Prof. Avi Weiss

Telephone

+972-3-5318934

Fax

+972-3-7384034

Avi.Weiss@biu.ac.il

Office

211; Building : 504

Fields of Interest

Applied Microeconomics

Reception Hours

In advance by e-mail

PO Box

Research Categories

Education

Ph.D.	in Economics, The University of Chicago, December 1987. Dissertation: "Firm-Specific Physical Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Vertical Mergers." Chairman: Gary S. Becker (Nobel Laureate in Economics). Committee members: Dennis W. Carlton, Charles Kahn and George J. Stigler (Nobel Laureate in Economics).
M.A.	in Economics, The University of Chicago, December 1981.
B.A.	in Accounting and Economics (Double major), Bar-Ilan University, July 1979.

Professional Experience

Academic Experience

2012 – present	The Morris and Beatrice Glasser Memorial Chair in Accountancy, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2003 - present	Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
2005 - 2008	Chairman, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
1995 - 2002	Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
1991 - 1995	Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
1993	Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, New York University.
1992	Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York University.
1988 - 1991	Instructor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
1982	University of Chicago, PEW Fellowship Instructor in Economics.
1981 - 1983	University of Chicago, Research Assistant for Professor Allan Drazen.
1981 - 1983	University of Chicago, Research Assistant for Professor B. Peter Pashigian.
1981	University of Chicago, Research Assistant for Professor Dennis W. Carlton.
1980	University of Chicago, Teaching Assistant for Professor Sherwin Rosen.

Other Professional Experience

2013 – Present	Member, Pedagogical Committee, Bar-Ilan University
2010 – Present	Board of Directors, Tel-Aviv Cantorial Institute
2006 - 2012	Partner, Giza Singer Even, Ltd.
2011	Member of the Subcommittee on the Cost-of Living and Competition of the Trajtenberg Committee on Social Economic Change.
2003 - 2005	Chief Economist and Deputy Director, Israel Antitrust Authority.
2004	Consulting Member of the Bachar Intra-Agency Committee for Reform of the Financial Sector.
2000 - 2003	Board of Directors, The Wolfson Chair, Bar-Ilan University.
1999 - 2003	Member, Anti-Dumping Commission, Ministry of Industry and Trade.
1999 - 2003	Board of Directors, Chairman of Investment Committee, Bank Hapoalim Mutual Funds.
1998 - 2003	Member, Bar-Ilan University committee on Coordination and Planning of Youth Programs and Accredited Courses.
1996 - 2001	Chairman, Controller Committee, Faculty Organization, Bar-Ilan University.
1997 - 1998	Director, The Institute for Economic Research, Bar-Ilan University.
1994 - 1998	Director, The Azrieli Institute for Research on The Israeli Economy.
1993 - 1995	Member of the Senate of Bar-Ilan University (Lecturers representative).
1983 - 1988	Lexecon, Inc., Economic Consultant.
1978 - 1979	Professional Secretary, The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Israel.

Editorial Positions

2014 – present	Editor of The Economic Quarterly
2012 – present	Associate Editor of Economic Inquiry
2006 – 2013	Associate Editor of The Economic Quarterly
December 1992	Guest editor of the Special Issue of The Journal of Comparative Economics on Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Labor-Managed Firms, with Yehuda Don and Nava Kahana, 16, 4.

Research Center Affiliation

2000 - present

Research Fellow, IZA, Bonn, Germany.

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

1985 - 1986	Sarah Scaife Foundation Scholarship, provided by the Center for the Study of the Economy and the State.
1982	PEW Fellowships.
1981 - 1982	Earhart Foundation Fellowship.
1980 - 1983	Tuition fellowships.

Bar Ilan University

1977 - 1978	Award for excellence in studies.
1976 - 1977	Award for excellence in studies.
1976 - 1979	Tuition fellowships

