Prof. Yaffa Machnes

Journals

• 1. "A Limit Theorem on Competitive Equilibrium of an Economy Under Uncertainty," International Economic Review, June 1975, pp. 336-344. 
   
• 2. "A Limit Theorem on the Core of an Economy with Individual Risks," The Review of Economic Studies, June 1978, pp. 267-271. 
   
• 3. "An Economic Model of Mental Hospitals," Empirical Economics, December 1979, pp. 293-301. 
   
• 4. "Consumption of Private Health Services by Households with Full Coverage of Health Insurance," Public Health 94, 1980, pp. 89-94. 
   
• 5. "Indexed and Non Indexed Insurance," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol. 7, No. 24, July 1982, pp. 264-275. 
   
• 6. "The Off-Farm Labor Supply of Farmers: The Case of Chiang-Mai Valley: Thailand," Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 1990, Vol. 38, pp. 683-698, (with S. Cochrane). 
   
• 7. "Health and the Allocation of Public Expenditures," Health Policy, 1990, Vol. 16, pp. 27-31. 
  
  8. "The Demand for Work Loss Days Due to Illness," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, July 1992, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 283-286. 
   
• 9. "National Insurance and Inequality," Research on Economic Inequality, JAI Press, 1992, Vol. 2, pp. 139-149. 
   
• 10. "The Value Added Approach to the Prohibition of Work on the Sabbath," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, JAI Press, 1992, Vol. 2, pp. 59-63. 
  
  11. "Risk and the Collective Farm in Transition," in The Cooperative Experience in Agriculture: International Comparisons, edited by Csaba Csaki and Yoav Kislev, Westview Press, (with A. Schnytzer), 1993, pp. 161-172. 
   
• 12. "Production Decisions in the Presence of Options," International Review of Economics and Finance, 1993, Vol. 1, pp. 341-345. 
   
• 13. "Further Results on Comparative Statics Under Uncertainty," European Journal of Political Economy, 1993, Vol. 9, pp. 141-146. 
   
• 14. "Production Decisions in Case of Monotone Likelihood Ratio Shifts of Cumulative Distribution Functions," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 1993, Vol. 13, pp. 299-302. 
   
• 15. "The Role of Wealth in the Demand for International Air Travel," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, May 1994, pp.163-173.(with G. Alperovich). 
   
• 16. "Immunization and the Optimal Structure of the Balance Sheet," Advances in Stochastic Modelling and Data Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. 
   
• 17. "Insurance and Decision Taking," Economics Letters, 1995, Vol. 48, pp. 139-144. 
  
  18. "Incentives and Production of Mental Health Services," The European Journal of Political Economy, 1996, Vol.12. pp. 459-466. 
   
• 19. "The Demand for Car Ownership", International Journal of Transport Economics, October 1999, Vol. 26 .pp 353-375 (with G. Alperovich and J. Deutsch). 
   
• 20. "Changes in Mortality Rates: Gender and International Comparisons" Applied Economics. 2003 Vol. 35 pp. 285-291. 
   
• 21. "Stochastic Dominance of Pension Plans” Metroeconomica. February 2003, Vol. 54 pp.49-59. 
   
• 22. “A Note on Deductible Insurance and Production” With Kit Pong Wong. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Theory: 2003, 28:pp. 73-80. 
   
• 23. "Immunization under Yaari's Dual Theory" Finance Letters, 2004,2 (5) pp. 24-28. 
   
• 24. “Insurance and Decision Taking in Yaari's Dual Theory”. Risk Letters, September 2005. 
   
• 25. The Trading Volume of Currency Options and the Spot Exchange Rate Emerging Markets Finance & Trade. May-June 2006 vol 42(3) 91-97. 
   
• 26."The Demand for Private Health Care Under National Health Insurance: The Case of the Self-Employed" European Journal of Health Economics, December 2006. Vol 7(4), pp. 265-269. 
   
