פרופ’ מורן אופיר

Articles

• Bank Runs in the Digital Era: Technology, Psychology and Regulation, University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming in 2025. (with Tal Elmakiess).
• The Eco-Agency Problem and Sustainable Investment, BYU Law Review, Vol 49(6), pp 1674-1726, 2024. (with Tal Elmakiess).
• Controlling Non-controlling Shareholders: The Case of Effective Control, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 25(1), pp 187-230, 2024.
• Unraveling the Web: Big Tech Directors, SPACs and Antitrust Evasion Tactics, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, Vol 26(3), pp 634-671, 2024. (with Anat Alon-Beck, Miriam Schwartz-Ziv, & John Livingstone).
• Shareholder Responsibility, Effective Power, and Dispersed Ownership Structure, Hebrew U. Law Review, Vol. 53, 2023 (in Hebrew).
• Who Shares the Sharing Economy? Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 32(3), pp 593-641, 2023. (with Ronit Levine-Schnur).
• Auctioning Class Action Representation, The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol. 38(3), pp 613-631, 2022. (with Alon Klement and Zvika Neeman).
• An Empirical View of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending Platforms, Berkeley Business Law Journal, Vol. 19.1, pp 175-215, 2022. (with Ido Tzang).
• Debtors Always Remain Debtors: An Empirical View of Individual Insolvency Proceedings, Tel-Aviv U. Law Review, Vol. 54(2), pp 433-474, 2022. (with Yevgeny Mugerman and Neta Nadiv), (in Hebrew).
• Are Securities Issued in ICOs? On the Regulation of Digital Tokens Issued by Companies, Hebrew U. Law Review, Vol. 51(2), pp 437-497, 2021 (with Ido Sadeh), (in Hebrew).
• More of the Same or Real Transformation: Does FinTech Warrant New Regulation? Houston Business and Tax Law Journal, Vol 21, pp 101-150, 2021. (with Ido Sadeh).
• A Revolution in Progress: Regulating Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending Platforms, NYU Journal of Law and Business, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp 685-759, 2020. (with Ido Sadeh).
• ICO vs IPO: Empirical Findings, Information Asymmetry, and the Appropriate Regulatory Framework, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 53 No. 2, pp 525-613, 2020. (with Ido Sadeh).
• Empirical Legal Studies of Judicial Decision Making, The Lawyer, Vol. 46, p 43, 2020 (in Hebrew).
• The Impact of Protective Mortgage Regulations on Household Borrowing Decisions, Studies on Regulation, Vol. 2 pp 141-164, 2020. (with Yevgeny Mugerman), (in Hebrew).
• Piercing the Corporate Veil: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, Tel-Aviv University Law Review, Vol. 42 pp 199-238, 2019. (with Tomer Felach and Uriel Procaccia), (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).
• Control Premium in Going Private Transactions, Law and Business, Vol. 20, pp 541-564. 2017 (in Hebrew).
• How Do Homeowners Choose between Fixed and Adjustable-Rate Mortgages? Quarterly Journal of Finance Vol. 6, No. 4, pp 1-21, 2016. (with Yevgeny Mugerman and Zvi Wiener).

Book Chapters

• Interlocking Directorship: Evidence from a Natural Experiment by Israeli Competition Law, Research Handbook on Competition and Corporate Law (Florence Thepot and Anna Tzanaki eds.) Edward Elgar, Forthcoming in 2025. (with Anat Alon-Beck).
• Environmental Disclosure and Greenwashing: Can We Separate Signal from Noise? Ch. 6, Law and Economics of Corporate Governance: Shareholders, Stakeholders, and Beyond (Mathis Klaus & Tor Avishalom Eds.) Springer, pp 97-117, 2024. (with Tal Elmakiess).
• Investor Sophistication and the Effect of Behavioral Biases in Structured Products Investment, Ch. 5, Behavioral Finance: Beyond the Basics, Venezia and Calipha eds., World Scientific Publishers, pp 93-129, 2024. (with Zvi Wiener).
• Asymmetric Information in Blockchain-based Fundraising: From ICOs to INOs, Ch. 8, The Cambridge Handbook on Law and Policy for NFTs (Nizan Geslevich Packin Ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp 161-178, 2024. (with Ido Sadeh).
• The Rise of FinTech: Promises, Perils, and Challenges, in Leading Legal Disruption, (D’Agostino Giuseppina, Piovesan Carole, and Gaon Aviv eds), Thomson Reuters, pp 267-285, 2021. (with Ido Sadeh).
• (Un)intended Consequences of Macroprudential Regulation, in Law and Economics of Regulation, (Klaus Mathis and Avishalom Tor eds), Springer, pp 183-202, 2021. (with Yevgeny Mugerman).
• Expertise in Financial Decision Making, in Expertise and Excellence: A multi-disciplinary perspective, (Tenenbaum Gershon and Galily Yair eds), IDC, Ch. 18, pp 278-300, 2021. (with Guy Hochman and Lidor Krava), (in Hebrew).
• Are Courts Biased? The Anchoring Heuristic and Judicial Decisions in Personal Bankruptcy Proceedings, Ch. 5, pp 99-128 in Behavioral Finance: A Novel Approach, Venezia Itzhak ed., World Scientific Publishers, 2020. (with Yevgeny Mugerman and Neta Nadiv).
• Anchoring and Adjustment in the Mortgage Market: A Regulatory Experiment, Ch. 9, pp 173-189 in Measuring the Effectiveness of Real-Estate Regulation (Levine-Schnur Ronit ed., Springer), 2020. (with Yevgeny Mugerman).
• The Effect of Specialized Court over Time, Ch. 7, pp 167-188 in Time, Law and Change: An Interdisciplinary Study (Ranchordas Sofia and Roznai Yaniv eds.), Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2020. (with Yifat Aran).
• Behavioral Biases in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Lending, Ch. 11, pp 367-400 in Behavioral Finance: The Coming of Age, Venezia Itzhak ed., World Scientific Publishers, 2019. (with Shahar Ayal and Daphna Bar-Haim).
• Individuals Investment in Financial Structured Products from Rational and Behavioral Choice Perspectives, Ch. 2, pp 33-65 in Behavioral Finance: Where do Investors’ Biases Come From? Venezia Itzhak ed., World Scientific Publishers, 2016. (with Zvi Wiener).
• Heuristics and Biases in the Israeli Mortgage Market, Ch. 10, pp 261-285 in Behavioral Finance: Where do Investors’ Biases Come From? Venezia Itzhak ed., World Scientific Publishers, 2016. (with Yevgeny Mugerman and Zvi Wiener).