BENJAMIN BENTAL

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Place and Date of Birth: Haifa, March 12, 1948.
Electronic Address: bbental@econ.haifa.ac.il

2. HIGHER EDUCATION

Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering  and Management, Economics and Management, 1969 - 1973. B.Sc. 1973.

Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering  and Management, Graduate Studies in Economics, 1973 - 1974.

The University of Minnesota, Department of Economics, Graduate Studies in Economics, 1975 - 1979. Ph.D. 1979.

3. ACADEMIC RANKS AND TENURE IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

1979 - 1983 Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering Lecturer (non tenured)

1984 - 1987  Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering Senior Lecturer (non  tenured)

1985 - 1987 University of California, San Diego, Economics Visiting Associate Professor

1987 - 1993 Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering Senior Lecturer (tenured)

1993 - 1997 Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering Associate Professor (tenured)

1994 Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg Visiting Professor

1997 - University of Haifa Associate Professor (tenured)

1999 Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg Visiting Professor

4. OFFICES IN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION

1979  - 1980 Coordinator of the Economics Group, Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering

1987 - 1992  Coordinator of the Economics Group, Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering.

1994 - 1997  Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Technion, Faculty of Industrial Engineering

1997 - 1999  Chairman, graduate degrees committee, department of economics, University of  Haifa

2000 -  Chairman, Department of Economics, University of Haifa.

8. SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS, RESEARCH GRANTS, ETC.

1975 Yad Avi Hayeshuv grant for studies in the US.

1978 Graduate Fellowship of the University of Minnesota

1992  Sapir Foundation Research Grant

1994 Hammer Foundation Research Grant

1995 Sapir Foundation Research Grant

2000 Neaman Institute Research Grant (joint with Dan Peled)

9. TEACHING

  A. Courses taught in recent years,  Title  Year Level

General Equilibrium 1996, 7 undergraduate

Economics of Israel  1996.7.8 undergraduate

Economic Growth 1996 ,7, 8 graduate and undergraduate

Macroeconomics 1997, 8  graduate and undergraduate

  B. Supervision of graduate students in recent years

Student’s name Title of thesis Degree Date

 S. Shahrabany "Optimal Search for Investment Opportunities and Economic Growth" D.Sc. 1992

  Rotlevi "Shapley Value and Capacity Cost in the Production of Electricity" M.Sc. 1992 

 R. Lorian "Commercial Navy  Officer Careers in an Optimal Decision Model -  an Empirical Evaluation"  M.Sc. 1993

 M. Ben-David "Wage Contracts, Financial Markets and Output under Imperfectly Observed  Labor Productivity" M.Sc. 1994 

 S. Regev "The Determinants of Tourism to Israel".  M.Sc. 1995

S. Eyal "The Effect of R&D Subsidies in Agriculture M.Sc 1996   on the  Israeli Economy". 

A. Katsman  “Endogenous Number of Firms in a Search Theoretic Model” M.Sc. 1997

N. Sharara “Tax Evasion in Israel” M.Sc. 1998

O. Carmeli-Lev “The Law for the Ecouragment of Capital Investment:  Intentions and Effects” M.Sc. 1999

R. Pugatch: “Corporate Governance: Banks or the Market?” M.Sc.  2000

S. Kasimova: “Prices and Inventories” M.Sc. 2001

Y. Golekansky “The Banking System and Economic Crisis:  Israel and Russia” M.Sc. 2001

I. Breidburg “ Reforms in Public Transportation” M.Sc. 2002

II. PUBLICATIONS

A. Ph.D. DISSERTATION

:"Capital Controls in a Two Sector Growth Model", English, 159 pages, 1979.
Supervisor: Prof. Neil Wallace..

C. ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

(alphabetical order of authors)

    PUBLISHED

B. Bental and U. Ben-Zion, "Political Contributions and Policy -  Some Extensions", Public Choice, Winter 1975, pp. 1-12.

U.  Ben-Zion and B. Bental,  "A Simple Model of Political Contributions", Public Finance Quarterly, April 1981, pp. 43-157.

B.  Bental and M. Spiegel,  "Government Subsidies, Inflation and Consumers' Welfare", Recherches Economiques de Louvain, June 1981.

B. Bental and A. Ravid, "A Simple Method of  Estimating the Cost of Power Outages", Bell Journal, Spring 1982.

B. Bental, U. Ben-Zion and M. Spiegel, "Management Contribution and the Allocation of Time in a Labor-Managed Firm", Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 6(4), December, 1982.

B. Bental and A. Wenig, "Will All People Become Alike if They Are Alike"? Zeitschrift fuer Nationalokonomie, Vol. 43, No. 3, 1983, pp. 289-300.

B. Bental and M. Spiegel, "Horizontal Product  Differentiation, Prices and Quantity Selection of a Multi-Product Monopolist", International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2, 1984, pp. 1-6.