Grants

Personal Grants

1993	The Pinhas Sapir Economic Policy Forum, Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, for "The Structure of Imports and Foreign Trade Liberalization: The Phenomenon of Sole Importerships," co-authored with Elise Brezis.
1995	Internal grant for the study of Experimental Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
1995	The Center for Defense and Peace Economics for the study of Optimal Rules for the IDF in Setting Requirements of Lengthened Service for General Human Capital Training, Bar-Ilan University.
1997	Internal grant for the study of Endogenous Bureaucracy, Bar-Ilan University.
1998	Internal grant for the study of Cooperative and Non-Cooperative R&D with Uncertainty and Spillovers, Bar-Ilan University.
2000	Internal grant for the study of The Optimal Size for a Minority, Bar-Ilan University.
2001	Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion University, for "Cooperative and Non-Cooperative R&D with Uncertainty and Spillovers".
2001	Internal grant for the study of Immigration Amnesties, Bar-Ilan University.
2001	Aharon Meir Center for the Research and Study of Banking, Bar-Ilan University, for "Cooling-off Periods and Red-Tape Formation in Central Banking".
2001	Ushi Friedman Foundation, Rupin Institute, for "Assessing the Level of Altruism Among Kibbutz Members".
2003	Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion University, for "The Interaction Of Research Joint Ventures, Independent Research And Development, And Market Structure: A Theoretical And Empirical Study".
2006	Foundation Ihel for "Assimilation and Cohesiveness in a Hostile Environment - Lessons From Spatial and Demographic Structure of Jewish Communities in Medieval Europe".
2011	Weizmann Institute of Science for “The Neural Basis of Economic Decision Making in View of Personality Traits”.
2011	Rector's Grant, Bar-Ilan University.
2011	Israel Science Foundation for “Money with Partially Directed Search: An Experimental Examination”.
2011	German-Israel Fund for “Pricing Strategies in a Dynamic Network Market: An Experimental Analysis”.

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.

Books

Guest editor of the Special Issue of The Journal of Comparative Economics on Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Labor-Managed Firms, with Yehuda Don and Nava Kahana, 16, 4, December 1992.
Edited Investigative Techniques Handbook of Merger Control, International Competition Network, 2005.
State of the Nation Report 2015: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, (edited with Dov Chernichovsky) Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2015. Available in English and in Hebrew.
A Picture of the Nation 2016: Israel's Society and Economy in Figures, Avi Weiss, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, May 2016. Available in English and in Hebrew.
State of the Nation Report 2016: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2016. Available in English and in Hebrew.
A Picture of the Nation 2017: Israel's Society and Economy in Figures, Avi Weiss, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, May 2017. Available in English and in Hebrew.
State of the Nation Report 2017: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2017. Available in English and in Hebrew.
A Picture of the Nation 2018: Israel's Society and Economy in Figures, Avi Weiss, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, May 2018. Available in English and in Hebrew.
State of the Nation Report 2018: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2018. Available in English and in Hebrew.
A Picture of the Nation 2019: Israel's Society and Economy in Figures, Avi Weiss, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, May 2019. Available in English and in Hebrew.
State of the Nation Report 2019: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2019. Available in English and in Hebrew.
A Picture of the Nation 2020: Israel's Society and Economy in Figures, Avi Weiss, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, May 2020. Available in English and in Hebrew.
State of the Nation Report 2020: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, December 2020. Available in English and in Hebrew.

