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Dr Mona Chitnis

Short Biography:

Mona Chitnis is a Research Assistant in the ESRC funded multidisciplinary Research Group on Lifestyles, Values and Environment (RESOLVE) associated with the Centre for Environmental Strategy (CES) in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Surrey Energy Economics Centre (SEEC) in the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Arts & Human Sciences. She applies econometric techniques to model and estimate future consumer demand and carbon emissions in the UK.
Before joining RESOLVE, Mona worked for almost ten years in the Management and Planning Organization of the Iranian Government-Tehran as an Expert in Economics and State Planning. Her area of work covered public enterprises, privatization and financial markets issues in Iran. She also has lectured at Alzahra University in Iran-Tehran.
Mona did her BA, MA and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Tehran in Iran. She obtained a British Council and the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran partial scholarship to complete her Ph.D. research at SEEC and completed her PhD in 2005 entitled "The Effect of Gasoline Pricing Policy on Social Welfare in Iran". Her thesis covered the cost analysis of refineries and petroleum products, gasoline demand and supply estimation and the effect of gasoline pricing policy on social welfare in Iran.

Research Interests:

• Microeconomics, energy economics and applied econometrics.

Teaching:

• Teaching Assistant, University of Surrey-UK, Spring Semester 2007/2008: U113 UG Business Economics (BE)
• Lecturer, Alzahra University-Iran, 2005/2006: Public Economics - Macroeconomics

Selected Publication/Conference Presentations:

• "Gasoline Demand, Pricing Policy and Social Welfare in the Islamic Republic of Iran" (with M. Ahmadian and L. C. Hunt), (2007), OPEC Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 105-124.
• "Modeling OECD aggregate energy demand: asymmetric price responses and the underlying energy demand trend: are they substitutes or complements?" (With O. I. Adeyemi, D. C. Broadstock and L. C. Hunt), 9th IAEE European Energy Conference, "Energy Markets and Sustainability in a Larger Europe", 10-13 June 2007, Florence, Italy.
• "The Effect of Gasoline Pricing Policy on Social Welfare in Iran." (With M. Ahmadian and L. C. Hunt), 28th Annual IAEE International Conference, "Globalization of Energy: Markets, Technology, and Sustainability", 3-6 June 2005, Taipei, Taiwan.
• "The Effect of Gasoline Pricing Policy on Social Welfare in Iran." (With L. C. Hunt), IAEE International Conference, "Critical Infrastructure in Energy Sector", 21-22 November 2004, Prague, Czech Republic.

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