Publications

 

1.  "The Nature and Implications of the Reswitching of Techniques," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1966, 80, 526-559 (with M. Bruno and E. Burmeister). Reprinted in P. Newman (ed.), Readings in Mathematical Economics, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1968, Part II, 68-95. [view link]

2.  "Optimal Accumulation with Learning by Doing," in K. Shell (ed.), Essays on the Theory of Optimal Economic Growth, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 1967, 31-52.

 

3.  "Economic Growth and Factor Substitution," International Economic Review, June 1967, 8, 242-251 (with M. Kemp and P. Thanh). [view link]

4.  "Balanced Growth and Stability in the Johansen Vintage Model," Review of Economic Studies, April 1967, 34, 239-248. [view link]

5.  "Tests of the Learning by Doing Hypothesis," Review of Economics and Statistics, November 1967, 49, 568-577. [view link]

6.  "On the Sensitivity of the Level of Output to Savings: Embodiment and Disembodiment," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1967, 81, 524-528 (with D. Levhari).
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7.   "On the Individual's Lifetime Allocation between Education and Work," Metroeconomica, October 1967, 20, 42-49. [view link]

8.   "The Badly Behaved Production Function ¾ Comment," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1968, 82, 524-525 (with M. Bruno and E. Burmeister). [view link]

9.  "A Non-Substitution Theorem in a Model with Fixed Capital," Southern Economics Journal, January 1969, 35, 273-276 (with E. Burmeister). [view link]

10.  "Stability of Growth Equilibrium in the Neoclassical Vintage Model," International Economic Review, June 1969, 10, 141-143. [view link]

11.  "On the Sensitivity of the Level of Output to Savings: Embodiment and Disembodiment: Comment," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1969, 83, 347-348 (with F.M. Fisher and D. Levhari). [view link]

12.  "A Theorem on Returns to Scale and Steady State Growth," Journal of Political Economy, February 1969, 77, 60-65 (with D. Levhari). [view link]

 

13.  "The Relation between the Rate of Return and Rate of Technical Progress,"    Review of Economic Studies, June 1969, 36, 363-379 (with D. Levhari). [view link]

14.   "Switching of Techniques and Consumption Per Head: An Economic Clarification," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1970, 86, 533-535. [view link]

15.   "A Microeconomic Production Function," Econometrica, May 1979, 38, 550-573 (with D. Levhari). [view link]

16.   "The Factor Price Frontier with Embodied Technical Progress," American Economic Review, December 1970, 60. 807-813 (with D. Levhari). [view link]

17.   "Welfare Aspects of a Regulatory Constraint," American Economic Review, March 1971, 61, 175-178. [view link]

18.   "On the Theory of Optimal Income Taxation," 1971, Journal of Public Economics, forthcoming.

19.   "Lifetime Excess Burden of a Tax," Journal of Political Economy, January 1972, 80, 139-147 (with D. Levhari). [view link]

20.   "A Production Function for Repairmen Problem," Review of Economic Studies, July 1972, 39, 241-250 (with K.J. Arrow and D. Levhari). [view link]

21.   "The Optimal Linear Income Tax," Review of Economic Studies, July 1972, 39, 297-302. Reprinted in the E.S. Phelps (ed.), Economic Justice, Penguin, London, 1973, ch. 17. [view link]

22.   "Relations between a Social Welfare Function and the Gini Index of Income Inequality," Journal of Economic Theory, February 1972, 4. 94-100. [view link]

23.   "Optimum vs. Equilibrium Land Use Pattern and Congestion Tolls," Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, Autumn 1973, 4, 619-636  Reprinted in E.T. Verhoef (2009), Economics of Traffic Congestion, a book in the International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (Elgar).(with D. Pines and Y. Oron). [view link]

24.   "Congestion and the Optimum City Size," American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 1973, 63, 61-67. [view link]

25.   "An Example of Income-Tax Schedules which are Optimal for the Maxmin Criterion," 1973, International Economic Review, forthcoming.

