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BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

CURRICULUM VITAE

GIL S. EPSTEIN

PERSONAL DATA

Address: Shaclav 28a, Ness Ziona, 74202 Israel

Telephone: (h) 972 8 938 9991; (m) 972 52 8 550 407; (w) 972 3 531

8937

Email: Gil.Epstein@biu.ac.il

Homepage: http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~epsteig

I.D. 59190843

Place of birth: Tel Aviv, Israel

Date of birth: December 26, 1964

Nationality: Israeli, Irish

Marital status: Married, four children

EDUCATION

1988-1994 Ph.D., Economics and Statistics, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem.

1986-1988 M.A., Economics and Statistics, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem.

1983-1986 B.A., Economics and Statistics, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem.

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

1985-1988 Teacher Assistant, Department of Economics and Department of

Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1988-1993 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Economics and Department

of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1993 - 1996 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of

Pennsylvania.

1996 – 2000 Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.

2000 Tenure, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University

2000 – 2003 Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.

2002 – 2007 Vice chair, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.

2003 – 2007 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan

University.

2007 – Present Professor, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.

2008 - 2011 Chairman Scholarship Committee for MA students of the

University, Bar-Ilan University.

2008 - 2011 Chairman Committee for MA students of the University, Bar-

Ilan University

2011- 2016 Dean, School of Graduate Studies, University, Bar-Ilan

University.

Chairman, Scholarship Committee for PhD students.

Chairman, Scholarship Committee for MA students.

Chairman, President’s Scholarship Committee for PHD

students.

2015 - Present Chairman, Unit for Diploma and External Studies.

2016 - Present Dean, The Center for Designated Programs.

(Till October 2017 called: Regional Colleges, Preparatory Programs

and Credential and Certificated Programs).

2018 – Present Sir Isaac Wolfson Chair in Economics, Bar-Ilan Univrsity.

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Other Positions:

2000 - 2006 Board member and Chairman of the Audit Committee –EcTel

Ld (NASAQ: ECTX)

2013 - Present Member of the finance committee, Bar-Ilan University

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

2001 - present Associate Editor, Journal of Population Economics.

2007 - present Associate Editor, economics.

2008 - present Editorial Advisory Board, The Open Political Science Journal.

2006 Editor, Special Issue on Political Economy and Population

Economics, Journal of Population Economics 19(2), 2006, (with

Alessandro Cigno).

RESEARCH INSTITUTION AFFILIATIONS

1997 - 2005 Research Affiliate, CEPR, London.

1999 - present Research Fellow, IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn.

2002 – present Sidney I. Simon Fellow – Rutgers University.

2006 – present Research Fellow, CReAM - Centre for Research and Analysis

Of Migration, London.

2010 – present LdA Fellow, Ld’A Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, Milano, Italy.

2016 - present Research Fellow – RWI, Germany

2017 – present Research Fellow, GLO – Global Labor Organization, Germany

2018 – present Principle Researcher Taub Center, Jerusalem.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1985 Dean's Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of

Jerusalem.

1990 Keren Meyasdim Grant, in recognition of the contribution of the Ph.D.

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thesis.

1986-1993 Excellent Proficiency Grant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1993 Best lecturer in the Statistics Department, awarded by the students'

union.

2001 The Aaron Meir Center for Banking

(“Productivity and Promotion in the Banking System”)

2002 Yakove Levinson Forum

(“A sequential model of tax evasion and tax reform”)

2003 The Aaron Meir Center for Banking

(“Monitoring Productivity and Privilege Seeking Activities in the

Banking System”)

2002-2004 The Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

(“Public Policy Determination: A Political-Economic Contest

Approach”, with Shmuel Nitzan)

2007 Emerald Award Winner: Recognized as an Outstanding Paper at the

Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, for the paper: Gil S.

Epstein and Melanie E. Ward, 2006 "Perceived Income, Promotion and

Incentive Effects", International Journal of Manpower 27(2): 104-125.

2009-2011 German Israeli foundation - G.I.F,

("The Economic Integration of Immigrants from Eastern Europe and

Second-Generation Migrants in Israel and Germany", with Thomas K.

Bauer and Sarit Goldner).

2015-2016 UNU-WIDER Project ‘The Economics and Politics of Taxation and

Social Protection’

(Taxation, Social Protection and Governance Decentralization with Ira

Gang)

COURSES TAUGHT

B.A. Analysis of Variance and Regression with Computer Application (SAS).

Intermediate Microeconomics (econ 3).

Introduction to Economics (econ 1 and 2).

Introduction to Econometrics with Computer Applications (SAS).

Introduction to Markov Processes.

Introduction to Statistics.

Non-Parametric Statistics.

Regression Models.

Operations research.

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M.A and Ph.D Political Economy

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION Program committee

2007 European Society of Population Economics (ESPE2007) –

Chicago.

