• Research Associate and Assistant Professor
• PhD, Virginia Tech, Economics, 2002
• PhD, Virginia Tech, Statistics, 2006

Research interests

Dr. Mousavi’s interest in statistics stems from her work on the axiomatization of bounded rationality as a formal representation of actual decision-making.  The neoclassic paradigm of rational man is based on the subjective utility theory developed by the famous statistician, Savage (1950).  Thus, the economic modeling of behavior has an essential connection with the fundamental theories of probability in statistics.  Dr. Mousavi’s current research is in Markov chains and its application to designing CUSUM control charts for correlated binary data.  She has earned a PhD in economics (2002) as well as in Statistics (2006) from Virginia Tech University.  Her undergraduate degree, in electrical engineering, was awarded by the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran.  She has received two research fellowship awards from the American Institute for Economic Research. 

Representative Publications
   
    “Toward a Transactional Theory of Decision Making: Creative Rationality as Functional Coordination in Context,” with Jim Garrison, Journal of Economic Methodology 10(2), 131-156, June 2003.
 
   “A Classroom Exercise: Voting by Ballots and Feet,” with Charles Holt et al, Southern Economics Journal 2005, 72(1), 253-263.

Last updated: 31 March 2006