Publications

"The Role of Firm Specific Capital in Vertical Mergers," The Journal of Law and Economics 35, 1: 71-88, April 1992.
"Using the Efficiencies Defense in Horizontal Mergers," The Antitrust Bulletin, 37, 1: 123-132, Spring 1992.
"The Efficiency of Labor Managed Firms with Heterogeneous Workers," (with Nava Kahana) Economic Analysis and Workers' Management 26, 3: 244-254, Autumn 1992.
"The Failure of Supply Response in Transition: A Market Based Explanation," (with Adi Schnytzer) Economic Systems 16, 2: 189-203, October 1992.
"Absenteeism: A Comparison of Incentives in Alternative Organizations," (with Nava Kahana) The Journal of Comparative Economics 16, 4: 573-595, December 1992.
"Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Labor-Managed Firms: Editors' Introduction," (with Yehuda Don and Nava Kahana) The Journal of Comparative Economics 16, 4: 567-572, December 1992.
"Beneficiaries from Federal Transfers to Municipalities The Case of Israel," (with Shimon Rozevitch) Public Choice 76, 4: 335-346, August 1993.
"Political Considerations in Governmental Grants to Municipalities in Israel," (with Shimon Rozevitch and Adi Schnytzer) The Economic Quarterly 40, 2: 207-214, August 1993 (in Hebrew).
"On the Revisited Illyrian Model and Perversity: The Case of the Long Run," (with Nava Kahana) Bulletin of Economic Research 46, 2: 131-137, April 1994.
"The Impact of Turnover Costs on Wage Differentials An Insider Outsider Approach," (with Jacob Rosenberg) Research on Economic Inequality 5: 213-230, 1994.
"Vertical Mergers and Firm Specific Physical Capital: Three Case Studies and Some Evidence on Timing," The Journal of Industrial Economics 42, 4: 395-417, December 1994.
"On the Effects of Schooling Vintage on Experience Earnings Profiles: Theory and Evidence," (with Shoshana Neuman) The European Economic Review 39: 943-955, 1995.
"The Structure of Imports and Foreign Trade Liberalization: The Phenomenon of Sole Importerships," (with Elise S. Brezis) The Economic Quarterly 42, 2: 267-283, August 1995 (in Hebrew).
"Fairness and Survival in Ultimatum and Dictatorship Games," (with Andrew Schotter and Inigo Zapater) The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 31: 37-56, 1996.
"Conscientious Regulation and Post-Regulatory Employment Restrictions," (with Elise S. Brezis) The European Journal of Political Economy 13, 3: 517-536, September 1997.
"Is a Cooling-Off Period for Regulators in the Public Sector Necessary?" (with Elise S. Brezis) The Economic Quarterly 45, 2: 397-412, June 1998 (in Hebrew).
"Creating Illegal Immigrants," (with Gil S. Epstein and Arye Hillman) Journal of Population Economics 12, 1: 3-21, February 1999.
"Beyond International Factor Movements: Cultural Preferences, Endogenous Policies and the Migration of People: An Overview," (with Arye Hillman) in Riccardo Faini, Jamie de Melo and Klaus F. Zimmermann, eds. Migration: The Controversies and the Evidence, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 76-91, 1999.
"Drug Addiction and the Economic Rationalization of Gun Control," (with Gil S. Epstein and Hillel Rapoport) Economics Letters 65, 1: 55-57, October 1999.
"A Theory of Permissible Illegal Immigration," (with Arye Hillman) European Journal of Political Economy 15, 4: 585-604, November 1999.
"The Jubilee as Antitrust Legislation," (with Jacob Rosenberg) Finance & Bien Commun/Common Good Supplement No. 1, Jean-Michel Bonvin ed. Debt and the Jubilee: Pacing the Economy 35-39, December 1999.
"The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education," (with Dennis W. Carlton) Journal of Legal Studies 30, 1: 253-275, January 2001. Formerly NBER Working Paper 7863. Reprinted in Richard Altschuler ed. Essential Readings On Jewish Identities, Lifestyles & Beliefs: Analyses of the Personal and Social Diversity of Jews by Modern Scholars, New York: Richard Altschuler & Associates, Inc. / Gordian Knot Books (forthcoming).
"Lessons from Halacha About Competition and Teaching," (with Dennis W. Carlton), Center for Business Ethics Social Responsibility, March 2001.
"Cooperative Minorities and Intergroup Hostility," (with Hillel Rapoport) Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 63-64: 171-182, December 2001.
"An Amnesty for Foreign Workers," (with Gil S. Epstein) The Economic Quarterly 49, 1: 107-120, March 2002 (in Hebrew).
"The Optimal Size for a Minority," (with Hillel Rapoport) The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 52: 27-45, September 2003.
"Cooperative and Non-Cooperative R&D with Uncertainty and Spillovers," (with Damiano Bruno Silipo), Research in Economics, 59: 41-57, 2005.
"On the Use of Terror Weapons vs. Modern Weapon Systems in an Arms Race Between Developed and Less Developed Countries," (with Kobi Kagan and Asher Tishler) Defense and Peace Economics, 16, 5: 331-46, October 2005.
"The Role of Economists and Economic Evidence in Merger Analysis," in Investigative Techniques Handbook of Merger Control, International Competition Network, June 2005.
