Prof. Leif Danziger

Office Address:

Department of Economics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653
Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Tel:

+972-8-647-2295

Fax:

+972-8-647-2941

E-Mail:

danziger@bgu.ac.il

 

Research Interests | Publications

 

Research Interests

  • Minimum Wage
  • Labor Contracts
  • Unemployment Benefits
  • Macroeconomic Effects of Adjustment Costs
  • Risk and the Number of Export Destinations

 

Publications

  • "Optimal Unemployment Benefits Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution," with Tomer Blumkin and Eran Yashiv. International Tax and Public Finance 24, (February 2017): 36-59.
  • "The Unanimity Rule and Extremely Asymmetric Committees," with Ruth Ben-Yashar. Journal of Mathematical Economics 64, (December 2016): 107-112.
  • "When Is Voting Optimal?" with Ruth Ben-Yashar. Economic Theory Bulletin 3, (October 2015): 341-356.
  • "A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage," with Eliav Danziger. Economica, (April 2015): 236-252.
  • "On the Optimal Composition of Committees," with Ruth Ben-Yashar. Social Choice and Welfare 43, (December 2014): 973-980.
  • "Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees," with Ruth Ben-Yashar. Journal of Mathematical Economics 47, (October 2011): 440-447.Economics Letters 7
  • "Uniform and Nonuniform Staggering of Wage Contracts". Labour Economics 17, (December 2010): 1038-1049.
  • "Endogenous Monopsony and the Perverse Effect of the Minimum Wage in Small Firms". Labour Economics 17, (January 2010): 224-229.
  • "Noncompliance and the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Hours and Welfare in Competitive Labor Markets". Labour Economics 16, (December 2009): 625-630.
  • "The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage". Journal of Population Economics 22, (2009): 757-772.
  • "Adjustment Costs, Inventories and Output".Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110, (November 2008): 519-542.
  • "Extension of Labor Contracts and Optimal Backpay". Labour Economics 15, (January 2008): 18-36.
  • "Output Effects of Inflation with Fixed Price- and Quantity-Adjustment Costs". Economic Inquiry 45, (January 2007): 115-120.
  • "Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence," with Shoshana Neuman. Journal of Labor Economics 23, (April 2005): 341-371.
  • "The New Investment Theory and Aggregate Dynamics". Review of Economic Dynamics 6, (October 2003): 907-940.
  • "Inflation, Costly Price and Quantity Adjustments, and Time Spent in the Keynesian Regime". Economics Letters 80, (August 2003): 161-168.
  • "Fixed Production Capacity, Menu Cost and the Output-Inflation Relationship". with Claus Thustrup Kreiner. Economica 69, (August 2002): 433-444.
  • "Risk Aversion and Social Mobility: The Implausibility of Order-Preserving Income Redistributions," with Heinrich W. Ursprung. Economics Letters 74, (December 2001): 9-13.
  • "Output and Welfare Effects of Inflation with Costly Price and Quantity Adjustments". American Economic Review 91, (December 2001): 1608-1620.
  • "On the Age of Marriage: Theory and Evidence from Jews and Moslems in Israel," with Shoshana Neuman. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 40, (October 1999): 179-193.
  • "A Dynamic Economy with Costly Price Adjustments". American Economic Review 89, (September 1999): 878-901.
  • "Wage Secrecy as a Social Convention," with Eliakim Katz.Economic Inquiry 35, (January 1997): 59-69.
  • "A Theory of Sex Discrimination," with Eliakim Katz. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 31, (October 1996): 57-66.
  • "Discrete Shocks and Fixed Duration of Labor Contracts". Labour Economics 2, (November 1996): 359-379.
  • "Contract Reopeners". Journal of Labor Economics 13, (January 1995): 62- 87.
