Education


  • 2019- Present PhD candidate, Economics, Universidad Carlos III
  • 2017 - 2019 MRes, Economic Analysis, Universidad Carlos III
  • 2011 - 2014 MA, Economics, University of Tehran
  • 2007 - 2011 BSc, Economics, Semnan University

 

Research experience


  • 2020-2021: Research Assistant for Romanos Priftis (ECB) and Raphael Schoenle (Brandeis University) in a project on "Optimal Corporate Debt Policy by the Central Bank".
  • 2021-2022: Research Assistant for Jochen Mankart (Deutsche Bundesbank), Romanos Priftis (ECB), and Rigas Oikonomou (UC Louvain) in a project on "The Long and Short of Financing Government Spending".

 

Working Papers


  • 2022: The Sentimental Propagation of Lottery Winnings: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (with Evi Pappa and Isabel Mico-Millan).
  • 2021: Who is Afraid of Sanctions? The Macroeconomic and Distributional Effects of the Sanctions Against Iran. "forthcoming Economics & Politics.

 

Work in Progress


  • 2022: Monetary Policy and Firms R&D Investment Decision.
  • 2020: Government Infrastructural Investment Shocks in the EU.

 

Teaching


  • Academic Year 2020 - 2021
    Teaching assistant of Microeconomic Theory (B.S.) Univesidad Carlos III
  • Academic Year 2019 - 2020
    Teaching assistant of Empirical Industrial Organization (M.S.), Microeconomics II (M.S.), Microeconomic Theory (B.S.), Public Economics (B.S.). Univesidad Carlos III- Awarded for Excellence in Teaching
  • Academic Year 2018 - 2019
    Teaching assistant of Empirical Industrial Organization (M.S.), Microeconomics II (M.S.), Microeconomic Theory (B.S.) Univesidad Carlos III- Awarded for Excellence in Teaching

 

Honors and awards


  • 2019–2022 FPI Scholarship (FormaciÃşn de Personal Investigador) by the Spanish Government
  • 2017–2019 Economics Department’s Scholarship in Universidad Carlos III
  • 2011 Ranked 5th in the Nationwide University Entrance Exam for MSc in Economics among more than 12,000 participants in Iran
  • 2011 Ranked 1st among all students in BSc economic program of Semnan University
  • 2010 Dean’s Undergraduate Award Presented by President of the Faculty of Economics and Management, Semnan University

 

Fields of Interest


  • Macroeconomics, Monetary and Fiscal policies, Applied Economics

 

Language proficiency


  • Persian-native
  • English-fluent
  • Spanish-Intermediate
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