Head of the IMBA program
Head of the IMBA program

Prof. Alon Raviv

Telephone
Fax
+972-3-7384040
Email
alon.raviv@biu.ac.il
Office
320; Building 504
Research Categories
    Research

    New Working papers & materials 

    How Likely is an Inflation Disaster?, 2025 (with Jens Hilscher and Ricardo Reis), Review of Financial Studies , Video Overview, Podcast.

    Tracking Bond Indices Yield Spread -a Contingent Claims Approach, with Gil Krysa,, 2025, Under Review, Video Overview, Podcast.

    Information in Central Bank Sentiment: An Analysis of Fed and ECB Communication, 2025 (with Jens Hilscher and Kyle Nabros), R&R, Video Overview, Podcast.​

     The Financial Crisis, Basel III, and Large Banks Financial Reports - a Topic Modeling Approach, 2025, (with Avinoam Blum), Under Review

    Dynamic volatility regulation of financial institutions, with Jens Hilscher and Zvi Wiener , 2024, Finance Research Letters
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    The Effects of the Financial Crisis and Basel III on Banks’ Risk Disclosure:   A Textual Analysis, with Avinoam Blum, 2023, ​​​​ Finance Research Letters

    "Banks Risk Taking and Creditors Bargaining Power,", 2022, (with Yuval Heller and Sharon Peleg Lazar), Journal of Corporate Finance

    New accepted paper:  April 2022 

    "Inflating Away the Public? An Empirical Assessment", 2022, (with Jens Hilscher and Ricardo Reis), Review of Financial Studies 35.

    Published in March 2022

    Economists in the 2008 Financial Crisis: Slow to See, Fast to Act", 2022, (with Daniel Levy and Tamir Mayer),   Journal of Financial Stability 

     Published in June 2022

    Optimal regulation, executive compensation, and risk taking by financial institutions", (with Jens Hilscher and Yoram Landskroner), Journal of Corporate Finance


    ​​​​Published in December 2021

     

    Associate Editor

     Journal of Financial Stability (2018 -Current)

     Review of Business (2020 - Current)

     

    Research Grants, Honors and Awards

    2024-2027 ISF (Israel Science Foundation) grant No. 3359/24

    2020- 2021 Data Science grant (Israeli council for Higher Education )

    2019-2021 ISF (Israel Science Foundation) grant No. 2443/19

    2015-2019 US-Israel Binational Science Foundation grant 2014336

    2015-2017 ISF (Israel Science Foundation) grant No. 969/15

    2015 Bar-Ilan Research autority grant for high rank research proposal

    2013 The Raymond Ackerman Family Chair in Israeli Corporate Governance grant

    2012 Eastern Finance Association Outstanding Paper in Financial Institutions, Boston,(with Jens Hilscher).

    2004 Recipient of Gal-Ed fellowship.

    2001-2002 Recipient of H. Shtecel fellowship : The highest student award at the Hebrew University (the President’s awards).

     

     

    Courses

    Investments

    Securities Analysis

    Fixed Income Analysis

    Financial Modeling with VBA

     

