Yishay Yafeh (born 1962) is an Economist and a Professor of Finance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Business Administration in Israel. Between 2010–2012 he was the vice- dean of the Hebrew University School of Business Administration and the Dean of the School between 2012–2016.
Biography.
Yafeh had his B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his A.M. and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He was previously an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Department of Economics of the University of Montreal and visiting professor in Oxford University.
Yafeh was an Academic Consultant to the Bank of Israel Research Department and to the Israel Securities Authority. 
He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and of the Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute in Brussels.
At the Hebrew University Yafeh teaches the following courses: 
Topics in Financial Economics and Law and Finance Workshop.
Research.
Yafeh's research fields are Corporate governance, Financial intermediation and banking, The Japanese economy and the economies of East Asia and Economic and financial history. His research papers were published in a leading journals like the "Quarterly Journal of Economics", "Journal of Finance" and "Journal of Economic Literature".
Some of his papers are cited hundreds of times. His book, Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization (with the cooperation of Paolo Mauro and Nathan Sussman), was published by the Oxford University Press in 2006.
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