Department of Economics

Training outstanding experts in theoretical and applied economics is the main concern of our Doctoral program which was established in 2007. The graduates’ capabilities will help produce knowledge, educate specialists for training others and be able to take over academic and executive positions at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and other universities, institutions of higher education, scientific and research institutions, and highly ranked governmental positions in the Khorasan Razavi Province. The graduates are also expected to be able to analyze problems, acknowledge issues and realize the reasons behind economic problems and issues and provide suitable solutions.
These programs mainly concentrate on: Business Economics, Pure Economics, Economic Development, and Economics of Energy.
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Head of the Department of Economics
Mahdi Khodaparast Mashhadi Mahdi Khodaparst Mashhadi
Associate Professor
Department of Economics
m_khodaparast@um.ac.ir
+985138806348

Concentration areas offered by the Department of Economics
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Academic staff

Mohammad Taher Ahmadi Shadmehri
Associate Professor
Mehdi Behname
Assistant Professor
Ali Cheshomi
Assistant Professor
Taghi Ebrahimi Salari
Assistant Professor
Hadi Esmaeilpour Moghadm
Assistant Professor
Mohammad Ali Falahi
Professor
Mehdi Feizi
Assistant Professor
Masuod Homayounifar
Associate Professor
Mahmood Hoshmand
Professor
Mohammad Hossein Hossein Zadeh Bahreini
Assistant Professor
Mostafa Karimzadeh
Assistant Professor
Mahdi Khodaparast Mashhadi
Associate Professor
Mohammad Reza Lotfalipour
Professor
Mohammod Hossin Mahdavi Adeli
Professor
Seyed Saeed Malek Sadati
Assistant Professor
Ali Akbar Naji Meidani
Associate Professor
Hadi Qavami
Assistant Professor
Seyed Mohammad Javad Razmi
Associate Professor
Narges Salehnia
Assistant Professor
Mostafa Salimifar
Professor
Ahmad Seifi
Associate Professor
Hassan Tahsili
Assistant Professor
 

Research

Recent journal articles

Zareei, A., Karimzadeh, M., Shabani Koshalshahi, Z., & Ranjbarian, Z. (2022). External Debt and Exchange Rate Fluctuations in Iran: Markov Switching Approach. Iranian Economic Review, 26 (3), 577-594.
Seyedeh Fatemeh Razmi, Leila Torki, Razmi, S., & Ehsan Mohaghegh Dowlatabadi (2022). The Indirect Effects of Oil Price on Consumption Through Assets. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 12 (1), 236-242.
Ebrahimi Salari, T., Naji Meidani, A., Shabani Koshalshahi, Z., & Ajori, A. (2022). The threshold effect of HDI on the relationship between financial development and oil revenues. Resources Policy, 76 (102537), 1-10.
Salehnia, N., Karimi Alavijeh, N., & Hamidi, M. (2022). Analyzing the impact of energy consumption, the democratic process, and government service delivery on life expectancy: evidence from a global sample. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29 (24), 36967-36984.
Pakdin, J., Sabahi, A., & Salehnia, N. (2022). Review on the Impact of Fiscal and Monetary Policies on Economic Growth in Iran Focusing on Financial Sector Stress. Journal of Xi an Shiyou University, Natural Sciences Edition, 18 (2), 179-193.
Kazemzadeh, E., Ahmadi Shadmehri, M., Ebrahimi Salari, T., Salehnia, N., & Pooya, A. (2022). Oil price shocks on shale oil supply and energy security: a case study of the United States. International Journal of Development Issues, 21 (2), 249-270.
Meyghani, S., Khodaparast Mashhadi, M., & Salehnia, N. (2022). Long-term effects of temperature and precipitation on economic growth of selected MENA region countries. Environment Development and Sustainability, 25 (7), 7325-7343.
Shima Amini, Alireza Rezvani, Mohsen Tabassi, & Malek Sadati, S. (2022). Causes of cost overruns in building construction projects in Asian countries; Iran as a case study. Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 30 (7), 2739-2766.
Shojaeenia, M., Salehnia, N., & Malek Sadati, S. (2022). Clean to dirty energy consumption ratio, institutional quality, and welfare; an inter-continental panel quantile analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 364 (), 132703-132730.
Karimi Alavijeh, N., Nasrin Salehnia, Salehnia, N., & Matheus Koengkan (2022). The effects of agricultural development on CO2 emissions: empirical evidence from the most populous developing countries. Environment Development and Sustainability, 25 (10), 12011-12031.
Lotfalipour, M., Falahi, M., Zareei, A., & Anna Matuszczak (2022). How Good Governance (GG) Affects Diaspora Motivations for Remittances to Iran. Diaspora Studies, 15 (4), 329-355.
Riahifar, A., Tareghian, H., Salehnia, N., Tomas Tichy, & Mahdi Bastani (2022). Modelling OPEC profit based on economics and political variables. Energy Systems, (), -.
Rouhani, A., Rajabi Mashhadi, H., & Feizi, M. (2022). Estimating the Short-term Price Elasticity of Residential Electricity Demand in Iran. International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, 2022 (1), 1-8.
Lotfalipour, M. (2022). Governance in Electricity Regulatory Frameworks: A Comparative Assessment. , 1 (1), 60-72.
Lotfalipour, M., Sargolzaie, A., & Salehnia, N. (2022). Natural resources: A curse on welfare?. Resources Policy, 79 (12), 103056-103069.
Kazemzadeh, E., Jose Alberto Fuinhas, Salehnia, N., Matheus Koengkan, Masoud Shirazi, & Osmani, F. (2022). Factors driving CO2 emissions: the role of energy transition and brain drain. Environment Development and Sustainability, (), -.
Feizi, M. (2022). The object allocation problem with favoring upper ranks. International Journal of Economic Theory, 19 (2), 370-383.
Ramezanian, R., & Feizi, M. (2022). Robust ex-post Pareto efficiency and fairness in random assignments: Two impossibility results. Games and Economic Behavior, 135 (), 356-367.
Osmani, F., Homayounifar, M., & Gorjipour, M. (2022). Do export quality, urbanization and fertility rate affect the ecological footprint? Case study: A panel of developing countries. Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment, 2022 (1), 51-67.
Ramezani, F., Abrishami, S., & Feizi, M. (2022). A Market-based Framework for Resource Management in Cloud Federation. Journal of Grid Computing, 21 (1), -.
Qavami, H. (2022). Comparison of the Effect of Value Added Tax and Direct Taxes on Iran s Economic Growth. Journal of Business and Economic Policy, 9 (4), 51-61.

