Dr. Mordechai E. Schwarz

• Personal
• Education
• Professional Experience and Academic Appointments
• Administrative and other Activities
• Fields of Interest and Research
• Membership in Professional Societies
• Reviewer for Professional Journals
• Teaching Responsibility for Open University Courses
• List of Publications
  • Open University Books
  • Articles
  • Others
• Research in Process and Planned Research
• Participation in Scientific Conferences

Personal

Tel: 972-9-778-1886

E-mail: mordsch@openu.ac.il

Born: Tel Aviv, Israel, 16 October 1962
Marital Status: Married + 5

Education

2001	Ph.D., Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dissertation: "Intergenerational Transfers in Israel: Evidence and Economic Analysis" Supervisor: Prof. Eytan Sheshinski, Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2000	World Bank Institute and Harvard Institute for International Development Workshop on "Pension System in Crisis" (Harvard University, June 2000)
1996	M.A., Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thesis: "Intergenerational Transfers, Ricardian Equivalence and Public Pension Policy" Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Tsidon, Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University
1991	B.A., Economics and complementary studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Thesis: "Talmudic Topics from Game Theory Perspective" (with distinction) Supervisor: Prof. Motty Perry, Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professional Experience and Academic Appointments

2013	Visiting Scholar, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society, University of California, Berkeley.
2010	Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Management, The Open University of Israel
2004	Lecturer, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
2003	Lecturer, Department of Management and Economics, The Open University of Israel
2003	Lecturer, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
2002	Visiting Lecturer, Department of Management and Economics, The Open University of Israel
2002	Lecturer, Interdisciplinary department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
1993	Senior Auditor, Israel State Comptroller's Office, Department of Economic Audit Audit tasks included: Ministry of Finance, Bank of Israel and governmental enterprises Topics of audit: Governmental budget, Capital Market regulation, Insurance regulation including Social Security and Pensions, Banking regulation and others

Administrative and other Activities

2002	Member, Academic subcommittee for Social Sciences, The Open University of Israel
2002	Member,the Faculty Council, the Open University of Israel
2003	Member, Academic subcommittee for management and economics, The Open University of Israel
2003	Member, Academic subcommittee for psychology and education, The Open University of Israel
2005	Member, Committee for Accreditation of Prior Studies
2006	Member, Academic subcommittee for for sociology, political science and communication, The Open University of Israel
2007	Academic Director, the Hareidi Academic Studies Project
2007	Author of the Self Evaluation Report for the Department of Economics and Management, submitted to the Council of Higher Education
2008	Chairman, Academic subcommittee for management and economics, The Open University of Israel

Fields of Interest and Research

• Intergenerational Economics
• Social Security
• Public Economics
• Political Economics
• Macroeconomics
• Economics and Jewish Law

Membership in Professional Societies

• American Economic Association
• Public Choice Society
• Social Choice and Welfare
• Royal Economic Society
  

Prizes

Tager Prize For outstanding article in Jewish Law (2011).

Reviewer for:

• Scandinavian Journal of Economics
• The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis
• Defense and Peace Economics
• Public Choice
  
• Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
• CESifo Economic Studies
  

Teaching Responsibility for Open University Courses

• Public Economics
• Intergenerational Economics
• Social Preference and Choice
• Managerial Economics
  

List of Publications

Open University Books

Intergenerational Economics (5 units, October 2006)

Public Economics, (6 units, 2013).   

Articles

1. Schwarz, M. E., "Generational Accounting for Israel," The Economic Quarterly, 50(3), 2003 (Hebrew)
2. Schwarz, M. E., "Intergenerational Transfers: An Integrative Approach," Journal of Public Economic Theory, 8(1), 2006, 61-93.
3. Schwarz, M. E. and Sheshinski, E., "Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting and Social Security Systems," European Economic Review, 51(5), 2007, 1247-1262.
4. Epstein, G. S., Milchtaich, I., Nitzan, S. and Schwarz, M. E., "Ambiguous Political Power and Contest Efforts," Public Choice 132, 2007, 113-123.
5. Epstein, G. S., Nitzan, S., and Schwarz, M. E., "Performance and Prize Decomposition in Contests," Public Choice 134, 2008, 429-443.
6. Epstein, G. S., Nitzan, S. and Schwarz, M. E., "Efforts in Two-Sided Contests," Public Choice 136, 2008 pp. 283-291.
7. Lipschits I. and Schwarz M. E.., "Aggregation of Estimates when Decision by Majority is not Possible", Jewish Law Annuals, (forthcoming). (Tager Prize for outstanding article in Jewish Law 2011). (Hebrew version). 
8. Schwarz M. E., "Subgame Perfect Plea Bargaining in Biform Judicial Contests". Review of Law and Economics 8(1), 2012 pp. 297-330. .

Working Papers

1. Bar-El, R. and Schwarz, M. E., "Dynamics of Voluntary Contributions to Capacity and Operation of Public Goods”.
2. Schwarz, M. E., "If You Can't Beat Them - Join Them: A Cooperative Game Theoretical Approach to Rent Seeking Contests"
3. Schwarz M. E., "Minmax Shapley Value and Biform Contests Subgame Perfect Equilibrium".
4. Schwarz M. E., "Subgame Perfect Compromise in the Shadow of Conflict".
5. Schwarz M. E. "Might Makes (Contingent) Right: Equilibrium in the Stochastic Jungle".

Research in Process and Planned Research

1. "Cycles of Predictable Surprises", (with Ronen Bar-El).
2.   Algorithms of Appraisal Aggregation from The Talmud (with Itay Lipschits and Rica Gonen).
3. Religious Human Capital Accumulation and Socio-Economic Mobility in Hareidi Sector (with Ronen Bar-El, Yossi Tobol and Bradley Ruffle).
4.  “Bankruptcy Arbitrary Rules and Social Welfare Maximization”.
5.  "Ruling Procedures in Evidence-less Litigations" (with Itay Lipschits).

Participation in Scientific Conferences

1. American Economic Association annual meeting, Washington, DC (January 2003)
2. Public Choice Society annual meeting, Baltimore, MD (March 2004)
3. 5th annual CERP conference, Moncalieri-Turin, Italy (June 2004)
4. Israel Economic Association annual meeting, Maale Hachamisha (June 2004)
5. Public Choice Society annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2005)
6. Public Choice Society annual meeting, New Orleans, LA (March 2006)
7. 8th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul, July 2006
8. Annual meeting of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (July 2007)
9. Israel Economic Association annual meeting, Maale Hachamisha (June 2009)
10. 10th Annual Conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Galway, Ireland (June, 2009)
11. 13th International Conference on Economics and Security, Thessaloniki, Greece (Jun 2009) 
12.    5^th Annual International Symposium on Economic Theory, Policy and Applications, Athens Greece (July 2010).
13. CESifo conference on law and economics, Munich, (December 2012). 
14. Western Economic Association International 87th Annual Conference, San Francisco CA, (June 2012).
15. 14th Annual conference of the Association for Public Economic Theory, Lisbon, Portugal (July 2013).