Dr. oec. ARASH MOLAVI VASSÉI arash.molavi.vassei@uni-hohenheim.de EDUCATION Doctor oeconomiae (Dr. oec.), History of Economics and Economic Theory, Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, Grade: 1,0 (magna cum laude), August 2006 - July 2012. Thesis: Essays on the History of Dynamic Economic Analysis; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Hagemann. Diplom-Ökonom (M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; Specialization: Economics, Grade: 1.6, October 1999 - April 2006. Thesis: Value in Disequilibrium - The Impact of Reality on Economic Theory; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Spahn Abitur (A-levels), Max-Planck Gymnasium, Düsseldorf, Germany; Grade: 2.0, August 1990 - June 1999. ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE HONOURS Scientific Assistant, (Postdoc) Chair for Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, since October 2015. Scientific Assistant, Chair for Economic Theory, Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2006 - September 2015 (Postdoc since 2012). Scientific Assistant, Chair for Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, August 2006 - October 2008. Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences, Business Department, esp. International Business and Service Management, Stuttgart, Germany, continuously since 2008. Lecturer, International Business School Tuttlingen, MBA program Medical Devices and Healthcare Management, Tuttlingen, Germany, since 2013. Internship, Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.v. (German Association of Private Banks), Liaison Office in Brussels, Belgium, September 2011 - December 2012. Internship, CATO Institute, Washington D.C., USA, September 2004 - January 2005. Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Award by the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics (SDAE), 2009; Paper: Static Tools for Dynamic Analysis - Ludwig von Mises s Business Cycle Theory. Co-winner of the Young Scholar Ph.D. Paper Competition promoted by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), 2007; Paper: History and Equilibrium as a Perfect Match - Austrian Economics and the neo-walrasian Paradigm. Selection for The Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Program by the History of Economics Society (HES), 2007; Paper: An Austrian Perspective on the Monetary Economy - A Critical Assessment of Contemporary Macroeconomics. ERASMUS Scholarship, semester abroad at Lund University, economics program, Lund, Sweden,
Arash Molavi Vasséi Page 2 Autumn term 2002/03. Qualification for the 31. ISC Wings of Excellence Award (by Bertelsmann AG & Swiss Reinsurance Company): University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2001; Topic: New Balance of Power, Paper: The Decentralization of Power and Individual Liberty. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Research Interests Economic Theory, esp. Growth and Capital Theory; Financial Economics, esp. Market Selection Analysis; Macroeconomics. History of Economics, esp. History of Recent Economics; History of Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis; Classical and Neoclassical Theories of Capital and Interest; Scottish Political Economy; History of Monetary Economics. Teaching Interests Undergraduate-level: Growth Economics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Money and Banking, History of Economics, International Trade. Graduate-level: Growth Economics, Capital Theory, Monetary Economics, General Equilibrium Analysis, Financial Economics, History of Economics. PUBLICATIONS & JOURNAL PEER-REVIEW ACTIVITIES Publication in refereed journal: Recursive Utility, Increasing Impatience and Capital Deepening: F. A. Hayek s Utility Analysis and Interest, in: European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 22(6), Nov 2015 (forthcoming). Chapters in books: Monetarism, in: Kurz, H. D., Faccarello, G. (eds.), Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis, Edward Elgar, forthcoming. Robert E. Lucas, in: Kurz, H. D., Faccarello, G. (eds.), Handbook of the History of Economic Analysis, Edward Elgar, forthcoming. Static Tools for Dynamic Analysis: Ludwig von Mises Business Cycle Theory, in: Hagemann, H., Nishizawa, T., Ikeda, Y. (eds.), Austrian Economics in Transition: From Carl Menger to Friedrich Hayek, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2010. Working papers: A Two-Sector Model of Monetarism, History of Economics ejournal (SSRN Working Paper Series), 10(8), Feb 2015. The Past and Present of the Invisible-Hand Proposition: From Scottish Political Economy to Axiomatic General Equilibrium Analysis, History of Economics ejournal (SSRN Working Paper Series), 7(18), June 2012. The Foundation of Ludwig von Mises s Business Cycle Theory: Real Analysis as a Chain of Tautologies, History of Economics ejournal (SSRN Working Paper Series), 7(19), June 2012. Monograph: Molavi Vasséi, A., Essays on the History of Dynamic Economic Analysis, Dissertation(e-book), OPUS, 2013, URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-8658. Popular publications/press: Atomaustieg - sofort? (Nuclear Exit - immediately?), agora 42 - Zeitschrift für Ökonomie, Philosophie und Leben, Heft 9-10/2010. Privateigentum: Für eine Gesellschaft auf Autopilot (Private Property: for a society on autopilot), agora 42 - Zeitschrift für Ökonomie, Philosophie und Leben, Heft 7-8/2010.
