Sepideh Raei
Associate Professor
Department(s):- Economics and Finance

Contact Information
Eccles Business Building 606435.797.2321
sepideh.raei@usu.edu
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, Economics, Arizona State University, 2018
MA, Economics, Simon Fraser University, 2013
MBA, Sharif University, 2011
Biography
Dr. Sepideh Raei is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Coming from the valley of fire, Sepideh earned her PhD from Arizona State University in May 2018. She earned her Master in Economics in 2013 from Simon Fraser University and her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Iran. Her research interests lie in the field of Macroeconomics and Public Finance. She teaches introduction to economic institutions, history, and policies.
Journal Articles
Academic Journal
- Qi, S., Raei, S., (2025). Legal forms and regulatory responses: a comparative analysis of S and C corporation community banks. Economics of Governance, 26:4, 559-590.
- Beladi, H., Marjit, S., Oladi, R., Raei, S., (2025). Vertical specialization, global expansion of supply chain, and convergence. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 29
- Feigenbaum, J., Findley, T.S, Raei, S., (2025). Intergenerational Transfers in a Tractable Overlapping- Generations Setting. Mathematics, 13:23, 3769.
- Bilicka, K., Raei, S., (2024). Business Legal Status and New Firm Performance: Evidence from Kauffman Firm Survey. FinanzArchiv, 80:1, 129-163.
- Xing, J., Bilicka, K., Hou, X., Raei, S., (2024). How distortive are turnover taxes? Evidence from China. Journal of Development Economics, 171, 103332.
- Feigenbaum, J., Raei, S., (2024). How the Future Shapes Consumption with Time-Inconsistent Preferences. The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 24:1, 341-397.
- Raei, S., Bilicka, K., (2023). Output Distortion and Choice of Legal Forms of Organization. Economic Modeling, 119:106159
- Raei, S., (2020). Gradual tax reforms: If you like it, you can keep it. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 111, 103793.
Professional Journal
- Raei, S., Feigenbaum, J., (2023). Lifecycle Consumption and Welfare with Nonexponential Discounting in Continuous Time. Journal of Mathematical Economics, 107
Technical Reports
AES Reports
- Xing, J., Bilicka, K., Hou, X., Raei, S., (2022). How Distortive are Turnover Taxes? Evidence from Replacing Turnover Tax with VAT. National Bureau of Economic Research *
An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.
Teaching
ECN 4020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2026
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles (BAI), Spring 2026
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles (BAI), Fall 2025
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles (BAI), Fall 2025
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles (BAI), Fall 2025
ECN 4020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Fall 2024
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles (BAI), Fall 2024
, Spring 2024
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History and Principles, Spring 2024
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History and Principles, Spring 2024
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Spring 2024
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Spring 2024
, Fall 2023
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2023
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2023
USU 1010 - University Connections, Fall 2023
ECN 4020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2023
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Spring 2023
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2022
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2022
ECN 4020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2022
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Spring 2022
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2021
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2021
ECN 4020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Spring 2021
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Spring 2021
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2020
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2020
ECN 4020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics, Fall 2019
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2019
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Spring 2019
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Spring 2019
ECN 1500 - Introduction to Economic Institutions, History, and Principles, Fall 2018
