Current Research Interests: Economic Determinants of Political Institutions; Social discounting; Social Contract and Applied Mechanism Design; Economics of Federalism.
Affiliations:
Affiliated with the Department of Philosophy
Education: Ph. D. in Economics, University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2001, is an assistant professor. Her research interests are public economics and political economy. She is investigating possible links between political institutions and economic development. Budget institutions and political stability is another area of her study.