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CURRICULUM VITAE - SHLOMO WEBER PERSONAL Place and Date of Birth: Moscow, USSR, September 2, 1949 Marital Status: Married/ two children Citizenship: US/Israel.
MAILING ADDRESS Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University Dallas Texas 75275-0496 Tel.: 1- 214-7683577 (office) Fax: 1-214-7681944 E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION 1971 - M.Sc. Mathematics, sum cum laude, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. 1979 - Ph.D. Mathematical Economics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1997-present Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Trustee Professor of Economics Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University 2013-present Academic Director, Center for Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia. Aug. 2007-Dec. 2008 Academic Director, International School of Economics, Tbilisi, Georgia. Sept. 2004- August 2006 Research Director, CORE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium May 2007 Visiting Professor, EERC-Kiev, MA Program, Kiev, Ukraine. January 2006, May 2007 Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. May -August 2003 The Humboldt Research Prize Holder, University of Dresden, Germany. April - June 2001 Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. Oct. 2000 –March 2001 Visiting Professor, CORE, Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. August - October 2000 Visiting Professor, Institute for Econ. Research, Hitotsubashi Univ. Japan. May - July 2000 Visiting Scholar, Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund. 1994-2000 Chairman, Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University 1994-2007 Director of Richard B. Johnson Center for Economic Studies, SMU. Summers1994, 95 Casa di Risparmio Visiting Professor, University of Venice, Venice, Italy 1993-1996 Professor of Econ., Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Research Fellow, SMU. 1987-1993 Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, York University, Canada 1990-1991 Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Bonn University, Germany 1986-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, York University, Canada 1985-1986 Visiting Associate Professor, Dep. of Econ. University of Toronto, Canada Summers 1985, 86, 92 Visiting Scholar, Inst. for Mathematics in Soc. Sciences, Stanford University 1984.1985 Senior Lecturer (with Tenure), Dep. of Economics, Haifa University, Israel. Spring 1984 Visiting Scholar, Cowles Foundation, Dep. of Economics, Yale University 1981-1984 Lecturer, Department of Economics, Haifa University, Israel 1980.1981 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Bonn University, Germany
RESEARCH VISITS : (for a period of at least one month) California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. 2 Institute for Mathematical Social Sciences, Stanford University. Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics, Stanford University. Cowles Foundation, Yale University. Department of Economics, Bonn University, Germany. Department of Economics, Technical University of Dresden, Germany. CORE, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. CEME, Free University of Brussels, Belgium. DELTA, EHESS, Paris, France. GREQE, University of Aix-Marseille III, France. GREQAM, Aix-en-Provence, France. University of Alicante, Spain. University of Venice, Venice, Italy. Institute for Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. CEFIR, Moscow. Higher Economic School (HSE), Moscow. New Economic School (NES), Moscow. National University of Singapore, Singapore. ACADEMIC LECTURES: (given at seminars and congresses) Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Beer-Sheva, Technion, Haifa, Weitzman Institute (Israel), Augsburg, Bonn, Bielefeld, Dortmund, Dresden, Hagen, Mannheim, Munich, Oberwolfach, Oldenburg (Germany), Edinburgh, LSE, Manchester, Wales, Warwick, Queen Mary, UCL, University of London (Great Britain), Geneva, St. Gallen, Zurich (Switzerland), Aarhus, Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), Brussels, Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Amsterdam, Nimjegen, Tilburg (Holland), Dublin, Galway (Ireland), Aix-en-Provence, Caen, Luminy, Marseille, Paris 1, Paris 2, DELTA, Roy Seminar, Toulon (France), Florence, Venice, Milan, Turin, Gargnano, Naples, Rome, Salerno (Italy), Alicante, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Malaga, Seville, Vigo (Spain), Nova, Faro, Catolica (Portugal), Rhodes, Cephalonia, Thessaloniki (Greece), Antalya, Boshporus (Turkey), Toronto, Ottawa, York, Western Ontario, Queen's, Wilfred Laurier, UBC (Canada), CIDE, ITAM (Mexico), ISI New Delhi, Jawaharlal Nerhu University (India), Mongolia National University (Mongolia), Hitotsubashi, Hokkaido, Keio, Kyoto, TCER, TIT, Waseda (Japan), KIEP, Kyonggi, Jeonju, Seoul National (South Korea), Tsinghua, Peking, Renmin, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China), National