University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School, Finance Department, Judith C. and William G. Bollinger Visiting Professor.

[2] Zvi Eckstein was born in Ramat Gan and moved with his mother to Kibbutz Yakum,[3] where he lived until after his army service.

On June 19, 2008 Zvi Eckstein gave the Walras-Bowley lecture at The Econometric Society North America Summer Meetings.

[8] Zvi Eckstein Served as Chairman of the Investment Committee and Director in LHAK Mutual funds of Bank Hapoalim, Israel (1992-1993).

Is a Member of a Public committee appointed by the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment, Ehud Olmert, on revising the Anti-Trust law (2005).

The same year was appointed member of a Public committee by the Defense Minister of Israel, Shaul Mofaz, on shortening the Length of Mandatory Military Service.

[10] Was head of two research teams that investigate the economic achievements of the High tech sector in Israel – one at the Office of the Chief Scientist and the other by the Science, Technology and space minister, Yaakov Peri (2013-2014).

Established the capital market forum together with the accountant general in the finance ministry and was head of an interministerial team that created a regulative infrastructure and legislation of financial flows securitization in Israel.

Was in charge of establishing the division of statistics, in charge of establishing and functioning of the markets division, took part in the decisions in the debates of the small team over the height of the interest rate and took part in the decisions on intervening in the Forex market as of March 2008.

The book was co-written with Maristella Botticini, head of the Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER) at Bocconi University in Milan.

Over the following ten years, Israel absorbed approximately 900,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union, an amount was equivalent to around one fifth of the Israeli population.

As they arrived in Israel, they got a lot of benefits, including, Hebrew language training, housing subsidies, and professional education.

The authors propose that even a very large and unexpected wave of immigration can be fit in the local labor market without any significant long-term contradictory economic effect on natives.

The book was published by MIT Press in 2012 and was co-written with Dr. Sarit Cohen Goldner from Bar-Ilan University and Professor Yoram Weiss from Tel-Aviv University The Subprime mortgage crisis shook not only the global economics but also the common perception regarding economic policy.

Also the authors found that the younger your children the larger the husbands' salary is, the women's participation in the labor force lessens.

Every generation parents invest in the education of their children ignore its external influence on the aggregate production function.

Government intervention in providing Compulsory education increases economic growth, while the intergenerational income distribution becomes more equal.

This is the first work that estimated a Nash labor market equilibrium model based on data of individuals whereas the wage is resolved endogenic.

The main finding is that a model of this sort fails to give an answer to the dispersion extent of wages between individuals with professional background and equal human capital.

Terror, that changed the death toll by about the same size as due to car accidents, is expected to decrease annual consumption per by about 5 percent by 2004.