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1. PERSONAL INFORMATION
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Date of Birth:
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13 January 1947
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Place of Birth:
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Bad Wörishofen, U.S.
zone of occupation, Bavaria, Germany
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Citizenship:
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Israel
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Family:
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Sole surviving child of
Yehoshua (ז"ל) and Rosa Hillman (ז"ל), whose other children perished
at Auschwitz. Taken by parents from Germany to Australia in 1952. Married to Jeannette (née
Mann) in 1967. Four children
Tamara, Ilana, Nachman Eliyahu, Benjamin. 17 grandchildren to date.
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Higher Education:
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B.A. First Class Honors in Economics and the University
Medal, University of Newcastle,
Australia
1963-67 (honors thesis advisor Paul Sherwood)
M. Ecs. (Honors), Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia
1968-70 (thesis
advisor Peter Lloyd)
PhD Economics, University
of Pennsylvania, USA
1970-73 (thesis advisors
Albert Ando, Wilfred Ethier)
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Academic family tree: Ron Jones, to Wilfred Ethier; and
Albert Ando
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2. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Department of
Economics
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Professor of Economics,
from 1980. The William Gittes Chair from 1990.
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Other affiliations
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Offices and Honors
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Albert Winsemius Professor, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore,
July-August 2000
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Fellow, Japanese
Society for the Promotion of Science, February-March 2000
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President, European Public
Choice Society, 1996-1997
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Max-Planck-Prize 1994 for Humanities
Sciences, awarded jointly with Heinrich W. Ursprung
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The University Medal, University of Newcastle, Australia,
1967
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Visiting positions
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Princeton University, U.S.A., Woodrow Wilson School
of Public Policy and International Affairs and Department of Economics,
visiting professor of economics, fall semester 2004
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International Monetary
Fund, Washington D.C., Fiscal Affairs Department,
visiting scholar, summer 2000, 2002, 2003
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The World Bank, Washington, DC,
research fellow, Socialist Economies Reform Unit, 1990
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Princeton University, U.S.A., Woodrow Wilson School
of Public Policy and International Affairs and Department of Economics,
visiting professor of economics, spring semester 1989
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U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, U.S.A., visiting professor of
economics, 1985-87
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Australian National University, visiting lecturer, The
Faculties, spring 1979
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University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A., visiting assistant professor of economics,
1973-74; visiting researcher
Center for Advanced
Computation summer 1974
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Public and plenary lectures
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Jerusalem Institute for
Market Studies, 21 May 2008. Public lecture on: "The work ethic and
the welfare state"
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Hubei College of Economics, China,
October 10, 2007. Public lecture on: “Is social justice
achievable?”
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Singapore Economic
Review annual public lecture. On: “Globalization and social
justice”, at Nanyang
University, September
20, 2007
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44th Anniversary of the
Initiation of the Study of Economics at the University of Havana,
Hotel Tryp Habana Libre, October 6, 2006. Plenary lecture on: “The
elusive quest for social justice”
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Mont Pelerin Society General
Meetings, Salt Lake City,
August 15-20, 2004. Plenary
address on: “Institutions of international decision making: the
United Nations”
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The World Bank, PREM
Conference, Washington DC, April 27-28, 2004. Debate with Jeffrey Sachs on:
“Economic policies for failed states”
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European Public Choice Society, Berlin, April, 2004. Plenary lecture on:
“Development failure”
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Israel Economic
Association, Symposium on 50 years of Economic Research in Israel,
April 28, 1999. Invited lecture on: “Political Economy”
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European Public Choice Society Annual Conference, Prague, April 1997.
Presidential Address: "Political economy and political
correctness"
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Mont Pelerin Society General
Meeting, Cannes,
September 1994. Plenary address on "Nostalgia, self-interest, and the
transition from socialism"
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European Public Choice Society Annual Conference,
Portrush, April 1993. Plenary address on: "The transition from
socialism: Some comforting thoughts for adherents to a public choice
perspective"
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Geneva Environmental
Meetings, Environment and Development: Conflict and Convergence, May 1992,
lecture on "Environmental protection and international trade"
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Annual Meetings of the
Economic Association of Israel,
Tel-Aviv, December 1991. Plenary lecture: "The political economy of
international trade policy"
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European Public Choice Society Annual Conference,
Meersburg, April 1990. Plenary lecture on "International trade policy:
Benevolent dictators and optimizing politicians"
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Taft Lecture, University of Cincinnati, April 1989. On:
“Liberalizing socialist industry"
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Short-term visitor
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Huazhong University
of Science and Technology, School
of Public Administration, Wuhan, China.
October 2002, March 2004, October 2007. Lectures on “Public finance
and public policy”
Hong-Kong University of
Science and Technology, October 1 - 7, 2007
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. September 2007;
July-August 2000
European Central Bank, Frankfurt, July 2007
Humboldt University, Berlin, Lectures on Social
Justice, July 2007
Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Market Processes and
Governance Research Unit, July 2007, October 2007
Kiel Institute
Summer School on Economic Policy. Lectures on “Reforming the
Welfare State: Balancing Efficiency and Equity”, July 2007
University of Havana, summer school in conjunction with Humboldt University. Lectures on
“Public finance and public policy”, October 3-15 2006.
