Media & OpEds

Why is the rate of unemployment so high? Haaretz 11/92
Is there a way out of the unemployment problem? Haaretz 7/4/93
The ultra-orthodox and the labor market, Haaretz 5/7/2001
Wall Street vs. Ahad Haam: A Decade's Perspective, Haaretz 17/2/2002
A disaster foretold, Haaretz 1/5/2002
Not a way to run a country, Haaretz 8/12/2002
Anatomy of an (almost) inevitable crisis, Haaretz 24/4/2003
Private attorneys in the service of the state, Haaretz 15/4/2008
The near impossibility of a Mideast peace, International Herald Tribune, 6/5/2008
When will a politician behave differently? Haaretz 18/9/2008
Using the Crisis for Structural Changes, Haaretz-The Marker 3/3/09
A Revolution in the Construction Industry, Haaretz-The Marker 12/5/09
Don’t Be Wrong: Israel is in a Bad State, Haaretz-The Marker 16/6/09
Change the Budgeting Process from the Foundations, Haaretz-The Marker 24/6/09
How Will The Israeli Economy Look Like with 40% Arabs and Ultra-Orthodox? Haaretz-The Marker 30/7/09
The Real Importance of the New Bank of Israel Law, Haaretz-The Marker 28/10/09
Cheap on Negative Income Tax, Haaretz-The Marker 16/2/10
Competition of the Weak Workers, Haaretz-The Marker 13/7/10
Deport the Middlemen, Not the Children, Haaretz-The Marker 21/7/10
Obstacles to the Nordic Model in Israel: a Torn Society and Non-Participating Groups, Haaretz-The Marker 25/12/11
Bi-annual? Multi-annual! Globes 16/7/2012
Preventing Another Financial Crisis, Haaretz-The Marker 19/7/2012
Putting Out the Fire, Not Planned Policy, Globes 30/7/2012
Zero Flexibility, Globes 12/8/2012
Israeli Mentality Makes Reforms Fail, Haaretz-The Marker 22/8/2012
The Vicious Circles of Low Productivity and Poverty, Globes 9/9/2012
The Forecast: Obama and Bibi, Haaretz 12/10/2012
Solution Without Resolution, International Herald Tribune, 23/11/2012
A Bad Vicious Circle, Haaretz 14/12/2012
Where Did the Left Vanish?, Haaretz 17/12/2012
Give outside experts say in budget Haaretz 29/4/2013
Ay Ay Ay iPhone Haaretz 22/12/2013
Unemployment is at a low. So what? The Marker Magazine May 2014
The Strength in Rebuilding, Haaretz 7/8/2014
The True Victory is National Resilience (joint with Meir Elran), The Marker 17/8/2014
Demography Bears the Guilt, Haaretz 22/2/2015
The States of Dan and Judea, Haaretz 1/11/2015
Sensitivity and Non-Transparency (joint with Meir Elran), Globes 9-10/11/2015
The Neymar Bubble, Vox CEPR Policy Portal 8/10/2017
Cannot Trust the Culture of “It will Be OK” (joint with Meir Elran), The Marker 25/9/2017
The value of top footballers, bubbles, and pitfalls of the free market, CEPR Vox 7/10/2017
A practical solution to the crisis in Gaza, Haaretz 6/6/2018
Time for a Helicopter Drop, Haaretz 24/3/2020
Breaking the Taboo: The Political Economy of COVID-motivated Helicopter Drops, Vox CEPR Policy Portal 26/3/2020
How to Re-Open Society More Quickly, Financial Times 21/4/2020
Exploiting a Coronavirus Weak Spot for an Exit Strategy (joint with Uri Alon), Vox CEPR EU Policy Portal 27/4/2020
10-4: How to reopen the Economy by Exploiting the Coronavirus’s Weak Spot (joint with Uri Alon and Ron Milo), New York Times 11/5//2020
Caveats for Economists: Erroneous modelling of the scale and dynamics of COVID 19 (joint with Yinon Bar-On, Ofer Cornfeld, Tatiana Baron, and Ron Milo), Vox CEPR EU Policy Portal 4/7/2020
A Cyclical Strategy to Manage COVID 19, Save Lives and Avoid Economic Ruin, LSE Business Review 3/11/2020
The COVID Crisis: Where Did the Government Err? (joint with Ofer Cornfeld), Globes 21/2/2021
Need to get rid of Netanyahu and Heal the State, Haaretz 10/3/2021
Exit Plan from The COVID 19 Crisis, Globes 23/3/2021
The Budget: from Neglect to Revolution, N12 4/8/2021