SHORT VISITS 1999 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

1999 Nov. Visiting Erasmus University, Rotterdam (Invited).

2000 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2001 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2002 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2002 Sep.-Oct. Visiting Rutgers University, USA (Invited).

2003 Sep. Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2004 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2005 Jan. Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2005 June Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2006 Feb. Visiting HWWA – Hamburg Institute for International

Economics (Invited).

2006 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2007 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2008 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited).

2008 October Visiting-SULCIS Stockholm University. (Invited)

2009 July Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited)

2010 September Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited)

2011 September Visiting IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn (Invited)

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REFEREEING PROPOSALS FOR GRANTS AND OTHERS

GIF - German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development;

GIF – Advisor, Young Scientists' Program

The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development;

IFT - Israel Foundations Trustees;

ISF – Israel Science Foundation;

BSF - US-Israel Binational Science Foundation;

SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

FWF - Austrian Science Fund

CERGE - Global Development Research Competition, Prague.

NCCR - National Centres of Competence in Research, Swish National Science

Foundation

REFEREEING FOR JOURNALS American Economic Review (AER);

American Economic Journal;

Economic Policy;

CESifo Economic Studies;

Canadian Journal of Economics;

Constitutional Political Economy;

Contemporary Economic Policy (CEP);

Economics of Education Review;

Economic Inquiry (EI);

Economics of Governance;

Economics and Politics (EP);

Economic Journal (EJ);

Economic Theory (ET);

Empirical Economics (EMEC):

European Journal of Political Economy (EJPE);

European Economic Review (EER);

Games and Economics Behavior;

German Economic Review (GER);

Growth and Change;

International Economic Review (IER);

International Journal of Social Welfare;

International Migration;

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International Migration Review (IMR);

International Studies of Management and Organization (ISMO);

IZA Journal of Migration;

IZA World of Labor;

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO);

Journal of Economics;

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (JEMS);

Journal of Development Economics (JDE);

Journal of Development Studies;

Journal of Population Economics;

Journal of Public Economic Theory (JPET);

Journal of Public Economics;

Journal of Regional Science;

International Journal of Manpower (IJM);

International Tax and Public Finance (ITAX);

Labour Economics;

Managerial and Decision Economics (MDE);

Mathematical Population Studies: An International Journal of Mathematical

Demography;

Population Studies;

Public Choice;

Regional Science;

Regional Science and Urban Economics;

Review of Development Economics (RDE);

Review of Economics and Statistics (RES);

Social Science Research (SSR);

Springer Books;

The Economic Quarterly;

The IZA World of Labor;

The Manchester School;

The Open Political Science Journal;

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics;

The Singapore Economic Review (SER);

World Development.

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SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

MA Students:

In the past: Asher Barak (Optimal Parking Policy, 2003),;

Odeliya Cohen (Locational Choice of Migrants in Israel 2003);

Renana Pomerantz (Concentrated Markets and Rent Seeking, 2005);

Mair Folber (Absorption of migrants in Israel, 2005);

Shider Ludmila (Marking and its affect on newly migrants, 2010);

Cadori Alis (The Decision to Subsidize Medication, 2011).

Alon Nir (Mind the gap - Insights from naturally-occurring data on the

voluntary private provision of public goods and the role of

seed money, 2013 ).

Avraham Barel, Interest Groups and Rent Seeking in Privatization

Model of P.P.P, 2013 )

Daniel Roash, Forecasting industrial production index based on

Expectations from business tendency survey, 2016

Rachel Dickstein, Two Stage Charity Auction, 2016

Nethaniel Ben Shaul, Monopoly and Welfare with Consumers'

Opposition, 2017.

Yotam Fogel, Psychiatric hospitals' Efficiency in Israel – Outputs and

Inputs, 2018.

Tirosh Oren, Parental Employment and Parent-Child Contact, 2018.

Current: Victoria Tshinkin, Parental Age and its effect on Children’s Education.

Michaela Nanche, Child Labor and Norms.

Yulia Sk. Still working on the topic.

PhD Students:

In the past: Einat Neuman (Choice of Hospitals in Israel, 2005),

Odeliya Heisler Cohen (Migration Policy, 2008),

Renana Pomerantz (Media and Political Economy, 2011).

Current: Beni Mualem

Sani Ziv

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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1) Gil S. Epstein, 1996, “Changing a Decision Taken Under Incomplete Information

During the Process of Execution”, Journal of Economic Behavior and

Organization, Vol. 29, pp. 323 - 329.

2) Gil S. Epstein and Uriel Spiegel, 1996, “A Lecturer's Optimal Time Allocation

Policy”, with Uriel Spiegel, Education Economics, Vol. 4 (3), pp. 255-265.

