August 2017 Yaniv Reingewertz Division of Public Administration and Policy Phone: 972-4-8249089 School of Political Science Email: yanivrein@poli.haifa.ac.il The University of Haifa Homepage: http://reingewertz.weebly.com/ 199 Aba Khoushy Ave, Mount Carmel, Haifa Israel CURRENT POSITION 2014- Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Division of Public Administration and Policy, School of Political Science, University of Haifa, Israel. PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2011-2014 Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, George Washington University. 2012-2014 Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland, College Park. 2012-2014 Instructor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Towson University. EDUCATION PhD, Hebrew University, Economics, 2012 Dissertation: "The Political Economy of Local and State Governments" Main Advisor: Prof. Esteban Klor MA, Hebrew University, Economics, 2006 (magna cum laude) BSc, Hebrew University, Economics and Environmental Science, 2003 RESEARCH INTERESTS Primary: Public and Political Economics, Urban and Regional Economics Secondary: Environmental Economics AFFILIATIONS American Economic Association; Public Choice Society; European Public Choice Society; Israel Economic Association. JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS 1. Reingewertz, Y., and I. Beeri (2017). "How effective is central enforcement? Evidence from convened committees in failing local authorities", Environment and Policy C: Politics and Space (accepted). 2. Beenstock, M., Y. Reingewertz and N. Paldor (2016) Testing the Historic Tracking of Climate Models International Journal of Forecasting, 32(4), 1234-1246. 3. Baskaran, T., S. Blesse, A. Brender and Y. Reingewertz (2016) Revenue Decentralization, Central Oversight and the Political Budget Cycle: Evidence from Israel, European Journal of Political Economy 42, 1-16. 4. Navot, D, Y. Reingewertz, and N. Cohen (2016) Speed or Greed? The Implications of High Wages for Corruption among Public Servants, Administration and Society 48(5), 580-601. 1
5. Reingewertz, Y., (2015). Political Fragmentation and Fiscal Status: Evidence from Municipalities in Israel, Local Government Studies 41(5), 774-793. 6. Beenstock, M, D. Felsenstein, Y. Reingewertz and E. Frank (2015). Tide gauge location and the measurement of global sea level rise, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 21(1): 179-206. 7. Ebenstein, A, E. Frank and Y. Reingewertz, (2015). "Particulate Matter Concentrations, Sandstorms and Respiratory Hospital Admissions in Israel", Israel Medical Association Journal 17, 628-632. 8. Reingewertz, Y., (2013). "Teaching Macroeconomics through Flowcharts", International Review of Economics Education, 14: 86-93. 9. Beenstock, M, Y. Reingewertz and N. Paldor (2012). "Polynomial Cointegration Tests of Anthropogenic Impact on Global Warming", Earth System Dynamics, 3: 173-188. 10. Reingewertz, Y., (2012). "Do Municipal Amalgamations Work? Evidence from Israeli Municipalities", Journal of Urban Economics, 72(2-3): 240-251. COMMENTS 11. Reingewertz, Y. (2016). Will leading by example help in mitigating climate change? A comment on the economics of leadership in climate change mitigation by Gregor Schwerhoff. Climate Policy, 1-3. WORKING PAPERS 1. Identifying Vertical Tax Externalities: Evidence from Narrative Federal Tax Shocks (under review) 2. Federal Tax Shocks and State Fiscal Capacity: The Case of Natural Resources" (Joint with Ohad Raveh and Fidel Perez-Sebastian) (under review) 3. Academic in-group bias (Joint with Carmela Lutmar) (under review) 4. Line Item Veto and Fiscal Balance: Evidence from the States (Joint with Joseph McCormack) (under review) 5. An economic model of multi-level marketing 6. A new horizon: The effect of a national education reform on student achievements and the academic environment in Israeli schools (Joint with Adi Shani) 7. Fiscal Decentralization: a Survey of the Empirical Literature 8. Identifying the Effect of Education Resources on Students' Achievements: Evidence from Arab municipalities (Joint with Adi Shani) WORK IN PROGRESS A democratic president and the distribution of federal funds (Joint with Thushyanthan Baskaran) Fiscal equivalence in environmental protection: the case of air pollution (Joint with Barak Fishbain) "Green Tax Reform and the Demand for Vehicles" (Joint with Avraham Ebenstein, Eyal Frank and Yotam Shem Tov) Explaining support for out-group exclusion during wartime: A survey experiment in Kirkuk (Joint with Daphna Canetti) OTHER WORKING PAPERS (unpublished) The pure economic theories of eggs (Humor piece, Joint with Avichai Snir) Identifying the Effect of Government Spending: Evidence from Political Variations in Federal Grants 2