B. Bental, "Is Capital Mobility Always Desirable?  A Welfare Analysis of Portfolio Autarky in a Growing Economy",  International Economic Review, 26(l), February 1985, pp.  203-212.

B. Bental and D. Fixler, "Firm Behavior and the Externalities of Technological Leadership". European Economic Review, Volume 32, No. 9, November 1988, pp. 1731-46.

B. Bental, "The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Optimal  Population Growth", Journal of Population Economics, 1989, pp. 285-301.

B. Bental and Z. Eckstein, "The Dynamics of  Inflation with Constant Deficit under Expected regime Change", The Economic Journal, 1990, pp.1245-1260. 

.B. Bental and B. Eden: "Inventories  in a Competitive  Environment", Journal of Political Economy, October 1993, pp. 863 - 888.

B. Bental and M. Spiegel: "Deregulation, Competition  and the Network Size in the Market for Telecommunication Network Services", Journal of Regulatory Economics (6), 1994, pp. 283-296.

B. Bental and M. Spiegel: "Network Competition, Product Quality and Market Coverage in the Presence of Network Externalities", The Journal of Industrial Economics, Volume 43, No. 2, June 1995, pp. 197-208

B. Bental and D. Peled: "The Accumulation of  Wealth and the Cyclical Generation of New Technologies:  A Search Theoretic Approach", International Economic Review, Volume 37, No. 3, August 1996, pp. 687-718.

B. Bental: "A Dynamic Macroeconomic Model of Water  Uses in Israel", Economic Quarterly, April 1996, pp. 7-20 (in Hebrew).

B. Bental and B. Eden: "Money and Inventories in an Economy with Uncertain and Sequential Trade", Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 37, Issue 3, June 1996, pp. 445-460.

B. Bental and Z. Eckstein: “On the Fit of a Neoclassical Monetary Model in High Inflation: Israel 1972-1990”, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Volume 29, Issue 4 part 2, November 1997, pp. 725-52.

B. Bental and B. Eden: “The Real Effects of Reserve Requirements”, Journal of Monetary Economics, forthcoming.

D. ARTICLES OR CHAPTERS IN BOOKS WHICH ARE NOT CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  PUBLISHED

B. Bental and Y. Comay, "A Dynamic Bargaining  Model", in O.A. Ashenfelter and W.E. Oates, editors, Essays in Labor Market Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, 1977, 17-36.

B. Bental, "A Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: A Neoclassical Approach", in Shlomo Maital and Irwin Lipnowski (eds.),   Macroeconomic Conflict and Social Institutions, Ballinger Publishing Co., 1985, pp. 153-161.

B.  Bental and M. Spiegel, “Consumption Externalities in Telecommunication Services", in Telecommunications Demand Modeling: An Integrated View, A. de Fonteney, M.H. Shugard and  D.S. Sibley, (eds.), North Holland, 1990, pp. 415-432

E. ARTICLES  IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  PUBLISHED

B. Bental and M. Spiegel, "Deficit Financing of Price  Support and Consumers'  Welfare", Issues in the Israeli Economy, 1981. (Hebrew).

B. Bental, Z. Eckstein and D. Peled, "Banks Instability and Government Intervention in the National and International Capital Markets", in Money, Banks and Insurance, H. Goeppl and R. Henn, (eds.), 1984, pp. 561-569.

B. Bental, U. Ben-Zion and A. Wenig, "Macroeconomic Policy and  the Shadow Economy", in Wulf Gaertner and  Alois Wenig (eds.):  The Economics of the Shadow Economy, Springer Verlag, 1985, pp. 179-193 (refereed)

B. Bental and Z. Eckstein: "Inflation Deficit and Seignorage with expected Stabilization", in Economic Effects of the Government Budget, E. Helpman, A. Razin and  E. Sadka (eds.),  MIT Press, 1988,  pp. 238-253.

B. Bental: "Capital Accumulation and Population Growth in  Two Sector Closed and Open Economies", in  Demographic Change and  Economic Development, A. Wenig and K.E.  Zimmermann (eds.), Springer  Verlag, 1989, pp. 94-115. (refereed)

B. Bental, Z. Eckstein and D. Peled,  "Competitive Banking with Fractional Reserves and Regulations", in  Aspects of Central  Bank Policy Making, Z. Eckstein, (ed.), Springer Verlag, 1991.

F. OTHER SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

 B. Bental: "Government  Support of Industrial  Development. Is It  Necessary?" The Samuel Neaman Institute, 1981 , Technical Report, (Hebrew).

B.  Bental and S. Plaut: "Government  Support of High-Technology Industries in Israel", The Samuel Neaman Institute, 1985, Technical Report.

B. Bental and D. Peled: "Growth  through Search for  Technological Innovations: Simulating Policy Alternatives", The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development, 1993, Technical Report..

B. Bental: "A Dynamic Macroeconomic Model of Water Uses  in Israel", The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development  and the Hammer  Foundation, 1994, Technical Report.

  June, 2002