University of Singapore (Singapore), Riga (Latvia), CEU (Hungary), Financial University, HSE, CEMI, CEFIR, NES, St. Petersburg Stae University, Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad}, Ural Federal University (Yekaterinburg), Volga Federal University (Kazan), Far East Federal University (Vladivostok), Siberian Federal University (Krasnoyarsk), Irkutsk State University (Russia), Cracow, Warsaw (Poland), EERC, KSE (Ukraine), IDFI, ISET, Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Alabama, Arizona, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Colorado, Columbia, Emory, Florida, Georgia Tech, Georgetown, Harvard, Illinois, IMF, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, MIT, NYU, Nevada Las Vegas, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Penn State, Purdue, Rice, Rochester, SMU, Stanford, SUNY Buffalo, Texas A&M, UC Berkley, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, Vanderbilt, UT Arlington, UT Austin, Washington, Yale (U.S.A.) CONSULTING EXPERIENCE Philips Petroleum, J.C. Penny, Governments of Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Mongolia, Eurasia Foundation, Economic Educational Research Consortium, Open Society Institute, Global Development Network, Partnership in Economic Research, Tbilisi State University. 3
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AND MEDIA APPEARANCES Multiple articles in Forbes, Russia, and Ukraine. Multiple appearances on Voice of Freedom (Russian and English) Multiple appearances on Voice of America (Russian and English) “Economic Costs of the Libya Conflict” Voice of Russia (English) March 2011 http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/03/28/48083046.html http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/25369469/48196120.html “Economic Importance of the St. Petersburg forum” Voice of Russia (Russian) June 2011: http://rus.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/2171845/51910392.html
“A Danger of Default” Voice of Russia (Russian) July 2011
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“The organization and internal structure of Western Universities”,Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, July 2011.
“Russia and Korea: The tale of two Economies”, Korean Institute for Economic Development, December 2010 “The Prospects of Reunification of Two Koreas", South-North Korean Cultural Association, Seoul, May 2000.
The McCuistion Program (nationally broadcast PBS) "Russia & the U.S.: Its Economic & Business Future" panellist, March 2000
"Russian Roulette: Minimizing Your Risks in the Russian Market" Conference, moderator and speaker. Sponsored by Baker & McKenzie, LLP, Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, and Russian American Center, Dallas, Texas, October 1999
"The New Banking Legislation: The Financial Modernization Act for the 21st Century" by U.S. Senator Phil Gramm, discussant, SMU Law School, September 1999
"Current Financial State of Russia", speeches to SMU Law School, Richardson Rotary and Civitan International, 1998-1999
PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER POSITIONS Chair of Finance and Audit Committee, Global Development Network (GDN). Member of the Executive Committee, Global Development Network (GDN). Member of the Board of Directors, Global Development Network (GDN). Member of the International Academic Council, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg. Member of the International Advisory Board, Economic Education Research Consortium (EERC). Member, Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory. Associate Editor, Research in Economics. Associate Fellow, Tower Center for Political Studies, Southern Methodist University. Member of Advisory Board, NAFTA: Law and Business Review of the Americas. Member of the Expert Panel, International Monetary Fund. Member, Board of Directors, Russian-American Center, Dallas, Texas. 4 Member, Management Committee, Early Stage Training Programme, European Commission.
ACADEMIC AWARDS 1980-81 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, University of Bonn, Germany. 1992 E.H.E.S.S. Professorship, DELTA, France. 1993 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Technical University of Dresden, Germany. 1994 Casa di Risparmio Prize, Venice, Italy. 1994 Visiting Scholar, Tokyo Center for Economic Research, Tokyo University, Japan. 1995 Casa di Risparmio Visiting Professorship, University of Venice, Italy. 1996 E.H.E.S.S. Professorship, GREQAM, France. 1996 SEW - EURODRIVE Foundation Visiting Professorship, Dresden, Germany. 2000 Japanese Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan. 2002 The Humboldt Research Prize for Outstanding Foreign Scientists. 2004 E.H.E.S.S. Professorship, University of Toulouse, France. 2010 Senior Fernando Baudei Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence. 2013 Winner of the National Megagrant Competition,3rd wave, The Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Federation.