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (in Hebrew) Steklov, O. and Y. Reingewertz, (2015). "Women Legislative Representation and Municipal Spending, Do Women Affect Education and Welfare Spending? Floersheimer Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Reingewertz, Y., and O. Steklov (2015). "Economic Aspects of Decentralizing Responsibilities and Fiscal Authorities to Local Governments in Israel". In: Beeri, I. and E. Razin (Eds.), Local Democracy in Israel: Decentralization, Localism, Participation and Local Politics. Jerusalem: Floersheimer Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reingewertz, Y. (2013). "Municipal Amalgamations in Israel: Lessons and Proposals for the Future" Taub Center Policy Paper, Jerusalem. Reingewertz, Y. (2011). "Municipal Amalgamations and Their Fiscal Impacts: Evidence from the 2003 Amalgamations Reform" Floersheimer Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. Reingewertz, Y. (2009). "The Politics of the Crisis in the Israeli Municipalities 1997-2005." In: The Political Economics of Local Governments, Ben Bassat and Dahan (Editors) The Israeli Democracy Institute. Moav, O., and Y. Reingewertz (2007). "The Law for the Encouragement of Capital Investments and Its Impact on the Employment in the Periphery, 1985-2004." Shalem Center Working Paper Series. SERVICE Referee for: Annals of Regional Science; Applied Economics; Economics of Governance; Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy; Environmental Policy and Governance; European Journal of Political Economy; Government and Opposition; International Tax and Public Finance; Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology; Journal of Economic Policy Research; Journal of Experimental Political Science; Journal of Urban Economics; Oxford Economic Papers; Papers in Regional Science; Public Finance and Management; Publius; Regional Science and Urban Economics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Social Science Quarterly; Urban Studies; World Development. Other referring: Economics Quarterly (in Hebrew), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), the Open University of Israel (book review), internal refereeing duties (U. Haifa). Supervision: Joseph McCormack (George Washington U., PhD, Committee member, completed 2017). Shoshi Yarom (U. Haifa, MA). CONFERENCES AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 2014- AEA annual meeting (2014, 2016); Public Choice Society 52 nd annual meeting; The Israeli Society of Environmental Sciences (2014); Ben-Gurion University; University of Haifa; Hebrew University; The Open University of Israel; Bank of Israel; Israel Economic Association annual meeting (2015), University of Goettingen, University of Marburg, EPCS annual meeting (2017). 3
2011-2013 AEA annual meeting (San Diego); George Washington University; Federal Reserve Board; Public Choice Society Annual Meeting; International Food Policy Research Institute; GCER conference (Georgetown); Econometric Applications in Climate 1 st Workshop (Guelph, Canada); Israel Economic Association Annual Conference; The Israeli Society of Environmental Sciences; Bar Ilan University; Ben Gurion University. 2009-2010 The 21 st Jerusalem school in economic theory: Political Economy, Hebrew University; European Public Choice Society annual meeting; International Geographical Union; Israel Economic Association annual conference; Department of Geophysics, Tel-Aviv University; Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Hebrew University; Israel Political Science Association; Bar Ilan University. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS and GRANTS 2014 Mifal Hapais. 2011, 2014 Florsheimer Studies. 2010-2011 The Levi Eshkol Institute fellowship. 2010 The Blazuska scholarship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2008-2009 The Jack Nass prize, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2008 City of Jerusalem scholarship. 2005 The economics department award, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2003 Ministry of education scholarship. 2000 The Jerusalem scholarship for excellent students at the Hebrew University. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor: Political Economics (MA, U. Haifa; Science-Po Lille) Introduction to Economics (BA, U. Haifa) Introduction to Microeconomics (BA, U. Maryland Baltimore County; Towson U.) Intermediate Microeconomics (BA, Hebrew U.; George Washington U.) The Israeli Economy (BA, U. Maryland College Park; Lander College) The Political Economy of Local Governments (MA, Ben Gurion U.) Introduction to Game Theory (MA, Haifa) Teaching Assistant: Environmental Economics (Hebrew U.) Project Evaluation and Cost-Benefit (Hebrew U.) 4
NON-ACADENIC EXPERIENCE 2013 Short term consultant. Competitive Industries Practice, The World Bank. 2004-2006 Economist, Senior Economist. ERCG Economic Research & Consulting Group (CEO: Professor Asher Blass). MISCELLANEOUS Languages: English, Hebrew, French (basic level). Citizenships: Israel, France. 5