Amin Zokaei Ashtiani PhD

Amin Zokaei Ashtiani

Dubai Campus
Teaching Fellow in Business and Economics (Birmingham International Academy)

Contact details

Telephone
050 147 6713
Email
a.zokaeiashtiani@bham.ac.uk

Qualifications

Amin obtained his Bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, followed by a Master's degree in Mathematical Methods in Economics and Finance from Pantheon Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He earned his PhD in Economics from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. Additionally, he completed a postdoctoral research position at the University of Trier in Germany.

Biography

Amin earned his PhD in economics in 2017 from LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy. Following that, he served as an Adjunct Professor at LUISS before joining the University of Birmingham Dubai in November 2023. His research focuses on the fields of behavioral and experimental economics/finance, cultural economics, and applied microeconometrics.

Research

Behavioral and experimental economics/finance, cultural economics, and applied microeconometrics.

Publications

  • Nudging against panic selling: Making use of the IKEA effect, with Marc Oliver Rieger and David Stutz, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 2021.
  • Happy Savers and Happy Spenders: An Experimental Study Comparing US Americans and Germans, with Marc Oliver Rieger and Thomas Dudek, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2020.
  • Anticipatory feelings in intertemporal choice on consumption: a dynamic experiment, with Daniela Di Cagno and Francesco Farina, Psychology Research and Applications, 2019.