Prof. Eliakim Katz

Northern Illinois University, USA

Email: ekatz@niu.edu

Qualifications

1989 Ph.D., London University, UK

Publications (Selected)

1. "An Economic Theory of Volunteering," forthcoming, European Review of Political Economy, (with J. Rosenberg).
2. "On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options," 2005, Journal of Population Economics, 18:267-274 (with H. Rapoport).
3. "Property Rights, Theft, Amnesty and Efficiency," 2003, European Journal of Law and Economics (with J. Rosenberg).
4. "A Positive Theory of Immigration Amnesties," Economics Letters, Vol. 78, 2003, pp. 231-239 (with S. Karlson).
5. "Managing the Risk of Relative Price Changes by Splitting Index Linked Bonds," Journal of Risk, 2001 (with A. Aziz and E. Prisman).
6. "An Alternative Interpretation of the Fair Wage Hypothesis," Economics Letters, 2001, (with Carl Campbell).
7. "Corporate Taxation, Incumbency Advantage and Entry," European Economic Review, 1996, (with Elie Appelbaum).
8. "Wage Secrecy as a Social Convention," Economic Inquiry, 1996, (with L. Danziger).
9. "Negative Intergroup Externalities and Market Demand," Economica, 1996, (with U. Spiegel).
10. "A Theory of Sex Discrimination," 1996, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (with L. Danziger).
11. "Arbitrage, Clientele Effects and the Term Structure of Interest Rates," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis," 1991, (with E. Z. Prisman), 435-443.
12. "Investment in General Training: The Role of Information and Labour Mobility," Economic Journal, 1990, (with A. Ziderman), 1147-1158.
13. "Rent Seeking Versus Flexibility," Public Choice, 1990, (with J.B. Smith), 67-77.
14. "International Migration in the Presence of Asymmetric Information," Economic Journal, 1987, (with O. Stark).
15. "Hierarchical Structure and the Social Costs of Bribes and Transfers," Journal of Public Economics, 1987, (with A.L. Hillman).
16. "Seeking Rents by Setting Rents: The Political Economy of Rent Seeking," Economic Journal, 1987, (with E. Appelbaum), 685-699.
17. "Measures of Risk Aversion and Comparative Statics of Industry Equilibria," American Economic Review, 1986, (with E. Appelbaum).
18. "Rural to Urban Migration in LDCs in the Presence of Risk Aversion," Journal of Labor Economics, 1986, (with O. Stark).
19. "Risk Averse Rent Seekers and the Social Cost of Monopoly Power," Economic Journal, March 1984, (with A.L. Hillman).
20. "A Rule for Signing the Effect of Uncertainty on an Optimization Problem with Two Control Variables," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1984.