26.   "Experience and Productivity in the Israel Diamond Industry," Econometrica, March 1974, 41, 239-253 (with D. Levhari). [view link]

27.   "The Economics of Queues: A Brief Survey," in M.S. Balch, D.L. McFadden and S.Y. Wu (eds.), Essays on Economic Behavior under Uncertainty, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1974, 195-212 (with D. Levhari). 

28.   "Short and Long-Run Effects of Interest-Income and Estate Taxes," Metroeconomica, December 1974, 26, 109-129. [view link]

29.   "The Effect of Nuisances Associated with Urban Traffic on Suburbanization," Journal of Urban Economics, 1974, 1, 382-394 (with D. Pines and Y. Oron). [view link]

 

30.   "A Note on the Progressivity of Optimal Public Expenditures," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1975, 89, 138-144 (with J. Green). [view link]

31.   "Competitive Inefficiencies in the Presence of Constrained Transactions," Journal of Economic Theory, June 1975, 10, 343-357 (with J. Green). [view link]

32.   "Demand Fluctuations, Capacity Utilization and Industry Equilibrium," American Economic Review, December 1976, 66, 731-742 (with J. Drיze).[view link]

33.   "Income Taxation and Capital Accumulation," Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1976, 90, 138-149. [view link]

34.   "Direct Versus Indirect Remedies for Externalities," Journal of Political Economy, August 1976, 84, 797-808 (with J. Green). [view link]

35.   "Integration Effects of Firms Subject to Regulation," Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, Spring 1976, 7, 308-313 (with Y. Peles). [view link]

 

36.   "Price Quality and Quantity Regulation in Monopoly Situations," Economica, May 1976, 43, 127-137. [view link]

37.   "The Supply of Communal Goods and Revenue Sharing," in M. Feldstein and R. Inman (eds.), Economics of the Public Services, MacMillan, London, 1977, ch. 11, 253-273. [view link]

 

38.   "Adverse Selection and Optimum Insurance Policies," in A.S. Blinder and P. Friedman (eds), Natural Resources, Uncertainty and General Equilibrium Systems: Essays in Memory of Raphael Lusky, Academic Press, New York, 1977, 113-122. [view link]

39.   "Inflation and Costs of Price Adjustment," Review of Economic Studies, June 1977, 44, 287-304 (with Y. Weiss).  [view link]

 

40.   "Budget Displacement Effects of Inflationary Finance," American Economic Review, September 1977, 67, 671-682 (with J. Green).  [view link]

41.   "Taxation, Monetary Policy and Inflation," in A. Sandmo (ed.) Essays in Public Economics (D.C. Heath and Co., Lexington, 1978), ch. 15.  [view link]

 

42.   "Note on Two-Part Tariff, Regulation and Distribution," Journal of Pubic Economics, forthcoming.

 

43.   "Inflation and Taxes in a Growing Economy with Debt and Equity Finance," Journal of Political Economy, April 1978, 87, 53-70 (with M. Feldstein and J. Green).  [view link]

44.   "Efficiency in the Optimum Supply of Public Goods," Econometrica, March 1978, 46, 269-284 (with L. Lau and J. Stiglitz).  [view link]

45.   "A Model of Social Security and Retirement Decision," Journal of Public Economics, December 1978, 10, 337-360.  [view link]

 

46.   "Optimal Redistributive Taxation when Individual Welfare Depends upon Relative Income," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1978, 92, 589-601 (with M. Boskin).  [view link]

47.   "Optimum Capital Gains Taxation under Limited Information," Journal of Political Economy, December 1978, 86, 1143-1158 (with J. Green).  [view link]

48.   "Note on the Relation between Quantity and Price Anomalies under Externalities," Economics Letters, December 1978, 1, 111-115.  [view link]

49.   "Demand for Fixed Factors, Inflation and Adjustment Costs," Review of Economic Studies, January 1979, 46, 31-45 (with Y. Weiss).  [view link]

 

50.   "Approximating the Efficiency Gain of Tax Reforms," Journal of Public Economics, April 1979, 11, 179-196 (with J. Green).  [view link]

