Selected Publications:
1) "Differential Interpretation of Information in Inflation Forecasts "(with B. Zilberfarb), The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming, May 1999.
2) "Payment for Order Flow on Nasdaq" (with L. Marx), Journal of Finance, February 1999.
3) "Effect of Market Reform on the Trading Cost and Depths of Nasdaq Stocks" (with M. Barclay, W. Christie, J. Harris, P. Schultz), Journal of Finance, February 1999 (lead article).
4) "Odd Eighths Avoidance as a Defense against SOES Bandits" (with L. Marx), Journal of Financial Economics, January 1999.
5) "The Effect of Transaction Costs on Stock Prices and Trading Volume," (with M. Barclay and L. Marx), Journal of Financial Intermediation, April 1998 (lead article).
6) "Nasdaq Market Structure and Spread Patterns" (with L. Marx), Journal of Financial Economics, July 1997.
7) "The Right to Return", Journal of Law and Economics, April 1996.
8) "Differential Interpretation of Information and Trade in Speculative markets" (with N. Pearson), Journal of Political Economy, August 1995.
9) "Contract Enforcement Institutions: Historical Perspective and Current Status in Russia" (with A. Greif), in Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and Russia, ed. E. Lazear, Hoover Institution, 1995.
10) "Peer Pressure and Partnerships" (with E. Lazear), Journal of Political Economy, August 1992.
Phone:588-1163/588-3135
Room:5215/5218
mskeren@olive.mscc.huji.ac.il
Selected Publications:
1) "On the Impossibility of Market Socialism", Eastern Economic
Review , Summer 1993.
2) Trials of Transition: Economic Reforms in the Former Soviet
Bloc , Westview Press , 1992. (editor, with Gur Ofer)
3) "The Market, Tautness, and Managerial Behavior in the Soviet-Type
Economies" , European Economic Review , 1987.
Phone:5883141
Room:5224
msefraim@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Areas of Research:
Israel's Economic Relations with the Palestinian Territories and
Jordan.
Tax Influences on the Price Index.
Economic Thinking in Ancient Jewish Literature.
Selected Publications:
1) "National Price Levels: Do Taxes Matter?" ,International Tax
& Public Finance, 4:3, Forthcoming , August 1997.
2) "Economic Interrelations Among the Participants in the Middle
East Peace Process" (with H. Awartani), The Middle East Journal,
50:2, Spring 1997.
3) "Ancient and Medieval Rabbinic Economic Thought : Definitions
, Methodology and Illustration" ,in B.B Price , Ed., Ancient Economic
Thought , London: Routledge, 1997, pp.78-98.
4) "The Economic Provisions of the Agreement between Israel and
the PLO", Israel Law Review, 18:3-4, 1994 , pp. 347-373.
5) "Sex and the Leuthold-Experiment Free Rider: Some Results from
an Israeli Sample" (with Y. Rubinstein), Journal of Economic Education,
27:3 , Summer 1996, pp. 238-257.
Phone:5883140
Room:5223
msklinov@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Recent Publications
1) with B. Eden: "The Effect of Different Financing Methods on
School Integration". in Reuven Kahane, ed.: International Advancement
and Distributive Justice.,The Magnes Press, 1995, pp. 375-389.
2) "A Comparison of the Labor Market Performance in the Central
Asia European Republics of the Former Soviet Union 1989-1992". International
Journal of Social Economics. vol.23, no.10/11 1996, pp. 209-225.
3) "Changes in School Enrollment Patterns: A Comparison Between
Two Disadvantaged Groups". The Economics of Education Review. vol.25,
No.3, pp. 289-301, 1996.
Current Work
4) with Michael Beenstock: Why Did the Probability of the Exiting
Unemployment Decline? Israel 1969-1992. Falk Institute, DP96.12, December
1996.
5) with Eli Berman: Human Capital Investment and Non-participation.
Falk Institute, DP 97.05, May 1997.
Phone:5883253
Room:4215
mslach@olive.mscc.huji.ac.il
Areas of Research:
Empirical and Applied Microeconomics.
Industrial Organization.
Selected Publications:
1) "Product Innovation and the Business Cycle", with Boyan Jovanovic,
International Economic Review, February 1997.
2) "Staggering and Synchronization in Price-Setting: Evidence form
Multiproduct Firms", with Daniel Tsiddon, American Economic Review,
86, December 1996.
3) "R&D, Investment and Industry Dynamics", with Rafi Rob, Journal
of Economics & Management Strategy, 5, 2, Summer 1996.
