Academic Affiliations

• 09/2017-09/2018: Official Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK
• Since 01/2017:     Visiting Lecturer, University of Western Cape, South Africa

Fields of Expertise

• Environmental and Energy Economics
• Institutional Economics
• Differential Game Theory
• Applied Econometrics
• Economics of Terrorism
• Bioeconomics

Education

2015 Ph.D. Ruhr-Universität Bochum (summa cum laude)
2007 Diplom-Ökonom Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2004 Intermediate Diploma (Diplom-Vorprüfung) Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2,4 gut)
2002 B.A. in General Economics UNEC (with "red diploma")

Publications

• (2018) Determinants of Public Debt in the Developing Countries: A Cross-Country Analysis (under review)
• (2018) A Note on Revenue Distribution Patterns and Rent Seeking IncentiveInternational Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 8(2): 196-204, together with Wilhelm Löwenstein
• (2018) Privatization and the Role of Sub-National Governments in the Latin American Power Sector: A Plea for Less Subsidiarity? International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 8(1): 95-103, together with Wilhelm Löwenstein and Mattia Ferrari
• (2017) Autocratic Bargaining and the Speed of Structural Change in the Petroleum Exporting Labour-Surplus Economies (under review)
• (2017) Intersectoral Elasticity Model and Elite Dynamics in the Petroleum Exporting MENA-States, together with Wilhelm Löwenstein, Oxford University, Department of International Development
• (2016) Oil Abundance and Economic Growth, Monograph, Logos Verlag, Berlin
• (2014) Metaheuristiken in der Modernen Ökonomie, Monograph, Westdeutscher Universitätsverlag, Bochum
• (2006) Die Regionalen Interessen im Nordirak im Rahmen der politischen Neugestaltung des Landes, ZfT-Aktuell 116, Essen
• (2005) Iran im System der Internationalen Beziehungen: Aspekte der Regionalen Sicherheit, ZfT-Aktuell 109, Essen
• (2004) Türkisch-aserbaidschanische Handelsbeziehungen: Ein Zeichen der politischen Entfernung?, ZfT-Aktuell 101, Essen
• (2001) Cyclical Development of Economy, Monograph, Elm Press, Baku
• (2001) Cyclical Development of Economic Systems and Perspectives of Global Capitalism (in Russian), in: Возрождение XXI Век 3(37): 91-102, (Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan), Baku
• (2000) Oil Strategy of Azerbaijan and Socio-Economic Development Problems, in: Neft və Azərbaycanın sosial-iqtisadi inkişaf problemləri, National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Mars Print, Baku

Selected Presentations

Autocratic Bargaining and the Speed of the Structural Change in the Resource Abundant Labour Surplus Economies, ECOMOD 2018, Venice, France.

Asymmetric Hubbertian Revenue Distribution and Rent-Seeking Incentive, Managing resources:theory session, Environmental Economics: A Focus on Natural Resources Conference, 5-6.04.2018, Orléans, France

Embedding Political Bargaining in the Dual Economy Model of the Structural Change, Energy transition and structural change session, Environmental Economics: A Focus on Natural Resources Conference, 5-6.04.2018, Orléans, France

Is Waste-to-Energy an Effective Strategy to Increase the Resource Efficiency of the Economy? A Panel Data Approach to Circular Economy in the EU, AIQUAV CONFERENZA 2017 "Qualità della vita e Sostenibilità” 30. November - 2. December 2017, Florence, Italy

EU Action on Nutrition and its Doscontents (Poster Presentation), 3rd International Conference on Global Food Security, 3-6. December 2017, Cape Town, South Africa

Intersectoral Elasticity Model and Elite Dynamics in the Petroleum-Exporting MENA-States, Workshop New Political Economy Perspektives of the Middle East, 27.10.2017, Oxford Department of International Development, Oxford, UK

A Model of the Decaying Rentier State, Annual Conference of French Environmental and Resource Economists, 12-14.09.2017, Nancy, France

Nonrenewable Resource Rents and Tax Base Erosion in the Labor Surplus Economies, Annual EADI Conference, 20-22.08.2017, Bergen, Norway

Hubbertian Revenue Distribution and a Dynamic Model of the Rent-Seeking Incentive, Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Energy Economists, 29.06-02.07.2017, Athens, Greece

Hotelling Rule for the Low and High Income Countries and Differences in their Resource Depletion Strategies, 5-6. September 2016, 5th International PhD Conference on International Development, University of East Anglia, UK

Hotelling Rule Revisited: Inferior Institutional Setting as A Pleading for Conservation? DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15466.82888

Revenue Management and the Impact of the Resource-Abundance on Economic Development, 20.01.2014, African Mining Academy, Yaounde, Cameroon

Azerbaijan's Experience in Oil Contract Negotiations and Revenue Management, 21.01.2014, African Mining Academy, Yaounde, Cameroon

Caspian Oil Game and National Interests, 21.01.2001, International Economics Conference, Tbilisi State University, Georgia

Teaching

• Advanced Statistical Methods (PHD IDS, with SPSS and STATA)
• Current Topics in Development Policies (Faculty of Management and Economics)
• Tutorial Growth and Development Economics (Faculty of Management and Economics)
• Übung Grundlagen Entwicklungspolitik (Faculty of Management and Economics)
• Statistical Methods of Empirical Social Research (MADM)
• Methods of Empirical Social Research: How to Conduct a Field Survey (MADM)

Memberships

• Cambridge Energy Research Group
• European and French Associations for Environmental and Resource Economics
• The International Society of Dynamic Games
• International Input-Output Association
• International Political Economy Society
• World Economics Association

Journal Refereeing

Supervision

• Weifenbach, Hannah (2018) The Impact of Political Instability on Economic Growth
• Zacharias, Lara (2017) An Analysis of Time Required for Equilibrating Adjustment in the Neoclassical Growth Models
• Henke, Johannes (2007) Entwicklungshemmnisse in rohstoffreichen Staaten am Beispiel Äquatorialguineas
• Blick, Nuwe (2017/18) Rural electrification in Agricultural growth: A case study of the National Rural Electrification Program in Uganda 
• Alkurish, Hashem (2017/2018) The determinants of the financing structure. Case Study: The listed SMEs on the Nile Stock Exchange in Egypt
• Ferrari, Mattia (2016/2017) Privatization in Network Industries: Access and Poverty.
• Ehsan, Sadiq (2015/2016) Determinants of the Development of Oil Industry in Shebarghan Province of Afghanistan.

• Sharipova, Gulshod (2014/15) Evaluation of the Poverty Reduction Programme in the National Development Strategy of Tajikistan.

• Asadov, Sardar (2015) Oil Abundance and Poverty Reduction in Azerbaijan.

• Buschke, Hanna (2014): Social Remittances of Ghanian Migrants. A Study of How the Value Shift of Migrants Influences the Development of Ghana.

• Herrera Leon, Diana (2014): Social Capital, Income Inequality and the Level of Income and Their Relationship with Violence in Urban Areas in El Salvador. Case Study: Temporary Income Support Program (PATI).

• Noor, Tani (2013): Developmental Cooperation of Afghanistan in the Field of Export Promotion.