עברית

Dr. Moran Ofir

Harry Radzyner Law School Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Areas of expertise

Corporate Law
Securities
Economic Analysis of Law
Decision-Making
Capital Markets
Behavioral Finance
Economic Regulation

Dr. Moran Ofir is an associate professor at the Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University. She holds a PhD in Finance from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Center for Rationality. She also holds a MBA summa cum laude (ranking first among all students) and LL.B. magna cum laude, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a visiting scholar at the Oxford University Faculty of Law, London School of Economics Law School and LawFin Center at the Geothe University Frankfurt, a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, and a research fellow at the Hauser Global Law School Program, New-York University.
Dr. Ofir specializes in Corporate and Securities Law, Law and Finance, Empirical Legal Studies, Behavioral Finance, FinTech and financial decision making. Her research was featured in leading law reviews, finance journals, and the popular press.
In addition, Dr. Ofir is a member of the Counselling Committee to the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA) on Technology and Capital Markets and a member of the ISA Administrative Enforcement Committee (Capital Market Expert). She is a co-founder of the Israeli Women in Business Law Forum.
SPAC Directors: Big Tech’s New Approach to Skirting Antitrust (with Anat Alon-Beck, Miriam Schwartz-Ziv, & John Livingstone), University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Forthcoming.

Shareholder Responsibility, Effective Power, and Dispersed Ownership Structure, Hebrew U. Law Review, Vol. 53, Forthcoming in 2023 (in Hebrew).

Interlocking Directorship: Evidence from a Natural Experiment by Israeli Competition Law (with Anat Alon-Beck), Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law (Florence Thepot and Anna Tzanaki eds.) Edward Elgar, Forthcoming in 2023.

Who Shares the Sharing Economy? (with Ronit Levine-Schnur), Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 32, Forthcoming in 2023.

Auctioning Class Action Representation (with Alon Klement and Zvika Neeman), The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol. 38(3), pp 613-631, 2022.

An Empirical View of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending Platforms (with Ido Tzang), Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 19.1, pp. 175-215, 2022.

Debtors Always Remain Debtors: An Empirical View of Individual Insolvency Proceedings (with Yevgeny Mugerman and Neta Nadiv), Tel-Aviv U. Law Review, Vol. 54(2), pp 433-474, 2022.

Are Securities Issued in ICOs? On the Regulation of Digital Tokens Issued by Companies (with Ido Sadeh), Hebrew U. Law Review, Vol. 51(2), pp 437-497, 2021 (in Hebrew).

More of the Same or Real Transformation: Does FinTech Warrant New Regulation? (with I. Sadeh), Houston Business and Tax Law Journal, Vol 21, pp 101-150, 2021.

The Rise of FinTech: Promises, Perils, and Challenges (with I. Sadeh), Leading Legal Disruption, (D’Agostino P., Piovesan C., and Gaon A. eds), Thomson Reuters, pp 267-285, 2021.

(Un)intended Consequences of Macroprudential Regulation (with Yevgeny Mugerman), in Law and Economics of Regulation, (Klaus Mathis and Avishalom Tor eds), Springer, pp 183-202, 2021. .

Expertise in Financial Decision Making (with Guy Hochman and Lidor Krava) in Expertise and Excellence: A multi-disciplinary perspective, (Tenenbaum Gershon and Galily Yair eds), IDC, Ch. 18, pp 278-300, 2021 (in Hebrew).

A Revolution in Progress: Regulating P2P Lending Platforms (with I. Sadeh), NYU Journal of Law and Business, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp 685-759, 2020.

ICO vs IPO: Empirical Findings, Information Asymmetry, and the Appropriate Regulatory Framework (with Ido Sadeh), Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 53 No. 2, pp 525-613, 2020.

Empirical Legal Studies of Judicial Decision Making, The Lawyer, Vol. 46, p 43, 2020 (in Hebrew).

Are Courts Biased? The Anchoring Heuristic and Judicial Decisions in Personal Bankruptcy Proceedings (with Y. Mugerman and N. Nadiv), Ch. 5, pp 99-128 in Behavioral Finance: A Novel Approach, I. Venezia ed., World Scientific Publishers, 2020.

The Impact of Protective Mortgage Regulations on Household Borrowing Decisions (with Yevgeny Mugerman), Studies on Regulation, Vol. 2 pp 141-164, 2020 (in Hebrew).

The Effect of Specialized Court over Time (with Y. Aran), Ch. 7, pp 167-188 in Time, Law and Change (Ranchordas S. and Roznai Y. eds.), Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2020.

Anchoring and Adjustment in the Mortgage Market: A Regulatory Experiment (with Y. Mugerman), Ch. 9 pp 173-189 in Measuring the Effectiveness of Real-Estate Regulation (Levine-Schnur R. ed., Springer), 2020.

Piercing the Corporate Veil: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (with T. Felach and U. Procaccia), Tel-Aviv University Law Review, Vol. 42 , pp 199-238, 2019 (in Hebrew).

Efficient and Inefficient Sales of Corporate Control: The Case of Going Private, Review of Law and Economics, Vol 15, Issue 1, 17 (2019).

Behavioral Biases in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending (with S. Ayal and D. Bar-Haim), Ch. 11, pp 367-400 in Behavioral Finance: The Coming of Age, Venezia I. ed., World Scientific Publishers, (2019).

Control Premium in Going Private Transactions, Law and Business, Vol. 20, pp 541-564 (2017) (in Hebrew)

How Homeowners Choose between Fixed and Adjustable Rate Mortgages? (with Y. Mugerman and Z. Wiener), Quarterly Journal of Finance Vol. 6, No. 4, (2016).

Individuals Investment in Financial Structured Products from Rational and Behavioral Choice Perspectives (with Z. Wiener), Ch. 2, pp 33-65 in BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: Where do Investors Come From?, I. Venezia Ed., World Scientific Publishers (2016).

Heuristics and Biases in the Israeli Mortgage Market (with Y. Mugerman and Z. Wiener), Ch. 10, pp 261-285 in BEHAVIORAL FINANCE: Where do Investors Come From?, I. Venezia Ed., World Scientific Publishers (2016).
HAARETZ- Structured Products

Oxford Business Law Blog- Board Interlocks

Oxford Business Law Blog- Auctioning Class Action Representation

Columbia Blue Sky Blog- ICO

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Macine Lawyering Blog- Regulation P2P Lending Platforms

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Blog- ICO

The FinReg Blog- Duke Law Global Financial Markets Center- P2P Lendings

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Machine Lawyering Blog- Fintech

Oxford Business Law Blog- Macroprudential Regulation

The Medialine- Mortgages and Housing Prices

The Medialine- Israeli Gov’t Announced Plan To Ease Effects of Inflation

Ynet News- Cost-of-Living

The Medialine- Judicial Reform and the Cost-of-Living
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