Research

 Selected Publications

Bayer, Ya'akov M., Dadon, Tzion, Shreiber, Ephraim (2026). Economic Returns and Policy Implications of Early Depression Screening: A Systematic Review of U.S. Evidence. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics. Volume 29, Supplement 1, 3-14.

Bayer, Ya'akov M. (2025). Guest editorial: Resilience, strategy, and innovation across systems. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 17(2), 95-102.

Bayer, Ya'akov M. (2025). Life forward: Crisis care: Managing health systems in the line of fire: A conversation with Mr. Eli Levi, Deputy Director General, Government Hospitals Unit, Israel Ministry of Health. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 17(2), 95-102.

Bayer Ya'akov M., Shapir Offer M.,  Shapir-Tidhar Michal H., Shtudiner Zeev (2024) Navigating the Financial Fog: The Impact of Pandemic Priming on Economic Choices and Future Valuations. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2024.101004 

Dadon, T., Bayer, Y.M., Rosenthal, A. et al. School health services in the Southern District of Israel - between privatization and nationalization. Isr J Health Policy Res 13, 59 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13584-024-00647-3 

Bayer Ya'akov M. (2024). Sound of sirens, echoes of trauma: unpacking socioeconomic vulnerabilities in the Israel-Hamas conflict. Israel Affairs, 30(3), 415–437. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2024.2342136 

Bayer Ya'akov M., Shtudiner Zeev (2023) Sirens of stress: Financial risk, time preferences, and post-traumatic stress disorder: Evidence from the Israel-Hamas Conflict. Journal of Health Psychology. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/13591053231207693

Solomon, Solon; Bayer, Ya'akov M. (2023) Do all suffer the same? Discussing the wider normative implications of an empirical approach to the nexus between socio-economic rights frameworks and civilian mental harm in warfare. Nordic Journal of International Law, Volume XX (2023), Pages: 1-20.

Bayer Ya'akov M. (2019) Marketing mercilessly: Telemarketing fraud against seniors. Gerontology & Geriatrics - Journal of Aging Studies. Qriat Ono: Israel Gerontological Society. Volume 46 (2), September 2019. [Hebrew]

Bayer Ya'akov M., Shtudiner Ze'ev, Suhorukov Oxsana, Grisaru Nimrod (2019) Time and risk preferences, and consumption decisions of patients with clinical depression.  The Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, Volume 22, Supplement 1, March 2019.

Bayer Ya'akov M., Shtudiner Ze'ev, Suhorukov Oxsana, Grisaru Nimrod (2019) Time and risk preferences, and consumption decisions of patients with clinical depression. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. Volume 78, February 2019, Pages 138-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2019.01.003 

Bayer Ya'akov M., Ruffle Bradely, Zultan Ro'i, Shtudiner Ze'ev (2018) Costly Superstitious Beliefs: Experimental Evidence. Journal of Economic Psychology, 69, 30–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2018.10.002 .   

Bayer, Ya'akov M. (2018) Older Adults, Aggressive Marketing, Unethical Behavior: A Sure Road to Financial Fraud? In Gringarten, H. & Fernández- Calienes, R. (Ed.) Ethical Branding and Marketing: Cases and Lessons. New York. Rutledge Publishing.

Bayer Ya'akov M., & Osher, Yamima (2018). Time preference, executive functions, and ego-depletion: An exploratory study. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology, and Economics, 11(3), 127-134. . http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/npe0000092 .

 Bayer Yaakov M. (2016). Memory and belonging: The social construction of a collective memory during the intercultural transition of immigrants from Argentina in Israel. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 8(1), 5-27.

Working Papers

Ellen Moriah, Bayer, Ya'akov M., Shach, Ruth (2020) Know Thine Enemy: A survey of public awareness regarding antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance in Israel. Ben Gurion University of the Negev. 

Bayer Ya'akov M., Ruffle Bradely, Zultan Ro'i, Dwolazky Tzvi (2018) Time preferences in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis: Toronto.

Bayer, Yaakov (2013) Economic and psychological aspects of aging‏, Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. [Hebrew]

Bayer, Yaakov (2001) The Effects of regime characteristics on growth and economic development. Beer-Sheva: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. [Hebrew]

Selected Presentations

2025: "Navigating Economic Uncertainty: How Exposure to Information and Forecasts During the COVID-19 Pandemic Shapes Economic Decisions".The 17th Annual Health Policy Conference, the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research. Tel Aviv, Israel.