Recent theses and dissertations

Mohammadi, M. (2022). Investigation of Effects of Monetary Shock on Output and Inflation Variables in Afghanistan: Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Approach. , ( Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Shiezadehyazdi, V. (2022). Investigating the effect of trade openness on renewable energy consumption in selected OPEC member countries. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Zamani, A. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Good Governance Index via Tourism Industry on Energy Consumption in the Selected Developing Countries: Quantile Regression Approach. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Momeni, F. (2022). Modeling Integrated Environmentally Sustainable Economic Development of Water- Energy -Food in Iran -Grounded Theory Approach. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Jalali, M. (2022). Investigation of the Impacts of Non-Oil Exports and Economic Growth on Income Inequality in Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Beiranvand, M. (2022). News-based GDP Nowcasting in Iran Using Sentiment Analysis Approach. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Zareei, A. (2022). The effects of financial and oil sanctions on labor emigration from Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Soori, N. (2022). The Relationship Between Poverty And Export Product Diversification in Iran During the Period 1983-2019. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Zafarzada, R. (2022). Economic evaluation of investment in wind and photovoltaic power plants, according to the different prices of emission reduction coupons, in order to achieve a cost-effective and reasonable price in Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Seyyed Ramezani, F. (2022). Evaluating the Effect of Economic, Climatic and Hydraulic Variables on Urban Drinking Water Consumption Based on Fuzzy Inference System -Case Study: Gonabad City. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Azimi, A. (2022). Investigating the effect of oil price uncertainty on renewable energy consumption and production (Turkey case study). , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Hosseinzade, H. (2022). The Effect of Per Capita Income and Income Inequality and Poverty on Fertility Rate In Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Akbarijahani, H. (2022). Investigating the impact of economic uncertainty index shocks on the total index of the stock market in Iran, Using internet search data. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Jalilian Mehri, S. (2022). Investigating the Effect of Unemployment Rate on Wage Gap between Private and Public Sector in the provinces of Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Khani, F. (2022). Investigating the effects of higher education structure on income distribution inequality. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Heidarzadeh Barzegar, S. (2022). The study of coronavirus outbreak -COVID-19- effects on the economic welfare index in Mashhad. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Ghoddousi, M. (2022). Investigating the effect of female labour economic participation rate and marriage rate on housing prices in urban areas of selected provinces of Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Aldubaisi, D. (2022). Future Outlook The Impact of the Corona Pandemic Uncertainty on Total Electricity Production in the United States. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Nameny, N. (2022). The estimation of construction permit s price elasticity in Mashhad from 2018 to 2020. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Shahidani, N. (2022). Investigating the Role of Human Development in the Impact of Income Inequality On Environmental Quality in Selected Countries. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Poursalim, B. (2022). Impact of Renewable Energy Development on Economic Growth: Evidence from the Panel Quantile Regression Approach for OECD Countries. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Hosseinpour, M. (2022). The effect of the outbreak of Corona on OPEC oil price. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Zarif Sang Atash Khabaz, Z. (2022). Impact of GDP and Foreign Direct Investment on the Development of Renewable Energy in MENA Countries: Panel Quantile Regression Approach. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Roudi, H. (2022). The welfare cost of unemployment: The Case of states of Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Khodadoust, Z. (2022). Cognitive mediators of scarcity and economic decision-making: A lab experiment. