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Yacov Tsur is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, with a research focus spanning economics, engineering, and social sciences. Their academic contributions primarily emphasize economics and econometrics, with a significant presence in water science and technology, ocean engineering, and political science and international relations.

The researcher's work addresses critical topics such as water resources management and optimization, Water-Energy-Food Nexus studies, climate change policy and economics, and fiscal policy and economic growth. Additional focus areas include corruption and economic development, fiscal policies, political economy, and transboundary water resource management.

Recent published papers include:

  • Optimal water pricing: Accounting for environmental externalities (2020, Ecological Economics)
  • Resource windfalls and public debt: A political economy perspective (2020, European Economic Review)
  • Reelection, growth and public debt (2020, European Journal of Political Economy)
  • Resource Management Under Catastrophic Threats (2021, Annual Review of Resource Economics)
  • Political tenure, term limits and corruption (2022, European Journal of Political Economy)

Tsur frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably Ariel Dinar, Ohad Raveh, Aliza Fleischer, Yadin Gindin, and Iddo Kan. Their research has appeared in several publication venues, with considerable contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, Ecological Economics, and the European Journal of Political Economy. Additional publication venues include the European Economic Review and the Annual Review of Resource Economics.

Their academic output extends to book publications, including a notable title, The Economics of Water Resources published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Pricing irrigation water: a review of theory and practice

    Robert C. Johansson;Yacov Tsur;Terry L. Roe;Rachid Doukkali

  • The buffer value of groundwater with stochastic surface water supplies

    Yacov Tsur;Theodore Graham-Tomasi

  • Measuring the recreational value of agricultural landscape

    A Fleischer;Y Tsur

  • Accounting for global warming risks: Resource management under event uncertainty

    Yacov Tsur;Yacov Tsur;Amos Zemel

  • Uncertainty and Irreversibility in Groundwater Resource Management

    Yacov Tsur;Amos Zemel

  • The Relative Efficiency and Implementation Costs of Alternative Methods for Pricing Irrigation Water

    Yacov Tsur;Ariel Dinar

  • Announcing climate policy: Can a green paradox arise without scarcity?

    Sjak Smulders;Yacov Tsur;Amos Zemel

  • Efficiency and equity considerations in pricing and allocating irrigation water

    Yacov Tsur;Ariel Dinar

  • Explaining Price Policy Bias in Agriculture: The Calculus of Support-Maximizing Politicians

    Harry de Gorter;Yacov Tsur

  • Pricing Irrigation Water: Principles and Cases from Developing Countries

    Yacov Tsur;Terry Roe;Rachid Doukkali;Ariel Dinar

  • Pollution control in an uncertain environment

    Yacov Tsur;Yacov Tsur;Amos Zemel

  • DYNAMIC MODELLING OF INNOVATION PROCESS ADOPTION WITH RISK AVERSION AND LEARNING

    Yacov Tsur;Menachem Sternberg;Eithan Hochman

  • Economic Aspects of Irrigation Water Pricing

    Yacov Tsur

  • Optimal transition to backstop substitutes for nonrenewable resources

    Yacov Tsur;Amos Zemel

  • A General Equilibrium Analysis of Conjunctive Ground and Surface Water Use with an Application to Morocco

    Xinshen Diao;Ariel Dinar;Terry L. Roe;Yacov Tsur

  • Scarcity, growth and R&D

    Yacov Tsur;Yacov Tsur;Amos Zemel

  • Efficiency and Equity Considerations in Pricing and Allocating Irrigation Water

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  • Endangered aquifers: Groundwater management under threats of catastrophic events

    Yacov Tsur;Yacov Tsur;Amos Zemel

  • Time perspective and climate change policy

    Larry S. Karp;Yacov Tsur

  • The Amenity Value of Agricultural Landscape and Rural–Urban Land Allocation

    Aliza Fleischer;Yacov Tsur

  • Irrigation water pricing: Policy implications based on international comparison

    Yacov Tsur;Ariel Dinar;Rachid M. Doukkali;Terry L Roe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariel Dinar
Ariel Dinar University of California, Riverside
Terry L. Roe
Terry L. Roe University of Minnesota
Xinshen Diao
Xinshen Diao International Food Policy Research Institute
Harry de Gorter
Harry de Gorter Cornell University
Larry S. Karp
Larry S. Karp University of California, Berkeley
David Zilberman
David Zilberman University of California, Berkeley
W. Michael Hanemann
W. Michael Hanemann Arizona State University
Rashid M. Hassan
Rashid M. Hassan University of Pretoria

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