The unique characteristics of the fiscal policy in Israel that created one of the largest public sectors assumed many similarities to the characteristics described in the economic literature as related to non-Keynesian effects. The results point indeed to significant asymmetrical negative effect...

This article focuses on the impact of religious institutions on entrepreneurship. We find clear evidence that different religious institutions have a significantly different impact on the tendency to become an entrepreneur. Our article makes important contributions to the research of both...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the relationship between corruption and productive entrepreneurship in general and whether it depends on countries' specific characteristics in particular.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a unique data set of entrepreneurial...

This book illustrates the role of international economic advisors in the development of Israel’s economic policies. Based on extensive archival and historical research, it presents case studies on the policy impacts of the world-renowned advisors Michal Kalecki, Abba Lerner, Richard Kahn,...

The literature on the effect of religion and religiosity on corruption has failed to distinguish between direct effect and mediated effect and the different roles of two alternative mediation channels, the personal versus the cultural channels. Using a large data set of 102 countries,...

This article uses an original dataset of 102 countries which uniquely enable us to distinguish between high-tech and low-tech entrepreneurs to examine the dissociative interplay between corruption, democracy, and the two kinds of entrepreneurship. Existing literature has demonstrated that...

The unique Israeli capital market, which enables extraction of direct inflation expectations and unexpected inflation, is a comfortable setting to test Milton Friedman’s hypothesis according to which inflation uncertainty positively affects unemployment in periods of time which vary from the...