Efraim Sadka (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974) holds the Henry Kaufman Chair in International Capital Markets at Tel Aviv University. He also serves as the chairman of the board of directors of Housing and Construction Holding Co., Israel’s largest real estate and construction conglomerate. Efraim Sadka is a co-editor of CESifo Economic Studies and of Emerald's Contributions to Economic Analysis, and a research fellow at CESifo, Munich. Efraim Sadka served on several public committees whose recommendations were enacted into laws. Among these committees: Taxation in an Inflationary Environment (1984-1985), Health Reform (1987-1988), Pension Reform (1992-1994), Consolidation of Local Governments (1996-1998), and Direct Tax Reform (2002). He also served as chairman of the Department of Economics (1982-1985), as acting dean of The Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences (1986), and as director of The Sapir Center for Development (1987-1989) at Tel Aviv University. He was a member of the advisory council of the Bank of Israel (1994-1998). Efraim Sadka held appointments, on several occasions, as a visiting scholar and as a consultant at the International Monetary Fund. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of Michigan and as a visiting scholar at CES, Munich. Efraim Sadka has written numerous papers and books on public economics, international economics, population economics and the Israeli economy.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2004.
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1167-1176
Type
We use cookies to provide you with an optimal website experience. This includes cookies that are necessary for the operation of the site as well as cookies that are only used for anonymous statistical purposes, for comfort settings or to display personalized content. You can decide for yourself which categories you want to allow. Please note that based on your settings, you may not be able to use all of the site's functions.
Cookie settings
These necessary cookies are required to activate the core functionality of the website. An opt-out from these technologies is not available.
In order to further improve our offer and our website, we collect anonymous data for statistics and analyses. With the help of these cookies we can, for example, determine the number of visitors and the effect of certain pages on our website and optimize our content.