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Ghadimi, A. (2022). Analyzing Public Private Partnership Models in the Use of Hydro Electricity Energy Production from Water Transfer Lines Game Theory Approach. , (Doctoral dissertation of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Saifari, S. (2022). Investigati the impact of Women's Education on Poverty in Selected Countries with High, Medium and low human Development.. , (Doctoral dissertation of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Rezaeimoghaddam, N. (2022). Studying the firm financial behavior dynamics in conditions of uncertainty in a selection of Bank-Based versus Market- Based countries. , (Doctoral dissertation of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Sami, M. (2022). Investigating the impact of human development index on renewable energy consumption in Iran. , (Doctoral dissertation of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Sabzehkar, F. (2022). Investigating the impact of social capital on ecological footprint in selected OECD and non-OECD countries: Quantile panel regression approach. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Bageri, M. (2022). The impact of human development index and drought on economic growth in the provinces of Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Ataei Moghaddam, M. (2022). Investigating the main factors affecting working poors in Iran -Before and after the tightening of sanctions. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Cheshomi, M. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Unemployment risk and Inflation on the Financial Sustainability of the Social Security Fund of Iran -Considering the Pension Adequacy. , (Doctoral dissertation of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Rajabi Mashhadi, H. (2022). The study of economic and social factors affecting the survival of students between the ages of 15 up to 17. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Ali Zadeh, P. (2022). Investigating the effect of bitcoin mining on the quality of the environment in a selection of major bitcoin mining countries in the world. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Adibian, M. (2022). Investigating the effect of financial and geopolitical uncertainties on financial markets: Evidence from a TVP-SVAR-SV Model. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Mashayekhan, M. (2022). An examination of the effect of per capita income and income distribution on the crime rate in Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Rishehchi Fayyaz, M. (2022). The Impacts of Service Employment on Income Inequality in Irans Provinces. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Akbari, H. (2022). A Survey of the factors affecting the gender wage gap in the Iran s labor market before and after COVID 19. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Mir, M. (2022). Investigating the impact of economic globalization and economic complexity on environmental quality in Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Majidi, W. (2022). Investigating the effects of education and corruption perception index on CO2 emissions (case study: selected MENA countries). , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Forootan, M. (2022). Investigating obstacles to the development of electronic banking in Herat city. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Hussaini, M. (2022). Investigating the effect of human development index on corruption perception index in countries with very high, high, medium and low human development index.. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Ghalgaei, F. (2022). Studying the effect of natural resources, urbanization and environmental degradation on the human development of OPEC member countries during the period (2003 to 2021). , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Pakdel, E. (2022). Impact of human capital, foreign direct investment and environmental quality on economic growth (MENA countries). , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Saken Borji, H. (2022). An Investigating into the non-linear effect of trade openness on life expectancy in Iran's economy. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Loqmani Devin, E. (2022). Optimal strategies of social security parametric reforms in the framework of automatic balancing mechanisms -ABM-.. , (Doctoral dissertation of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Taghavi, K. (2022). The effect of climate change on household electricity demand in Mazandaran province. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Rahmni, S. (2022). Investigating the impact of physical health on the relationship between the middle-aged workforce and economic growth in Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Moayedpour, M. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Trade Liberalization and Human Capital on the Total Energy Consumption in Iran. , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.
Bagheri, A. (2022). Calculating the ecological footprints index based on shannons entropy (case study: iran , 2005-2017). , (Master's thesis of Economics). Faculty of Economics and Administrative sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad.

Contact Information

Iran, Mashhad, Azadi Square, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Economics

Phone: +985138806348

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