Prof. Nava Kahana
Email: kahanan@biu.ac.il
Phone: +972-506-459723
Fax: +972-3-738-4034
Academic position: Member, Nomination Committee, Ashkelon Academic College
Field of expertise:
• Comparative Economic Systems until 1996 and currently
• Migration
• Political Economy
• Theoretical application in microeconomics.
Major Publications:
1. “Price Uncertainty and the Cooperative Firm,” American Economic Review, 70, 1980, pp. 212- 216, (with J. Paroush).
2. “Price Uncertainty and the Price Discriminating Firm in International Trade, International Economic Review, 23, 1982, pp. 389-400, (with E. Katz and J. Paroush).
3. “The Ratchet Principle: A Multi-Period Flexible Incentive Scheme, European. Economic Review, 33, 1989, pp. 51-57, (with T. Darvish-Lecker).
4. “The Duality Approach in the Case of Labour-Managed Firms,” Oxford Economic Papers, 41, 1989, pp. 567-572.
5. “Absenteeism: A Comparison of Incentives in Alternative Organizations,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 16, December 1992, pp. 573-595, (with A. Weiss).
6. “The Theory of the Labor-Managed Firm Revisited: The Voluntary InteractiveApproach,” The Economic Journal, 103, 1993, pp. 937-945, (with S. Nitzan).
7. “Uncertain Preassigned Non-Contestable and Contestable Rents,” European Economic Review, 43 (9), 1999, pp. 1705-1721, (with S. Nitzan).
8. “Child Labor and Temporary Emigration,” Economics Letters, 99, 2008, pp. 545- 548, (with G.S., Epstein).
9. "Rent seeking and the excess burden of taxation," European Journal of Political Economy, 35, 2014, pp. 158-167, (with Doron Klunover).
10. "Private provision of a public good with time-allocation choice," Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming, (with Doron Klunover).