Arash Molavi Vasséi Page 3 Liebeserklärung an die Theorie der Finanzmärkte(Love Declaration for the Theory of Financial Markets), with Felix Geiger, agora 42 - Zeitschrift für Ökonomie, Philosophie und Leben, Heft 7-8/2010. Referee Reports for: Credit and Capital Markets (Kredit und Kapital), Duncker & Humblodt, History of Economic Ideas, Fabrizio Serra, The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer. CONFERENCES & RESEARCH WORKSHOPS Interest Rate Controversies: The Role of Time Preference in Economic Analysis, 19th ESHET Annual Conference, Great Controversies in Economics, Roma Tre University, Rome, May 2015 (accepted for presentation). Why the Austrian Business Cycle Theory Can t Explain the Financial Crisis, 1st Witten Conference on Institutional Change, Money, Crisis & Banking - An Austrian Economics Perspective, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany, Dec 2014 (invited for presentation). The Bundesbank and the European Central Bank: The Eurozone and Japanese Decades to Come, Annual Hayek Days (Hayek-Tage) on the invitation of the German Hayek Society, Freiburg, Germany, June 2014 (invited for presentation). Increasing Pure Time Preference and Optimal Capital Deepening: A Rational Reconstruction of F. A. Hayek s Capital Theory, 18th ESHET Annual Conference, Liberalism: perspectives and debates in the history of economic thought, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2014. A Note on F. A. Hayek s Utility Analysis and Interest, International Procope Workshop, Business Cycles and Economic Growth, sponsored by DAAD, Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany, December 2012. Knut Wicksell, F. A. Hayek, and Lionel Robbins: Early Contributions to Endogenous Growth Theory, International Procope Workshop, Business Cycles, Equilibrium, and Economic Policy, GREDEG, Nice/Sophia Antipolis, France, April 2010. Static Tools for Dynamic Analysis- Ludwig von Mises s Business Cycle Theory, Southern Economic Association 79th Annual Meetings, San Antonio, TX, USA, November 2009. 1928 - The Year of High Theory: The Contributions of Frank Ramsey, Knut Wicksell, and F.A. Hayek, International Procope Workshop, History of Economic Thought and Modern Macroeconomics, GREDEG, Nice/Sophia Antipolis, France, April 2009. History and Equilibrium as a Perfect Match- Austrian Economics and the neo-walrasian Paradigm, 11th ESHET Annual Conference, Justice in Economic Thought, Young Scholar Session, Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France, July 2007. An Austrian Perspective on the Monetary Economy - A Critical Assessment of Contemporary Macroeconomics, 34th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society (HES), Young Scholar Session, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, June 2007. RESEARCH PROJECTS Research assistance, The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Vols. 8 & 9, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Klausinger, WU Wien, Vienna, Austria, April 2009. Research assistance, The Long-Run Performance of the Euro-US-$ Exchange Rate, Client: EnBW AG, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Spahn, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, 2007.
Arash Molavi Vasséi Page 4 Research assistance, The Cross-Cohort Distribution of Government Non-Retirement Transfers and its Impact on Working and Earning, prepared for presentation at the Bank of Italys conference on fiscal policy, March/April 2005, Supervisor: Jagadeesh Gokhale, CATO Institute, Washington D.C., USA, September 2004 - January 2005. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Hohenheim, Chair for Economic Theory, M.Sc. & B.Sc.: - Growth Economics, undergraduate-level lecture, summer term, 2015. - Development of Economic Thought, graduate-level lecture, summer term, 2014. - Development of Economic Thought, graduate-level tutorial, summer term, 2010-2013. - Growth Economics 1: Modern Economic Growth, graduate-level tutorial, summer term, since 2012. - Growth Economics 2: Technology and Employment, graduate-level tutorial, winter term, since 2010. - Advanced International Trade: Theory, graduate-level tutorial, summer term, 2012. - Financial Innovation and Financial Crisis - Implications for Growth, Financial Regulation and Monetary Policy, Humboldt-reloaded Lectures: 1, winter term, since 2012. - Monetary and Fiscal Policy against the Background of the Multidimensional Eurozone Crisis, Humboldt-reloaded Lectures, summer term, since 2012. - Growth Economics, undergraduate-level lecture, summer term, scheduled for 2015. - Macroeconomics I & II, undergraduate-level tutorial, summer and winter term, winter 2006- summer 2009. International Business School Tuttlingen, MBA program: - Economics, esp. Financial Economics, lecture, winter term, since 2012. University of Applied Sciences, Business Department, B.Sc.: - Introduction to Economics, lecture, winter term, since 2014. - Microeconomics, lecture, summer term, 2010-2014. - Macroeconomics, lecture, winter term, 2008-2010, since 2013. - Money and Banking, lecture, winter term, since 2011-2013. - Economic Policy I & II, lecture, summer and winter term, 2011-2014. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Senate, voting member, representative of the scientific staff of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim, since July 2015. Senate Learning and Teaching Committe; non-voting member, representative of the scientific staff of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim, since September 2014. Undergraduate Economics Student Advisor, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim, since August 2012. 1 Humboldt reloaded is the U Hohenheim implementation of an Excellence Initiative for Teaching sponsored by the Germany Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Its goal is to expose excellent undergraduate students to the frontiers of economic research.
Arash Molavi Vasséi Page 5 ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association), European Society for the History of Economic Thought, The Keynes Society, Germany. LANGUAGE SKILLS Fluent in German and English (written and spoken), Fluent in Farsi (spoken). REFERENCES Prof. Dr. Harald Hagemann, Chair for Economic Theory, Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim; email: harald.hagemann@uni-hohenheim.de, tel.: +49 711 459 22592. Prof. Dr. Peter Spahn, Chair for Economic Policy, Department of Economics, University of Hohenheim; email: peter.spahn@uni-hohenheim.de, tel.: +49 711 459 22591. Stuttgart, October 12, 2015 Arash Molavi Vasséi