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Portrait of Homayoun Shirazi

Homayoun Shirazi

Research Fellow
EducationPhD, Toronto Metropolitan University
Areas of ExpertiseMacroeconomics, Financial Economics, Real Estate economics and Inequality, Applied Econometrics
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Homayoun Shirazi studies the relationship between immigration and inequality, focusing on how population growth affects prices of illiquid assets, such as home equity and its role in contributing to inequality. He earned his PhD in Economics from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2024. His doctoral research involved modeling the rental market to examine the effects of monetary policies on rent price stickiness, as well as investigating speculative behaviour in housing markets across Canada. Homayoun also has extensive teaching experience, having taught undergraduate courses in Econometrics and Macroeconomics at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Recent publications

With Singh, V. & Turteken, J. (2022). COVID-19 and gender disparities: Labour market outcomes, Research in Economics (external link) , 76 (3), 206-217.

With Askari, M., & Samani, K. A. (2018). Dynamics of financial crises in the world trade network, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (external link) , 501, 164-169.

With Azarbaiejani, K., & Sameti, M. (2016). The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Iran's Export. Iranian Economic Review, 1,  111-124.