4) "The Behavior of Prices and Inflation: An Empirical Analysis
of Disaggregated Price Data", with Daniel Tsiddon, Journal of Political
Economy, 100, April 1992.
5)"Entry, Exit and Diffusion with Learning by Doing", with Boyan
Jovanovic, American Economic Review, 79, September 1989.
Phone:5883245
Room:4226
msvictor@olive.mscc.huji.ac.il
Areas of Research:
Economic Development.
Human Resources (Health and Education, Labor Economics).
The Economics of the Middle East.
List of courses in the present year:
Graduate : Introduction to Econometrics .
Undergraduate : Economic Development.
Specials topics on the Economics of the Middle East.
Selected Publications:
1) "Export and Output Supply Functions with Endogenous Domestic
Prices," Journal of International Economics, February 1995, 119-141,
(with J.Newman and P. de Vreyer) .
2) "Quality of Health Care, Survival and Health Outcomes in Ghana,"
Journal of Health Economics, 15, No. 3 (1996), pp. 333-358 (with
D.Thomas ,and J.Strauss).
3) "Public Policy and Anthropometric Outcomes in Cote d'Ivore,"
Journal of Public Economics, 61, No. 3 (1996), pp. 155-192 (with
D.Thomas and J.Strauss).
4) "School Supply Constraints and Children's Educational Outcomes
in Rural Ghana," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 51, December
1996, pp. 291-313.
5) "French Language Skills and the Return to Schooling in Morocco,"
Forthcoming, Journal of Labor Economics ,1997 (with J.Angrist).
Phone:5883119
Room:5125
Prof. Nissan Liviatan
(Emeritus)
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Phone:5883234
Room:4210
msniss@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Phone:5883138
Room:4225
msjoram@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Phone:5883001/5883242
Room:4205
msmetzer@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Prof. Michael Michaely
(Emeritus)
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Phone:5883142
Room:5225
Phone:5883238
Room:4213
msgur@olive.mscc.huji.ac.il
Selected Publications:
1) "Soviet Economic Growth 1928-1985", Journal of Economic Literature,Vol.
25 (December 1987), pp. 1767-1833.
2) Reforming Planned Economics in an Integrated World Economy
, (with B.Bosworth) Brookings,1995.
3) "Pioneers for Profit: St.Petersburg Entrepreneurs in Services"
, (with Martha Melo and Olga Sambler ) The World Bank Economic Review
, Vol.9 , No.3 , pp 425-450,1995.
4) "Health Sector Reform in Russia: The Heritage of the Private
/ Public Mix" (with Dov Chernichovski and Elena Potapchick), Moct-Most,
Vol. 6, No. 3, 1996.
5) "New Trends in the Welfare State: The Public / Private Mix" (Hebrew,
mimeo.).
Phone:5883365
Room:5221
motty@sunset.huji.ac.il
Motty Perry's Homepage
Phone:5883144
Fax:5883357
Room:5227
mseytan@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Areas of Research:
Public Economics.
Selected Publications:
Book
1) Optimum Pricing, Inflation, and the Cost of Price Adjustment,
Sheshinski, E. and Y. Weiss (eds.), M.I.T. Press, 1993.
2) "The Optimal Linear Income Tax," Review of Economic Studies,
July 1972, 39, 297-302. Reprinted in E.S. Phelps (ed.), Economic Justice,
Penguin, London, 1973, ch.17.
3) "Direct Versus Indirect Remedies for Externalities," Journal
of Political Economy, August 1976, 84, 797-808 (with J.Green).
4) "Inflation and Costs of Price Adjustment," Review of Economic
Studies, June 1977, 44, 287-304 (with Y.Weiss).
4) "Economic Aspects of the Optimal Disability Benefits," Journal
of Public Economics, 1995, May 1995, 57, 1-23.
Phone:5883139
Room:5222
msussman@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Areas of Research:
Economic History.
Selected Publications:
1) (with Gandal, Neil) "Tickling the Tolerance Currency Reputation
and Opportunism in Medieval France." Journal of Money Credit and Banking
, forthcoming (1997).
2) "William Huskisson and the Bullion Controversy-1810. " European
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, forthcoming (1997).
3) "Debasements, Royal Revenues, and Inflation in France During
the Hundred Years' War,1415-1422." The Journal of Economic History,
53,1 (1993): 44-70.
4 ) "Missing Bullion or Missing Documents: A Revision and Reappraisal
of French Minting Statistics: 1385-1415." The Journal of European Economic
History, 19,1 (1990): 147-162.
