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
Israel Science Foundation (twice)
American Philosophical Society
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]
Co-founder and Secretary, Economic History Association of Israel, 2012-