Prof. Dr. Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

Mohammad Reza Farzanegan is a Professor in Economics of the Middle East (since 2012) at the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) & School of Business and Economics of Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. He is the coordinating professor for international master study program of Economics of the Middle East in Marburg. He is an ERF Research Fellow (Cairo), and CESifo Research Network Fellow (Munich). His main areas of research are political economy, development economics, energy economics, and empirical institutional economics. His research has been published in edited volumes and international journals. Farzanegan has been the project leader in different international projects such as NAREM - Political Economy of Natural Resource Management (2016-2018); NaDiMa - Socio-Economic, Cultural and Technical Aspects of Natural Disaster Management (2020) and DEBEC - Drivers and Socio-Economic, Behavioural Effects of Climate Change in Iran: The Case of Water Resources Management (2020-2022) funded by DAAD/AA/BMBF.

Farzanegan gained his PhD in Economics from the Technische Universität Dresden with the research grant of DAAD (2006-09). He received Georg Forster Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for his project at ZEW Mannheim & TU Dresden (2010-12). He obtained his MSc degree in Energy Economics & Marketing from University of Tehran (2000-03) and his BA in Theoretical Economics from Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran (1995-1999).

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Research Interests and Expertise:
• Political Economy of the Middle East
• Energy Economics
• Political Economy of Oil Rents, Climate Change, Sanctions and Conflict
• Public Finance: Shadow Economy and Economics of Corruption
• Demographic Transition, Political Institutions and Economic Development
• Economics of Happiness
• Country Focus: Iran