| A. |
Areas of Interest and Research |
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Macro and Monetary Economics with
particular emphasis on the economics and politics of central banking, Interaction
between Monetary Institutions and Labor Market Institutions, European Monetary Unification, Choice
of Exchange Rate Regime and Speculative Attacks, Asymmetric Central Bank Preferences
and Monetary Policy Rules, Political Economy
and the Positive Theory of Economic Policy, Government Debt and Deficits,
Imperfect Information, Inflation and Relative Prices, Inflationary Expectations
and Business Cycles. |
| B. |
Education |
|
| 1968/69-1972
M.I.T. |
Economics |
Ph.D. |
Fall
1972 |
| 1964/65-1967
Hebrew University |
Economics
with a minor in Business Administration |
M.A. |
Fall
1967 |
| 1960/61-1963
Hebrew University |
Economics
and Statistics |
B.A. |
Fall
1963 |
|
| C. |
Academic Positions (since the early eighties) |
|
Winter 2007
|
Department of Economics, UC at Santa Cruz
|
Visiting Professor
|
2005/06
|
Department of Economics, Princeton University
|
Visiting Professor
|
| Spring 2001 and Spring 2002 |
Department of Economics, Stanford University |
Visiting Professor |
| Since
1984 |
Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University |
Professor of Economics |
| Spring
1995 |
University of Chicago-CSES |
Visiting
Professor |
| 1994 - 2003 |
CentER, Tilburg University |
Senior Research Fellow |
| Summers 1990 - 1992 |
World Bank |
Visiting Research Fellow |
| 1989/90 |
Department of Economics,
Princeton University |
Visiting
Professor of Economics |
| Summer
1989 |
Free University of
Berlin |
Bundesbank
Visiting Professor |
| Fall and
Winter 1988/89 |
GSIA
Carnegie-Mellon University |
Visiting
Professor of Economics |
| 1986-
June 88 |
Department of Economics Tel Aviv
University |
Chairman |
| Summer 1985 |
Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of St-Louis |
Visiting Research Fellow |
| 1983-85 |
GSIA
Carnegie-Mellon University |
Visiting
Professor of Economics |
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|
| D. |
Teaching by
Decreasing Order of Personal Preference |
|
Economics and Politics of Central
Banking and Strategic Aspects of Monetary Policy,
Macroeconomics (with particular
emphasis on endogenous policymaking)
Political Economy, Inflation. |
| E. |
Other Professional
Activities |
|
| a
. |
President - Israeli Economic Association:
December 1995-December 1997. |
| b
. |
Member - Commission on Reform of the Law of the Bank of Israel, 1998. |
| c. |
Research Fellow , Center for Economic
Policy Research (CEPR). |
| d
. |
Associate Editor - European Journal
of Political Economy, 1991-February 2000. |
| e
. |
Board of Editors of Economic Inquiry;
1985-1996. |
| f. |
Associate Editor - European Economic
Review, 1986-1987. |
| g. |
Member of the Organizing Committee
for the World Congress of the Econometric Society - Summer 1985. |
| h. |
Consultant - Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
(DG II) of the Commission of the European Communities, 1982-83. |
| i. |
Editor, Economic Quarterly (in
Hebrew). |
|
| F. |
Honors |
|
Listed in:Who is Who in Economics
- A Biographical Dictionary of Major Economists 1700 - 1986, MIT Press and Wheatsheaf Books 1986.Who's
Who in Economics, 2003, Fourth Edition, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK and
Northampton, MA, USA.
Awarded:
The 1993 Yavor prize for best paper
on Development Issues.
(The prize is awarded anually by
the Horowitz Institute for Research on Developing Countries at Tel Aviv
University). “Student rated best Ph.D. course” in the 1995 Network
of countrywide Ph.D. courses, Utrecht, The Netherlands for the course; “Central
Bank Stategy, Credibility and Independence”, (out of 19 courses).
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