Prof. Avi Weiss

Education

Professional Experience

Academic Experience

Other Professional Experience

Editorial Positions

Research Center Affiliation

Referee for Journals

• American Economic Review;
• Bar-Ilan Law Studies;
• Defence and Peace Economics;
• The Economic Journal;
• The Economic Quarterly;
• Economics and Human Biology;
• Economics Bulletin;
• Economic Inquiry;
• Economics Letters;
• European Economic Review;
• The European Journal of Political Economy;
• Experimental Economics;
• International Economics and Economic Policy;
• International Journal of Game Theory;
• International Journal of Manpower;
• The Journal of Comparative Economics;
• Journal of Development Studiesף
• The Journal of Econometrics;
• Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control;
• Journal of the European Economic Association;
• The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development;
• The Journal of Law and Economics;
• The Journal of Population Economics;
• Journal of Public Economics;
• Journal of Public Economic Theory;
• Labour Economics;
• Management Science;
• Mathematical Social Sciences;
• Public Choice;
• Quarterly Journal of Economics;
• Research on Income Inequality;
• Review of Development Economics;
• The Scandinavian Journal of Economics;
• Social Science Journal

Referee for Institutions and Foundations

• The Academic College of Judea and Samaria
• Bar-Ilan Law Faculty
• Ben Gurion University
• Council for Higher Education (MALAG)
• Economic & Social Research Council
• Everyman's University
• Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University
• The German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment
• Israel Foundations Trustees
• The Israel Science Foundation
• Ministry of Science and Technology, Israel
• Northern Illinois University
• Ono Academic College
• The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development Tel-Aviv University
• Technion Israel Institute of Technology
• United States - Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund
• University of Haifa
• The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
• York University, Faculty of Arts, Committee on Research, Grants and Scholarships

Academic Honors and Fellowships

University of Chicago

Bar Ilan University

Grants

Personal Grants

Institutional Grant Pivotal in founding the Aharon Meir Center for the Research and Study of Banking at Bar-Ilan University, and in raising nearly $1,250,000 for the operation of the Center.

Awards

• Outstanding Lecturer Award - Awarded on May 23, 1995 by the Student Union Council. Chosen as one of the top five lecturers at Bar-Ilan University.
• Koret Prize - second place in paper competition on "How can Israel achieve economic self-sufficiency," 1997-1998, Koret Foundation.

Supervision of Graduate Students

Masters Students

• Boshi, Shlomi – The Effects of Free Consumption Possibility for Zero-Price Products (completed 2013).
• Shichman, Ruslan – What Goals do We Pursue in Punishment/Revenge? (completed 2012).

Doctoral Students

• Almakias, Shaul - Social Preference, Other-Regarding Behavior, and Punishment in View of Attachment Theory (completed 2008).
• Ayal, Adi - Monopoly as a Democracy Issue: A Proposed Model for the Justification of Antitrust Law (completed 2001, with honors; valedictorian).
• Etziony, Amir - Strategic Behavior Under Network Externalities (completed 2001).
• Jacobi, Osnat - Ceasing Liability: From a Unilateral Exit to a Consensual Cessation - A New Perspective on Specific Performance (completed 2009).
• Kagan, Kobi - Optimal Structure of a Defense System in Model of Arms Races Between Developed and Less Developed Countries and the Use of Terror Weapons (completed 2004).
• Sherman, Joshua - Methods in Measuring Competitive Conduct and Social Efficiency: Applications to the Mahane Yehuda Outdoor Market in Jerusalem (completed 2011).

Conferences and Sessions Organized

• “Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Labor-Managed Firms,” International conference organized with Yehuda Don and Nava Kahana, Bar-Ilan University, May 25-28, 1992.
• “The Israeli Economy - 1995,” organized under the auspices of The Azrieli Institute for Research on The Israeli Economy, Bar-Ilan University, February 8, 1995.
• Symposium on the Privatization Process in Israel, Bar-Ilan University, February 1, 1996.
• European Public Choice Society 1996 Meetings, Advisory Committee, Bar-Ilan University and Tiberias, Israel, March 10-13, 1996.
• “The Economics of Judaism and Jewish Observance,” Advisory Committee, Bar-Ilan University, December 13-15, 1998.
• “Law, Jewish Law and Economics,” Advisory Committee, Bar-Ilan University, December 16-17, 1998.
• Israel Economic Association Meetings, Organized Session on "Market Structure," June 1, 2009.
• Israel Economic Association Meetings, Organized Session on "Regulation and Antitrust," June 4, 2013.

