I am a Senior Lecturer (with tenure, equivalent of Associate Professor in the U.S.) at the Department of Environmental Economics and Management, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research addresses topics primarily within the fields of natural resource economics, and political economy.
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2021 – |
Senior Lecturer (with tenure)
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2015 – 2021 |
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Environmental Economics and Management, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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2014 – 2015 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre), Department of Economics, University of Oxford
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2014 |
PhD in Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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2009 |
MA in Economics, Queen's University
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2007 |
BComm in Economics (with great distinction), Concordia University
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Consumer Theory (undergraduate), Intermediate Macroeconomics (undergraduate), Research seminars (graduate)
Resource Windfalls and Political Sabotage: Evidence from 5.2 Million Political Ads (with David Lagziel and Ehud Lehrer)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2025, 12511, pp. 1-35.
Resource windfalls, Connectivity, and Political Polarization (with Lotem Ikan and David Lagziel)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025, 132, 103164.
Natural Resources, Technology Improvements, and Growth (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian and Rick van der Ploeg)
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2025, doi: 10.1007/s10640-025-01004-x
Can term limits reduce political sabotage? Evidence from negative campaigning in gubernatorial races (with Yizhaq Minchuk)
European Journal of Political Economy, 2025.
Can oil windfalls decrease fiscal accountability? Evidence from no-term-limit regimes
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2025, forthcoming.
Looking Up the Sky: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and Macroeconomic Attention (with Nathan Goldstein)
Nature: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2024, 11, 1669.
The Long-Term Health Effects of Giant Oil Fields: Evidence from China (with Yan Zhang)
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2024, Vol. 49, pp. 238-310.
Can Resource Windfalls Reduce Corruption? The Role of Term Limits (with Yacov Tsur)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2023, 122, 102891.
Oil discoveries and Protectionism: Role of News Effects. (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian and Rick van der Ploeg)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 2021, 107, 102425.
Resource Windfalls and Public Debt: A Political Economy Perspective (with Yacov Tsur)
European Economic Review, 2020, Vol. 123, 103371.
Monetary Policy, Natural Resources, and Federal Redistribution
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020, Vol. 75, pp. 585-613.
Reelection, Growth and Public Debt (with Yacov Tsur)
European Journal of Political Economy, 2020, Vol. 63, pp. 101889.
Heterogeneous Vertical Tax Externalities and Macroeconomic Effects of Federal Tax Changes: The Role of Fiscal Advantage (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian, and Yaniv Reingewertz)
Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, Vol. 112, pp. 85-110.
Federal Tax Policies, Congressional Voting, and Natural Resources (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian)
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2019, Vol. 52(3), pp. 1112-1164.
What Drives Vertical Fiscal Interactions? Evidence from the 1980 Crude Oil Windfall Act (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian)
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, Vol. 73, pp. 251-268.
Input-Trade Liberalization and the Demand for Managers: Evidence from India (with Pavel Chakraborty)
Journal of International Economics, 2018, Vol. 111, pp. 159-176.
Natural Resources, Fiscal Decentralization, and Risk Sharing: Can Resource Booms Unify Nations? (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian)
Journal of Development Economics, 2016, Vol 121, pp. 38-55.
The Natural Resource Curse and Fiscal Decentralization (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, Vol. 98(1), pp. 212-230.
Capital Imports Composition, Complementarities, and the Skill Premium in Developing Countries (with Ariell Reshef)
Journal of Development Economics, 2016, Vol. 118, pp. 183-206.
Capital-Gender Complementarity
Economics Bulletin, 2015, Vol. 35(1), pp. 494-506.
An Empirical Analysis of a Regional Dutch Disease: The Case of Canada (with Elissaios Papyrakis)
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014, Vol. 58(2), pp. 179-198.
Dutch Disease, Factor Mobility, and the Alberta Effect - The Case of Federations
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, Vol. 46(4), pp. 1317-1350.
Political Rational Inattention: A New Measure With an Application to Political Polarization (with Nathan Goldstein and David Lagziel)
Under review
Do Campaign Contributions Fuel Political Sabotage? (with David Lagziel and Yan Zhang)
Under review
Natural Resources, Federal Tax Changes, and Environmental Regulation: Can Contractionary Fiscal Policies Increase Air Pollution? (with Fidel Perez-Sebastian and Brock Smith)
Under review