Professor Emeritus Warren Young

Email
Warren.Young@biu.ac.il
Office
217; Building : 504
PO Box
25
Research Categories
CV

Education

Year

Degree

Institution

1970

B.Sc.

NYU Polytechnic University, NY

1979

Ph.D.

University of Cambridge, England

Academic Affilations/Appointments

1974-1975

Lecturer, Sociology, University of Maryland

1977-1978

Adjunct Lecturer, Economics, Ruppin College, Israel

1980-1985

Lecturer, Sociology of Technology, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel

1985-1986

Visiting Scholar, Economics, University of Cambridge and Wolfson College, Cambridge

1986-1987

Senior Lecturer, Economics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

1991-1992

Senior Lecturer, Economics Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

1993-1994

Adjunct Senior Lecturer,  Economics, Ben Gurion University

1994-2007

Associate Professor (tenure track), Economics,

Bar Ilan University

2007-present

Tenured Associate Professor, Bar Ilan University

Full Professor (as of August 2017)

2007-present

Visiting Scholar, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie-Mellon University (renewed annually)

Supervision of Graduate Students

M.A. Students

In the past:
  • Tamir Levy, “Compulsory Loans in Israel”, 2000
  • Eli Goldstein, “Essays on Open Economy Macromodels", 2002
  • Shlomi Zidki, "Essays on Consumer Behavior", 2004
  • Amir Hadad, "The Laffer Effect and the Laffer Curve", 2005
  • Sagit Cohen, "The Emergence of the Middle Class". 2008
  • Roi Frayberg, "Central Bank Capture in Times of Crisis", 2010
  • Yossi Grisis, "Essays on Economic Growth", 2012
  • Itay Shilian, "Renewable Energy in Israel", 2015
  • Rafael Ben Hamu, "Wastewater Externalities in Israel", 2015
  • Yonatan Hayun ," Consumption-Savings Behavior in Israel ", 2016
  • Igor Portnoy, "Financial Development and Growth in Israel", 2016

Ph.D Students:

In the past:
  • Yehoshua Amrani (Political Science), Ph.D awarded. Bar Ilan (2004), (joint supervisor with Stuart Cohen, Political Science)
  • Eli Goldstein, , “Market Failure, Regulatory Failure, Myopia and Interes
  • Groups in the Electricity Market", Ph.D awarded, Bar Ilan (2006) (joint supervisor with E. Brezis, Economics)
  • Yaakov Yahav, Ph.D Thesis "Electricity Regulation and Supply Reliability: the case of Israel", Dept. of Industrial Management, Ben Gurion University, joint supervisor with Prof. Gideon Oron] Ph.D awarded, Ben Gurion (2008)
  • Avner Shevach, Ph.D awarded Bar Ilan (2013), "Essays on Conspicuous Consumption and Conspicuous Production
Being Supervised Today:
  • Roi Frayberg "Essays on Central Banking" (proposal approved, 2016)
  • Yonatan Hayun "Essays on Wealth Shocks" (proposal in preparation)
Graduate students Supervision (Post Doctoral)
  • Dr. Leshan Jin  Kort Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bar Ilan, 2001
  • Dr. Guowen Han, Kort Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bar Ilan, 2005

Awards/Honors

1972

Political Science Fund and Churchill College Grant, Cambridge

1987

Victoria University of Wellington Research Grant, NZ $10,000

1987

Faculty Research Award, VUW, NZ $5000

1987

Reserve Bank of New Zealand Research Grant , NZ$ 10,000

1992

Australian Research Council Grant, A$15,000

1993-

 2003 Royal Economic Society Research Grants  1500 Pounds

1995-present

2003 Internal Research Grants, Bar Ilan University

2014-2017 Tepper School of Business, Dean's Grants , $5000

Courses Taught/Teaching Experience

Undergraduate:

B.A History of Economic Thought, Israel Economics, Macroeconomics, International Economics

Graduate:

M.A. History of Economic Thought, Macroeconomics

MIT-Bar Ilan Exchange Program Undergraduates supervised

  • Donald Dawkins, Project: "Modigliani-Miller: a history"
  • Stuart Finney, Project: "Sloan School Working Papers in Economics"

Past Research Interersts

  1. History of IS-LM model and Hicksian Economics
  2. History of Open Economy Macroeconomics

Current Main Research Interests

  1. History of Modern Quantitative and "Freshwater" Economics (RBC, RE, CGE, DSGE)
  2. History of Modern Growth Theory Project (with S. Spear, Tepper/CMU)
  3. History of GSIA and Carnegie-Mellon/Tepper School contributions
  4. History of Federal Reserve (Board vs District Banks)
  5. Energy and Resource Economics

Organized Scientific Conference and Sessions (Organizer and Co-Organizer)

PROFESSIONAL FUNCTIONS: (Memberships/Editorial Activities/Keynote in Conference)

  1. Symposia and Book Review Editor , European Journal of Political Economy
  2. Book Review Editor, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development
  3. Editorial Board, Asia-Pacific Journal of Economics and Business
  4. Member: AEA, SEM, HES, EHES
  5. Monetary Dynamics and the Mundell-Fleming Priority Question" (with R. Boyer),
  6. Fordham University Distinguished Seminar Lecture, Feb. 2005
  7. Reviewer and Book Reviewer for: Journal of Monetary Economics, History of Political Economy, Economica, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Bar Ilan University Press, University of Michigan Press

Scientific Conferences and Panels Organized

  1. International Conference: The Open Economy Macromodel- Past, Present and Future, 17-24 June, 2001, Bar Ilan and Ben Gurion Universities, Ed. Conference volume, The Open Economy Macromodel: past, present and future (editor, with Arie Arnon), Kluwer Academic Press/Springer , 2002; ISBN 1-4020-7162-0; 342 pp.
  2. Guggenheim International  Conference : Perspectives on Keynesian Economics, 14-15 July 2009 , Ben Gurion University, Ed. Conference volume, Perspectives on Keynesian Economics (editor, with Arie Arnon and Jimmy Weinblat), Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-11408-0;  304 pp. Guggenheim
  3. Rational Expectations: Retrospect and Prospect, ASSA/AEA Panel, Jan. 2011 (with Kevin Hoover)  published as "Rational Expectations: Retrospect and Prospect" (with Kevin Hoover), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 17,5, 2013, pp. 1169-1192
  4. Guggenheim International Conference: David Hume after 300 Years, 12-13 Dec. 2011, Ben Gurion University
  5. Real Business Cycles after Three Decades, ASSA/AEA Panel ,  Jan. 2013 (with Sumru Altug)  published as "Real Business Cycles after Three Decades", Macroeconomic Dynamics, 19 ,2, March 2015 pp. 425-445(with Sumru Altug)
  6. Optimal Growth Theory after 50 years, ASSA/AEA Panel   Jan. 2015 (with Steve Spear) in preparation for Macroeconomic Dynamics
  7. Guggenheim  International Conference: Economic Research and Policy at the Federal Reserve,  sole organizer, June 2015, Geneva, International Institute for Economics, University of Geneva, Conference Volume: Federal Reserve Research and Policy Making (editor, with R. McGregor and D. Thornton, Springer, in preparation, 2018)
  8. Guggenheim International Conference: Expectations: Theory and Applications in Historical Perspective, Dec. 2017, Ben Gurion University, organized with Arie Arnon and Karine van der Beek

Last Updated Date : 16/11/2022