Prof. Elise S. Brezis

Bar-Ilan University
Email: elise.brezis@biu.ac.il
Website : www.elisebrezis.com

EDUCATION

Ph. D. in Economics M.I.T, 1989
Supervisors: Paul Krugman, Peter Temin.

ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS/APPOINTMENTS

Academic Career

• Visiting Professor, Nanjing University, China 2018
• Visiting Professor, CEIBS, Shanghai, China 2017-2018
• Visiting Professor, Lille University, France 2015
• Visiting Professor, College de France, France 2011
• Visiting Professor, Paris School of Economics, France 2010
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Economics, KNU, Korea, 2005
• Visiting fellow, Rutgers University, 2003
• Lecturer to full Professor, Dept. of Economics, BarIlan University, 1993-
• Visiting fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 19901992
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Brandeis University, 19881989
• Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Economics and Sloan School, MIT, 19851987

Managerial Experience

• Head, Azrieli Center for Economic Policy (ACEP), 2022-
• Director, The Aharon Meir Center for Banking, 2013-2022
• Head, Forum Macro Israel, 2015-
• Vice-head, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, 2017-2019
• Director, Azrieli Center for Economic Policy (ACEP), 2006-2012
• Director, The Aharon Meir Center for Banking, 2001-2002
• President-Director, Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration, 1999-2003

Other Professional Experience

• Member of the advising committee on National Accounts, CBS, Israel 2018-
• Member, Board of Investment, BIU 2009-2018
• Member, Committee of Investment, Barometer 2007-2010
• Advisor, Council of Higher Education, 2007-2008
• Member of the Committee of advisors, European Economic Association, 2002
• Advisor, Ministry of Science, 1996-1997
• Managing Director, Israeli Association for the Study of European Integration, 1995-1998
• Advisor to the Bank of Israel, 19931994

FELLOWSHIPS, RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS

• Laureate Prize Elinor Ostrom 2020
• Cost grant, EU, 2014-2017
• Forum Sapir and Neeman Center , 2005-8
• Minerva grant, 2002
• Jean Monnet Award, 2001-3
• Koret Prize, 1998
• Fullbright fellowship, 1997
• Pinhas Sapir Economic Policy Forum award, 1993
• Cliometric award, 1989

COURSE TAUGHT

• Current Events in Economics (BA)
• International Trade (BA and Graduate)
• Macroeconomics (Graduate)
• Economic Growth (Graduate)

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Macroeconomics
• International Economics
• Higher Education and Economic Growth
• Demographic Process and Economics of Transition

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Seminars and conference organization, see my website.

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

List available (more than 30).

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Book and Book Chapters

• Elites, Minorities and Economic Growth, ed. with Peter Temin, NorthHolland, Elsevier, 1999.
• "Europe and Israel: The Effects of EMU on Development and Growth", in Ahiram E., and Tovias A., ed., Israel and Europe: Common and Divergent Interests. (Peter Lang), 1995, pp.165175.
• "The Role of HighTech in the Rivalry on Power and Competitiveness", in Weidenfeld and Zimmerman, ed. Beyond Sovereignty: The European Integration, 1996, pp.165-73.
• "The Impact of Terrorist Activity on the Israeli Economy", (with Adi Schnytzer), in M. Hacohen, ed. The Progress of Israel's Economy, 1998, pp. 45-49.
• "Elite Schools, Circulation of Elites and Economic Development: The ENA Case" (with Francois Crouzet), in Brezis and Temin, ed. Elites, Minorities and Economic Growth, North-Holland, Elsevier, 1999, pp. 235-248.
• "Elites, Minorities and Economic Growth in an Interdisciplinary Perspective", (with Peter Temin) in Brezis and Temin, ed. Elites, Minorities and Economic Growth, North-Holland, Elsevier, 1999, pp. 3-16.
• "Le Passage du developpement à la croissance." In K. de Queiros-Mattoso, L'histoire économique moderne, l'harmattan,1999, pp. 387-408.
• "Minorities and Economic Growth: A Synthesis" in The Economic Role of Minorities in Europe, Datini Institute for Economic History, 2000, pp.502-507.
• "Mercantilism" Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Oxford University Press, 2003, vol. 3, pp. 482-85.
• "The Role of Higher Education Institutions: Recruitment of Elites and Economic Growth" (with Francois Crouzet) in T. Eicher, eds. Institutions and Economic Growth, MIT Press, 2006: 191-213.
• "Higher Education and Economic Growth", in A. Hyz., ed., Education and Economic Development. 2007.
• "Elites and Economic Outcomes" in S. Durlauf and L. Blume, eds. New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2008
• "Paul Bairoch and Economic History" in S. Durlauf and L. Blume, eds. New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2008
• "Effects of Privatization on the Quality of Higher Education" in N. Liron ed., Privatization in Higher Education. 2009. The Samuel Neaman Press. 2009: 256-292.
• "The consequences to the Banks of the Collapse of Money Values in 1931 and 2009: Some Comments" in A. Arnon and W. Young, eds. Perspectives on Keynesian Economics, Springer, 2011. pp. 246-250.
• "Why are US Universities at the top of the International Rankings?" in J. Brada, W. Bienkowski and G. Stanley, eds. The University in the age of Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012: 155-179.
• "The Revolving Door Indicator: Estimating the Distortionary Power of the revolving Door", (with Joel Cariolle), in Michelsen Inst. ed. Exploring innovative ways to measure corruption, 2014: 1-6.
• "Financial Sector Regulation and the Revolving Door in US Commercial Banks" (with Joel Cariolle) in N. Schofield, and G. Caballero (eds.) State, Institutions and Democracy: Contributions of Political Economy. 2017. Publisher: Springer. 53-76.
• "Why was Keynes opposed to reparations and Carthaginian peace?" in G. Corsetti (ed.) Keynes and Economic Consequences of the Peace. 2024 Cambridge University Press.
• "Jewish Law and Ethics: The case of the revolving door" in G. Epstein (ed.) Jewish Law and Economics 2025

