Richard Musgrave Visiting Professorship 2012: Eytan Sheshinski

The 2012 award winner is Professor Eytan Sheshinski, Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor Emeritus of Public Finance and current member of the Academic Committee of Center for Rationality, both at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In addition he is a member of the Board of Directors and Investment Committee, Psagot Provident Fund, Ltd. He has been a CESifo Research Network Member since October 1999 and has published a number of CESifo Working Papers.

Professor Sheshinski has made contributions to the theory of technical progress and economic growth, the theory of income taxation and public goods, and the theory of firms' behaviour in the presence of inflation and adjustment costs. In recent years his research has focused on social insurance and markets for annuities, and on behavioural public economics (bounded rationality).

On 12 April 2012 as part of his visiting professorship, he delivered the fourth Richard Musgrave Lecture on the topic of "Socially Desirable Limits on Choice".