Areas of Interest:

• Energy Economics (e.g., political economy of natural resources)
• Development Economics (e.g., political economy of demographic transition)
• Political Economy of Sanctions
• Iran and Middle East

Education:

• Dr. rer. pol. Economics, TU Dresden, Germany, (summa cum laude), 2009
• M.Sc., Energy Economics and Marketing, University of Tehran, 2002
• BA, Theoretical Economics, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, 1999

Experience:

• Professor and Chair of Economics of the Middle East Research Group, Marburg University, 2012-present
• Postdoctoral Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt, TU Dresden & ZEW Mannheim, May 2010-May 2012
• Researcher, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management, ZEW Mannheim, Nov.2009 –May 2010

Latest Publications:

• Farzanegan, M.R., Alaedini, P., Azizimehr, K., Habibpour, M., 2021. Effect of Oil Revenues on Size and Income of Iranian Middle Class. Middle East Development Journal. (in press).
• Farzanegan, M.R., Feizi, M., Gholipour, H.F., 2020. Drought and Property Prices: Empirical Evidence from Provinces of Iran. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change. (in press). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41885-020-00081-0
• Farzanegan, M.R., 2020. Ageing Society and SARS-CoV-2 Mortality: Does the Healthcare Absorptive Capacity Matter? Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (11), 277.
• Farzanegan, M.R., 2020. The Economic Cost of the Islamic Revolution and War for Iran: Synthetic Counterfactual Evidence. Defence and Peace Economics. (in press). https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2020.1825314
• Ishak, P.W., Farzanegan, M.R., 2020. The Impact of Declining Oil Rents on Tax Revenues: Does the Shadow Economy Matter? Energy Economics, 92 (in press). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104925