Ben‐Zion Zilberfarb

Biographic Data

ID5851244
NAMEBen‐Zion Zilberfarb
GIVEN NAMESBen‐Zion
FAMILY NAMEZilberfarb
SIGNATUREZILBERFARB B Z
AFFILIATIONSBar-Ilan University
ORCID0000-0002-5177-6568
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • The short- and long-term effects of the Six Day War on the Israeli economy

    Ben-Zion Zilberfarb, Ben‐Zion ZilberfarbARTICLEIsrael Affairs2018References: 2

    This article examines the short- and long-term effects of the 1967 Six Day War on the Israeli economy. In the short run, the war led to a very big increase in aggregate demand (mainly military expenditures). This got the economy out of a Keynesian recession that prevailed before the war. There were several long-term effects. The French embargo on arms shipments to Israel, following the war, induced the development of a large military industrial b…

  • From Boom to Bust

    Ben-Zion Zilberfarb, Ben‐Zion ZilberfarbARTICLEIsrael Affairs2006Cited by: 1

  • From Socialism to Free Market – The Israeli Economy, 1948–2003

    Ben-Zion Zilberfarb, Ben‐Zion ZilberfarbARTICLEIsrael Affairs2004Cited by: 1

    This study describes the transition of the Israeli economy from a socialist to a free market economy. It is argued that the transition took place not because of ideological changes, but due to a pragmatic economic approach that policy makers had adopted. Indeed, the one and only attempt to move to a free market economy (1977), on the basis of economic ideology, did fail. In as much as there was an ideological debate between different schools of t…

  • Differential Interpretation of Information in Inflation Forecasts

    Eugene Kandel, Ben-Zion Zilberfarb et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1999

    We test the hypothesis associated with a standard assumption in the theoretical literature on learning: that economic agents interpret information identically. We use a data set based on a survey of Israeli business executives forecasting future inflation. One of the main advantages of using this data is that a major change in the inflation regime in 1985 can be treated as a natural experiment in new beliefs formation. We develop a methodology fo…

  • The Israeli economy in the 1990s

    Ben‐Zion ZilberfarbARTICLEIsrael Affairs1996Cited by: 2

    (1996). The Israeli economy in the 1990s: Immigration, the peace process, and the medium‐term prospects for growth. Israel Affairs: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1-12

  • The effects of the peace process on the Israeli economy

    Ben‐Zion ZilberfarbARTICLEIsrael Affairs1994Cited by: 1References: 1

    (1994). The effects of the peace process on the Israeli economy. Israel Affairs: Vol. 1, Peace in the Middle East: The Challenge for Israel, pp. 84-95

  • Domestic Demand Pressure, Relative Prices and the Exports Supply Equation- More Empirical Evidence

    Ben-Zion Zilberfarb, Ben‐Zion ZilberfarbARTICLEEconomica1980