Areas of Interest:

• Public Economics
• Development Economics
• Environmental and Resource Economics
• Taxation

Education:

• Ph.D. Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK, 2010 – 2014
• M.Res. Economics (with Distinction), LSE, London, UK, 2008 – 2010
• M.Sc. Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2005 – 2008

Experience:

• Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2023 – Present
• Assistant professor, Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2014 – 2023
• Lecturer, Microeconomics II (for PhD and MSc Economics) and Development Economics (for MSc Economics), Sharif University of Technology, Winter, 2015
• Lecturer, Microeconomics I and Econometrics I – MSc Economics courses, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2014

Latest Publications:

• “Large-scale Affordable Housing Construction and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Iran”, joint with Saeed Tajrishy, 2023, Journal of Economic Geography , 2023.
• “The Double Dividend of a Joint Tariff and VAT Reform: Evidence from Iran”, joint with K. Yousefi, World Bank Economic Review, 37(2), 331-349, 2023.
• “What do one hundred million transactions tell us about demand elasticity of gasoline?”, joint with A.H. Tavakoli and M.H. Rahmati, Empirical Economics, 62, 2021.