3) Gil S. Epstein, 1996, “The Extraction of a Natural Resource from Two Sites Under

Uncertainty”, Economics Letters, Vol. 51 (3), pp. 309-313.

4) Gil S. Epstein and Uriel Spiegel, 1997, “Monitoring within the Firm and Manager

Relations”, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 4 (1), pp.

51-62.

5) Joseph Deutsch and Gil S. Epstein, 1998, "Changing a Decision Taken Under

Uncertainty: The case of Criminal's Location Choice”, Urban Studies, Vol. 35

(8), pp. 1335-1343.

6) Gil S. Epstein, 1998, “Retail Pricing and Clearance Sales: The Multiple Product

Case”, Journal of Economics and Business, 1998, Vol. 50 (6), pp. 551-563.

Received the “Citation of Excellence”, Highest Quality Rating by

ANBAR

Electronic Intelligence.

7) Gil S. Epstein, 1998, "Network Competition and the Timing of Commercials”,

Management Science, Vol. 44(3), pp. 370-387.

8) Gil S. Epstein, Arye L. Hillman and Avi Weiss, 1999, “Creating Illegal Immigrants”,

Journal of Population Economics, 12(1), pp. 3-21 (Leading paper).

9) Gil S. Epstein, Arye L. Hillman and Heinrich Ursprung, 1999, “The King Never

Emigrates”, Review of Development Economics, 3(2), pp. 107-121 (Leading

paper).

Reprinted in: The Theory of Rent Seeking: Forty Years of Research. Congleton,

Hillman and Konrad, editors, Springer, Heidelberg and Berlin, 2007.

10) Gil S. Epstein, Hillel Rapoport and Avi Weiss, 1999, “Drug Addiction and the

Economic Rationalization of Gun Control”, Economics Letters, 65, pp. 55-57.

11) Gil S. Epstein, 2000, “Personal Productivity and the Likelihood of Electoral

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Success of Political Candidates”, European Journal of Political Economy, 16(1),

95-111.

12) Gil S. Epstein and Uriel Spiegel, 2001, “A Production Function with an Inferior

Input”, The Manchester School, 68(5), 503-515.

13) Gil S. Epstein and Carsten Hefeker, 2001, “Lobbying and Concessions: Comparing

Nash to Stackelberg Games” , Public Choice, 109, 175-181.

14) Gil S Epstein and Uriel Spiegel, 2001, “Natural Inequality, Productivity and

Economic Growth”, Labour Economics, 8, 463-473.

15) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2002, “Stakes and Welfare in Rent-Seeking

Contests”, Public Choice, 112(1), 137-142.

16) Gil S. Epstein, 2002, “Immigration Policy and the Welfare System” in Boeri, T.,

Hanson G. and McCormick Eds. Co-authored of seven chapters, 1-151, Oxford

University Press.

17) Gil S. Epstein, 2003, “Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal

Immigrants”, Review of Development Economics, 7(1), 30-43.

18) Gil S. Epstein and with Avi Weiss, 2002, “An Amnesty for Foreign Workers”, The

Economic Quarterly (in Hebrew), 49(1), 107-120.

19) Bat-Sheva Drook-Gal, Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2002, “Privatization as

Rent-Seeking with Asymmetric Compensation” The Economic Quarterly, (in

Hebrew), 49(1), 355- 372.

20) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2002, “Endogenous Public Policy, Politicization

and Welfare” Journal of Public Economic Theory, 4 (4), 661-677.

21) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2002, “Asymmetry and Corrective Public Policy

in Contests”, Public Choice, 113(1): 231-240.

22) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan , 2003, “The Social Cost of Rent Seeking when

Consumer Opposition Influences Monopoly Behavior” European Journal of

Political Economy, 19, 61-69.

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23) Gil S. Epstein and Arye L Hillman, 2003, “Unemployed Immigrants and Voter

Sentiment in the Welfare State.” Journal of Public Economics, 87, 1641-1655.

Reprinted in: International Economic Policies in a Globalized World, Seiichi

Katayama and Heinrich Ursprung, editors, Springer, Berlin,

2004.

24) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, 2003, “Rent Seeking in Hierarchical Firms”,

Arthaniti, 1(1-2), 45-61.

25) Gil S. Epstein and Carsten Hefeker, 2003, “Lobbying Contests with Alternative

Instruments” Economics of Governance 4, 81-89

26) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2004, “Strategic Restraint in Contests”,

European Economic Review 48, 201-210

Reprinted in: The Theory of Rent Seeking: Forty Years of Research. Congleton,

Hillman and Konrad, editors, Springer, Heidelberg and Berlin, 2007.

27) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2003, “Political Culture and Monopoly Price

Determination”, Social Choice and Welfare 21, 1-19 (Leading paper)

28) Bat-Sheva Drook-Gal, Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2004, “Contestable

Privatization,”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 54(3), 377-387.

29) Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, 2005, “Enclaves, Language and the

Location Choice of Migrants”, Journal of Population Economics, 18 (4), 649–

662.

30) Gil S. Epstein, Aharon Tziner and Elli Kraizberg, 2005, "Reactions to

Compensation to Inequality Perceptions: A Theoretical Model", Review of

Business Research, 5(2): 1-13 (Leading paper)

31) Boaz Weisz, Alon Shrim, Carol J Homko, Eyal Schiff, Gil S. Epstein, Eyal Sivan,

2005, "One Hour versus two Hours Postprandial Glucose Measurment in

Gestational Diabetes: A Prospective Study ", Journal of Perinatology, 25: 241-

244.

32) Shai E. Elizur, Yoav Yinon, Gil S. Epstein, Daniel S. Seidman, Eyal Schiff,

Eyal Sivan, 2005, "Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein-1 Detection in

Preterm Labor: Evaluation of a Bedside Test", Amer J. Perinatol, 22: 305-309.

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33) Ohad Cohen, Gil S. Epstein, Boaz Weiss, Carol J Homko, Eyal Sivan, 2006,

"Longitudinal assessment of insulin sensitivity in pregnancy. Validation of the

homeostasis model assessment" Clinical Endocrinology, 64 (6), 640-644.

34) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2006, “The Politics of Randomness”, Social

Choice and Welfare, 27(2): 423-433.

35) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2006, "Effort and Performance in Public Policy

Contests", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8(2) 265-282.

36) Gil S. Epstein and Ira Gang, 2006, "Ethnic Networks and International Trade", in

Labor Mobility and the World Economy Federico Foders and Rolf J.

Langhammer (ed), Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg), 85-103.

37) Gil S. Epstein, 2006, "Lobbying over Fiscal Policy" in Inflation, Fiscal Policy and

Central Banks, Leo N. Bartolotti (ed.), pp. 109-127, Nova Science.

38) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2005 "Size and Distribution of Prizes and Efforts

in Contests." Economics Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 10 pp. 1−10 (Leading paper)

39) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2006, "Lobbying and Compromise", Public

Choice, 126: 317-330.

40) Gil S. Epstein and Melanie E. Ward, 2006 "Perceived Income, Promotion and

Incentive Effects", International Journal of Manpower 27(2): 104-125 (Leading

paper).

Emerald Award Winner: Recognized as an Outstanding Paper at the Emerald

Literati Network Awards for Excellence, 2007.

41) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2006, "The Struggle over Migration Policy"

Journal of Population Economics, 19(4), 703-723.

42) Gil S. Epstein and Odelya Hizler (Cohen) 2006, "Immigrants during 1990's from

Former Soviet Union: Herd Effect and Network Externalities" The Economic

Quarterly, 53 (1) 166-201 (in Hebrew).

43) Gil S. Epstein and Ira Gang, 2006, "The Influence of Others on Migration Plans",

Review of Development Economics, 10(4) 652-665.

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44) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, 2006, “Reduced Prizes and Increased Effort in

Contests”, Social Choice and Welfare 26(3), 447-453.

45) Joseph Deutsch, Gil S. Epstein and Tikva Lecker, 2006, "Multi-Generation Model

of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application", Research in Labor Economics,

217-234.

46) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, 2006, "Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid"

Review of Development Economics, 10(2), 285-206.

47) Gil S. Epstein, 2006, "The Political Economy of Population Economics" Journal

of Population Economics, 19 (2): 255-257 .

48) Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (2007) "The Influence of Stocks

and Flows on Migrants’ Location Choices" Research in Labor Economics 26, 199-229.

49) Gil S. Epstein and Ira Gang, 2007, “The Political Economy of Kosher Wars” in

Carmel U. Chiswick, Tikva Lecker, & Nava Kahana (eds.), Jewish Society

and Culture: An Economic Perspective. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University

Press. ISBN 965-226-317-6.

50) Gil. S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, (2007) "The Hope for Hysteresis in Foreign Aid",

in Theory and Practice of Foreign Aid, Elsevier, 117- 129.

51) Gil S. Epstein, (2007) "Production, Inventory and Waiting Time”, Managerial

Decision Economics 28, 579-589.

52) Gil S. Epstein (2007) "Extremism within the Family" Journal of Population

Economics 20, 707-715.

53) Gil S. Epstein, Igal Milchtaich, Shmuel Nitzan and Mordechai E. Schwarz (2007)

"Ambiguous Political Power and Contest Efforts" Public Choice 132, 113-123

54) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang. (2007) “Who is the Enemy?”, Defense and Peace

Economics, 2007, 18 (6), 469–484)

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55) Gil S. Epstein and Raphael Franck (2007) "Campaign Resources and Electoral

Success: Evidence from the 2002 French Parliamentary Elections" Public Choice,

131: 469.

56) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang. (2007) “Understanding the Development of

Fundamentalism”, Public Choice 132, 257-271.

57) Gil S. Epstein, Konstantin Kogan and Uriel Spiegel (2007) “Optimal Pricing with

Loyalty”, Applied Mathematical Sciences, Vol. 1, no. 56, 2747 - 2788

58) Gil S. Epstein (2008) “Herd and Network Effects in Migration Decision-Making”,

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 34(4), 567 – 583.

59) Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan and Mordechai E. Schwarz (2008) "Performance

and Prize Decomposition in Contests” Public Choice 134(3-4), 429-443.

60) Gil S. Epstein and Renana Pomerantz, (2008) “The Political Economy of Rent

Seeking in a Concentrated Market”, in Walter R. Levin (ed), Political Economy

Research Focus Nova Science Publishers, 135-148.

61) Gil S. Epstein “Locational Choice, Ethnicity and Assimilation” in Svendsen, G.T

and G.L.H. Svendsen (eds.)(2009): Handbook of Research on Social Capital.

Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK.

62) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, (2009) "Decentralized Aid with Interested Parties"

in George Mavrotas and Mark McGillivray (eds.) Development Aid: A Fresh

Look, Palgrave Macmillan.

63) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, (2009) "Poverty and Governance: the Contest for

Aid", Review of Development Economics. March Volume 13 Issue

3, Pages 382 - 392.

64) Gil S. Epstein and Nava Kahana, (2008) “Child Labor and Temporary Emigration”

Economics Letters 99(3) June, 545-548.

65) Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan and Mordechai E. Schwarz (2008) “Efforts in Two-

Sided Contests” Public Choice, Volume 136, Numbers 3-4 / September, 283-291.

66) Gil. S. Epstein, Astrid Kunze, Melanie E. Ward, (2009) "High-Skilled Migration

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and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population" Scottish Journal of Political

Economy, may, Volume 56 Issue 3, 332 - 352.

67) Gil S. Epstein and Odelia Heizler (Cohen) (2008) "Illegal Migration, Enforcement

and Minimum Wage", Research in Labor Economics, 28, 197-224.

68) Thomas Bauer, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (2009) " Measuring Ethnic

Linkages between Immigrants “.International Journal of Manpower Vol. 30

No. 1/2, 2009

pp. 56-69

69) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, (2009) "Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in

the Labor Market", Research in Labor Economics 79, 67-90.

70) Gil S. Epstein, (2009) “Willingness to Assimilate and Ethnicity” Nordic Journal

of Political Economy, 35, 1-12.

71) Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem, (2009), "Group Specific Public Goods,

Orchestration of Interest Groups with Free Riding", Public Choice, Volume 139,

Numbers 3-4 / June, 2009

72) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, (2009) "Good Governance and Good Aid

Allocation", Journal of Development Economics, Volume 89, Issue 1, May, 12-

18.

73) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, (2010) “Migration and Culture” in Gil S. Epstein,

and Ira N. Gang (Eds), Migration and Culture: Frontiers of Economics and

Globalization, volume 8, , Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

74) Gil S. Epstein (2010) “Informational Cascades and the Decision to Migrate” in

Gil S. Epstein, and Ira N. Gang, (Eds), Migration and Culture: Frontiers of

Economics and Globalization, volume 8, , Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

75) Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem (2010) “Interactions between Local and Migrant

Workers at the Workplace” in Gil S. Epstein, and Ira N. Gang, (Eds), Migration

and Culture: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, volume 8, , Emerald

Group Publishing Limited.

76) Gil S. Epstein and Ira, N. Gang (2010) “A Political Economy of the Immigrant

Assimilation: Internal Dynamics” in Gil S. Epstein, and Ira N. Gang, (Eds),

Migration and Culture: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, volume 8, ,

Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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77) Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang, 2010 "Why pay taxes when no one else does?",

Review Development Economics, Volume 14, Issue 2, pages 374–385, May

2010.

78) Gil S. Epstein, and Alessandra Venturini (2011) “The Impact of Worker Effort on

Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants” Research in Labor

Economics,33, 239-261.

79) Gil S. Epstein and Renana Linder-Pomerantz, (2011) "Media and Litigation,"

Review of Law & Economics: Vol. 7: Iss. 2, Article 8.

80) Gil S. Epstein and Avi Weiss (2011) "The Why, When and How of Immigration

Amnesties" Journal of Population Economics, Volume 24(1), 285-316.

81) Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan (2011) “Political Culture and

Discrimination in Contests", Journal of Public Economics, 95 (1-2), 88-93.

82) Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem, (2012) “Governing Interest Groups and Rent

Dissipation”, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 14(3), 423-440.

83) Gil S. Epstein and Bruce C. Herniter (2012) “Privilege-Seeking Activities in

Organizational Politics and Its Effect on More Productive Employees”

International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP), 3(2), 16-30.

84) Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem, (2012) ''Cooperation and Effort in Group

Contests'', Economics Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 1 pp. 624-638.

85) Gil S. Epstein and Erez Siniver, (2012) '' Can an Ethnic Group Climb up from the

Bottom of the Ladder?”, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 32 No. 3 pp. 2414-2441.

86) Gil S. Epstein (2012) “Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State” The Korean

Economic Review, Volume 28, Number 2, Winter 2012, 117-136.

87) Gil S. Epstein (2012) “Employer’s Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities”

Economics and Business Letters, 1(4), 21-32,.

88) Gil S. Epstein and Josef Menis (2013) "Research and Teaching in Higher

Education: Complements or Substitutes?" International Journal of Academic

Research in Business and Social Science, 3(11), 614-632.

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89) Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan (2013) “Lotteries vs. All-Pay

Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests", Economics and Politics, Volume 25, Issue

1, pages 48–60.

90) Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, Shmuel Nitzan (2013) “The Efficacy and Efforts

of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation” Economics of

Governance, Volume 14(1) pp 77-105.

91) Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem, (2013) “Who Gains from Information Asymmetry?",

Theory and Decision, Volume 75, Issue 3, pp 305-337.

92) Gil S. Epstein and Renana Linder-Pomerantz, (2013) “Assimilation through

Marriage”, Review of International Economics, Volume 21, Issue 2, pages 191–

203.

93) Gil S. Epstein and Odelia Heizler (Cohen) (2013) “Minimum Wages and the

Creation of Illegal Migration”, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 33 No. 1 pp. 434-441.

94) Gil S. Epstein (2013) “Issues on the Political Economy of Migration” in

International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, A. Constant and K. F.

Zimmermann (eds), Edward Elgar, ISBN 978-1-84542-629-3.

95) Gil S. Epstein and Yosef Mealem (2015), “Politicians, Governed vs. non

Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation", Theory and Decision, Volume

79, Issue 1, pp 133-149

96) Sarit Cohen Goldner and Gil S. Epstein (2014) "Age at Immigration and High

School Dropouts" IZA Journal of Migration, 3:19.

97) Gil S. Epstein, Shmuel Nitzan (2015) "A Companion to the Political Economy of

Rent Seeking" in Congleton, R. D., & Hillman, A. L. Companion to the Political

Economy of Rent Seeking. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, Edward

Elgar Publishing.

98) Gil S. Epstein, and Ira N. Gang (2015). "Making Aid Work: Governance and

Decentralization" in Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, edited by B. Mak

Arvin and Byron Lew. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar

99) Gil S. Epstein and Odelia Heizler (Cohen) (2015) "Ethnic identity: A Theoretical

Framework" IZA Journal of Migration, 4:9

100) Gil S. Epstein , Dalit Gafni , Erez Siniver , (2015) "Even education has its limits:

closing the wage gap", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 42 Iss: 5, pp.908 - 928

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101) Gil S. Epstein and Erez Siniver (2015) "Enclaves, Cultural Differences and the

Economic Performance of Minorities” Ìrìnkèrindò: a Journal of African Migration, Issue 8.

102) Ralitza Dimova, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (2015) "Migration, Transfers and

Child Labor", Review of Development Economics, 19.3 (2015): 735-747.

103) Gil S. Epstein and Odelia Heizler (Cohen) (2016), "The Formation of Immigrant

Networks in the Short and the Long Run" Economies 2016, 4, 15

104) Gil Epstein and Dalit Gafni and Erez Siniver, (2016) ''Institutional versus labor

market discrimination: The case of Israeli Arabs'', Economics Bulletin, Vol. 36 No.

3 p.A163 (Spetember)

105) Epstein, G. S., Heizler, O., (2016). The formation of networks in the

diaspora. International Journal of Manpower, 37(7), 1136-1153.

106) Deutsch, Joseph, Gil S. Epstein, and Alon Nir. "Mind the gap: Crowdfunding

and the role of seed money." Managerial and Decision Economics 38.1 (2017):

53-75.

107) Epstein, Gil S., and Renana Lindner‐Pomerantz. (2017) "The Survival of

Unique Corporate Cultures." Managerial and Decision Economics 38.4: 622-

629.

108) Anat Alexandron-Lavon, Gil S. Epstein Renana Lindner Pomerantz (2018) “The

Effect of Ideological Positions on Job Market Interaction - A Spatial Analysis”

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. , Elsevier, vol. 145(C), pages

261-274.

109) Epstein, G. S., Heizler, O., (2018). "Minorities and Political Success",

Economics Bulletin, Volume 38, Issue 1, pages 657- 671.

