Avraham Tabbach joined the TAU Law Faculty in 2004 and has been a Full Professor since 2016. He served as academic director of the Tel-Aviv–Berkeley Executive LLM Program (2015–2023) and as a board member of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) (2016–2022). He currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Review of Law and Economics (IRLE) and the Asian Journal of Law and Economics(AsJLE), and is one of the organizers of the European Theoretical Law and Economics Seminars (TELE) and of the Reason and Decision Forum at Tel-Aviv University. Tabbach is the recipient of the Kadar Family Award for Outstanding Research (2026). He also won the Zeltner Prize for Young Scholars (2006) and has won the American Law and Economics Review Best Paper Prize three times (2017, 2021 and 2024). From 2011 to 2013 he was a visiting scholar at the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics (ACLE) at the University of Amsterdam. Tabbach received his LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1997) and his LLM (2000) and JSD (2003) from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was also a Fulbright Fellow and an Olin Scholar in Law and Economics. He teaches Taxation, Corporate Finance and various courses in Law and Economics. His research focuses on torts, law enforcement, taxation, corporate finance and litigation.
פרופ' אברהם טבח
- דואר אלקטרוני: adtabbac@tauex.tau.ac.il
- טלפון פנימי: 03-6408108
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- משרד: מינקהוף משפ, 429
Biography
Research Interests and Teaching
Game Theory, Law and Economics, Taxation, Public Finance, Corporate Finance, Torts and Criminal Law.
CV
Academic Appointments
Representative Publications
1. “The Option Value of Record-Based Sanctions”
Games and Economics Behavior (2023) Vol. 137, pp. 1-22 (with Shmuel Leshem)
2. “The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment Revisited”
American Law and Economics Review (2023) Vol. 24(2), pp. 495-530 (with Massimo D’Antoni and Tim Friehe)
Winner of the best Law and Economics Theory Paper Award.
3. “Judgment Contingent Settlements”
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, (2020) Vol. 36(1), pp. 170-206 (with Shay Lavie)
4. “The Complementary Role of Liability and Safety Regulation”
American Law and Economics Review, (2019) Vol. 21(1), pp. 150-183 (with Massimo D’Antoni)
Winner of the best Law and Economics Paper Award.
5. “Informational Negligence Law”
American Law and Economics Review, (2019) Vol. 21(1), pp. 110-149 (with Alon Cohen)
6. “Solving the Volunteer’s Dilemma: the Efficiency of Rewards versus Punishment”
American Law and Economics Review, (2016) Vol. 18(1), pp. 1-32 (with Shmuel Leshem)
Winner of the best Law and Economics Paper.
7. “Tax-Losses Mechanisms”
The University of Chicago Law Review, (2014) Vol. 81 pp. 1509-1567 (with Jacob Nussim).
8. “Willingness to Pay, Death, Wealth, and Damages”
American Law and Economics Review (2011) Vol. 13(1), pp. 45-103. (with Ariel Porat)
9. “The Social Desirability of Punishment Avoidance”
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (2010) Vol. 26(2), pp. 265-289.
10. Criminal Behavior, Sanctions, And Income Taxation: An Economic Analysis”
The Journal of Legal Studies (2003) Vol. 32 (2), pp. 383-406.
