Arye L. Hillman
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William Gittes Chair Bar-Ilan
University Department
of Economics · Office + 972-3-531-8951 · Dept secretary +972-3-531-8345 · Home office + 972-9-774-6424 · Fax:
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1. PERSONAL INFORMATION |
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Academic family tree: Ron Jones, to Wilfred Ethier; and
Albert Ando Research field: Political
economy and public policy |
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2. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS |
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Primary affiliation Bar-Ilan University,
Israel, Department of Economics, Professor of Economics, from 1984 The William Gittes
Chair from 1990 Other affiliations |
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Offices and Honors |
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Visiting positions |
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3. INVITED LECURES AND SHORT-TERM VISITS Public and plenary lectures CESifo 3rd Workshop on Political Economy, Dresden
December 2009. Keynote speaker on “Expressive behavior”. European Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: the Israeli
Humboldt Club, the Humboldt Kolleg Symposium on “When Science and
Humanities Meet”, January 8, 2009. Invited lecture on “The
welfare state” Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, 21 May 2008.
Public lecture on: "The work ethic and the welfare state" Singapore Economic Review annual public lecture. On:
“Globalization and social justice”, at 44th Anniversary of the Initiation of the Study of
Economics at the The World Bank, PREM Conference, European Israel Economic Association, Symposium on 50 years of
Economic Research in European European Geneva Environmental Meetings, Environment and
Development: Conflict and Convergence, May 1992, lecture on
"Environmental protection and international trade" Annual Meetings of the Economic Association of European Taft Lecture, |
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Short-term visitor |
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4. EDITORIAL POSITIONS
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Editor
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European Journal of Political
Economy (Elsevier), since 1994 |
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Other editorial affiliations |
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Associate editor for
Political Economy and Institutions, imp-WG: Economics. The Open-Access,
Open-Assessment E-journal, Kiel Institute of World Economics, from 2006 Australian Economic
Papers, editorial board, since 2004 International Advisory
Board, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, since 1995 Editorial Board, The
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, since 1995 Previous Advisory Board,
Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 1999 Associate Editor,
Economics and Politics, 1990-1999 |
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5. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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Annual
Silvaplana workshop on political economy
Since 1989,
with Heinrich Ursprung and others
Recent programs: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Other
conferences
Principal
organizer
“Economic
Performance, Economic Policy, and Political Culture”, at Erasmus
University, Rotterdam, with Otto Swank, 1999 “The
Changing Role of Government in an Integrated World Economy”, Bar-Ilan
University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and CEPR, with Mario Blejer,
1997 European
Public Choice Society Annual Conference, Bar-Ilan University and Tiberias,
Israel, 1996 “Markets
and Politicians”, Bar-Ilan University, 1989 Program
committee
European
International
Institute of Public European
Economic Association Annual Congress, International
Institute of Public Finance, European
European
Economic Association Annual Congress, |
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6. TEACHING AND RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Courses
taught
Public
finance and public policy (public economics, public choice) International
trade (international economics, the political economy of international trade
policy) Microeconomic
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Supervision
of PhD theses
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Yoav Zeif, 1999 Three
essays in international trade policy and income distribution Shirit Katav-Herz, 2002 Social
norms, labor standards, and international consequences Odelia Rosin, 2008 The
economic consequences of obesity Yariv Weltzman, 2010 The
persistence of ineffective aid In progress: Rezina Sultana Essays
in the political economy of economic development Mor Zahavi Essays
in behavioral political economy |
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7. POLICY RELATED
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International Monetary Fund, Fiscal Affairs Department |
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The World Bank |
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GATT/World Trade Organization |
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International trade policy
and environmental interests 1991 |
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Trade, technology, and
social marginalization 1998 |
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The European Union |
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Economic policy in |
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The Government of |
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Position paper, The
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Forum for discussion of
economic policy options, 1996-1997 8. RESEARCH My principal
research theme is political economy, which I define as the interface between
economic and political decision making. I study public policy and the
economic consequences of political decisions. ·
My interest in public policy began in the field of international
trade with a quest to understand why governments prevent people from trading
with one another, and thereby depart from the efficiency of free trade. I
proposed that departures from free trade were explained by political benefits
that political decision makers obtained through the income-redistribution
consequences of protectionist policies. This explanation for protectionist
policies contrasted with second-best efficiency arguments for departure from
free trade that were advocated in the literature. ·
Trade liberalization, links between international trade
policy and environmental interests, and governments’
international-migration policies are also explainable in political-economy
terms. ·
Rent creation and rent seeking, and rent extraction, are
part of a political economy perspective on public policy. My research on
rents and rent seeking has paralleled investigations of political incentives
and public policy. ·
I have studied the political economy of failure of
economic development. Empirical research shows that aid has been ineffective
in promoting economic growth in low-income countries. More generally,
development objectives have not been achieved in many low-income countries,
where the poor population has remained poor. A political-economy perspective
explains development failure in terms of the personal objectives of rulers
and ruling elites in poor countries.
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I have studied the transition from socialism, which has
also been very much a topic of political economy. Changing institutions and
the introduction of private property rights through privatization changed
personal opportunities and economic and political incentives. I was fortunate
in having had the opportunity to visit many post-communist countries as an
advisor for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. ·
My recent research focus has been on what I call
behavioral political economy. Expressive behavior influences economic and
political decisions: public policy is affected through policy traps that can
arise when people expressively support public policies that they would veto
if they could. My
textbook Public Finance and Public Policy: Responsibilities and Limitations
of Government (Cambridge University Press, 2003, 2nd edition 2009; English,
Chinese, and Japanese) provides a political economy perspective on the choice
between markets and decisions of government. Published
research is grouped according to the following categories. RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS BOOKS RESEARCH PAPERS 1. POLITICAL ECONOMY
AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS 1.1
Political economy of trade policy 1.1.1 The
political economy of protection 1.1.2 Trade
liberalization and globalization 1.1.3 The
environment and trade policy 1.1.4 Market
structure as a determinant of protection 1.1.5 The
multinational firm and foreign investment 1.1.6 Protection
as insurance 1.1.7 Trade
embargoes 1.1.8 Incentives
for illegal activity 1.1.9 Surveys 1.2
Comparative advantage and trade 1.2.1 True
and “revealed” comparative advantage 1.2.2 The
factor content of international trade 1.2.3 Departure
from the law of one price 1.2.4 Domestic
monopoly and dumping 1.2.5 Trade
diversion as a prisoners’ dilemma 1.3
The political economy of international
migration 1.3.1 The
political economy of migration policy 1.3.2 Why
do people emigrate? 1.3.3 Illegal
immigration 1.3.4 Host-country
benefits 2. POLITICAL ECONOMY
AND PUBLIC POLICY 2.1
Behavioral political economy 2.2
Rent creation and rent seeking 2.2.1 The
social costs of rent seeking 2.2.2 Institutions
and the creation of rents 2.2.3 Survey
of the rent seeking literature 2.3
Economic development and development
failure 2.4
Paternalist policies 2.5
Public safety 2.6
Clubs, privilege, and exclusion 3.1 Surveys 3.2 Rents and transition 3.3 Privatization 3.4 International trade policy in
transition 3.5 Public finance in transition 3.6 Other aspects of transition 3.6.1 The
rule of law 3.6.2 Economic
statistics in the transition 4. SHORT PAPERS,
COMMENTS, POLICY PAPERS 4.1 The economy of
Israel 4.2 Other policy
papers 4.3 Other papers 4.4 Comments and
notes |