Department of Economics




Department Working Papers
Coordinator: Dr. Igal Milchtaich

2012-05 Elise S. Brezis Ranking and Quality of Universities: What Makes US Universities to Be at the Top? January 2012 Abstract
2012-04 Elise S. Brezis Population Dynamics and Economic Growth: Should We Adopt Different Frameworks for Poor and Rich Countries? January 2012 Abstract
2012-03 Jean-Pascal Bénassy and Elise S. Brézis Brain Drain and Development Traps January 2012 Abstract
2012-01 Arthur Fishman Consumer Absenteeism, Search, Advertising, and Sticky Prices January 2012 Abstract
2011-28 Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem Cooperation and Effort in Group Contests November 2011 Abstract
2011-27 Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport and Sara Salomone Remittances, Migrants’ Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data October 2011 Abstract
2011-26 Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport Tradable Immigration Quotas September 2011 Abstract
2011-25 Leonid V. Azarnert Male vs. Female Guest-Worker Migration: Does it Matter for Fertility in the Source Country? August 2011 Abstract
2011-24 Leonid V. Azarnert Integrated Public Education, Fertility and Human Capital August 2011 Abstract
2011-23 Gil S. Epstein and Bruce C. Herniter Privilege-Seeking Activities in Organizational Politics and Its Effect on More Productive Employees August 2011 Abstract
2011-22 Stephen E. Spear and Warren Young MD Dialog on: Optimum Savings and Optimal Growth: the Cass-Malinvaud-Koopmans Nexus May 2011 Abstract
2011-21 Arthur Fishman and Uri Gneezy A Field Study of Social Learning May 2011 Abstract
2011-20 Adi Schnytzer and Yisrael Schnytzer Animal Modeling of Earthquakes and Prediction Markets May 2011 Abstract
2011-19 Gil S. Epstein and Alessandra Venturini The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants April 2011 Abstract
2011-18 Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport Globalization, Brain Drain and Development March 2011 Abstract
2011-17 Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy Explicit Evidence on an Implicit Contract March 2011 Abstract
2011-16 Adi Schnytzer and Sara Westreich Information and Attitudes to Risk at the Track March 2011 Abstract
2011-15 Adi Schnytzer The Prediction Market for the Australian Football League March 2011 Abstract
2011-14 Adi Schnytzer, Martien Lamers and Vasiliki Makropoulou The Impact of Insider Trading on Forecasting in a Bookmakers' Horse Betting Market March 2011 Abstract
2011-13 Adi Schnytzer and Guy Weinberg Testing for Home Team and Favorite Biases in the Australian Rules Football Fixed Odds and Point Spread Betting Markets March 2011 Abstract
2011-12 Adi Schnytzer and Avichai Snir SP Betting as a Self-Enforcing Implicit Cartel March 2011 Abstract
2011-11 Les Coleman and Adi Schnytzer Shorting the Bear: A test of anecdotal evidence of insider trading in early stages of the sub-prime market crisis March 2011 Abstract
2011-10 Adi Schnytzer and Janez Šušteršič The Regression Tournament: A Novel Approach to Prediction Model Assessment March 2011 Abstract
2011-09 Adi Schnytzer and Barbara Luppi Painful Regret and Elation at the Track March 2011 Abstract
2011-08 Adi Schnytzer and Avichai Snir Herding in Imperfect Betting Markets with Inside Traders March 2011 Abstract
2011-07 Adi Schnytzer and Sara Westreich False Consciousness in Financial Markets: Or is it in Ivory Towers? March 2011 Abstract
2011-06 Adi Schnytzer and Sara Westreich Attitudes to Risk and Roulette March 2011 Abstract
2011-05 Johnnie E.V. Johnson, Shuang Liu and Adi Schnytzer To What Extent do Investors in a Financial Market Anchor Their Judgments? Evidence from the Hong Kong Horserace Betting Market March 2011 Abstract
2011-04 Arthur Fishman and Nadav Levy Search Costs and Risky Investment in Quality March 2011 Abstract
2011-03 Avichai Snir and Daniel Levy Shrinking Goods and Sticky Prices: Theory and Evidence March 2011 Abstract