  • "The Transactions Demand for Cash by Endowed Institutions: An Invariance Result, "Economics Letters 41, (No. 41, 1993): 63 -65.
  • "Equality and Fertility in the Kibbutz," with Shoshana Neuman. Journal of Population Economics 6, (February 1993): 57 -66.
  • "On the Prevalence of Labor Contracts with Fixed Duration," American Economic Review 82, (March 1992): 195 206.
  • "Implementing the Lindahl Voluntary Exchange Mechanism," with Adi Schnytzer. European Journal of Political Economy 7, (April 1991): 55 64.
  • "Implicit Contracts, Layoffs, and Seniority Rights under Symmetric Information," Journal of Comparative Economics 14, (September 1990): 372 -383.
  • "A Model of University Admission and Tuition Policy".Scandinavian Journal of Economics 92, (September 1990): 415 -436.
  • "Risk Aversion and the Duration of Labor Contracts". Research in Labor Economics 10, (1989): 311 336.
  • "Intergenerational Effects on Fertility: Theory and Evidence from Israel," with Shoshana Neuman. Journal of Population Economics 2, (1989): 25-37.
  • "Costs of Price Adjustment and the Welfare Economics of Inflation and Disinflation". American Economic Review 78,(September 1988): 633 -646.
  • "Is There Anything Perverse About the Labor Managed Firm?" Journal of Comparative Economics 12, (June 1988): 240 243.
  • "Real Shocks, Efficient Risk Sharing, and the Duration of Labor Contracts". Quarterly Journal of Economics 103,  (May 1988): 435- 440.
  • "On Equilibrium with Product and Taste Variety". European Journal of Political Economy 4, (Special Issue 1988): 7 -11.
  • "Inflation, Fixed Cost of Price Adjustment, and the Measurement of Relative Price Variability: Theory and Evidence".American Economic Review 77, (September 1987): 704- 713.
  • "On Inflation and Real Price Variability" Economic Inquiry 25, (April 1987): 285- 298.
  • "Relative Price Seasonality, Wage Indexation and the Perfect Price Index" European Economic Review 30 , (December 1986): 1145 -1167.
  • "Demand Fluctuations, Inflation and Price Adjustments". European Journal of Political Economy 2 , (No. 1, 1986): 77 -89.
  • "Stochastic Inflation and Wage Indexation". Scandinavian Journal of Economics 86, (September 1984): 326- 336.
  • "Cost of Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts," with Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Gee San. Research in Labor Economics 6, (1984): 1 -63.
  • "Stochastic Inflation and the Optimal Policy of Price Adjustment". Economic Inquiry 22, (January 1984): 98- 108.
  • "Price Adjustments with Stochastic Inflation". International Economic Review 24, (October 1983): 699- 707.
  • "On the Frequency of Wage Indexation". European Economic Review 22 (August 1983): 297 -304.
  • "Cost of Living Adjustment Clauses in Union Contracts: A Summary of Results," with Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Gee San. Journal of Labor Economics 1 , (July 1983): 215 -245.
  • "Partial Wage Indexation with Real Shocks". Economics Letters 9, (No. 4, 1982): 383 -388.
  • "On Employment, Wage and Risk Sharing in Labor Contracts".Economics Letters 8, (No. 2, 1981): 181- 186.
  • "On Optimal Wage Indexation when Shocks are Real". Economics Letters 7, (No. 1, 1981): 51 -53.
  • "Risk Sharing in Labor Contracts" European Economic Review 14, (November 1980): 323 -340.
  • "The Transactions Demand for Cash: A Note on the Baumol Tobin Model" Scandinavian Journal of Economics 80, (December 1978): 440- 448.
  • "Majority Allocations of Public Goods". Public Finance 31, (No. 2, 1976): 196 -208.
  • "A Graphic Representation of the Nash and Lindahl Equilibria in an Economy with a Public Good". Journal of Public Economics 6, (October 1976): 295- 307.
  • "A Note on the Voluntary Exchange Model". Swedish Journal of Economics 77, (September 1976): 359 -365.