Papers Presented at Conferences

• “The Impact of Firing Costs on Wage Differentials ‑ An Insider‑Outsider Approach,” co‑authored with Jacob Rosenberg, International Workshop on the Economics of Labor Market Discrimination and Segregation, Bar‑Ilan University, June 3‑4, 1991.
• “Political Considerations in Governmental Grants to Municipalities in Israel,” co-authored with Shimon Rozevitch and Adi Schnytzer, Israel Economic Association Meetings, December 25-26, 1991.
• “Absenteeism: When Effort is (Partially) Observable,” co-authored with Nava Kahana, International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Labor-Managed Firms, Bar-Ilan University, May 25-28, 1992.
• “The Structure of Imports and Foreign Trade Liberalization: The Phenomenon of Sole Importerships,” co-authored with Elise Brezis, Israel Economic Association Meetings, December 12-13, 1993.
• “Why Illegal Immigration is Illegal, and Why It Exists,” co-authored with Arye Hillman, CEPR Workshop on The Political Economy of Illegal Immigration, Halkidiki, Greece, September 14-16, 1995.
• “Restrictions on Regulators’ Employment - A Public Choice Perspective,” co-authored with Elise Brezis, Israel Economic Association Meetings, December 24, 1995.
• “Why Illegal Immigration is Permitted,” co-authored with Arye Hillman, European Public Choice Society Meetings, Bar-Ilan University and Tiberias, Israel, March 10-13, 1996.
• “Restrictions on Regulators’ Employment - A Public Choice Perspective,” co-authored  with Elise Brezis, European Public Choice Society Meetings, Bar-Ilan University and Tiberias, Israel, March 10-13, 1996.
• “An Economic Approach to Jewish Law - The Case of Accident Law,” co-authored with Jacob Rosenberg, European Association of Law and Economics Conference, Haifa, Israel, August 27-29, 1996.
• “Creating Illegal Immigrants,” co-authored with Gil Epstein and Arye Hillman, CEPR Workshop on The Political Economy of Illegal Immigration, Athens, Greece, February 14-15, 1997.
• “Endogenous Red-Tape: Bureaucracy as Oil on the Hinges of a Revolving Door,” co-authored with Elise S. Brezis and Jacob Paroush, European Public Choice Society Meetings, Gteburg, Sweden, April 30 - May 3, 1998.
• “Endogenous Red-Tape: Bureaucracy as Oil on the Hinges of a Revolving Door,” co-authored with Elise S. Brezis and Jacob Proush, Israel Economic Association Meetings, May 21, 1998.
• “The Jubilee as Antitrust Litigation,” co-authored with Jacob Rosenberg, The Jubilee and its Economic and Social Implications, Jerusalem, Israel, May 27 - May 29, 1998.
• “Inferring Values from Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition,” co-authored with Dennis W. Carlton, Law, Jewish Law and Economics, Ramat-Gan, Israel, December 16-17, 1998.
• “Endogenous Red-Tape: Bureaucracy as Oil on the Hinges of a Revolving Door,” co-authored with Elise S. Brezis and Jacob Proush, Association of Southern European Theorists Meetings, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 10-11, 1999.
• “The Optimal Size for a Minority,” co-authored with Hillel Rapoport, Social Interactions and Economic Behavior, Paris, France, December 16-18, 1999.
• “The Return of Land in the Jubilee: An Economic Model,” co-authored with Jacob Rosenberg, International Conference on Biblical Economics, Jerusalem, Israel, June 5-7,  2000.
• “The Optimal Size for a Minority,” co-authored with Hillel Rapoport, The Economics of Judaism and Jewish Human Capital, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., June 20-22, 2000.
• “A Theory of Immigration Amnesties,” co-authored with Gil S. Epstein, European Public Choice Society, Paris, France, April 18-21, 2001.
• “A Theory of Immigration Amnesties,” co-authored with Gil S. Epstein, Israel Economic Association Meetings, May 3, 2001.
• "Cooperation and Competition in an R&D Market with Spillovers," co-authored with Damiano Bruno Silipo, Israel Economic Association Meetings, May 8, 2002.
• "Coordination and Critical Mass in a Network Market - An Experimental Evaluation," co-authored with Amir Etziony, Economic Science Association Meetings, Boston, Massachusetts, June 27-30, 2002.
• “Coordination and Critical Mass in a Network Market – An Experimental Evaluation,” co-authored with Amir Etziony, Workshop on Coordination, Incomplete Information, and Iterated Dominance: Theory and Empirics, Barcelona, Spain, August 18-19, 2002.
• “The Ultimatum Game and Expected Utility Maximization in View of Attachment Theory,” co-authored with Shaul Almakias, Economic Science Association Meetings, Haifa, Israel, 2009.
• “Coordination and Critical Mass in a Network Market: An Experimental Investigation,” co-authored with Amir Etziony and Bradley Ruffle, Economic Science Association Meetings, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 8-11, 2010.
• “Allocation of Fault in Contract Law,” co-authored with Osnat Jacobi, Israel Economic Association Meetings, June 6, 2011.
• “Competition and Price Dispersion in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market,” co-authored with Joshua Sherman, ASSA meetings, Chicago, Illinois, USA, January 5-8, 2012.
• “Price Response, Asymmetric Information and Competition: A Theoretical and Empirical Study,” co-authored with Joshua Sherman, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics Meetings, Rome, Italy, September 2-5, 2012.
• “Assimilation and Cohesiveness in a Hostile Environment: Theory and Evidence from Jewish communities in the 14^th Century Provence,” co-authored with Hillel Rapoport, Economic History of the Jews throughout the Ages: Sources, Methodologies, Narratives, Bar-Ilan University, June 5-6, 2013.
• “Allocation of Fault in Contract Law,” co-authored with Osnat Jacobi, 30th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Law and Economics, University of Warsaw, Poland, September 26-28, 2013.
• “The Effect of Time on Default Remedies for Breach of Contract,” co-authored with Osnat Jacobi, Annual Meeting of the Israeli Law and Economics Association, Tel-Aviv University, December 26, 2013.