2011-02 Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani,
Hillel Rapoport and Maurice Schiff
Emigration and democracy January 2011 Abstract
2011-01 Luís Cabral and Arthur Fishman Business as Usual: A Consumer Search Theory of Sticky Prices and Asymmetric Price Adjustment January 2011
Updated: November 2011
Abstract
2010-22 Daniel Levy and Frank Smets Price Setting and Price Adjustment in Some European Union Countries: Introduction to the Special Issue December 2010 Abstract
2010-21 Daniel Levy, Dongwon Lee, Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Robert J. Kauffman and Mark Bergen Price Points and Price Rigidity December 2010 Abstract
2010-20 Eyal Baharad, Jacob Goldberger, Moshe Koppel and Shmuel Nitzan Beyond Condorcet: Optimal Aggregation Rules Using Voting Records December 2010 Abstract
2010-19 Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem Governing Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation November 2010 Abstract
2010-18 Gil S. Epstein Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests October 2010 Abstract
2010-17 Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang Migration and Culture August 2010 Abstract
2010-16 Paolo Verme The Poverty Reduction Capacity of Private and Public Transfers in Transition August 2010 Abstract
2010-15 Paolo Verme Life Satisfaction and Income Inequality August 2010 Abstract
2010-14 Adi Schnytzer and Sara Westreich Attitudes to Risk and Roulette August 2010 Abstract
2010-13 Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics August 2010 Abstract
2010-12 Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem Interactions Between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace August 2010 Abstract
2010-11 Arthur Fishman, Israel Finkelstein, Avi Simhon and Nira Yacouel The Economics of Collective Brands July 2010 Abstract
2010-10 Ronen Bar-El, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman and Yossef Tobol The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence June 2010 Abstract
2010-09 Igal Milchtaich Network Topology and Equilibrium Existence in Weighted Network Congestion Games May 2010
Updated: November 2011
Abstract
2010-08 Shmuel Nitzan and Kaoru Ueda Prize Sharing in Collective Contests April 2010 Abstract
2010-07 Eyal Baharad and Shmuel Nitzan Condorcet vs. Borda in Light of a Dual Majoritarian Approach April 2010 Abstract
2010-06 Shmuel Nitzan and Kobi Kriesler The Effect of Limited Search Ability on the Quality of Competitive Rent-Seeking Clubs April 2010 Abstract
2010-05 Leonid V. Azarnert Is Skilled Immigration Always Good for Growth in the Receiving Economy? April 2010 Abstract
2010-04 Leonid V. Azarnert Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West April 2010 Abstract
2010-03 Bradley J. Ruffle, Avi Weiss and Amir Etziony Coordination and Critical Mass in a Network Market: An Experimental Investigation February 2010 Abstract
2010-02 Osnat Jacobi and Avi Weiss A Model of Fault Allocation in Contract Law – Moving From Dividing Liability to Dividing Costs January 2010 Abstract
2010-01 Shaul Almakias and Avi Weiss The Ultimatum Game and Expected Utility Maximization – In View of Attachment Theory January 2010 Abstract
2009-27 Igal Milchtaich Implementability of Correlated and Communication Equilibrium Outcomes in Incomplete Information Games November 2009 Abstract
2009-26 Albert Bollard, David McKenzie, Melanie Morten and
Hillel Rapoport
Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More October 2009 Abstract
2009-25 Frédéric Docquier and
Hillel Rapoport
Documenting the Brain Drain of «la Crème de la Crème»: Three Case-Studies on International Migration at the Upper Tail of the Education Distribution October 2009 Abstract
2009-24 Gil S. Epstein and Avi Weiss The Why, When and How of Immigration Amnesties July 2009 Abstract
2009-23 Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa García-Muñoz and Shoshana Neuman The Big Carrot: High-Stakes Incentives Revisited July 2009 Abstract
