August 2007
ALEX CUKIERMAN - CURRICULUM VITA 

e-mail: alexcuk@post.tau.ac.il 
Tel: + 972-3-6409-909 
Fax: + 972-3-6409-908


A. Areas of Interest and Research

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
 


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).