Selected Publications

Prizes:

The poster contribution Cordula Wendler, Ulf Liebe, Rico Ihle and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel was one of 3 finalists of the Nils Westermarck-Poster-Contest of the XXVIII. International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Foz do Iguazu, Brazil, and earned a 'honorable mention'. (article version)

Journal articles:

Feinerman, E., Finkelshtain, I., Tchetchik, A. and Delgo, M. (2011): "Impact of Counter-Urbanization on Size, Population Mix, and Welfare of an Agricultural Region". Am. J. Agr. Econ. (2011) 93(4): 1032-1047. doi:10.1093/ajae/aar027.

Finkelshtain, I., Kan, I. and Kislev, Y. (2010): "Are Two Economic Instruments Better Than One? Combining Taxes and Quotas under Political Lobbying". Discussion Paper No. 5.10, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Working papers:

Finkelshtain, I., Kachel, Y. and Rubin, O. (2011): "Policy, Competitiveness and Agricultural Trade: An Application of the Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) to Israeli Agriculture". Working paper, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, February.

Siddig, K., Flaig, D., Luckmann, J. and Grethe, H. (2011): "A 2004 Social Accounting Matrix for Israel". Agricultural Economics Working Paper Series (Hohenheimer Agrarökonomische Arbeitsberichte).Institute of Agricultural Policy and Markets, Hohenheim.

Siddig, K. and Grethe, H. (2011): "International Price Transmission in CGE Models: How to Reconcile Econometric Evidence and Endogenous Model Response?" Forthcoming as Agricultural Economics Working Paper (Hohenheimer Agrarökonomische Arbeitsberichte). Institute of Agricultural Policy and Markets, Hohenheim.

Conference papers:

Grethe, S., Siddig, K., Ihle, R. and Götz, L. (2012): “How Do World Agricultural Commodity Price Spikes Affect the Income Distribution in Israel?” Paper at the GEWISOLA 2012, Hohenheim, Germany, September 26-28 2012.

Ihle, R. and Rubin, O. D. (2012): "Price Transmission Subject to Security‐based Trade Barriers in the Context of the Israeli‐Palestinian Conflict", IAAE Conference 2012, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 18 - 24 August.

Wendler, C., Liebe, U., Ihle, R. and Cramon-Taubadel, S. von (2012): “The Willingness to Pay of European Consumers for Jointly Produced Israeli – Palestinian Products”. Poster presentation at the 2012 IAAE’s 28th Triennial Conference, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 18 - 24 August.

Finkelshtain, I., Kan, I. and Kislev, Y. (2011): "Combining taxes and quotas under political lobbying". Presentation at the International Workshop "Emerging Issues in Agricultural Economics - Farms and Farming People: Structure and Connections to Food Security and Rural Communities", The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May.

Flaig, D., Siddig, K., Grethe, H., Luckmann, J. and McDonald, S. (2011): "Enforcing Israeli Labour Market Laws against Non-Israelis: Who Pays the Price?" Conference Paper at the 2011 Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) Conference, Venice, Italy, June 16-18.

Flaig, D., Siddig, K., Grethe, H., Luckmann, J. and McDonald, S. (2011): "The Integration of Palestinian-Israeli Labour Markets: A CGE Approach". Selected paper at the 2011 AAEA & NAREA Joint Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 24-26.

Ihle, R. and Rubin, O. (2011): "Movement Restrictions, Agricultural Trade and Price Transmission between Israel and the West Bank". Presentation at the International Workshop "Emerging Issues in Agricultural Economics - Farms and Farming People: Structure and Connections to Food Security and Rural Communities", The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May.

Luckmann, J., Siddig, K., Flaig, D. and Grethe, H. (2011): "Modeling water scarcity in Israel, a general equilibrium approach". Presentation at the International Workshop "Emerging Issues in Agricultural Economics - Farms and Farming People: Structure and Connections to Food Security and Rural Communities", The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, May.

Completed B.Sc. and M.Sc./ M.A. theses:

Abu-Shanab, Sawsan: "Determinants of consumer behavior towards domestic and imported dairy products in West Bank" (Al-Quds University, M.A., in Arabic, 2011)

Avraham, Ofra: "Marketing margins for fresh agricultural products" (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.A., in Hebrew, 2011)

Chernia, Yanina: "An analysis of wholesale marketing margins in Israeli agriculture" (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.A., in Hebrew, 2011)

Franz, Kristina: "Eigenschaften von Preiszeitreihen für Obst und Gemüse im Westjordanland" ("Properties of Price Time Series of Fruits and Vegetables in the West Bank", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, M.Sc., in German, 2012, available here)

Halawani, Rami: "Determinants and consequences of the decision of Palestinian families to purchase Palestinian olive oil" (Al-Quds University, M.A., in Arabic, 2011)

Merkle, Geesche: "Kooperation zwischen israelischen und palästinensischen Großhändlern für Obst und Gemüse. Welche Rolle spielt die soziale Einbettung der Akteure?" ("Cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian Fruits and Vegetable Wholesale Traders - The Role of Social Embeddedness", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, M.Sc., in German, 2012, available here)

Smeirat, Issa Mahmoud: "Determinants of Palestinian direct investments from the West Bank in Israel and the settlements" (Al-Quds University, M.A., in Arabic, 2011)

Vollmer, Elisabeth: "Die Sensitivität von Fehlerkorrekturmodellen gegenüber fehlenden Daten" ("The Sensitivity of Error Correction Models against Missing Observations", Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, M.Sc., in German, 2011, available here)