University of South Australia
Business School
the Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion (CMVI)
City West Campus (WL4-50)
Tel +61 8 830 51513
Akbar is an applied health and labor economist. He is skilled in analyzing data by using advanced econometric and statistical methods such as Bayesian techniques, Count data analyses and Survey methods. He cooperates as a research fellow with the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre from the faculty of Clinical & Health Sciences at the University of South Australia. Akbar has written a number of economic research, some of which are under review by some high-ranked econometric, health and labor journals based on the ABDC journal list.He has over 7 years of experience in teaching at several public and private universities and institutes in Australia and in his home country, Iran. He taught various courses in economics, data analysis, and... Read more
About me
Akbar is an applied health and labor economist. He is skilled in analyzing data by using advanced econometric and statistical methods such as Bayesian techniques, Count data analyses and Survey methods. He cooperates as a research fellow with the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre from the faculty of Clinical & Health Sciences at the University of South Australia. Akbar has written a number of economic research, some of which are under review by some high-ranked econometric, health and labor journals based on the ABDC journal list.He has over 7 years of experience in teaching at several public and private universities and institutes in Australia and in his home country, Iran. He taught various courses in economics, data analysis, and business to students from different cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds. Akbar has excellent experience in curriculum design, exam and assignment preparation, student consultation and project supervision. He is also excellent at performing data management tasks and working with various software packages like STATA, Eviewes, Microfit, R, Python and OpenBugs.
About me
the Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion (CMVI), UniSA Business
the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, UniSA Clinical & Health Sciences
About me
Doctor of Economical Sciences - Econometrics University of Mazandaran
Zamanzadeh, A., & Cavoli, T. (2022). The effect of nonpharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 infections for lower and middle-income countries: A debiased LASSO approach. PloS one, 17(7), e0271586.
Negintaji, Z., & Zamanzadeh, A. (2021). The effect of education on economic growth in Iran: Using a Bayesian quantile method. Journal of Econometric Modelling, 6(2), 65-93.
Zamanzadeh, A., Chan, M. K., Ehsani, M. A., & Ganjali, M. (2020). Unemployment duration, Fiscal and monetary policies, and the output gap: How do the quantile relationships look like?. Economic Modelling, 91, 613-632.
Zamanzadeh, A., Ehsani, M. A., & Ganjali, M. (2020). Evaluating the Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policies on the Unemployment Duration in Industrial Countries. Journal of Economics and Modeling, 11(3), 195-225.
Negintaji, Z., & Zamanzadeh, A. (2015). Optimal budget modeling for technical and vocational training organization. Economical Modeling, 9(29), 125-141.
Arabmzar, A., Zamanzadeh, A., & Shayesteh, Z. (2013). An Investigation on the Effect of Taxes on the Private Investors’ Behavior: With an Emphasis on Tax Policy in the Fifth Development Plan. Journal of Economics and Modeling, 4(14-15), 25-45.
Roshanfekr, P., Zaman-Zadeh, A., & Kalantari, A. H. (2012). Marriage of economy and divorce a time series analysis in Iran (1976–2006). Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 6(8), 377–383.
ZAMANZADEH, A., NOFERESTI, M., & SHAYESTEH, Z. (2012). TAXES, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND TWIN DEFICITS HYPOTHESIS IN IRAN.
Zamanzadeh, A., & Mehrara, M. (2011). Testing twin deficits hypothesis in Iran. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business, 1(9), 7-11.
Zamanzadeh, A., Chan, M. K., Ehsani, M. A., & Ganjali, M. (2020). Unemployment duration, Fiscal and monetary policies, and the output gap: How do the quantile relationships look like?. Economic Modelling, 91, 613-632.
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
- Ph.D. Thesis (UniSA) : Three Essays on Health Crisis.
- Ph.D. Thesis (UMZ): Evaluating the Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policies on Unemployment Duration; By Using a Bayesian Quantile Method.
- M.A. Thesis (SBU): An Investigation on the Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxes on Economic Growth of Iran.
