On November 11^th 2014, Israel Finkelshtain, Lab Fellow and Professor of Agricultural Economics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, presented his current research project on environmental resource control in the presence of political influence. The seminar was divided into three segments, in which he discussed an economic model of campaign contributions and lobbying, the implications of this model for environmental policies, and finally his empirical research on the Israeli water economy. 

Finkelshtain began the seminar by comparing indirect and direct regulation, the...