Research in progress
Revisiting the omitted price bias in the estimation of production functions, with Xulia Gonzalez and Daniel Miles, November 2023
Gender discrimination and the sex ratio of immigrants, with Nachum Sicherman, September 2022
Gender discrimination and the sex ratio of immigrants, with Nachum Sicherman, September 2022
Publications
Government Financing of R&D: A Mechanism Design Approach, with Zvika Neeman and Mark Schankerman, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13(3), August 2021, 238-272. Online Appendix
Retail Prices in a City, with Alon Eizenberg and Merav Yiftach, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 13 (2), May 2021, 175-206..
Consumers' Activism: The Cottage Cheese Boycott , with Igal Hendel and Yossi Spiegel, Rand Journal of Economics 48, Winter 2017, pp. 972-1003
Asymmetric Price Effects of Competition, with Jose Luis Gonzalez Moraga, The Journal of Industrial Economics 65 (4), December 2017, pp. 767-803.
Technological Change and the Make-or-Buy Decision, with Ann Bartel and Nachum Sicherman, The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, April 2014.
See the MIT Sloan Management Review piece here.
Using Elicited Choice Probabilities to Estimate Random Utility Models: Preferences for Electricity Reliability, with Asher Blass and Charles Manski, International Economic Review, May 2010.
Incentives and Invention in Universities, with Mark Schankerman, Rand Journal of Economics, 39(2), Summer 2008, pp. 403-33.
Also appearing as chapter 27 in Recent Developments in the Economics of Science and Innovation, Albert Link and Cristiano Antonelli, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014
Small Price Changes and Menu Costs, with Daniel Tsiddon, Managerial and Decision Economics, October
2007, pp. 649-656. Invited paper to special issue on "Price Rigidity and Flexibility: New Empirical Evidence".
Immigration and Prices, Journal of Political Economy, August 2007, vol. 115(4), pp.548-587
See the Washington Post piece here.
Royalty Sharing and Technology Licensing in Universities, with Mark Schankerman, Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2004, pp. 252-264.
Do R&D Subsidies Stimulate or Displace Private R&D? Evidence from Israel, Journal of Industrial Economics, December 2002, pp. 369-390.
Existence and Persistence of Price Dispersion: an Empirical Analysis, Review of Economics and Statistics, August 2002, pp. 433-444.
The Evolution of the Demand for Temporary Help Supply Employment in the United States, with Marcello Estevao, in Françoise Carré, Marianne A. Ferber, Lonnie Golden, and Stephen A. Herzenberg, eds., Non-Standard
Work: The Nature and Challenges of Emerging Employment Arrangements. Champaign, IL: IRRA Research Volume, Cornell University Press, 2000.
See the Business Week piece here.
Labor Productivity in Israel's Manufacturing Industry, 1990-1994, Bank of Israel Economic Review, 72, November
1999, pp. 23-49.
Is Learning-by-Exporting Important? Micro-dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco, with Sofronis Clerides and Jim Tybout, Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1998, pp. 903-947.
Also appearing as Chapter 20 in Globalization And Productivity, vol. II, David Greenaway, Holger Gorg and Richard Kneller, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008
Product Innovation and the Business Cycle, with Boyan Jovanovic, International Economic Review, 38, 1, 1997,
pp.3-22.
Staggering and Synchronization in Price-Setting: Evidence from Multiproduct Firms, with Daniel Tsiddon, American Economic Review, December 1996, pp. 1175-1196.
R&D, Investment and Industry Dynamics, with Rafi Rob, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 5:2,
1996, pp. 217-249.
Better Late than Early: Vertical Differentiation in the Adoption of a New Technology, with Prajit Dutta and Aldo
Rustichini, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 4:4, 1995, pp. 563-589.
Patents and Productivity growth at the Industry Level: A First Look, Economics Letters, 49, 1995, pp. 101-108.
The Effects of Expected and Unexpected Inflation on the Variability of Relative Prices, with Daniel Tsiddon, Economics Letters, 41, 1993, pp. 53-56.
Decomposition of Variables and Correlated Measurement Errors, International Economic Review, August 1993, pp. 715-725.
The Behavior of Prices and Inflation: An Empirical Analysis of Dissagregated Price Data, with Daniel Tsiddon, Journal of Political Economy, April 1992, pp. 349-389. Also appearing as Chapter 17 in "Optimal Pricing, Inflation and the Cost of Price Adjustment", Eytan Sheshinski and Yoram Weiss, eds., the MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1993.
Search Unemployment in an Overlapping Generations Setting, with Oded Galor, International Economic Review, May 1990, pp. 409-419.
Entry, Exit, and Diffusion with Learning by Doing, with Boyan Jovanovic, American Economic Review, September
1989, pp. 690-699.
Dynamics of R&D and Investment in the Scientific Sector, with Mark Schankerman, Journal of Political Economy, August 1989, pp. 880-904.