Assaf Razin

Assaf Razin is former Barbara and Steven Friedman Professor of International Economics, Cornell University, and Bernard Schwartz Professor at Tel Aviv University. He is a Research Associate of NBER and Research Fellow of the CEPR. He is also a fellow of the Econometrics society. His recent books are: Israel and the World Economy: Power of Globalization, MIT Press, 2018; Understanding Global Crises: An Emerging Paradigm, MIT Press 2015; Foreign Direct Investment: Analysis of Aggregate Flows, with Efraim Sadka, Princeton University Press, 2007; and  The Decline of the Welfare State: Aging, and Globalization, with Efraim Sadka, MIT Press, 2005. In 2017 he received the EMET prize in economics.