Prof.Rami Yosef
Rami Yosef is a Full Professor of Finance and Actuarial Science, and the Head of the Insurance and Finance specialty in the Department of Business Administration at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Until recently he served as Chair of the Department of Business Administration at the BGU.
Yosef graduated from the University of Haifa in 1999, receiving his PhD in actuarial science and finance. He also has a diploma in actuarial techniques from City University London and a post-graduate certificate in actuarial science from the University of Haifa. His research specialties include finance, actuarial science, and pension insurance.
Yosef is considered an expert in actuarial science and has provided expert opinions on actuarial and financial matters in legal disputes. In addition, he has served as a consultant to the Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Israel, insurance companies, financial entities, pension funds, and law firms.
SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Gavious,I., Spivak, A., Yosef, R., "Pension Reform in Israel under Mandatory Pension Law". Pensions: An International Journal, Vol. 14, No 1, February 2009, pp 4-13.
Ben-Shlomo, A., Gavious, I. Rozenboim, M., Yosef, R., "Option Trading Manipulations on Expiry Date. Banking and Finance letters, Vol 1, Issue 4, 2009, pp 185-194.
Aharon, D., Gavious, I. and Yosef, R. "Stock Market Bubble Effects on Mergers and Acquisitions". The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 50 (4), 2010, pp 456-470.
Hauser, S., Yankilevitz, R., Yosef, R., “The Effect of Dual Listing on Share Prices and Liquidity In the Absence of Registration costs”. Journal of Service Science and Management (JSSM), Vol 4, 2011, pp 15-21.
Saadon, Z., Ben-Zion, U., Gavious, I., Rosenfeld, A., Yosef, R., "Tax Manipulation at Life Insurance Reserves of Insurance Companies”. Banking and Finance letters. Forthcoming Vol 3, 2012.
Gavious, I., Segev, E. and Yosef, R. “Female directors and earnings management in high-technology firms". Pacific and Accounting Review, Vol 24, Issue 1, 2012, pp 4-32.
Amrousy, Z., Gavious, I., Kats, H., Yosef, R. “Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Firm Performance”., Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing Vol 8, No 11, 2012, pp 1691-1703.
Afik, Z., Yosef, R., “The fusion of insurance and financial structured products – a Monte Carlo valuation”. Insurance Markets and Companies: Analyses and Actuarial Computation (IMC), Vol 4, Issue 1, 2013, pp 30-38.
Ester., H, S., Gavious, I., and Yosef, R. "The Relationship between the Management of Book Income and Taxable Income under a Moderate Level of Book-Tax Conformity" - Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance (JAAF), Vol 4, Issue 1, 2013, pp 30-38.
Afik, Z., O. Lowengart, and R. Yosef; “Options as a Marketing Tool: Pricing a Promotional Scheme for a Product with a Secondary Market” Managerial and Decision Economics, Vol. 38, 2015, pp. 19-36.
Afik, Z., G. Salganik, V. Sher, and R. Yosef.. The effect of “reverse” dual-listing on stock liquidity. International Research Journal of Finance and Economics March, Issue 131, 2015, pp. 70-79.
Afik, Z., Lahav, Y., V. Sayar, E., and Yosef, R. 2016. “You Can Do Better Than ‘Sell In May’: It Is Not Halloween, But It May Be Passover And Hanukah”. International Research Journal of Finance and Economics. Vol.8, No.10, 2016, pp. 121-129.
Boxma , O., Frostig, E., D., and Yosef, R., 2017 "A State Dependent Reinsurance Model”. I.M.E (Insurance Mathematics Economics). Vol 74, May 2017, pp. 170-181.
Afik, Z., Katz, H., Levy, A., Yosef, R., 2019 "New development: Does investment in social impact bonds affect equity prices? An event study". Public Money & Management. November 2019, pp. 954-962.
Shrem, S., Yosef, R., 2020 "Municipal Bonds as Leverage for Negotiation and Improving Operational Efficiency"". Journal of Service Science and Management. Vol 13, No 2, April 2020. pp. 261-280.