2009-22 Pablo Brañas-Garza, Teresa García-Muñoz and Shoshana Neuman National Aggregates and Individual Disaffiliation: An International Study July 2009 Abstract
2009-21 Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983–1995 July 2009 Abstract
2009-20 Ana Rute Cardoso, Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman Wage Mobility in Israel: The Effect of Sectoral Concentration July 2009 Abstract
2009-19 Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and
Hillel Rapoport
On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates July 2009 Abstract
2009-18 Shmuel Nitzan Demystifying the 'Metric Approach to Social Compromise with the Unanimity Criterion' June 2009 Abstract
2009-17 Kobi Kriesler and Shmuel Nitzan Framing-Based Choice: A Model of Decision-Making Under Risk June 2009 Abstract
2009-16 Ruth Ben-Yashar, Winston T.H. Koh and Shmuel Nitzan Is Specialization Desirable in Committee Decision Making? June 2009 Abstract
2009-15 Leonid V. Azarnert Après nous le Déluge: Fertility and the Intensity of Struggle against Immigration June 2009 Abstract
2009-14 Nava Kahana, Yosef Mealem and Shmuel Nitzan The Efficient and Fair Approval of “Multiple-Cost–Single-Benefit” Projects Under Unilateral Information May 2009 Abstract
2009-13 Sarit Cohen-Goldner, Chemi Gotlibovski and Nava Kahana A Reevaluation of the Role of Family in Immigrants’ Labor Market Activity: Evidence from a Comparison of Single and Married Immigrants May 2009 Abstract
2009-12 Leonid V. Azarnert Foreign Aid, Fertility and Population Growth: Evidence from Africa April 2009 Abstract
2009-11 Adi Schnytzer, Martien Lamers and Vasiliki Makropoulou The Impact of Insider Trading on Forecasting in a Bookmakers' Horse Betting Market April 2009 Abstract
2009-10 Adi Schnytzer, Martien Lamers and Vasiliki Makropoulou Measuring the Extent of Inside Trading in Horse Betting Markets April 2009 Abstract
2009-09 Adi Schnytzer and Sara Westreich A General Index of Inherent Risk April 2009 Abstract
2009-08 Raphaёl Franck Judicial Independence and the Validity of Controverted Elections April 2009 Abstract
2009-07 Dror Goldberg The Rise and Fall of America's First Bank April 2009 Abstract
2009-06 Dror Goldberg The Inventions and Diffusion of Hyperinflatable Currency April 2009 Abstract
2009-05 Dror Goldberg The Tax-Foundation Theory of Fiat Money (undated version; original: April 2009) July 2010 Abstract
2009-04 Dror Goldberg Legal Tender April 2009 Abstract
2009-03 Daniel Levy, Haipeng Chen, Georg Müller, Shantanu Dutta, and Mark Bergen Holiday Price Rigidity and Cost of Price Adjustment February 2009 Abstract
2009-02 Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem Group Specific Public Goods, Orchestration of Interest Groups and Free Riding January 2009 Abstract
2009-01 Leonid V. Azarnert Inter-Ethnic Redistribution and Human Capital Investments January 2009 Abstract
2008-07 Leonid V. Azarnert Involuntary Integration in Public Education, Fertility and Human Capital December 2008 Abstract
2008-06 Leonid V. Azarnert Abortion and Human Capital Accumulation: A Contribution to the Understanding of the Gender Gap in Education December 2008 Abstract
2008-05 Igal Milchtaich Comparative Statics of Altruism and Spite December 2008 Abstract
2008-04 Igal Milchtaich Static Stability in Games December 2008
Updated: February 2012
Abstract
2008-03 Dror Goldberg Political Profit and the Invention of Modern Currency December 2008 Abstract
2008-02 Matthew J. Higgins, Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth December 2008 Abstract
2008-01 Igal Milchtaich Weighted Congestion Games With Separable Preferences October 2008 Abstract
4-06 Georg Müller, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta, and Daniel Levy Holiday Non-Price Rigidity and Cost of Adjustment September 2006 Abstract
3-06 Mark J. Zbaracki, Mark Bergen, and Daniel Levy The Anatomy of a Price Cut: Discovering Organizational Sources of the Costs of Price Adjustment September 2006 Abstract
