Ayaz Zeynalov holds an Assistant Professor position at the University of Economics Prague, in the Czech Republic. Ayaz Zeynalov has published his research papers in peer-reviewed journals, including World Development, Resource Policy, International Economics, Economic Policy, and Tourism Economics. He has reviewed manuscripts for journals such as the Economic System, Economic Modelling, Resource Policy, etc. His published papers have studied possible publication bias and the reasons for contradictory findings in the natural resource literature, how institutional governance remedies the negative impacts of natural resource richness on the manufacturing sector, and the international gravity model of bilateral trade using economic size institutional similarities in resource-rich countries. Ayaz Zeynalov has ongoing projects and successfully finalized ones supported by the Global Development Network and Grant Agency of the Czech Republic.