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Mohammad Reza Farzanegan received his BA degree in theoretical economics in 1999 from Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran. He successfully defended his Master thesis entitled "The Role of Iran in the Caspian Energy Resources" with distinction at the University of Tehran in 2002. The results of his Master thesis were published in the Oil & Gas Journal (2003). During his Master studies, Mohammad Farzanegan was also employed by the Ports & Shipping Organization (PSO) of Iran and implemented several projects at the Transit & Special Economic Zones General Directorate. Thereupon he worked as a researcher at the Capital Market Research Department of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). From 2006-2009 his PhD study at Technische Universität Dresden was mainly focused on the examination of political economy of Iran. His PhD dissertation entitled "Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation" was graded with "summa cum laude" and awarded the Dr. Feldbausch Preis "Best Dissertation" in 2009. The findings of his PhD dissertation were published in "Energy Economics" and the "European Journal of Political Economy". Since November 2009, Mohammad Farzanegan has been working as a researcher in the Research Department "Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management" at ZEW.
In 2010, Mohammad Farzanegan was awarded the Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 24 months. His Post-Doc project will be carried out from May 2010 as a cooperation between the Dresden University of Technology and ZEW.
Dr. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan is research fellow at ZEW. He works in close cooperation with the research unit "Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management".
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza and Gunther Markwardt (2009), The effects of oil price shocks on the Iranian economy, Energy Economics 31, 134-151.
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (2009), Illegal trade in the Iranian economy: evidence from structural equation model, European Journal of Political Economy 25, 489-507 .
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (2003), Iranian options most economically viable for exporting Caspian Sea Oil, Oil & Gas Journal 101, 22-26. Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (2009), Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation, Qucosa , Dresden. Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (2009), Macroeconomic of populism in Iran, 15546, Munich . Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza and Friedrich Schneider (2009), Factionalism, oil and economic growth in Iran: where is the curse?, Magdeburg. Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza and Andreas Buehn (2008), Smuggling around the World: Evidence from a Structural Equation Model, GRAZ. Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza, Rodrigo Herrera and Alexander Karmanm (2008), Tail dependence in a Multivariate Regular Variation framework: A Note on Financial Contagion from Russia to Latin America, Dresden. Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (2008), Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from a Structural Model, 2397, Munich . Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (2008), Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from a Structural Model, 409, Cairo. Download
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza and Gunther Markwardt (2008), The effects of oil price shocks on the Iranian economy: applying a VAR model, 15/08, Dresden. Download
Doctorate for "Dr. rer. pol." (7.2009),
Technische Universität Dresden,
Political Economy of Natural Resources and Governance in Iran: An Empirical Investigation,
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2010: Postdoctoral lecture qualification,
Post-Doc Fellowship,
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bonn,
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/home.html
2009: Dissertationspreis,
Preis für herausragende wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Abschlussarbeiten von Studenten und jungen Wissenschaftlern,
Technische Universität Dresden,
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2005: DAAD Scholarship,
DEUTSCHE SPRACHE UND PROMOTION,
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Bonn,
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2010: The effects of the shadow economy on the environment: an empirical investigation,
Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society,
Izmir, Turkey,
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2010: Education spending and productivity in Iran: where have all the education expenditures gone?,
Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society,
Izmir, Turkey
2009: “Factionalism, oil, and economic growth in Iran: where is the curse?”,
Vereins für Socialpolitik: Klimaschutz - Stand und Perspektiven,
Magdeburg, Germany,
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2009: Democracy, oil and economic growth in Iran: where is the curse?”,
Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society,
Athens, Greece,
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2009: Illegal trade in Iran: evidence of structural equation modelling,
8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of the MIDDLE EAST ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (MEEA),
Nice, France,
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2008: Smuggling around the world: evidence from structural modelling,
JAHRESTAGUNG 2008 des VEREINS FÜR SOCIALPOLITIK,
Graz, Austria,
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2008: Illegal trade in Iran: evidence of structural equation modelling,
CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2008,
Venice , Italy,
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2008: The effects of oil price shocks on the Iranian economy,
The International Conference on Policy Modelling, EcoMod2008,
Berlin, Germany,
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2008: The effects of oil price shocks on the Iranian economy,
The 31st IAEE International Conference, Bridging Energy Supply and Demand: Logistics, Competition and Environment,
Istanbul, Turkey,
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2008: Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from structural modelling,
The Annual Public Choice Society Meeting,
Jena, Germany,
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2007: Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from structural modelling,
ERF 14th Annual Conference - Institutions and Economics Development,
Cairo, Egypt,
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2007: The Illegal Trade in Iran: A MIMIC Approach,
International workshop on the Economics of Corruption,
Passau, Germany,
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2007: The Illegal Trade in Iran: a MIMIC Approach,
007 Labsi International Conference on Political Economy and Public Choice: Theory and Experiments,
Siena , Italy,
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2006: The effects of Ahmadinejad Populist Policy on the Political Economy of Iran,
13th International DAVO Congress,
Hamburg, Germany,
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2006: The effects of oil price shocks on the Iranian Economy,
11th IIES International Oil and Gas Forum; New Developments in World Oil & Gas: Challenges & Opportunities,
Teheran, Iran,
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2006: Oil Rents, Underground Economy and Natural Resources in Iran,
International workshop on the Economics of Corruption,
Passau, Germany,
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12.2009: Journal "Environmental and resource economics"
08.2009: Journal "Emerging Markets Finance and Trade"
2010 - 2011: European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Venice, IT
2008 - until now: German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik), Frankfurt am Main
2006 - until now: German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), Mainz