110) Avraham Barel and Gil S. Epstein "Interest Groups and Rent Seeking in

Privatization Model of Public-Private-Partnership (P.P.P)" The Economic

Quarterly (in Hebrew), forthcoming

111) Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang "Ethnic Goods and Immigrant

Assimilation" in Bakens, Jacques and Peter (Eds) The Economics of Cultural

Diversity, Edward Elgar, forthcoming

112) Gil S. Epstein, and Ira N. Gang “Taxation and Social Protection under

Governance Decentralization” European Journal of Political Economy,

forthcoming

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BOOKS

1) Gil S. Epstein and Shmuel Nitzan, (2007) Endogenous Public Policy and

Contests. Springer.

2) Gil S. Epstein, and Ira N. Gang, Ed (2010), Frontiers of Economics and

Globalization, volume 8, Migration and Culture, Emerald Group Publishing

Limited, 2010, ISBN: 9780857241559

RESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES

Trade and Factor Mobility, CEPR and Ld'A, Venice, January, 1997, "The King Never

Emigrates" with A. Hillman and H. Ursprung. (Invited)

The Changing Role of Government in an Integrated World Economy, April 1997, Bar-

Ilan, CEPR and The Helmut Kohl Institute - Discussant.

European Migration: What Do We Know ? A CEPR / SELAPO Conference, November

1997, Munchen. "Herd Effects and Migration" with A. Hillman. (Invited)

European Public Choice Society Meetings, Goteborg, Sweden, May 1998, "The King

Never Emigrates" with A. Hillman and H. Ursprung. Chairing the session on

Public Choice Under Corporatism.

European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics and Migration, CEPR,

Gerzensee, September 1998, “Immigration and unemployment: An investigation

of a modern version of an old conspiracy” with A. Hillman. (Invited)

Economic Performance, Economic Policy and Economic Culture, Rotterdam, February

1999, “Campaign efforts, efficiency and the elected politician”. (Invited)

Annual meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Lisbon, April 1999, “A

Reexamination of Monopoly Price Determination – A New Political-Economy

Perspective” with Shmuel Nitzan.

Annual meeting of the Israel Economic Association, June 1999, “Campaign efforts,

efficiency and the elected politician”.

9th Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, July 1999, discussant.

European Summer Symposium in Labour Economics, CEPR and IZA conference,

September 1999, “The Endogenous determination of minimum wage”, with

Shmuel Nitzan. Chairing the session on Migration. (Invited)

Marginal Labour Markets in Metropolitan Areas, CEPR and ESRI conference, October

1999, “Endogenous Marginalization of Immigrants”. (Invited)

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Foreign Workers, Ministry of Labor and Welfare, Israel, December 1999, “Endogenous

Marginalization of Immigrants” and “Creating Illegal Immigrants”. (Invited)

European Science Foundation conference on Migration and Development, Second-

Generation Immigrants and the Transition to Ethnic Minorities, Italy, May 2000,

“Second-Generation Migrants, Minorities and Discrimination in Work Place”

(Invited).

Annual meeting of the Israel Economic Association, June 2000, Discussant.

Public Economic Theory, August 2000, Warwick, UK, “The Political Economy of

Endogenous Public Policy” (Invited) The first CEPR Public symposium, Colmenarejo, September 2000, Spain. (Invited)

Organizational Change and Its Implications for the Labor Market, IZA, November

2000, Germany, “Bounded Rationality, Production and Promotion in the Work

Place” (Invited)

Annual meeting of the Israel Economic Association, May 2001, “Multi-Generational

Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Applications” (with Tikva Lecker).

TSER project on “Labor Demand, Education and the Dynamics of Social Exclusion” a

CEPR conference, Florence, June 2001. (Invited)

Conference entitled “Immigration Policy and the Welfare State” Trieste, June 2001 at

“Contracted Temporary Migration” Chapter 5 in the book with Boeri, Brucker,

McCormick Saint-Paul Venturini and Zimmermann. (Invited)

“Social Policies and the Cities”, at a CEPR/DIW conference, Berlin, June/July 2001.

“Government and Cities: Rent-seeking and the Decentralization of Decision

Making” (with ra N. Gang), Also Chairing the second section. (Invited)

"Productivity and Promotion in the Banking System” at A Aharom Meir Center for

Banking Conference, July 2002.

“The Struggle over Migration Policy” (with S. Nitzan), European Summer Symposium

in Labour Economics (ESSLE), Ammersee, Germany, September 2002 (Invited).

“The Struggle over Migration Policy” (with S. Nitzan), conference on “Migration and

the Welfare State” ECSifo, Munich, Germany, November 2003 (Invited).

Conference on “Economics and Religion” Ben Gurion University, Ben Goriun

University, Discussant, January 2004.

"Multi-Generation Models of Immigrants Earnings: Theory and Application" (with

Tikva Lecker ל"ז ) at a Bar-Ilan conference on Immigration, minorities and social

exclusion, June, 2004.