Phone:5883257
Room:4227
msmorris@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Areas of Research:
Economics Growth Processes.
Technological Change.
Technology Infrastructure Policy.
R&D Policy.
National Systems of Innovation.
Selected Publications:
1) "Introduction" and "Trends in TI and TIP", in Technology
Infrastructure Policy (TIP): An International Perspective, Kluwer Publishers,
January 1996.
2) "A Catalytic and Evolutionary Approach to Horizontal Technological Policies",
Research Policy April 1997.
3) "R&D and Technology Policy in Learning Processes" (1996), World Development,
Vol 23, No. 3,May.
4) "Evolutionary Product Differentiation and Market Building in Turbulent
Environments" with E. Zuscovitch, in Economics of Innovation and New Technology,
1996.
5) "Implications of Organizational Learning for Horizontal Technology Policies",
Chapter 5 in Latecomers in the Global Economy, L. Tsipouri & M. Storper (eds)
forthcoming 1998, Routledge.
6) "Paradigmantic Shifts in National Systems of Innovation" with R. Galli,
Chapter in C. Edquist (ed): Systems of Innovation: Technologies, Institutions and
Organizations, Cassel 1997.
7) " Policies for Promoting Enterprise Restructuring in National Systems of
Innovation: Triggering Cumulative Learning and Generating System Effects", in STI
Review (22) , Special Issue on "New Rationale and Approaches in Technology and Innovation Policy", OECD, 1998.
8) "Market Stimulating Technology Policies in Developing Countries: A Framework
with Examples from East Asia" with S. Lall, World Development, Vol 26, No 8, pp.1396 (1998).
9) "The Learning Approach to Horizontal Technology Policies: An Evolutionary and
Systems Perspective", forthcoming in volume edited by A. Bartzokas, Routledge.
10) Technology Infrastructure Policy (TIP): An International Perspective, M.
Teubal(principal), D. Foray, M. Justman, E. Zuscovitch (eds.), Kluwer Publishers,
1996.
Dr. Eyal Winter
(on leave)
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Phone:5883083
Room:4221
mseyal@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Prof. Menahem Yaari
(on leave)
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Phone:5881030
Room:4219
Phone:5883246
Room:5220
msyafeh@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Selected Publications:
1) "Corporate Ownership, Profitability and Bank-Firm Ties: Evidence
from the American Occupation Reforms in Japan," Journal of the Japanese
and International Economies, Vol. 9, June 1995.
2) "Japan's Corporate Groups: Collusive or Competitive? An Empirical
Analysis of Keiretsu Behavior" (with David Weinstein), Journal of Industrial
Economics, Vol. 43, December 1995.
3) "On the Costs of a Bank-Centered Financial System: Evidence from
the Changing Main Bank Relations in Japan" (with David Weinstein), forthcoming,
Journal of Finance.
Phone:5883249
Room:4211
msruhama@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Selected Publications:
1) "A Note on Optimum Taxation and Administrative Costs", American
Economic Review, 69, No 3, June 1979, pp. 475-80.
2) "On the Relation Between Return and Income", Quarterly Journal
of Economics, February 1987, pp. 77-95.
3) (with Slemrod, Joel) "The Optimal Size of a Tax Collection Agency",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 89, No. 2, 1987, pp. 183-192.
4)(with Joel Slemrod) "Welfare Dominance : An Application to Commodity
Taxation", American Economic Review, 81, No. 3, June 1991, pp. 480-496.
4) "On Using Linear Regression in Welfare Economics", Journal of
Business & Economic Statistics, 14, 4 (October), 1996, pp. 478-86.
Phone:5883256
Fax: 5816071
Room: 4224
Office Hour: Tue 11:00-12:00
mszeira@mscc.huji.ac.il
Selected Publications:
1) "Investment as a Process of Search," Journal of Political
Economy, 95 (1987), 204-210.
2) "Risk and Capital Accumulation in a Small Open Economy," Quarterly
Journal of Economics, 102 (1987), 265-279.
3) "Credit Rationing in an Open Economy," International Economic
Review, 32 (1991), 959-972.
4) "Income Distribution and Macroeconomics," with Oded Galor, Review
of Economic Studies, 60 (1993), 35-52.
5) "Informational Cycles," Review of Economic Studies, 61
(1994), 31-44.
6) "Workers, Machines, and Economic Growth," Quarterly Journal
of Economics, (forthcoming 1998).
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