2025: "Model of Student Health Service Delivery in Israel, 2011-2022: A Comparative Analysis of Public and Private Provision". The 17th Annual Health Policy Conference, the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research. With Dadon Tzion, Rosenthal Anat and Gdalevitz Michael. Tel Aviv, Israel.

2024: ''Sound of sirens, echoes of trauma: unpacking socioeconomic vulnerabilities in the Israel-Hamas conflict.''. The 16th Annual Health Policy Conference, the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research. Tel Aviv, Israel.

2024: "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Economic Preferences: An Analysis of Findings from the Israel-Hamas Conflict during Operation "Guardian of the Walls". The 16th Annual Health Policy Conference, the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research. Tel Aviv, Israel.

2024: "School health service in the Southern District of Israel - between privatization and nationalization.". The 16th Annual Health Policy Conference, the Israel National Institute for Health Policy Research. With Dadon Tzion, Rosenthal Anat and Gdalevitz Michael. Tel Aviv, Israel.

2023: Financial risk, time preferences, and post-traumatic stress disorder: Evidence from the Israel-Hamas conflict. International Empirical Economics Conference. Pennsylvania State University at Altoona (Online, 5 August 2023), USA.

2023: Managing patient deposits at the government mental health system. ERP 2023 Conference, People and Computers. Rison Le'Zion, Israel.  

2023: Mental Health Hospitalization In Israel. Taub Research Center, Jerusalem, Israel.

2023: Financial Risk, Time Preferences, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Evidence from the Israel-Hamas Conflict. . The Royal Economic Society Conference. The University of Glasgow (03-05 April, 2023), UK.

2019: The impact of depression on economic decision making. Department of Psychology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria).

2019: Costly Superstitious Beliefs: Experimental Evidence. The Royal Economic Society Conference. The University of Warwick (15-17 April, 2019), UK.

2019:  Time and Risk Preferences, and Consumption Decisions of Patients with Clinical Depression. International Center of Mental Health Policy and Economics, The Fourteenth Workshop on Costs and Assessment in Psychiatry, The Value of Mental Health Services, Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice (March 29-31, 2019), Italy.

2018: "Ethical concerns and solutions in health internet of things" (Jointly with Prof. Popescul Daniela). The 17th International Conference on Informatics in Economy, Education, Research & Business Technologies, Iasi, Romania.

2017: ''Emergency Room Medical Treatment of Immigrant Population in Israel: Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Wolfson Medical center as a case study". International Workshop – Ben Gurion University, "Economic arguments in migrant health policy making: Bridging the evidence policy gap''. Jointly organised by EUPHA Section on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health, Center for Health, Humanism and Society and School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

2017: "Economic decision making and subjective health assessment". Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.

2016: ''Economic decision-making and superstitions during pregnancy in Israel''. DMEP: Decision Making and Economic Psychology center, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. 

2015:''Economic decision-making and superstitions during pregnancy in Israel''. Economics department, Ariel University.

2015: ''Time preferences in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)'''. Economics department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

2008: ''Prevention of corruption in procurement procedures in the public sector in Israel''. French National School of Management (ENA), Paris. A representative of the Israeli Civil Service Commission. Paris, France.

Selected Editorial Duties:

2020-      :Associate editor of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, St. Thomas University, Miami, USA .

Referee Work :  

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Elsevier Inc. , Health policy, Elsevier Inc. , Frontiers in Psychology, section Cultural Psychology, Journal of Health Psychology, Sage Journals, Journal of Trust Research, Taylor & Francis, Israel Affairs, Routledge, Social Indicators Research, Springer, Critical Research on Religion, Sage Journals, Medicine, Wolters Kluwer, Stress and Health, Wiley Online Library, Cogent Arts & Humanities, Taylor and Francis, Scientific Reports, Springer Nature, Applied Economics incorporating Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Sage Journals, Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, European Journal of Ageing, Springer, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor and Francis, PLoS ONE, Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis, The Royal Society Publishing, the Royal Society Open Science, The Israel national institute for health policy research.

Book review:

Bayer, Ya'akov M. (2024). Review of The ageing of Aquarius: The hippies of the 60s in their 60s and beyond, by G. Nimrod. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 16(1), 133–136.

Bayer, Y.M (2019). [Review of the book Soccernomics (2018 World Cup Edition): Why England Loses; Why Germany, Spain, and France Win; and Why One Day Japan, Iraq, and the United States Will Become Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport, by Kuper, S. and Szymanski, S.]. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 11(2).