Eran Yashiv

Eran Yashiv (Hebrew: ערן ישיב‎‎; born September 5, 1959) is an Israeli economist and policy maker. Yashiv is an international leading scholar of unemployment, and his research focuses on topics of macroeconomics, notably the value of labour and financial asset pricing, and international monetary economics.

Eran Yashiv was born in Israel in 1959. He spent his childhood traveling with his family, as his father was working for an Israeli airline. His childhood in different countries made him curious about different cultures, and especially interested in Eastern religions, philosophy, and arts. Later, he wrote as a youth reporter in an Israeli magazine.

Eran Yashiv studied Psychology and Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem., and graduated with distinction in 1986. He received his PhD in Economics from the Hebrew University in 1992, followed by Post-Doc studies at MIT, under the supervision of Stanley Fischer.

Yashiv is a professor of economics at The Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. His work pioneered empirical tests and structural estimation of the canonical framework for the analysis of unemployment, the search and matching model, as best exemplified by his most influential article, The Determinants of Equilibrium Unemployment (AER 2000). Yashiv's work blends existing and novel theory of the labour market with micro data on firms and workers. He developed a unique way of bridging this sometimes insular approach to other parts of macroeconomics, especially finance and the theory of the firm.

Yashiv is also interested in the workforce models of Orthodox Jews and traditional Arabs, and has created a rich body of data on these subjects. Through looking at the changes at their participation in the labour market, he showed how their involvement in Israeli society changes, and how it affects their communities.

Among other positions, Yashiv served as chair of the Department of Public Policy at Tel Aviv University (2012-2013), head of the Economics and National Security Program at the INSS (2014-2018), and as a visiting researcher and a consultant to the Bank of Israel (2007-2012) and the Bank of England

Yashiv is a fellow researcher in leading economics bodies, such as the IZA, CEP, CfM,CEPR, CReAM. He has also worked as a visiting professor at MIT, DELTA, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), HEC School of Business (Paris), NYU Stern School of Business, LSE and UCL.

Scholarly articles

Op-eds

• A Practical Solution to the Crisis in Gaza (Haaretz)
• Israelis Without a Country (Haaretz)
• Dan and Judea: Time to Explore the 'Two States for One People' Solution (Haaretz)