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"Ethnic Networks and International Trade" (with I. Gang) at the 36th Kiel Week

Conference on “Labor Mobility and the World Economy”, Kiel Germany, June,

2004 (Invited).

"Privilige Seeking Activities, Monitoring and the Firm Structure", Conference by

Aharom Meir Center for Banking, Bar-Ilan, March 2005.

"Herd and network effects in migration decision-making: Theory and evidence",

Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration Theory, HWWA,

Hamburg, June 2005 (Invited).

"Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State" Conference on "Immigration and the

Welfare State", Sandbjerg Denmark, September, 2005 (Invited).

"Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State" Conference on Immigration: Impacts,

Integration and Intergenerational Issues", a CReAM and Target Conference,

London, March, 2006 (Invited).

"Migrants, Ethnicity and Employment" The third IZA annual Migration Meeting

(AM2), Bonn, May, 2006 (Invited).

"International Trade, Ethnic Networks and Strategic Assimilation", Villa Mondragone

International Economic Seminar University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Villa

Mondragone, Rome, June, 2006 (Invited).

GDN Regional Research Competition VI Conference, CERGE-E1, August, 2006,

Prague. Discussant of four papers (Invited).

“Migrants, Citizenship and the formation of a Virtual Border between Natives and

Immigrants”, XIX Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar University

of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Villa Mondragone, Rome, June, 2007 (Invited).

GDN Regional Research Competition VII Conference, CERGE-E1, August, 2007,

Prague. Discussant of four papers (Invited).

"Migrants, Ethnicity and Employment", at Labor Market Impacts of Immigration –

Who are the Winners and Who are Stands to Lose?" Oslo, Norway, May, 2008

(Invited).

"Migrants, Ethnicity and Employment" at Third Annual Conference on Development

and Institutions, Brunel University, London, JUNE 5-6, 2008 (Invited – Keynote

speaker).

"Migration, Remittances and Child Labor" at Migration and Development Conference,

Lille, June 26-28, 2008. (Invited)

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IZA Migration Group MiniWorkshop on Migration, Ethnicity, and the Labor Market,

IZA July 4th, Bonn Germany 2008 (Invited).

GDN Regional Research Competition IX Conference., August 2008, CERGE-EI,

Prague. Discussant (invited).

"Migration, Remittances and Child Labor" at the conference Understanding

Contemporary Migration: Challenges to Sociality, GIF conference, Tzuba,

November 2008 (Invited).

"Government Investment over the Green Line" Conference in Honor of the Late

Michael Shefer, Ariel, November 2008 (Invited).

The first Annual Meeting on the Economics of Risky Behaviors (AMERB),

Washington, March 2009 (invited).

Conference on, Migration, Ethnicity, and the Labor Market, IZA, Bonn, July 2009

(invited)

GDN Regional Research Competition IX Conference, August 2009, CERGE-EI,

Prague. (invited).

“Legal and Illegal Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State” Workshop on “Illegal

Immigration and the effects of immigration on destination countries”, Milano,

May, 2010, (Invited).

“Legal and Illegal Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State” , IZA Workshop on

Legal and Illicit Immigration: Theory, Empirical Policy, Bonn, July, 2010

(Invited).

GDN Regional Research Competition XII Conference, CERGE-EI, Prague. August

2012, (invited).

“Migration Ethnicity and Assimilation”, E Pluribus Prosperitas: The Economics of

Culture Diversity, Amsterdam, April 2013 (invited)

"Multiple Migration Traps", The Annual Migration Meeting (AM²), Jerusalem, June

2013 (Invited).

"Migration Traps" Migration and Welfare State Munich, Germany, December 2014.

(Invited)

"Institutional versus Labor Market Discrimination: The Case of Israeli Arabs" The

College of Management, Research Conference, February, 2015.

"Brain loss in migration", Migration in and out of the east and Southeast Europe:

Values Networks and Well-being. Regensburg, July, 2015 with Ilhom Abdulloev

and Ira Gang.

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"Intermarriage and its Effect on the Standard of Living" in 'Marriage, Assimilation and

Migration" SEA 2015 meetings, November 2015 with Gang and Yun.

"Schooling Forsaken: Education, Migration and Remittances " AEA meetings with

Ira Gang and Ilhom Abdulloev , San Francesco, January, 2016.

"Schooling Forsaken: Education, Migration and Remittances " German Economic

Association, Heidelberg, with Ira Gang and Ilhom Abdulloev , Heidelberg, June,

2016.

GDN Regional Research Competition XII Conference, CERGE-EI, Prague. August

2016, (invited).

NCCR on the Move, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 2017

(Panel member – Invited)

AEA/ASSA meetings Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption with Ira

Gang, in Philadelphia, January 2018

NCCR on the Move, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, May 2018

(Panel member – Invited)