Dror Goldberg

Homepage: http://www.drorgoldberg.com

 

Employment

Current: Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel

Previous: Texas A&M University

 

Education

MA, Ph.D (economics), University of Rochester

BA, MA (economics), LL.B (law), Tel Aviv University

 

Research interests

Monetary economics (theory, history, law)

Macroeconomics

Political economy

 

Selected publications

- The Tax-Foundation Theory of Fiat Money, Economic Theory, forthcoming

- 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

Working papers

- Property Rights under Absolutism: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Bank

- The Production Function of Regulation: The Case of Forced Money

Teaching experience

Graduate: Monetary theory

Undergraduate: Macroeconomics; financial economics; money, credit and banking

Recent grants

• Israel Science Foundation. With Avi Weiss
• The Maurice Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel. With Saggi Katz
  

Recent presentations

• American Society for Legal History, Atlanta
• Israeli Association for History and Law
• Business History Conference, St. Louis
• Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law
• Israeli Law and Society Association Meeting, Herzliya
• Social Science History Association Meeting, Chicago
• Hebrew University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management
• Purdue University, Economics Department
• New York University, Stern School of Business, Department of Economics
• Silvaplana Workshop in Political Economy, St. Moritz, Switzerland
• Israeli Economic Association Meeting, Jerusalem
  
• “Questioning ‘Credible Commitment’: Rethinking the Glorious Revolution and the Rise of Financial Capitalism” Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Recent courses audited

• Experimental Economics. Dan Levin, Tel Aviv University
• Economic Growth in Economic History: Europe, 1700-1850. Joel Mokyr, Tel Aviv University
• Topics in the Economic History of the 20th century. Joel Mokyr, Tel Aviv University
• The International Monetary System: Past, Present, and Future. Alex Cukierman, Tel Aviv University
• Law and History. Assaf Likhovski, Tel Aviv University
• Constitutional Political Economy. Roger D. Congleton, Bar Ilan University