REFEREEING ACTIVITIES Economics and Business: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Theory, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economics and Politics, International Journal of Game Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Zeitschzift für Nationalökonomie, Canadian Journal of Administrative Studies, Canadian Journal of Economics, Review of International Economics, Research in Economics, Review of Economic Design, European Economic Review, Journal of European Economic Association, European Journal of Political Economy, International Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Economics Letters. Mathematics and Operations Research: Journal of Global Optimization, Mathematics of Operation Research, Theory and Decision, Mathematical Social Sciences. Political Science: American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution.
REFEREEING RESEARCH PROPOSALS National Science Foundation, US-Israel Bi-National Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, various European grants.
RESEARCH FUNDING GRANTS Aid Grant (University of Toronto) 1986, SSHRC Travelling Grant 1987-1990, York University SSHRC Small Grants Programme 1987, 1988, Faculty of Arts, Research Grant, York University, 1987, 1989, 1992, SSHRC, Research Grants, 1988-1990 and 1991-1993, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies Research Grant, 1996, Colin Powell Fellowship, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, 2003, BBVA, Bank of Bilbao, Spain, Research Grant, 2004.
5 TEACHING EXPERIENCE (graduate and undergraduate courses) Political Economy, Microeconomic Theory, Welfare Economics, Industrial Organization, Microfoundations of Macroeconomics, Principles of Economics, Price Theory, Public Choice, Public Economics, Game Theory, Social Choice, Advanced Economic Analysis, Mathematical Analysis for Economists, Operations Research.
ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES Conference “Urbanization and Development”, Global Development Network, Budapest, June 2012. (Member of the Organizing Committee). Conference “Challenges of Russia”, Higher School of Economics (Organizer of the session on Russian Economy), Moscow April 2012. Conference “Russia and the World: Challenges of Integration”, Academy of National Economy (Organizer of the session on Ethnolinguistic Conflicts), Moscow January 2012. Conference on Economic Theory in honor of Victor Polterovich, (a co-chair of the organizing committee), Moscow, June 2011. Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Meetings (Organizer of the session on Economics of Diversity), Faro, Portugal, June 2011. “Challenges of Multi-lingual Societies”, International conference in Brussels, June 2006 (Chair of the organization committee). Second Summer School on Heterogeneity in Social Organizations, CORE, May 2006 (Chair of the organization committee). Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Meetings (Organizer of the session on Political Economy), Vigo, Spain, July 2005. First Summer School on Heterogeneity in Social Organizations, CORE, May 2005 (Chair of the organization committee). Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Meetings (Organizer of the session on Political Economy), Rhodes, Greece, July 2003. Annual conference of the Society of Economic Design, (Member of Organizing Committee), New York, July 2002. "Political Economy of Integration and Disintegration” (Co-Chair of Organizing Committee), CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, May 2002. "Political Economy of Economic Integration” (Chair of Organizing Committee), SMU, April 2002. Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Meetings (Organizer of the session on Political Economy), Ischia, Italy, July 2001. "Game Theory, Logic and Social Choice”, (Member of Organizing Committee), sponsored by the Russian Academy of Science and St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, June 2001. "Theoretical Public Economics” (Member of Organizing Committee) sponsored by Mercedes-Benz, Tuscaloosa, May 1998. "Political Economy, Trade and Investment” (Chair of Organizing Committee), SMU, April 1998. "India: The Challenge of Nation Building and Economic Reform" (Chairman of Organizing Committee), sponsored by Caltex, Dallas, March 1998. "Public Goods and Private Information" (Chair of Organizing Committee), sponsored by the Bank of Italy, Venice, January 1996. South-eastern Conference on Economic Theory and International Trade (Chair of Organizing Committee), sponsored by KPMG Peat Marwick, Dallas, November 1995. Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory Meetings (Organizer of the session on Coalition 6 Formation), Cephalonia, Greece, July 1995.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES Member of the Appointments Committee, NES. Academic Director, International School of Economics, Tbilisi, Georgia. Research Director, CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Chairman, Department of Economics, SMU. Director of the Richard B. Johnson Center for Economic Studies, SMU. Member of the International Studies Committee, Dedman College, SMU. Member of the Collins Chair Search Committee, Cox Business School, SMU. Member of the Faculty Senate, SMU. Member of the Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Economic Status of Faculty, SMU. Member of General Education Curriculum University Committee, SMU. Member of Senior Search Committee, Department of Economics, SMU. Member of Appointments and Planning Committee, Department of Economics, York University. Member of Undergraduate Committee, Department of Economics, York University. Member of Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of Economics, York University. Organizer of the departmental seminar series, Department of Economics, York University. Organizer of the departmental seminar series, Department of Economics, Haifa University.