51.   "Corporate Financial Policy and Taxation in a Growing Economy," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 1979, 93, 411-432 (with M. Feldstein and J. Green).  [view link]

52.   "Uncertainty and Optimal Social Security Systems," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1981, 95, 191-206 (with Y. Weiss). Also in Collard, D., R. Lecomber and M. Slater (eds.), Income Distribution: The Limits to Redistribution, Scientechnica, 1980, 71-80.  [view link]

53.   "Inflation, Costs of Adjustment and the Real Price Amplitude: Am Empirical Study," in Flanders, J. and A. Razin (eds.), Development in an Inflationary World, Academic Press, 1981, 195-207 (with A. Tishler and Y. Weiss).  [view link]

54.   "Inequality Within and Between Families," Journal of Political Economy, February 1982, 105-127 (with Y. Weiss). Also in Helpman, E., A. Razin and E. Sadka (eds.), Social Policy Evaluation: An Economic Perspective, Academic Press, 1983, 255-276.  [view link]

55.   "The Effects of Public Sector Wage Policy on Income Distribution and Labor Allocation," in R. Haveman (ed.) Public Finance and Public Employment, Wayne State University Press, 1982. Also in Helpman, E., A. Razin and E. Sadka (eds.), Social Policy Evaluation: An Economic Perspective, Academic Press 1983, 299-309.

56.   "Optimal Tax Treatment of the Family: Married Couples," Journal of Public Economics, April 1983, 20, 281-298 (with M. Boskin). [view link]

 

57.   "Optimum Pricing Policy under Stochastic Inflation," Review of Economic Studies, July 1983, 50, 513-529 (with Y. Weiss). [view link]

58.   "On Industry Equilibrium under Uncertainty," Journal of Economic Theory, June 1984, 33, 88-97 (with J. Dre'ze). [view link]

 

59.   "United-States saving Rate", IMP Survey November 1984 (with V. Tanzi).

 

60.   "The Normative and Positive Aspects of Taxation of Imputed Rent on Owner-Occupied Housing," Journal of Public Economics, June 1985, 27, 1-24 (with D. Pines and E. Sadka). [view link]

61.   "Second-Best Theory: Ramsey-Boiteux Pricing," in Arrow, K., and M. Intriligator (eds.), Handbook of Mathematical Economics, 3, North-Holland, 1986, ch. 25 (with K. Hagen).

 

62.   "Towards a Theory of Planning," in Heller, W.R. Starr and D. Starrett (eds.), Equilibrium Analysis: Essays in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow. Cambridge University Press, 1986, ch. 7. 135-158 (with M. Intriligator). 

 

63.   "Earnings Uncertainty and Intergenerational Transfers," in Helpman, E., A. Razin and E. Sadka (eds.), Economic Effects of the Government Budget, MIT Press, 1988, ch. 5. 

64.   "A Simple Model of Optimum Lifecycle Consumption with Earnings Uncertainty," Journal of Economic Theory, October 1989, 49, 1, 169-178. [view link]

 

65.   "The Explanation of the Behavior of Personal Savings in the U.S in Recent Years, NBER Working Papers No. 3040, 1989 [view link]

 

66.   "Production Externalities and Long-Run Equilibria: Bargaining and Pigovian Taxation," Economic Inquiry, July 1989, 17, 453-571 (with J. Hamilton and S. Slutsky). [view link]

67.   "Note on the Shape of the Optimum Income Tax Schedule," Journal of Public Economics, November 1989, 40, 201-216. [view link]

 

68.   "Optimum Earnings and Capital Income Taxes in a Life-Cycle Model," in Krause-Junk (eds.), Public Finance and Steady Economic Growth, Proceedings of the International Institute of Public Finance, 1989.