2-06 Daniel Levy Price Rigidity and Flexibility: Recent Theoretical Developments September 2006 Abstract
1-06 Andrew T. Young, Matthew J. Higgins, and Daniel Levy Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data (revised version) June 2006 Abstract
6-05 Matthew J. Higgins, Daniel Levy, and Andrew T. Young Growth and Convergence across the US: Evidence from County-Level Data (revised version) September 2005 Abstract
5-05 Avichai Snir and Daniel Levy Popular Perceptions and Political Economy in the Contrived World of Harry Potter September 2005 Abstract
4-05 Andrew T. Young and Daniel Levy Explicit Evidence on an Implicit Contract June 2005 Abstract
3-05 Mark Zbaracki, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta, Daniel Levy and Mark Ritson Beyond the Cost of Price Adjustment: Investments in Pricing Capital May 2005 Abstract
2-05 Sourav Ray, Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Mark Bergen and Daniel Levy Asymmetric Wholesale Pricing: Theory and Evidence March 2005 Abstract
1-05 Georg Müller, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta and Daniel Levy Private Label Price Rigidity during Holiday Periods March 2005 Abstract
8-04 Daniel Levy, Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Sourav Ray and Mark Bergen Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the Small: An Implication of Rational Inattention July 2004 Abstract
7-04 Igal Milchtaich Comparative Statics of Altruism and Spite June 2004 Abstract
6-04 Mark Bergen, Daniel Levy, Sourav Ray, Paul H. Rubin and Benjamin Zeliger When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws May 2004 Abstract
5-04 Andrew T. Young, Daniel Levy and Matthew J. Higgins Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data March 2004 Abstract
4-04 Ravi Kanbur and Hillel Rapoport Migration Selectivity and the Evolution of Spatial Inequality March 2004 Abstract
3-04 David Mckenzie and Hillel Rapoport Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico March 2004 Abstract
2-04 Daniel Levy and Andrew T. Young "The Real Thing:" Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886-1959 February 2004 Abstract
1-04 Andrew T. Young, Matthew J. Higgins, and Daniel Levy Heterogeneity in Convergence Rates and Income Determination across U.S. States: Evidence from County-Level Data January 2004 Abstract
9-03 Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta, Daniel Levy, Mark Ritson, and Mark J. Zbaracki Shattering the Myth of Costless Price Changes: Emerging Perspectives on Dynamic Pricing November 2003 Abstract
8-03 Ruth Ben-Yashar and Igal Milchtaich First and Second Best Voting Rules in Committees October 2003 Abstract
7-03 Mark J. Zbaracki, Mark Ritson, Daniel Levy, Shantanu Dutta, and Mark Bergen Managerial and Customer Costs of Price Adjustment: Direct Evidence from Industrial Markets September 2003 Abstract
6-03 Andrew T. Young, Matthew J. Higgins, and Daniel Levy Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data September 2003 Abstract
5-03 Frédéric Docquier and
Hillel Rapoport
Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model June 2003 Abstract
4-03 Hillel Rapoport
and Jean-Pierre Vidal
Economic Growth and Endogenous Intergenerational Altruism June 2003 Abstract
3-03 Matthew Higgins, Daniel Levy, and Andrew Young Growth and Convergence across the US: Evidence from County-Level Data June 2003 Abstract
2-03 Daniel Levy Is the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle Really a Puzzle? June 2003 Abstract
1-03 Igal Milchtaich Topological Conditions for Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Networks March 2003 Abstract
17-02 Daniel Levy and Hashem Dezhbakhsh International Evidence on Output Fluctuation and Shock Persistence December 2002 Abstract
16-02 Daniel Levy and Hashem Dezhbakhsh On the Typical Spectral Shape of an Economic Variable December 2002 Abstract
15-02 Elise s. Brezis and François Crouzet Changes in the Recruitment and Education of the Power Elites in Twentieth Century Western Democracies November 2002 Abstract
