Eithan Hochman
Updated -May, 2004
Curriculum Vitae
Professor of Economics
Business Address:
Department of
Agricultural Economics and Management
Faculty of Agricultural, Food and
Environmental Quality Sciences
The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem
P.O.Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Office Tel.:
972-8-9481294
Home Tel.:
972-8-9319052
Cell Phone:
972-50-7-117768
Fax: 972-8-9471484
E-mail: hochman@agri.huji.ac.il
Education
Institution
Degree
Year Field
Hebrew University,
Jerusalem,
Israel B.A. 1956
Economics
Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel B.Sc. 1959
Agriculture
Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, Israel M.A.
1962
Economics
University of
California, Berkeley
M.Sc.1967 Statistics
University of California,
Berkeley
Ph.D. 1967 Agricultural Economics
Thesis
and Dissertation
Hochman, Eithan. "A
Problem of Growing Inventory with
Particular
Reference to The
Broiler Producing Firm." University of California,
Berkeley.
Awards
and Honors
Best Published Research, 1978, by the
Western Agricultural Economics
Association, for Firm Growth Policies
Under Different Pollution
Abatement, Production and Inventory
Controls.
Honorable Mention as Best
Research Work,
1980,
by the American
Agricultural Economics
Association, for Dynamic Agricultural Systems:
Prediction and Control.
Outstanding Research Work, 1984, by the
Western Agricultural
Economics
Association, for Estimation of
Multi-Crop Production Functions.
1982-1986.
Editorial Council of the American
Journal of Agricultural
Economics,1998
Paul Ivanier Chair in Management
Economics, 1988.-1990
Ruth Ochberg Chair in Agricultural
Economics, The Hebrew University
1992.
Award for
Professional
Excellence in Publication of Enduring Quality,
1993, by the American Agricultural
Economics Association for "Dynamic
Agricultural Systems: Prediction and
Control."
Teaching
and Research Interests
Microeconomic Models for Industrial and
Farming Behavior, Resource
and
Environmental Economics, Agricultural
Development and
Technological
Change and Econometrics.
Faculty
Positions
1997-1998
Visiting Professor,
Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, University of Meriland.
1991-þ1997
Director of the
Center of the Agriculture Economic Research,
Rehovot, Israel
1991-1996 Chairman,
Department of
Agricultural Economics,
Faculty
of Agriculture, Hebrew
University
of Jerusalem
1991-1993
Chairman of the Committee for
National Research
Criteria in Agriculture. Appointed by the
Agriculture Chief Scientist.
1990-
Professor of Agricultural
Economics, The Hebrew University
of
Jerusalem.
1987-1988
Visiting
Professor, University of Hawaii Two
main research
projects:
(1)
Adoption of Drip
Irrigation in the Sugar Cane Industry, and
(2)
Optimal Harvesting of Shrimps (financed
by the USDA
and in cooperation
with the
Oceanic Institute).
1986-1990 Director of the Phillippe Monaster Center for Economic Research.
1983-1987 Member of the Senate
Promotion and Tenure
Supreme Committee,
Ben-Gurion University of
the
Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
1982-1985
Chairman of
Economics, Department of
Economics, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
1982-1990 Professor of
Economics, Department
of
Economics, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev, Beer
Sheva, Israel.
1980-1981
Visiting
Professor, University of California,
Berkeley, CA,
(9 months),
University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
(3 months).
1979-1980 Visiting
Professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
(9 months);
University of California, Berkeley, CA
(3 months).
1977-1979 Chairman,
Department of
Economics and Member
of the Senate Academic
Steering
Committee, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev,
Beer Sheva, Israel.
1976-1982 Associate
Professor, Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University
of the
Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
.
1974-1976 Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1972-1974 Visiting
Staff and Project Leader
in the Department of Agricultural Economics and
on the Giannini Foundation, University of California,
Berkeley, CA.
1967-1972 Lecturer, Department of
Economics and
Member and Chairman of the
Admittance Committee of the Faculty of Social
Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
Tel Aviv, Israel. Project Leader
in Research, Center
for Agricultural
Economics, Rehovot, Israel.
