Teaching

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

Visiting Positions

• Since 01/2017: Visiting Lecturer, University of Western Cape, South Africa
• Since 08/2017: Official Visiting Research Fellow, Faculty of Economics and Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK
  

Fields of Expertise

• Environmental and Energy Economics
• Network Economics
• Institutional Economics
• Rentier State Theory
• Applied Econometrics
• Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory
• Bioeconomics

Education

Ph.D. Ruhr-Universität Bochum (summa cum laude)
Diplom-Ökonom Ruhr-Universität Bochum
B.A. in General Economics State Economic University Baku (with "red diploma")

Publications

• (2017) Intersectoral Elasticity Model and Elite Dynamics in the Petroleum Exporting MENA-States, Conference Paper, Oxford Department of International Development, Oxford (upcoming)
• (2017) Nonrenewable Resource Rents and Tax Base Erosion in the Labor Surplus Economies, together with Wilhelm Löwenstein, EADI Nordic 2017 Conference Proceedings, Bergen
• (2017) A Note on the Asymmetric Hubbertian Revenue Distribution and Rent-Seeking Incentive, together with Wilhelm Löwenstein, EAERE 23rd Annual Conference Materials, Athens
• (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: Возрождение XXI Век (Scientific Journal of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan), Baku
• (2000) Oil Strategy of Azerbaijan and Socio-Economic Development Problems, in: Neft və Azərbaycanın sosial-iqtisadi inkişaf problemləri, Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Mars Print, Baku

Memberships

• American Economic Association
• European and French Associations for Environmental and Resource Economics
• European Society for the History of Economic Thought
• The International Society of Dynamic Games
• International Input-Output Association
• International Political Economy Society
• World Economics Association

Mentoring

• 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) Rural electrification in Agricultural growth: A case study of the National Rural Electrification Program in Uganda 
• 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.

• Murache, Adrian (2015/2016) Investment Environment and Business Opporunities for Moldovan Migrants – Investment Hindrances and Their Remedies through Implementation of the Program on Attracting Remittances into the Economy (PARE 1+1).

• Mqnobi, Njoko (2015/2016) Access to post-secondary education information and its impact on student of rural origin's access to higher education: A case of two Schools in Ntabamhlophe, KwaZulu-Natal.

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

• Siphatise, Dyongo (2015) The Impact of the Mining Sector on the Civil Society in Mali.

• 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.

• Devirkyan, Rubina (2014): Impact of Participation on Rural Development in Armenia.

• 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).

• Jafr, Sirvan (2014): Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Inflow to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

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

• Ghebrezghabiher, Solomon (2012): Overlapping Membership and Intra-Regional Trade: A Case Study of COMESA and ECOWAS.

• Kausya, Leonard Kwinga (2012): Governance Structure and Public Policy Effectiveness: The Case of Black Economic Empowerment Enterprise Development Policy in Cape Town, South Africa.

Journal Refereeing

• The Energy Journal
• Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy
• Journal of Economics and Management 
• International Journal of the Commons
• Forest Policy and Economics
• Journal of Global Resources