Economic Statistics, Karl Marx Institute of Economics, Jan 1965 B.S., Economic Planning, Karl Marx Institute of Economics, Jan ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Lecturer of Economics, UNLV, Aug Present Professor of Economics, Carroll College, Waukesha, WI, May 1986-December 1999 Associate Professor of Economics, Carroll College, September 1980-May 1986 Assistant Professor of Economics, Trenton State College, (now the College of New Jersey), Trenton, NJ, September 1978-June 1980 Assistant Professor of Economics, Wright State University (WOBC), Celina, OH, September 1973-June 1978 OTHER TEACHING AND RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS Adjunct Instructor of Economics, College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Jan May 2004 Adjunct Instructor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Jan May 2004 Instructor of Economics, Univ. of Wisconsin Waukesha Center, January 1981-May 1983 Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics, Central Michigan University, McGuire Air Force Base, NJ, March 1979-June 1980 Adjunct Professor of Economics, Monmouth College (now Monmouth University), Fort Dix, NJ, Jan July 1980 Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVA, Jan June 1973 Research Assistant, Division of Resource Management, West Virginia University, June 1967 & the summers of 1970, 1971, 1972 DOCTORAL DISSERTATION The Role of the Oil Export Sector in the Economic Development of Iraq GRANT Received an internal grant to conduct a Twitter experiment in my large Principles of Economics classes for the academic year The results of the experiment were presented in a workshop for the College of Business faculty and excerpts from the workshop appeared on the College s website as well as the UNLV magazine.

2 PUBLICATIONS Using Twitter to More Actively Engage Students in the Learning Process, Journal of International Economics and Social Science, Forthcoming. The paper was also posted in the SRRN working paper series in June Short-Term Own-Price and Spillover Effects of Distressed Residential Properties: The Case of a Housing Crash, Nasser Daneshvary, Terrence Clauretie, and Ahmad Kader, Journal of Real Estate Research, Vol. 33 No. 2, June 2011, pp The Relationship Between Exports and Growth and the Identification Problem, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. XVI, no. 3, Sept. 1988, p. 86. Development Patterns Among Countries Re-Examined, The Developing Economies, Vol. XXIII, no. 3, Sept. 1985, pp The Stock Market as a Leading Indicator of Economic Activity, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. XIII, no. 1, March 1985, p Sources of Growth with Domestic Factor Shift and Foreign Transfer: The Case of Libya, Journal of Economic Development, Vol. XIII, no. 1, July 1983, pp Primary-Oriented Countries and Changes in Economic Structure, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. IX, March 1981, no. 1, pp The Contribution of Oil Exports to Economic Development: A Study of the Major Oil Exporting Countries, The American Economist, Vol. XXIII, no. 1, Spring 1980, pp A Reduced-Form Model of Interaction Between Petroleum Exports and Domestic Income, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. XIII, no. 1, March 1980, p. 86. The Demand for Money in a Developing Economy: The Case of Libya, Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. VII, no. 4, December 1979, p PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES Using Twitter to More Actively Engage Students in the Learning Process, The Second Annual AEA Conference on Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education, Boston, May Short-Term Own-Price and Spillover Effects of Distressed Residential Properties: The Case of a Housing Crash, The Annual Meeting of the American Real Estate Society (ARES), Naples FL, April 14-17, The Relationship Between Exports and Economic Growth and the Identification Problem, Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, March Patterns of Industrial Growth: A Reassessment, International Atlantic Economic Conference, Munich, West Germany, April

3 Sources of Growth of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Conference of the Atlantic Economic Society, Washington, D.C., October OPEC: Organization of Rivalry, Cooperation, and Power, Convention of the Eastern Economic Association in Washington, D.C., April Sectoral Growth patterns of Petroleum and Mineral Exporting Countries: A Cross-Sectional Study, Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, November The Contribution of Oil Exports to Economic Development, Convention of the Eastern Economic Association, Hartford, Connecticut, April The Impact of the Oil Export Sector on the Iraqi Economy: An Econometric Model, Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, November OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Attended the Second Annual AEA Conference on Teaching Economics and Research in Economic Education, Boston, May Reviewed various digital elements of a McGraw-Hill new Principles of Economics text and participated in the panel discussion of the project at the AEA Second Annual Meeting, Boston, May Reviewed several chapters to update the Core Economics text to be published by W. H. Freeman & Worth Publishers and participated in the focus group held at the AEA Annual Meeting, Boston, May Reviewed the text of Robin Bade and Michael Parkin, Foundation of Microeconomics, 6 th ed., Prentice Hall. The purpose of the review is to provide an input for the new edition of the text. Served as a referee for the Journal of Real Estate Research by providing a review of an article titled Biased Impact of Foreclosures on Housing Prices: Evidence from a Downward Spiraling Market. Attended the Pearson Event that was held at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, CA, 3/23/12-3/24/12 and participated in the MyEconLab workshop held there to prepare myself for using it in Econ 102, Fall Semester 2012, and in Econ 103, Spring Semester Presented a Workshop about my Twitter Experiment at the Southern Teaching Conference, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, Dec Attended meetings of the American Economic Association, Atlantic Economic Society, Eastern Economic Association, Midwestern Business Association, Southern Economic Association, and Western Economic Association. Served numerous times as a discussant of papers and chaired sessions at the aforementioned meetings. 3

4 Attended a variety of seminars in areas such as monetary policy, public utilities, banking, investments, entrepreneurship, and futures and options. Co-guided a tour group of Carroll College students through Western and Eastern Europe to points of economic and historic interest. Designed planning modules and delivered lectures on Economic Planning for Home Health Agency Managers, sponsored by the Home Health Agency Assembly of New Jersey and Trenton State College, under a grant from the New Jersey State Department of Health. Attended a one-month IREX Slavonic studies seminar, held at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, Attended a one-month Eurocenter Russian language course at the Moscow Linguistic University, Russia, ACADEMIC HONORS Short-term Own-Price and Spillover Effects of Distressed Residential Properties: The Case of a Housing Crash, received the American Real Estate Society Legacy Award, an award to honor the best paper published in the last three years in this Journal. Appointed to the Andrew and Emma Frame Chair in Economics at Carroll College, January 1986-December COURSES TAUGHT AT UNLV Business Connections (BUS 103), Principles of Micro and Macroeconomics (ECON 102 and 103), Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECON 303), Investments (FIN 307), International Economics ( ECON 358), Economic Development (ECON 359), and Applied Economics for Business (MBA 710). COURSES TAUGHT AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS Economic Development, Applied Economic Analysis for Business, Principles of Micro and Macroeconomics, Consumer Economics, Business and Society, Money and Banking, Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomics, Business Statistics, Operations Research, Managerial Economics (graduate level), Investments, International Economics, Urban Economics, Futures and Options, and Monetary Economics(graduate level). ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES Served as Chairperson of the Economics, Business Administration, and Accounting Department at Carroll College, LANGUAGES Arabic, English, Bulgarian, and some Russian REFERENCES Available upon request 4

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