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Education
BA, economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MA, economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D., economics, University of Chicago
Positions Held
At Haas since 1995
2003 - Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professorship in Business and Technology
1995 - 2003 Joe Shoong Professor of International Business & Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1987 - 93 William B. McKinley Professor of Economics and Public Utilities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
1989 - 93 Professor of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champain
1984 - 87 Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
1980 - 84 Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
External Service and Assignments
- Vice President Elect, International Society for New Institutional Economics, 2007
- Member of the Board, International Society for New Institutional Economics, 2006-present
- Associate editor, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007-present
- Member, Board of Directors, American Law & Economics Association, 1998-2001.
- Member, Commission for the Selection of the President of ENERGAS, Argentina's Gas Regulatory Commission, 1998.
- Member, Board of Advisors, Center for Institutional Analysis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1997-present
- Distinguished Research Fellow, SNF, Bergen, Norway, 1996-.
- Co-editor: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Journal of Economics and Management
- Associate Editor: Journal of Applied Economics, Regulation Magazine, The Utility Project
- Former associate editor: Journal of Industrial Economics , Journal of Policy Reform, Journal of Economics, Management & Strategy
- Consultant: The World Bank, InterAmerican Development Bank, Federal Trade Commission, Department of Transportation, Mexico Energy Regulation Commission, Mexico Antitrust Commission, United Nations Development Program, Ministry of Economics, Argentina, and Central Bank of Uruguay
Current Research and Interests
- Industrial Organization
- Political Economy
- Economics of Regulation and Antitrust
- Regulatory Issues in Developing Countries
- The role of institutions in society, particularly regulatory institutions
- Developing and testing a positive theory of the judiciary
- How regulations arise in the telecommunications, energy, and airline industries; how these regulations affect business incentives
- The movement towards a competitive electricity market.
- Analysis of the evolution of the airline industry since deregulation. The role of hub and spoke networks.
Selected Papers and Publications
- “The Organizational Implications of Creativity: The US Film Industry in Mid-XXth Century,” with Ricard Gil, forthcoming, California Management Review.
- “Strategic Judicial Decision Making,” with Rafael Gely, forthcoming, Whittington, Keith E., E. Daniel Kelemen and Gregory A. Caldeira, Eds., Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics, Oxford University Press.
- “Buy, Lobby or Sue: Interest Groups’ Participation in Policy Making – A Selective Survey,” with Sanny Liao, forthcoming, Eric Brousseau and Jean-Michael Glachant, Eds. New Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press.
- The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy: The Case of Argentina, with Mariano Tommasi, , Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- “Airline Hubs: Costs, Markups and the Implications of Customer Heterogeneity,” in D. Lee, Editor, Advances in Airline Economics, Elsevier B.V., 2006.
- “Judicial Lobbying: The Politics of Labor Law Constitutional Interpretation,” with M. Iaryczower and M. Tommasi, American Political Science Review, Vol 100, No. 1, 2006.
- “Instability and Public Policy Making in Argentina,” Levitsky, S. and V. Murillo, eds. The Politics of Institutional Weakness: Argentine Democracy in Comparative Perspective, 2006.
- “Institutional Changes in Emerging Markets: Implications for the Telecommunications Sector,” in Cave, M., S. Majumdar and I. Vogelsang, Eds. Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume 2, 2006.
- “The Institutions of Regulation,” with M. Tommasi, in C. Menard and M. Shirley, Eds. Handbook of Institutional Economics 2005.
- Institutions, Contracts and Regulation in Argentina, (in spanish) with Manuel Abdala, Temas, Buenos Aires, 2000.
- Spilled Water: Institutional Commitment in the Provision of Water Services in Latin America, with W. Savedoff, Eds. Interamerican Development Bank, 1999. (translated into spanish)
- Regulación de los Sectores de Infraestructura y Energéticos en México, (Infrastructure and Energy Regulation in Mexico) Eds. Spiller, PT and C. Sales, ITAM/Porrua Grupo Editorial, México City, Mexico, 1999.
- The Path Towards Rational Regulation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Issues, Concepts and Experience (Directions in Development) with J. Luis Guasch, World Bank Directions in Development Series 1999.
- Regulations, Institutions and Commitment:: A Comparative Analysis of Telecommunications Regulation, Ed. with Brian Levy, Cambridge University Press. 1996
- Strategy, Structure and Antitrust in the Carbonated Soft Drink Industry, with T. Muris and D. Scheffman, Quorum Books, 1993.
Teaching
- The Economics, Policy and Stretegy of Media, Spring 2005
- The Economics of Institutions, Spring 2005
Honors and Awards
- Featured in Mark Blaug and Paul Sturges, Eds, "Who is Who in Economics: A Bibliography Dictionary of Major Economists, 1700-1995," MIT Press, Cambridge
- Various NSF and other foundation grants.
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