(Elected as a Superior Researcher in the 3 Conference of Research on Tax and Public Finance, State Tax Organization, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, Tehran, Iran, December 2008.)
- Head of the Project: Investigating the Realization, Requirements, and Design of the Cooperation Mechanism Between the Iranian Government and Tehran Municipality to Set up a Development Fund for the Renovation and Reclamation of Tehran's Old Textures, Tehran Municipality Urban Planning and Research Center, 2017 to 2018.
- Head of the Project: Credit Priorities of Agriculture Bank in Iran's Provinces by Using Revealed Comparative Advantage Technique and Analytical Hierarchy Process, Research and Development Office, Agriculture Bank of Iran, 2010-2011,
- Head of the Project: Econometric Modeling of the Demand Side of Iranian Macroeconomics, Planning Office of State Tax Organization, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance, 2008, (Head of the Project).
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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- Workload effects on burnout and mental health of Australian Nurses and Midwives during the COVID-19 pandemic, With Professor Marion Eckert (Marion.Eckert@unisa.edu.au), Dr. Nadia Corsini.Nadia.Corsini@unisa.edu.au), Mrs Pam Adelson (Pam.Adelson@unisa.edu.au) and Mr. Greg Sharplin (Greg.Sharplin@unisa.edu.au), the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences.
- Work demands and burnout of nurses and midwives in Melbourne and Sydney during the COVID-19 pandemic, With Professor Marion Eckert (Marion.Eckert@unisa.edu.au) and Mr. Greg Sharplin (Greg.Sharplin@unisa.edu.au), the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences.
- Turnover effects of job conflicts: an examination of Canadian frontline health workers during the pandemic With Professor Marion Eckert (Marion.Eckert@unisa.edu.au) and Mr. Greg Sharplin (Greg.Sharplin@unisa.edu.au), the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, UniSA Clinical and Health Sciences.
- Mental health effects of job loss during COVID crisis: A cross-country evidence. With A/Prof. Tony Cavoli (tony.cavoli@unisa.edu.au) and A/Prof. Rajabrata Banerjee(Rajabrata.Banerjee@unisa.edu.au ), UniSA Business School.
- The COVID-19 pandemic, traveling and anxiety: Evidence from Italy. With A/Prof. Tony Cavoli (tony.cavoli@unisa.edu.au) and A/Prof. Rajabrata Banerjee(Rajabrata.Banerjee@unisa.edu.au ), UniSA Business School.
- A heterogenous examination of the environmental Kuznets curve, With A/Prof. Rajabrata Banerjee(Rajabrata.Banerjee@unisa.edu.au ), UniSA Business School.
- Unemployment Duration and the Endogeneity of Macroeconomic Policies: An application of a Smoothed QR Analysis for the U.S With A/Prof. Tony Cavoli (tony.cavoli@unisa.edu.au).
- Gender Gap in Unemployment Duration: A Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition, Method for Multi-way Contingency Tables, With Professor Marc Chan (marc.chan@unimelb.edu.au), Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne.
- Do more labor market opportunities affect crime rates in the U.S.? A Bayesian panel data model with heterogeneous thresholds, With Prof. Mark Harris (Mark.Harris@curtin.edu.au), Curtin University, and UniSA Business School.
- Minimum wage and Employment in the U.S: Is There a tipping point?, With Prof. Marc Chan (marc.chan@unimelb.edu.au), Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne.
- Crime and minimum wages in the U.S; an examination of heterogeneous tipping points across quantiles, , With Prof. Marc Chan (marc.chan@unimelb.edu.au), Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne.
- Recession, COVID-19 pandemic and wellbeing: Evidence from East Asia, with Ladan Rokni and Matina Ghasemi.
Research
Zamanzadeh, A., Chan, M. K., Ehsani, M. A., & Ganjali, M. (2020). Unemployment duration, Fiscal and monetary policies, and the output gap: How do the quantile relationships look like?. Economic Modelling, 91, 613-632.
University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia
Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
Konkuk University, Seoul,South Korea
Girne American University, Girne, Cyprus
External engagement & recognition
| Organisation | Country |
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| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Teaching & student supervision
