Capilano University
Instructor
2022 – Present
2 courses
About
A short biography
Mokhtar Tabari is an applied economist whose research spans development economics, international trade, and energy and environmental markets, with a growing focus on the economics of artificial intelligence. Much of his work investigates how trade liberalization and regulatory policy shape firm-level productivity, product quality, and energy resource deployment.
His recent work includes decomposing the within-firm productivity gains from trade liberalization in India (forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics with Scott Orr), evaluating how performance-based pricing in U.S. electricity markets reshaped energy-storage deployment (Energy Economics with Blake Shaffer), and tracing how patent protection losses propagate across manufacturing networks in Taiwan. He is also developing frameworks for using generative AI to design active-learning tools in economics education.
He teaches economics at Capilano University and the UBC Sauder School of Business, where he was also a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Strategy and Business Economics Division. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Calgary.
Education
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PhD in Economics
2020University of Calgary
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MSc in Economics
2014Institute for Management and Planning Studies
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BSc in Industrial Engineering
2011Iran University of Science and Technology
Professional experience
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Instructor of Economics
2022 – PresentCapilano University · North Vancouver, Canada
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Sessional Instructor
2020, 2023 – PresentUBC Sauder School of Business · Vancouver, Canada
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Assistant Professor of Economics
2020 – 2026University Canada West · Vancouver, Canada
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Postdoctoral Fellow
2020 – 2021UBC Sauder School of Business · Vancouver, Canada
Awards & recognitions
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ACBSP Teaching Excellence Award
2023
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Carl O. Nickle Graduate Scholarship
University of Calgary, 2020
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Dissertation Research Award
University of Calgary, 2019
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Globalink Research Award
University of Calgary, 2018
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Instructional Skills Workshop
University of Calgary, 2018
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Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics
UC Berkeley, 2017
Other experience
- Research Assistant to Dr. Alexander Whalley · University of Calgary2016 – 2020
- Research Assistant to Dr. Trevor Tombe · University of Calgary2018
- CREATE ME2 Trainee · University of Calgary2017 – 2020
Teaching
Full teaching record →UBC Sauder School of Business
Sessional Instructor
2020, 2023 – Present
1 course
University Canada West
Assistant Professor
2020 – 2026
7 courses
Thompson Rivers University
Sessional Instructor
2020 – 2022
2 courses
University of Calgary
Instructor
2019
1 course
Areas of teaching
- Undergraduate economics — principles, intermediate, and field courses
- Development economics and international trade (upper-division and graduate)
- Panel data econometrics and quantitative methods