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ABOUT US

The department of economics, with about 25 full-time faculty members actively engaged in research, teaches around 1000 students in programs leading to BA, MA and PhD degrees in economics >>

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DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR

Due to the tragic events of October 7th and the postponement of the semester, our seminar will resume on January 11th, 2024 (11:15-12:30, bldg. 73, room 465). Job talks will begin in mid-December 2023 >>

Departmental Seminars

Announcements

  • 27/05/2025

    New WP by Dr. Dan Ben-Moshe: ​Identifying the Frontier Structural Function and Bounding Mean Deviations

    This paper analyzes a model in which an outcome variable equals a frontier function of inputs less a nonnegative unobserved deviation. If zero lies in the support of the deviation given inputs, then the frontier function is identified by the supremum outcome at those inputs. This obviates the need for instrumental variables. Implementation requires allowing for the distribution of deviations to depend on inputs, thus not ruling out endogeneity. Including random errors yields a stochastic frontier analysis model. We generalize this model to allow the joint distribution of deviations and errors to depend on inputs. We derive a lower bound for the mean deviation based only on variance and skewness, requiring no other distributional assumptions and remaining valid even when zero is not in the support of deviations or data are sparse near the frontier. We apply our results to a frontier production function, where deviations represent inefficiencies.

    Link to Working Paper​

    will be presented at the 1st International Conference on Applied Economics and Financial Issues, to be held in Thessaloniki on August 28–29, 2025

  • 27/05/2025

    June 23–25, 2025: Efficient Markets Workshop at BGU

    The efficient market hypothesis states that security prices fully reflect all the information in the market. Theoretical and empirical results, however, cast doubt on the universality of this principle. Beginning with the seminal work by Plott and Sunder (1982,1988), experimental markets played an important role in testing and defining the boundaries of efficient markets. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers to share cutting edge research on efficient markets and map the challenges and research directions ahead. Topics include the comparative efficiency of different market mechanisms, trader’s psychology and its effect on market efficiency, manipulation in markets, and policy design.

    Organizing committee Lawrence Choo (University of Macau) Todd Kaplan (University of Haifa and University of Exeter) Yaron Lahav (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Yulia Neleptchenko (University of Haifa) Ro’i Zultan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

    registration and program​
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  • 11/02/2024

    20-21.3.24 The 2024 conference hosted by The Crown Family Israel Center for Innovation (ICI)

    We are excited to extend a warm invitation to all members of economics department and business schools in Israel for the upcoming ​​2024 conference hosted by The Crown Family Israel Center for Innovation (ICI) at the Kellogg School of Management.

    Details of the conference are as follows:

    Date: March 20-21, 2024
    Location: Jerusalem

    Below is a list of confirmed speakers:

    • Itai Ashlagi, Stanford University
    • Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
    • Liran Einav, Stanford University
    • Edward Glaeser, Harvard University
    • Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University
    • Ariel Pakes, Harvard University
    • Al Roth, Stanford University
    Looking forward to the possibility of your participation.


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