Wednesday, December 18

9:00:9-30     Opening Session
Yizhak Hadar, Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University
Yakir Plessner, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, The Hebrew University
 

9:30-11:00       Session 1: Water I (Chair: Robert Evenson, Yale University, U.S.A.)
Yoav Kislev (Hebrew University, Israel), "Sustainable Salt Regime in the Coastal Aquifer".
Peter Berck (U.C. Berkeley, U.S.A.), "The Overdevelopment of Water Resources".
David Zilberman (U.C. Berkeley, U.S.A.), "The Evolution of Water Institutions and Policies."
 

11:00-11:30     Coffee Break
 

11:30-13:00      Session 2: R&D (Chair: Saul Lach, Hebrew University, Israel)
Robert Evenson (Yale University, U.S.A.), "Research as Search: Evenson-Kislev and the Green Revolution".
Manuel Trajtenberg (Tel-Aviv University, Israel),  "Government Support for Commercial R&D:
                    Lessons from the Israeli Experience."
Yacov Tsur (Hebrew University, Israel),"R&D Policies for Desalination Technologies."
 

13:00-14:30      Lunch Break
 

14:30-16:00     Session 3: Growth, Development and Human Capital (Chair: Bruce Gardner, University of Maryland, U.S.A.)
Yair Mundlak (Hebrew University, Israel), "Economic growth: Lessons from American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century."
Joseph Zeira (Hebrew University, Israel and Harvard University, U.S.A.), "Innovations, Patent Races and Endogenous Growth."
Victor Lavy (Hebrew University, Israel), "Paying for Performance: Teachers' Financial Incentives and Students' Scholastic Outcomes."
 
 

16:00-16:30     Coffee Break
 

16:30-18:00     Session 4:  Land (Chair: Avi Simhon, Hebrew University, Israel)
Oded Galor and Omer Moav (Hebrew University, Israel), "Divergence and Overtaking: Land Abundance as a Hurdle for Education Reforms."
Meir Kohn (Dartmouth College, U.S.A.), "A Finance Approach to Understanding Patterns of Land Tenure."
Daniel Tsiddon (Tel-Aviv University, Israel), "The Needed Economic Reform in Land Policy in Israel."
 

18:00-18:30     Coffee Break
 

18:30-19:30     Session 5: Panel on Water Policy (Chair: Avishay Braverman, Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Yoav Kislev (Hebrew University, Israel)
David Zilberman (U.C. Berkeley, U.S.A.)
Peter Berck (U.C. Berkeley, U.S.A.)
Yakir Plessner (Hebrew University, Israel)
 

19:30-21:00     Dinner
 
 

Thursday, December 19

9:00-10:30      Session 6: Agriculture, Trade, & Policy (Chair: Eli Feinerman, Hebrew University, Israel)
Bruce Gardner (University of Maryland, U.S.A.), "Commodity Programs and Agricultural Productivity."
Barry Goodwin (Ohio State University, U.S.A., with Ashok Mishra), "Are "Decoupled" Farm Payments Really Decoupled? An Empirical valuation."
Zvi Lerman (Hebrew University, Israel), "A Decade of Agricultural Transition in Eastern Europe and Central
Asia: Design and Impact of Land Reforms."
 

10:30-11:00     Coffee Break
 

11:00-13:00 Parallel sessions
 

Session 7: Analysis of Statistical Data on Farm Households (Chair: Elana Dror, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel)
Christoph Weiss (University of Kiel, Germany, with Kevin McNamara), "On- and Off-Farm Diversification in Farm Households."
Aliza Fleischer (Hebrew University, Israel, with Anat Tchetchik), "Is Agriculture Important for Rural Tourism?"
Ayal Kimhi (Hebrew University, Israel), "Family Composition and Farmers' Time Allocation."

Session 8: Water II (Chair: Shaul Ben-David, University of Nrew Mexico, U.S.A.)
Steven Renzetti (Brock University, Canada), "Water Management in Canada with a Special Emphasis on Agricultural Issues."
Petra Hellegers (AERI, Netherlands), "Treating Water in Irrigated Agriculture as an Economic Good."
Ernst-August Nuppenau (University of Giessen, Germany),"Managing Salinity in Degraded Soils by Mandatory Tree Planting."
Dafna Eshel (U.C. Davis, USA), "Trading in Public Resources."
 

13:00-14:30      Lunch Break
 

14:30-16:00     Parallel sessions
 

Session 9: (Faculty Club): Marketing and Trade in Agricultural Products (Chair: Ziv Bar-Shira, Hebrew University, Israel)
Amir Heiman (Hebrew University, Israel), "Demonstration, Risk and Technology Adoption."
Yael Kachal (Hebrew University & Ministry of Agriculture, Israel), "Contract Choice between Farmers and Exporters in the Citrus Industry."
Israel Finkelshtain (Hebrew University, Israel), "Estimating Market Power in European Citrus Markets."
 

Session 10 (Room #1): Water III (Chair: Nir Becker, Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel)
Iddo Kan (U.C. Riverside, U.S.A.), "Drainage Salinity Development and Agricultural Management."
D.P. Malik (CCs Haryana Agricultural U., India), "Economic Dimensions of Drip Irrigation."
Cemal Fert (University of Akdeniz, Turkey, with Burhan Ozkan), "Water Resources and Irrigation Management in Turkey."
 

16:00-16:30      Coffee Break
 

16:30-17:30   Session 11 (Room #1): Empirical Methods and Applications (Chair: Hillary Voet, Hebrew University, Israel)
Edward Seiler (Bates While & Associates, U.S.A.), "Estimating Damages for a Multi-Purchaser Multi-Product Cartel."
Ynon Gablinger (Columbia University, U.S.A.), "Discrimination in the Housing Market."
 

17:30-18:00       Coffee Break
 

18:00-19:00  Session 12: Panel on Agricultural Policy (Chair: Barry Goodwin, Ohio State University, U.S.A.)
Yair Mundlak (Hebrew University, Israel)
Robert Evenson (Yale University, U.S.A.)
Ezra Sadan (Sadan-Lowental Ltd., Israel)
Bruce Gardner  (University of Maryland, U.S.A.)
 

19:00-20:30        Dinner
 
 

Friday, December 20

9:00-17:00         Field trip
 
 
 

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