• 27. "Information Imbedded in the Trading Volume of Currency Options" Derivatives Use, Trading & Regulation Palgrave, Macmillan (2006) 12, 244-249 
   
• 28. "Term Life Insurance for the Elderly in the State of New York: The Rise and Fall of Regulations 149" Health and Aging. The Geneva Association. Guest Editorial. 2-4. October 2006. 
   
• 29. “Returns to Scale in Israeli Insurance Companies” The Economic Quarterly, 55.01, March 2008: pp 95-113. (with E. Chaba , in Hebrew). 
   
• 30. "The Provision of Oral Care by Local Government Authorities in Israel: Policy Issues and Empirical Evidence", Health Policy, Vol. 89/1 1, January 2009 pp. 107-114 (with A. Carmeli). 
   
• 30. “Weak Signaling of Voluntary Bond Ratings”” The European Business Review, 2010, Vol. 22(2): pp. 222-231. 
   
• 31. "An Examination of Life Insurance, Risk Attitude", forthcoming in Frontiers in Finance and Economics.

Books

• 1. "Optimal Allocations of Risk Bearing in a Market with an Infinite Number of Traders" in Allocations under Uncertainty, edited by Jacques Dreze, pp. 89 98, Macmillan, 1974. 
   
• 2. "Optimal Allocation of Health Expenditures" in Book of Abstracts, Second World Congress on Health Economics, University of Zurich, 1990, p. 85. 
   
• 3. "Adapting Infants' Growth Curves to Gestational Age" Abstracts, March 1991, Netherland Institute of Primary Health Care, Utrecht. 
   
• 4. "Infants Growth Curves" in Health Systems - The Challenge of Change, edited by M.K. Chytil, G. Durue, W. van Eimeren, and Ch. D. Flagli, OMNIPRESS, Prague, June 1992, pp. 1075-1076. 
   
• 5. "Risk Reduction and Production" in European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1992, p.86. 
   
• 6. "Mental Health Services," in Changes in Health Care Systems, European Conference CREDES, Paris, 1992. 
   
• 7. "Risk and the Collective Farm in Transition" in The Cooperative Experience in Agriculture: International Comparisons, edited by Csaba Csaki and Yoav Kislev, Westview Press, (with A. Schnytzer), 1993, pp. 161-172. 
   
• 8. "Immunization and the Optimal Structure of the Balance Sheet" Advances in Stochastic Modeling and Data Analysis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995. 
   
• 9. “Efficiency and Inequality in Dental Care” Proceedings of a conference, Ten Years to National Health Insurance1995-2005, Editors: G. Ofer G. and G. Bin-Nun, Tel-Aviv (in Hebrew) 2006.pp.291-300. 
  Also in Dental Care Systems, Editors: J. Mann and R. Fisher, Opal Publishers. 
   
• 10. “The Internationalisation of Insurance in Israel” Proceedings of Selected Papers of the 6-th International Conference in Applied Financial Economics. July 2009. Research and Training Institute .Editors: K. Kioulafas and C. Prachalias, Greece. pp. 416-421. 
   
• 11. “The Demand for Pharmaceuticals”, Health Policy, 4-th Jerusalem Conference Book. Editor: S. Shortel, Forthcoming. 
   
• 12. “The Strategy of Managed Care Health funds”, Proceedings of the 6-th International Strategic Management Conference, St. Petersburg, July 2010.

Conferences

• 1. "National Insurance and Inequality," European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Helsinki, August 1976. 
   
• 2. "A Limit Theorem of the Core of an Economy Under Uncertainty," European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Vienna, September 1977. 
   
• 3. "Dynamic System for Unemployment Insurance," CISM (Centre International des Sciences Mecaniques), Udine, Italy, September 1977. 
   
• 4. "The Insurance Market Under Inflation," World Congress of the Econometric Society, Aix-en-Provence, September 1980. 
   
• 5. "Guest Workers in Economies with Unemployment Insurance," International Economists Association Sixth World Congress, Mexico, August 1980. 
   
• 6. "Payments to Private Doctors in an Economy with Public Medicine," First World Congress on Health Economics, Leiden, September 1980. 
   
• 7. "Unemployment Insurance in Israel," The Israel Economic Association, Jerusalem, February 1986. 
   