Articles in Refereed Journals

• "Credit as a Target for Monetary Policy in Israel," (with E. Offenbacher and S. Piterman), Monetary Policy in Israel, Bank of Israel, 1983 (in Hebrew), 1983, pp.6071.
• "The Interaction between Inflation and Monetary Aggregates in Israel," (with L. Leiderman and R.Melnick), The Bank of Israel Review, 55, 1983, pp.4860.
• "Price Level Determinacy and the Choice of Policy Targets under Rational Expectations," (with E. Offenbacher), Economic Letters, 13, 1983, pp.2530.
• "Disequilibrium Dynamics during the Great Depression" (with JeanLouis Arcand), Journal of Macroeconomics., August 1993, pp.553589.
• "Leapfrogging in International Competition: A Theory of Cycles in National Technological Leadership." (with Paul Krugman and Daniel Tsiddon), American Economic Review, December 1993, pp.12111219.
• "Foreign Capital Flows in the Century of Britain's Industrial Revolution: New Estimates, Controlled Conjectures", Economic History Review, February 1995, pp.4667.
• "The Role of Assignats during the French Revolution: Evil or Rescuer?" (with Francois Crouzet), Journal of European Economic History, April 1995, pp.740.
• "Market Structure and Trade Liberalization: The Case of SoleImportership" (with Avi Weiss), Quarterly Economics, (Hebrew), August 1995, pp.267283.
• "Immigration, Investments and Real Wages" (with Paul Krugman), Journal of Population Economics, 9, 1996, pp. 8393.
• "Did Foreign Capital Flows Finance the Industrial Revolution? A reply", Economic History Review, February 1997.
• "Conscientious Regulation and Post Regulatory Employment Restrictions" (with Avi Weiss), European Journal of Political Economy, v13, 1997, pp.517-536.
• "Technology and Life Cycle of Cities"(with Paul Krugman), Journal of Economic Growth, December 1997, pp. 369-383.
• "Is a Cooling-off Period for Regulators in the public Service Sector Necessary?" (with Avi Weiss), Quarterly Economics, (Hebrew), July 1998, pp.397-412.
• "Economic Growth, Leadership and Capital Flows: the Leapfrogging Effect" (with Daniel Tsiddon), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, September 1998, pp.261-277.
• "Communist Regime Collapse: Output and the Rate of Repression" (with Adi Schnytzer), Eastern Economic Journal, Fall 1998, pp. 463-474.
• "Competition and Concentration in the Israeli Import Sector", Quarterly Tax Review, (Hebrew), 1999, 104: 26-44.
• "The Effects of Internet and E-Commerce on Competition and Concentration in the Import Market", Quarterly Tax Review, (Hebrew), November 2000, pp.58-73.
• "Social Classes, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth", European Economic Review, 2001, 45: 707-717.
• "The New views on Demographic Transition: A Reassessment of Malthus's and Marx's Approach to Population" (with Warren Young), European Journal of Economic Thought, 2003, 10: 25-45.
• "Why are the Transition Paths in China and Eastern Europe Different? A Political Economy Perspective" (with Adi Schnytzer), Economics of Transition, 2003, 11:3-23.
• "Political Institutions and Economic Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe: A Snowball Effect" (with Thierry Verdier) Economic Systems, 2003, 27:289-311.
• "Economic Cooperation and Conflict Resolution: Europe and the Middle East", European Union Review, 2003, 8:7-34.
• "Changes in the Training of the Power Elites in Western Europe" (with Francois Crouzet), Journal of European Economic History, 2004, 33:33-58.
• "Disengagement: Can it Improve the Palestinian Economy?", Israel Affairs, April 2006, 12(2): 330-340.
• "Focal Randomization: An optimal Mechanism for the Evaluation of R&D projects", Science and Public Policy, December 2007, 34(9): 691-698.
