curriculum vitae
Name: Ghebreegziabiher Debrezion
Gender: Male
Birth place and date: Halibo-Eritrea, 01 Dec 1974
1. Educational Information:
a) November 2006, PhD in Transportation and Urban Economics from the Free University of Amsterdam.
b) November 2001, Master of Business Administration (MBA): Operations Research and Econometrics- University of Groningen, the Netherlands
c) July 1998, Bachelors of Arts (BA) in Business Management- From the University of Asmara, Eritrea
2. Work Experience:
a) Post doc researcher: Starting January 2007 I am holding a Post doc research position at the Free University Amsterdam in the department of spatial economics.
b) Research Assistant: September 2002 - July 2006 at the Free University of Amsterdam. Working on a project that gives background analysis for High Speed Railway investment in the Netherlands.
c) Assistant lecturer: 2nd semester of the 2000-2001 academic year at the University of Asmara, Asmara Eritrea. I was giving lectures on Operation Research, International Marketing and advising senior papers.
d) Graduate Assistant: 1998-1999 Academic year at the University of Asmara, Asmara Eritrea. I was giving tutorial classes Maths for management and Economics course.
e) Secondary school teacher: 1995-1996 Academic year at Nefasit Secondary school, Nefasit Eritrea. I was teaching classes in geography and history
3. Awards:
a) Gold medal for the student of the Year for the College of Business and Economics at the University of Asmara, July 1998.
b) Award runner up for the best conference paper Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF 2005) Hamilton Ontario. "The effect of railway investment in a polycentric city"
4. Publications and study documents
a) Study documents based on Eritrea:
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher. Public Transportation in the City of Asmara Eritrea Masters Thesis. (http://www.tinbergen.nl/~debrezion/thesis11.pdf)
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher. Commercial Activities around Bus Stations in the city of Asmara. Available on demand.
b) Working papers:
- A Panel Data Study on the Wage of Young American Females, by Andre Monteiro and Ghebre Debrezion (Tinbergen institute December 2002) http://www.tinbergen.nl/~debrezion/Monteiro_Debrezion.pdf
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher, Eric Pels and Piet Rietveld February 2004. The Effects of Railway Investments in a Polycentric City Tinbergen Institute discussion paper TI 2004-089/3. http://www.tinbergen.nl/discussionpapers/04089.pdf
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher, Eric Pels and Piet Rietveld (2006). "Impact of railway station on Dutch residential housing market". Tinbergen Institute discussion paper TI 06-031/3. http://www.tinbergen.nl/discussionpapers/06031.pdf
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher, Eric Pels and Piet Rietveld (2005). "Choice of departure station by railway users" Presented at the European Regional Science Association (ERSA2005) Amsterdam. (Available upon request from the authors)
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher, Eric Pels and Piet Rietveld (2007). “Modelling the Joint Access Mode and Railway Station Choice”. Tinbergen Institute Discussion paper 07-012/3
c) Book chapters:
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher, Jasper Willigers (2006) " Real estate values and railway stations: the case of the Amsterdam Zuidas". In: Bruinsma, F., Eric Pels, Hugo Priemus, Piet Rietveld and Bert Van Wee (eds). “Railway stations and urban dynamics”. Forthcoming. (Available upon request from the authors)
d) Journal Articles:
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher, Eric Pels and Piet Rietveld (2006). The Impact of Railway Stations on Residential and Commercial Property value: A Meta Analysis. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Forthcoming.
- Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher, Eric Pels and Piet Rietveld (2006). “The Effects of Railway Investments in a Polycentric City: a comparison of competitive and segmented land markets”. Environment Planning A, Forthcoming.
7. Sample statistical and programming software knowledge
- Maple
- Ox
- SPSS
- STATA
- EVIEWS
- LIMDEP
- ArcView/ ArcMap
7. Meetings and conferences attended:
- Transportation Research Board (TRB), 85th annual meeting January 22-26, 2006.
- European Regional Science Association 2005 (ERSA2005). Amsterdam August 2005.
- Old foundations modern challenges "Canadian transportation Research Forum May 8-11, 2005 Hamilton Ontario
- WCTR2004, Istanbul 4-8 July, 2004. Presented The Effect of Railway Investments in a Polycentric City
- Regional Science Association (RSA), Amrsfoort the Netherlands March 24, 2004.
- Conference on Farm land and urban dynamics (FLUD) Utrecht April 18-19, 2003. NAKE day, Amsterdam the Netherlands October 24, 2003 presented a paper titled “The impact of railway stations on property value”.
- Conference on Wealth of Nations Tinbergen Week, in honor of Jan Tinbergen's Century. Rotterdam April 11-12, 2003.
- Conference on Research for Nation building Asmara 2002.