• 8. "More on Immunization and the Optimal Maturity Structure of the Balance Sheet," The Conference on The Law and Economics of Insurance, Lund, August 1989. 
   
• 9. "Public Health Expenditures," The Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society, Konstanz, April 1990. 
   
• 10. "Allocation of Public Health Expenditures," Second World Congress on Health Economics, Zurich, September 1990. 
   
• 11. "Further Results on Comparative Statics under Uncertainty," The 18th Seminar of the European Group of Risk and Insurance Economists, Mons, Belgium, September 1991. 
   
• 12. "Guest Workers and Unemployment Insurance," The 32nd Atlantic Economic Conference, Washington, DC, October 1991. 
   
• 13. "Risk Reduction and Production," European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Brussels, September 1992. 
   
• 14. "Mental Health Services," in Changes in Health Care Systems, European Conference CREDES, Paris, 1992. 
  
  15. "Risk Aversion and Insurance Under Yaari's Dual Theory," The Israel Economic Association, December 1995. 
   
• 16. "The Political Economy of Pension Reform," Conference of the European Public Choice Society, Tiberias, March 1996. 
   
• 17 "Insurance and Decision-Taking in Yaari's Dual Theory," The European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Istanbul, August, 1996. 
   
• 18. "Optimal Reform of the Pension Plan," The Israeli Economic Association Meeting, Jerusalem. May 1998. 
   
• 19. "The Impact of the Transition on Wage Determination in Slovenia": Institutions in Transition, Bled, Slovenia, September 1998. (With A. Schnytzer). 
   
• 20. "Globalization of Capital Markets, " EIBA, 24th Annual conference, Jerusalem, December 1998, (with M. Ungar). 
  
  21. "Increasing Life Expectancy and Reforms in Pension plans"8th Symposium on Finance, Banking and Insurance. December 1999. 
  http://symposium.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de 
   
• 22. “Inequality in Life Expectancy” The Israeli Economic Association Meeting, Jerusalem. May 2002. 
   
• 23. "The Age that Turns Life Insurance into a Gamble" The Israeli Statistical Association Meeting. Ben- Gurion University. May 2003 
   
• 24. "Private Health Insurance by Israeli Self Emplyed" Health Policy 4-th Conference. Tel-Aviv. December 2003. 
   
• 25. "Inequality in Dental Care" Health Policy Conference.Tel-Aviv. March 2005. 
   
• 26. "The Trading Volume of Currency Options and the Spot Exchange Rate" The Israeli Economic Association Meeting, May 2005. 
   
• 27. "The Demand for Privete Health Care Under National Health Insurance: The Case of the Self-Employed" Health Systems, The 3-rd International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy, December 2006. 
   
• 28. “The Provision of Oral Care by Local Government Authorities in Israel” Israel Economic Association Meeting, (with A. Carmeli) June 2008. 
   
• 29. “The Internationalisation of Insurance in Israel” International Conference in Applied Financial Economics, Samos, Greece. 2-4 July 2009. 
   
• 30. “Managing Insurance Instability in Israel" Managing financial instability in capitalistic economies, Reykjavik. Iceland, 3-5 September 2009. 
   
• 31. “The Demand for Pharmaceuticals by the Israeli Managed Care Organizations” The 4th International Jerusalem Conference on Health Policy, Jerusalem, 7-10 December 2009. 
   
• 32. “Pension in Israel” Israel Economic Association Meeting, Maale Hachmisha, 2-nd June 2010. 
   
• 33. “Pharmaceuticals Use by Managed Care Health Funds” 9th Annual International Conference on Health Economics, Management and Policy, 28-30 June 2010, Athens, Greece. 
   
• 34. “The Strategy of Managed Care Health Funds” 6th International Strategic Management Conference, St. Petersburg Russia, 8-10 July 2010. 
   
• 35. “Market versus Self Insurance of Longevity Risk” 6-th International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference, 9-10 September 2010, Bondi Beach, Australia. 
   
• 36. “Market versus Self Insurance of Longevity Risk” The International Research Forum Conference. Hong Kong, 15-17 December, 2010.