• "Can Demographic Transition only be Explained by Altruistic and Neo-malthusian Models?", Journal of SocioEconomics, 2010(39): 233-240.
• "Non-Linear Geographics and the Economics of Transition and Democratization" (with Thierry Verdier), Economics of Transition, 2012(3):1-19.
• "Brain Drain and Development Traps", (with Jean-Pascal Benassy), Journal of Development Economics, 2013: 15-22.
• "Geography and Political Economy", (with Thierry Verdier), Journal of Institutional Comparisons, 2014(1): 29-36.
• "Population and Economic Growth: Ancient and Moderns". (with Warren Young), European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2014: 1-27.
• "Paid Basic Income, Fertility rates and Economic Growth", HomoOeconomicus 2014, vol.31(1): 225-244.
• "Endogenous fertility with a sibship size effect", (with Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015: 1-21.
• "Why Migrate: for Study or for Work?", Economies, 2016.
• "Legal Conflicts of Interests of the Revolving Door" Journal of Macroeconomics. 2017: 52:175-188.
• "Social Mobility at the top and the Higher Education System" European Journal of Political Economy, 2018 (with Joel Hellier).(52): 36-54
• "Scientometrics of peer review" Scientometrics, 2017 (with Flaminio Squazzoni and Ana Marusic),
• "Productivity Gap between Sectors and Double Duality in Labor Markets" Open Economies Review, 2018, (with Gilad Brand). 29(4), 725-749.
• "Elitism in Higher Education and Inequality: Why Are the Nordic Countries So Special?" 2018. Intereconomics. 201-208.
• "The Revolving Door, State Connections, and Inequality of Influence in the Financial Sector" (with Joel Cariolle) Journal of Institutional Economics, 2019. 15: 595-614.
• "Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? A new model of Brain Waste vs. Brain Drain" BE Journal of Macroeconomics, 2019
• "Arbitrariness in the Peer Review Process" Scientometrics (with Aliaksandr Birukou), 2020.
• "Regulating the Revolving Door" ProMarket, 2023.
• "Will Automation and Robotics Lead to More Inequality?" The Manchester School, 2023.
• "Regulating the Revolving Door of Regulators: Legal vs. Ethical Issues". Economies. 2024.

Working papers, Book Reviews, and Articles in Popular Press

See website: www.elisebrezis.com

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2022-)

• September 2022 "Will Robotics Lead to Changes in Leadership and Inequality?" 4th Warsaw Macro-Finance Conference, Poland.
• October 2022 "Will Robotics Lead to Changes in Leadership and Inequality?" Cora 2022- conference on robots and automation, Frankfurt, Germany
• February 2023 "Regulating the Revolving Door of Regulators" NBER conference on Economic Analysis of Regulation.
• March 2023 "Regulating the Financial Market and Crypto" The-Marker conference on The New Money, Israel (Hebrew)
• June 2023 "Will Robotics Lead to Changes in Leadership and Inequality?" conference on "Productivity Revolutions, Past and Future", Manchester, England.
• June 2024 "Elitism and Leadership in technology?" conference on "Perspective on Inequality in the 21st century", St Gallen, Switzerland.
• June 2024 "Are Financial Crises Contagious?" conference on "Financial Crises", LSE, London, England.
• March 2025 "Welfare, War and Demography" IARIW conference, Tokyo, Japan
• March 2025 "Welfare, War and Demography" Development conference, Humbold University, Berlin
• October 2025 "The vicious cycle between War, development and Demography", University of Navarra, Spain
• October 2025 "Geopolitics and Geopolitics and Financial Contagion: Are Crises Becoming More Global?, Barcelona, Spain