"In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment - An Economic Perspective on some Aspects of Jewish Life in (pre-modern) Diaspora," (with Hillel Rapoport) in Carmel Chiswick, Tikva Lecker and Nava Kahan, eds. Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007.
"Moral Hazard" in William A. Darity, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, Macmillan Reference USA / Thomson Gale, 2007.
"Evaluating Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements, with Applications to the Israeli-Syrian and the North vs. South Korean Conflicts," (with Kobi Kagan, Alan Levkowitz and Asher Tishler) Defence and Peace Economics, 20, 2: 95-121, 2009.
"Credibility, Pre-Production and Inviting Competition in a Network Market," (with Amir Etziony), Review of Network Economics, 9, 1: Article 4 (1-32), 2010.
“Land Concentration, Efficiency, Slavery and the Jubilee” (with Jacob Rosenberg), in Aaron Levine, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics, Oxford: Oxford University Press 74-87, 2010. Translated into Hebrew for upcoming volume, Benny Porat and Hanoch Lavi, eds., Seekers of Justice: Economics and Society in Judaism.
“The Why, When and How of Immigration Amnesties” (with Gil S. Epstein), Journal of Population Economics 24, 1: 285-316, 2011.
“Ultimatum Game Behavior in Light of Attachment Theory” (with Shaul Almakias), Journal of Economic Psychology 33, 3: 515-526, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.joep.2011.12.012.
“Property Rights and Institutions in Biblical Society: The Purchase of the Cave of the Patriarchs” (with Jacob Rosenberg), European Journal of Political Economy 28, 3, 279-285, 2012, doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2011.01.002.
“Inviting Competition to Achieve Critical Mass” (with Amir Etziony), Review of Network Economics 11, 2: Article 4 (1-20), 2012.
“The Effect of Time on Default Remedies for Breach of Contract” (with Osnat Jacobi), International Review of Law and Economics 35: 13-25, 2013, oi:10.1016/j.irle.2012.11.004.
“Allocation of Fault in Contract Law” (with Osnat Jacobi), International Review of Law and Economics 36: 1-11, October 2013, doi: 10.1016/j.irle.2013.02.002.
Etziony, Amir, Ruffle Bradley and Avi Weiss, “The Role of Critical Mass in Establishing a Successful Network Market: An Experimental Investigation,” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 58: 101-110, 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.socec.2015.08.001.
Boshi, Shlomi, Moshik Lavie and Avi Weiss, “The Demand for Free Goods: An Experimental Investigation,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 123: 108-121, 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.12.004.
Sherman Joshua and Avi Weiss, “Price Response, Asymmetric Information and Competition,” The Economic Journal 125: 2077-2115, December 2015, doi: 10.1111/ecoj.12178.
Brand, Gilad, Avi Weiss and Assaf Zimring, “The Macro Picture of Israel’s Economy in 2017,”in Avi Weiss, ed. State of the Nation Report 2017: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, 17-43, December 2017. Available in English and in Hebrew.
Fuchs, Hadas and Avi Weiss, “Israel’s Labor Market: An Overview,” in Avi Weiss, ed. State of the Nation Report 2018: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, 85-104, December 2018. Available in English and in Hebrew.
Batrancea, Larissa, Ana Maria Cesar, Aidin Salamzadeh, Alexis Belianin, Ali Hasanain, Anca Nichita, Anthony Essel-Anderson, Barbara Summers, Benno Torgler, Binglin Gong, Ceyhan Aldemir, Christine Roland-Levy, Christoph Kogler, Chun Xia, Clara Villegas Palacio, Diana Bank Weinberg, Elaine Doyle, Engin Bağış Öztürk, Erich Kirchler, Erik Hoelzl, Felipe de Jesús Bello Gómez, George Naufal, Georgia Kaplanoglou, Gloria Alarcón-García, Ioan Batrancea, Jane Frecknall-Hughes, Janusz Kudła, Jerome Olsen, Joanne Fuller, Jonas Fooken, Jérémy E Lemoine, József Pántya, Katarina Nordblom, Komsan Suriya, Lucia Savadori, Luis Pacheco, Manoj Sharma, Marie Briguglio, Markus Schaffner, Martine Visser, Medhat Hassanein, Oana Apostol, Quoc Tran, Rebone Gcabo, Sanjeev Mehta, Sara Ennya, Sarunas Zukauskas, Sejin Min, Sheheryar Banuri, Sunghwan Yi, Supanika Leurcharusmee, Thorolfur Matthiasson, Valerij Dermol, Vassilis Rapanos, Vidar Schei, Yoichi Hizen and Mervi Niskanen, “Trust and Power as Fundamental Determinants of Tax Compliance across Nations,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 74, 102191, October 2019, doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2019.102191.
Camera, Gabriele, Dror Goldberg and Avi Weiss, “Endogenous market formation and monetary trade: an experiment,” Journal of the European Economic Association 18, 3, June 2020, doi:10.1093/jeea/jvz020.
Zontag, Noam, Gil Epstein and Avi Weiss, “The Israeli Labor Market Under Coronavirus: An Overview,” in Avi Weiss, ed. State of the Nation Report 2020: Society, Economy and Policy in Israel, Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel, XXX-YYY, December 2020. Available in English and in Hebrew.

Last Updated Date : 04/12/2022