69.   "Treatment of Capital Income in Recent Tax Reforms and the Cost of Capital in Industrialized Countries," Tax Policy and the Economy, 4, National Bureau of Economic Research, MIT Press, 1990, 25-42. [view link]

 

70.   "Staggered and Synchronized Price Policies under Inflation: The Multiproduct Monopoly Case," Review of Economic Studies, April 1992, 59, 331-359 (with Y. Weiss). [view link]

 

71.   "Externalities and Compulsory Vaccinations," Journal of Public Economics, 1991, 45, 69-90 (with D. Brito and M. Intriligator). [view link]

72.   "Towards Privatization: Decentralization of Large Conglomerates and Debt Allocation," Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of the International Economic Association, September 1992.

73.    "Quantity Competition in a Spatial Model", Canadian Journal of Economics, 27, November 1994, 403-417 (with J. Hamilton, J. Klein and S. Slutsky). [view link]

74.   "Economic Aspects of Optimal Disability Benefits," Journal  of Public Economics, 1995, May 1995, 57, 1-23 (with P. Diamond). [view link]

75.  "Privatization and the Distribution of Income in the Commons," Journal of Public Economics May 1997, 64, 181-206 (with D.Brito, and M. Intriligator). [view link]

76.   "Alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz", Energy Journal, 1998, 19, 135-147. (with D. Brito). [view link]

77.    "Romania's Pension System: From Crisis to Reform", in M. Feldstein and H. Siebert (editors), Social Security Pension Reform in Europe, The Univeristy of Chicago Press,) 2002, 401-438 (with G. deMenil). [view link]

78.  “Privatization and it’s Benefits: Theory and Evidence”’ in Basu, K., P. Nayak and R. Ray (eds.) Markets and  Governments, (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 185-243, Also in CES Economic Studies (2003), 49, 429-60. (with L.F López-Calva). [view link]

79. “Atmosphere Externality and Corrective Taxes” Journal of Public Economics, 2004, vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 727-734. [view link]

80.  "Annuities and Retirement", in  D. Aliprantis, K. Arrow , P. Hammond , F. Kubler, H-M Wu and N. Yannelis (eds) Assets, Beliefs, and Equilibria in Economic Dynamics, (Springer, 2003), 27-54. [view link] 

81.  “Optimum and Risk-Class Pricing of Annuities”, The Economic Journal,  2007, 117, 240-251. [view link]

82.  "Note on Longevity and Aggregate Savings", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108, 353-356. [view link]

83. "Private Information, Coasian Bargaining and The Second Welfare Theorem", Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90, 871-895 (with D. Brito, J. Hamilton, M. Intriligatior and S. Slutsky). [view link]

84.   "Transfers as a Means to Combat European Spillovers", Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2005,  225, (6), 699-710,  (with D. Rübbelke). [view link]

85.   "Planning for the Optimal Mix of Paygo Tax and Funded Savings", Journal of Pension Economics and Finance,  2005, 5(1), 1-25 (with G. deMenil and F. Murtin). [view link]

86.   "Optimum Delayed Retirement Credit", in Fenge R., G. DeMenil and  P. Pestieau, (eds.) Pension Strategies in Europe and in the United-States, (MIT Press, 2008) . [view link]

87.   "Pharmaceutical Patenting in Developing Countries" in Sheshinski, E. and W. Baumol (eds.) 

        Entrepreneurship Innovation and the Growth Mechanism of Free Market Economics, (Princeton University Press, 2006).

88.  "Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting and Social Security Systems" European Economic Review, 2007, 51, 1247-1262. (with M. Schwarz). [view link]

89. "Optimum Commodity Taxation in Pooling Equilibria", Journal of Public Economics, 2007,  91 (7), 1565-1574. [view link]

90. "Refundable Annuities", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2010, (1), 7-21. [view link]

91. "Environmental Protection and the Private Provision of International Public Goods" Economica,    2010, 308 (77), 775-784, (with M. Altemeyer-Bartscher and D. Rübbelke).  [view link]

92. "Note on Income Taxation and Occupational Choice", Research in Economics, March 2016,   70, 20-23. [view link]

93. "A Rational Economic Model of Paygo Tax Rates", European Economic Review, (forthcoming)   (with G. de Menil and F. Murtin and T. Yokossi). [view link]

94. "Social Security and the Widening Life Expectancy Gap", American Economic Journal, Forthcoming, (with F. Caliando)