Faculty of Economics, Cambridge University, U.K., February 2005
Summer School in Public
Policy. G-17 Institute, Belgrade,
July 2004. Lectures on “Public finance and public policy.
International Summer
School, Center for Banking, Finance, and International Economics, Podgorica, Montenegro. Lectures on
“Public finance and public choice”, Herceg-Novi, Montenegro,
June 2002. Lectures on International and public finance”, Budva, July
2001
International Summer
School, Center for Liberal Democratic Studies, Belgrade, Serbia.
Lectures on “Public finance and public policy”, Petrovac, Montenegro, July 2000
University of Catania, Sicily, October 1997, April 2000. Lectures on “Public
finance and public policy”
Kobe University, Japan, February-March 2000
New School of Economics, Moscow,
January-February 1995. Lectures on “Public finance” and
“International trade”.
University of Konstanz,
February 1988, June-July 1989, June-July 1993
Kiel Institute of World Economics, March 1993.
Lectures on “The political economy of trade policy”.
Karl Marx (now Budapest)
University of the Economic Sciences, November 1988
NBER, Cambridge,
U.S.A.,
Summer Institute in International Studies, 1982, 1984, 1987
Centre of Policy Studies, Monash
University, Melbourne, summer 1981, 1982, 1984
Australian National University, Canberra,
Research School of Social Studies, summer 1979, 1980
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Past positions
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Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Department of
Economics, from 1980. Associate Professor of Economics 1982-1984, Senior
Lecturer in Economics 1980-1982. Administrative
positions: Head, Azrieli Institute for Economic Research 1998-2000; managing
director, Economics Research Institute 1990-1992; associate chairman for
economics in the Department of Economics and Business 1982-84.
Tel-Aviv University, Israel, Department of
Economics, lecturer 1974-79.
University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Research Fellow,
Economics Research Unit (concurrent with graduate studies) 1970-1973.
Macquarie University,
Sydney, Australia. Senior Teaching Fellow
1968. Lecturer with tenure 1969-1970.
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3.
RESEARCH
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Research fields
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Political economy and public
policy, ethics and governance
Link to research themes
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PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Link
RESEARCH
PAPERS IN JOURNALS AND EDITED VOLUMES, BY TOPIC
Recent papers Link
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Political economy and international trade policy Link to papers
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International trade Link to papers
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International migration Link to papers
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Political economy and public policy Link to papers
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Socialism and transition Link to papers
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Comments, notes, other papers Link
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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. PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
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Annual Silvaplana workshop on political economy,
since 1989, with Heinrich Ursprung and others
Other conferences
Principal organizer
1999 “Economic
Performance, Economic Policy, and Political Culture”, at Erasmus University,
Rotterdam,
with Otto Swank
1997 “The
Changing Role of Government in an Integrated World Economy”, Bar-Ilan
University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and CEPR, co-organizer Mario Blejer.
1996 Annual
Conference of the European Public Choice Society,
Bar-Ilan University
and Tiberias, Israel
1989 “Markets
and Politicians”, Bar-Ilan
University
Program committee
European Public Choice Society Meetings, Helsinki, April 2006
International
Institute of Public Finance,
Korea, August
2005
European Economic
Association Annual Congress, Venice,
August 2002
International
Institute of Public Finance, Linz,
August 2001
European Public Choice Society Meetings, Paris, April 2001
European Economic
Association Annual Congress, Berlin,
September 1998
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6. POLICY-RELATED RESEARCH
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International Monetary Fund,
Fiscal Affairs Department
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Ethics,
governance, and development failure, 2000
User prices and basic education
in low-income countries, 2002
Governance, growth and
fiscal-policy transmission mechanisms in low-income countries 2003
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The World Bank
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Adjustment to end of
CMEA trading arrangement 1990, incentives for private sector development
1993 (Hungary)
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International trade
policy regime 1992 (Turkmenistan)
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Choice of the tax regime
1992, incentives for private sector development 1993-1994, financing
government in transition 1994-95 (Bulgaria)
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Foreign trade regime
1993 (Baltics)
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Foreign trade subsidies,
directed credits 1993 (Russia)
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World Development Report
Background Paper 1995-96: "Rents and the transition" (with Alan
Gelb and Heinrich Ursprung)
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Enterprise development, 2002 (Uzbekistan)
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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 Hungary 1989
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The Government of Israel: Office
of the Prime Minister
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Position paper, The
economy of Israel:
Misinformation or disinformation? 1992
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Forum for discussion of
economic policy options, 1996-1997
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7. 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 theory
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Supervision of PhD theses
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Yoav Zeif,
1999
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Three essays in international trade
policy and income distribution
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Shirit
Katav-Herz, 2002
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Social norms, labor standards,
and international consequences
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Ronen Bar-El,
2006
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Essays on institutions and
public finance
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Odelia
Rosin, 2008
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The economic consequences of obesity
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Yariv
Weltzman
In progress
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Essays on development failure
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