BOOKS "Economics of Linguistic Diversity” (with V. Ginsburgh) April 2011, Princeton University Press. "Oxford Handbook of Russian Economy” (with M. Alexeev), eds., Oxford University Press, 2013. . Palgrave "Handbook of Economics and Language” (with V. Ginsburgh) eds., McMillan Publishers, 2016.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS “Transfers and Conflict Prevention: Does it Work?” (with D. Davydov and P.C. Dower), Economic and Mathematical Methods, 2015, 51 (2), 60-69. “Economics of Diversity: Approaches, Methodology, Results” (with D. Davydov), Economic and Mathematical Methods, 2015, 51 (4), 3-13. "Fiscal Federalism and Conflict prevention” (with P.C. Dower), in Handbook of Multilevel Finance, E.Ahmad and G.Brosio, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015. “Measurement of Diversity: Theory and Socio-Economic Applications” (with D. Akchurina, D. Davydov, A. Khazanov and D. Krutikov), Modern Economics: Problems and Solutions, 2015, 2, 8-28. “Ethnocultural Factors, Social Processes, Conflicts and Economic Development” (with D. Davydov), Modern Economics: Problems and Solutions, 2015, 8, 129-143. “Linguistic Distances and their Use in Economics” (with V. Ginsburgh) in Handbook of Economics of Languages, V.Ginsburgh and S.Weber, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. “Communicative Benefits” (with E. Athanassiou and J. Moreno-Ternero) in Handbook of Economics of Languages, V.Ginsburgh and S.Weber, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. "Culture, Languages and Economics" (with V. Ginsburgh), in Handbook of Economics of Arts and Culture, V. Ginsburgh and J. Thorsby, Elsevier, 2014, 507-544. “Emission Reduction through the Kyoto Protocol’s Joint Implementation: Case Study of Germany, Russia and Ukraine” (with L. Mukhamedrakhimova, A. Rozhko, and H. Wiesmeth), Bulletin of the 7 Voronezh State University: Economics and Management, 2014, 3, 16-24. “An Equilibrium Model with Mixed Federal Structures” (with V. Makarov and A. Savvateev), Transactions of the Irkutsk State University: Mathematics, 2014, 8, 62-70. “Local Taxation of Global Corporation: A Simple Solution” (with J. Hindriks and S. Peralta), Annales of Economics and Statistics, 2014, (113), 37-65. "Fiscal Federalism in Russia” (with M. Alexeev), in Handbook of Russian Economy”, M. Alexeev and S. Weber, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013. "Russian Economy” (with M. Alexeev), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, eds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
WORK IN PROGRESS “Economics of Linguistic Diversity” (with V.Ginsburgh) revise and resubmit. “The Economic Impact of Post-Colonial Linguistic Conflict: The Case of Sri Lanka” (with P. Castaneda Dower and V.Ginsburgh), revise and resubmit. "Gale-Nikaido and Milgrom-Shannon: Existence of Nash Equilibria in Locational Models” (with D. Musatov and A. Savvateev, revise and resubmit. "The Landscape Theory and Potential Games" (with M. Le Breton). "The Index of Peripheral Diversity and Redistribution" (with D. Akchurina, and K.Desmet).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS “Diversity”, RBC Daily http://www.rbcdaily.ru/focus/opinion/562949980803150.shtml
“Educational Capacity Building in Eastern Europe”, Forbes Ukraine, June 2011.
“Monocities: American approach”, Forbes Russia: http://www.forbes.ru/ekonomika/vlast/60440- monogoroda- amerikanskii-podhod, 2010.
"Language Disenfranchisement” La Libre Belgique, February 2005. 12 “The French, number 2 in the Union?” La Libre Belgique, December 2003.
"Editors' Note" (with P.Gottardi), Ricerche Economiche, 2000, 50, 321-324.
"Tangled Up in Torts - That's Why The US Needs Legal Reform" (with J.Dolmas), Knight Ridder Financial News, April 1995 (Reprinted in Philadelphia Inquirer, Orange County Register and Newport News).
"The Case For Western Investment in Ukraine" (with S.Nirenburg), Knight Ridder Financial News, August 1995.
"Let's Build Bridges with Ukraine", SMU Daily Campus, September 1995.