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Dror Goldberg
Education
MA, Ph.D (economics), University of Rochester
BA, MA (economics), LL.B (law), Tel Aviv University
Employment
Department of Management and Economics, The Open University of Israel
Previously:
Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University
Department of Economics, Texas A&M University
Selected publications (with links)
Monetary Economics: Theory, History and Policy [Hebrew textbook], The Open University of Israel Press, 2024
Easy Money: American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency, University of Chicago Press, 2023
Endogenous Market Formation and Monetary Trade: An Experiment. With Gabriele Camera and Avi Weiss. Journal of the European Economic Association 18(3), June 2020, 1553–1588
Forced Money: Legal Development of a Criminal Economic Rule. Comparative Legal History 4(2), December 2016, 162-180
"Paper Money" in The Atlantic World, edited by D'Marris D. Coffman, Adrian Leonard, and William O'Reilly. Chapter 26, pp. 171-190. Routledge 2014
Property Rights under Administrator-Dictators: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Bank (with Igal Milchtaich), Journal of Economic History 73(4), December 2013, 1098-1124
The Tax-Foundation Theory of Fiat Money, Economic Theory 50(2), June 2012, 489-497
Why was America’s First Bank Aborted? Journal of Economic History 71(1), March 2011, 211-222
The Massachusetts Paper Money of 1690, Journal of Economic History 69(4), December 2009, 1092-1106
Money with Partially Directed Search, Journal of Monetary Economics 54(4), May 2007, 979-993
Famous Myths of “Fiat Money,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 37(5), October 2005, 957-967
Research interests
Monetary economics (theory, history, law)
Political economy
Macroeconomics
Business history
Teaching experience
Graduate: Monetary economics
Undergraduate: Economic history; macroeconomics; financial economics; money, credit and banking
Grants
Israel Science Foundation (twice)
American Philosophical Society
Editorial activities
Guest Editor, with Ron Harris, of the annual volume “Economy, Institutions, and Law in Israel” in the journal Law, Society & Culture, 2022, 586 pages [in Hebrew]
Member of Editorial Board, The Economic Quartery [in Hebrew]
Other
Co-founder and Secretary, Economic History Association of Israel, 2012-