    Publications

    Journals

    1. How Likely is an Inflation Disaster?, 2025, (with Jens Hilscher and Ricardo Reis), Review of Financial Studies , Forthcoming , Video Overview, Podcast.
    2. "Dynamic volatility regulation of financial institutions,", 2024, (with Jens Hilscher and Zvi Wiener),  Finance Research Letters 61.
    3. Analysis of Bank Financial Statements: A Topic Modeling Approach to Risk Identification” (with Avinoam Blum), 2023,  Theory and Practice in Management 6.
    4. "The Effects of the Financial Crisis and Basel III on Banks’ Risk Disclosure:   A Textual Analysis,", 2023, (with Avinoam Blum),  Finance Research Letters 53.
    5. "Inflating Away the Public? An Empirical Assessment", 2022, (with Jens Hilscher and Ricardo Reis), Review of Financial Studies 35.
    6. "Banks Risk Taking and Creditors Bargaining Power,", 2022, (with Yuval Heller and Sharon Peleg Lazar)),  Journal of Corporate Finance 74.
    7. "Economists in the 2008 Financial Crisis: Slow to See, Fast to Act", 2022, (with Daniel Levy and Tamir Mayer),  Journal of Financial Stability  60.
    8. "Designing Bankers' Pay: Using Contingent Capital to Reduce Risk-shifting Incentives", 2022, (with Jens Hilscher and Sharon Peleg-Lazar),  Quarterly Journal of Finance  12.
    9. "Optimal regulation, executive compensation and risk taking by financial institutions", 2021, (with Jens Hilscher and Yoram Landskroner),  Journal of Corporate Finance 71.
    10. Risk management of Corporate Bond indexes - A structural Model” (with Gil Karisa and Sharon Peleg-Lazar), 2021, Theory and Practice in Management 2.
    11. "The Risk Spiral - The Effects of Bank Capital and Diversification on Risk Taking, (with Sharon Peleg Lazar), 2019, International Review of Financial Analysis 65.
    12. A Closed-Form Solution to the Risk-Taking Motivation of Subordinated Debtholders”, 2019, (with Yuval Heller and Sharon Peleg Lazar), Economics Letters 181, 169-173.
    13. The Effect of Liquidity on Non-Marketable Securities”, 2018, (with Menachem Abudy and Hadar Binsky), Financial Research Letters, 26, 139-144.
    14. Heterogeneous beliefs and the choice between private restructuring and formal bankruptcy”, 2017, (with Pascal Francois), North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 41, 156-167.
    15. ."Bank risk dynamics where assets are risky debt claims”, 2017 (with Sharon Peleg Lazar), European Financial Management , 23, 1-17.
    16. "How much can illiqudiity affect corporate debt yield spread?”, 2016 (with Menachem Abudy), Journal of Financial Stability, 25, 58-69.
    17. "Bank stability and market discipline: The effect of contingent capital on risk taking and default probability”, 2014 (with Jens Hilscher), Journal of Corporate Finance (Corporate Finance Theory Special Issue), 29, 542-560. Eastern Finance Association Outstanding Paper in Financial Institutions
    18. "Will the US  inflate away its public debt?”, 2014 (with Jens Hilscher and Ricardo Reis), VOXeu.
    19. Inflation derivatives under inflation target regimes” 2013, (with Mordecai Avriel and Jens Hilscher),  Journal of Futures Markets 33, 911-938.
    20. Executive compensation, risk taking and the state of the economy”, 2013, (with Elif Sisli), Journal of Financial Stability 9, 55-68.
    21. Liquidation triggers and the valuation of equity and debt”, 2007, (with Dan Galai and Zvi Wiener), Journal of Banking and Finance 31, 3604-3620.
    22. The valuation of inflation indexed and FX convertible bonds”, 2008, (with Yoram Landskroner), Journal of Futures Markets, 28, 634-655.
    23. Credit spread implied by Inflation-Indexed convertible bonds” , 2003, (with Yoram Landskroner), Banking Review 8.
    24. “Measuring the average marginal tax on labor income”, 1995, (with Momi Dahan), Israeli Economic Quarterly 3.

     

    Papers in Books

    1. “Executive Compensation and Risk Taking: The Impact of Systemic Crises.” (with  Elif Sisli-Ciamarra).  in Amann, Wolfgang, Ted Azarmi and Mathias Moersch eds. The Financial Crisis - Implications for Research and Teaching, Springer Verlag. 2016.

    2.  “A balance sheet approach for sovereign debt”, (with Dan Galai, Yoram Landskroner and Zvi Wiener). Bridging the GAAP: Recent Advances in Finance and Accounting, edited by Itzhak Venezia and Zvi Weiner, 2012

     

    Other Publications 

    1Inflation Risks are on the Rise.” 2022, (with Jens Hilscher and Ricardo Reis),ARE Update 25(3): 9–11. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics

    2. "Economists in the 2008 crisis: Slow to see, fast to act", 2020(with Daniel Levy and Tamir Levy) VOXeu.

    Last Updated Date : 20/11/2025