14-02 Elise s. Brezis Fertility, Non-Altruism and Economic Growth: Industrialization in the Nineteenth Century October 2002 Abstract
13-02 Ruth Ben-Yashar and Igal Milchtaich Which Voting Rules Elicit Informative Voting? May 2002 Abstract
12-02 Daniel Levy Cointegration in Frequency Domain May 2002 Abstract
11-02 Igal Milchtaich and Avi Weiss Acquired Cooperation in Finite-Horizon Dynamic Games April 2002 Abstract
10-02 Shantanu Dutta, Mark Bergen, and Daniel Levy Price Flexibility in Channels of Distribution: Evidence from Scanner Data April 2002 Abstract
9-02 Daniel Levy, Shantanu Dutta, and Mark Bergen Heterogeneity in Price Rigidity: Evidence from a Case Study Using Micro-Level Data April 2002 Abstract
8-02 Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers April 2002 Abstract
7-02 Amir Etziony and Avi Weiss Credibility, Pre-Production and Inviting Competition in a Network Market April 2002 Abstract
6-02 Amir Etziony and Avi Weiss Inviting Competition to Achieve Critical Mass April 2002 Abstract
5-02 Amir Etziony and Avi Weiss Coordination and Critical Mass in a Network Market - An Experimental Evaluation March 2002 Abstract
4-02 Igal Milchtaich Computation of Completely Mixed Equilibrium Payoffs March 2002 Abstract
3-02 Daniel Levy, Georg Müller, Shantanu Dutta, and Mark Bergen Holiday Price Rigidity and Cost of Price Adjustment March 2002 Abstract
2-02 Robert Barsky, Mark Bergen, Shantanu Dutta, and Daniel Levy What Can the Price Gap between Branded and Private Label Products Tell Us about Markups? March 2002 Abstract
1-02 Shoshana Neuman and Adrian Ziderman Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel February 2002 Abstract
19-01 Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport Ethnic Discrimination and the Migration of Skilled Labor December 2001 Abstract
18-01 Eliakim Katz and Jacob Rosenberg Property Rights, Theft, and Efficiency: The Biblical Waiver of Fines in the Case of Confessed Theft November 2001 Abstract
17-01 Eliakim Katz and Hillel Rapoport Macroeconomic Instability, Migration, and the Option Value of Education October 2001 Abstract
16-01 Daniel A. Schiffman Political-Legal Institutions and the Railroad Financing Mix, 1885-1929 September 2001 Abstract
15-01 Daniel A. Schiffman Determinants of Railroad Capital Structure, 1830-1885 July 2001 Abstract
14-01 Shirit Katav-Herz Social Conformity and Child Labor July 2001 Abstract
13-01 Abraham Lioui and Patrice Poncet General Equilibrium Pricing of Trading Strategy Risk July 2001 Abstract
12-01 Igal Milchtaich Network Topology and the Efficiency of Equilibrium June 2001 Abstract
11-01 Sarit Cohen and Chang-Tai Hsieh Macroeconomic and Labor Market Impact of Russian Immigration in Israel May 2001 Abstract
10-01 Abraham Lioui and Patrice Poncet Dynamic Asset Pricing With Non-Redundant Forwards May 2001 Abstract
9-01 Gil S. Epstien and
Avi Weiss
A Theory of Immigration Amnesties April 2001 Abstract
8-01 Damiano Bruno Silipo and Avi Weiss Cooperation and Competition in a Duopoly R&D Market March 2001 Abstract
7-01 Daniel A.Schiffman Shattered Rails,Ruined Credit: Financial Fragility and Railroad Operations in the Great Depression February 2001 Abstract
6-01 Gil S. Epstein and
Tikva Lecker
Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application February 2001 Abstract
5-01 Jacob Rosenberg Club Theory and The Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community (in Hebrew) February 2001 Abstract
4-01 Abraham Lioui and Patrice Poncet International Asset Allocation: A New Perspective February 2001 Abstract
3-01 Joseph Deutsch and
Jacques Silber
The Kuznets Curve and the Impact of Various Income Sources on the Link Between Inequality and Development February 2001 Abstract
2-01 Gershon Alperovich and
Joseph Deutsch
An Application of a Switching Regimes Regression to the Study of Urban Structure January 2001
1-01 Hillel Rapoport and
Avi Weiss
The Optimal Size for a Minority January 2001 Abstract
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