{
  "updated": "2026-10-10",
  "themes": {
    "money-credit": "Money, credit & monetary policy",
    "non-observed": "The non-observed economy",
    "smes-local": "SMEs, entrepreneurship & local government",
    "crisis": "Crises, epidemics & resilience",
    "political-economy": "Political economy & game theory"
  },
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    {
      "id": "labib-001",
      "slug": "2026-un-financing-cooperative-game",
      "title": "Cooperative Game-Theoretic Framework for Sustainable UN Financing: An Application to Global Public Goods Provision",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Teddy Lazebnik"
      ],
      "year": 2026,
      "venue": "Economies",
      "volume": "14",
      "issue": "7",
      "pages": "263",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2026-07-07",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.3390/economies14070263",
      "url": "https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/14/7/263",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "versions": [
        {
          "label": "Earlier preprint (arXiv:2602.15062)",
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15062"
        }
      ],
      "themes": [
        "political-economy"
      ],
      "summary": "Develops a cooperative game-theoretic framework for financing global public goods and applies it to United Nations funding: each member state's contribution is priced according to the benefit it derives, and agent-based simulations calibrated to observed contribution patterns compare this design with a non-cooperative benchmark.",
      "featured": true,
      "page_url": "publications/2026-un-financing-cooperative-game/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-002",
      "slug": "2026-local-context-municipal-sme-policy",
      "title": "Local context, local solutions: increasing returns from municipal policies supporting SMEs",
      "authors": [
        "Israel Rachevski",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2026,
      "venue": "Small Enterprise Research",
      "volume": "33",
      "issue": "2",
      "pages": "159–177",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2026-05-26",
      "date_issue": "2026-05",
      "doi": "10.1080/13215906.2026.2671915",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1080/13215906.2026.2671915",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local"
      ],
      "summary": "Uses survey data from 513 Israeli small and medium-sized enterprises and structural equation modelling to ask whether a locality's population size, socioeconomic status and demographic composition change how municipal support for businesses translates into owner satisfaction and economic returns. Socioeconomic status and demographic composition turn out to matter most.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2026-local-context-municipal-sme-policy/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-003",
      "slug": "2026-sme-resilience-wartime-innovation",
      "title": "SME resilience in wartime: the constraints of innovation",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Israel Rachevski"
      ],
      "year": 2026,
      "venue": "Innovation: Organization & Management",
      "volume": "",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "1–18",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "online-first",
      "date_online": "2026-04-19",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1080/14479338.2026.2662235",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2026.2662235",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local",
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "Draws on a survey of 766 Israeli SMEs affected by the 2023 war to examine how firm characteristics, geographic exposure and wartime constraints relate to supply- and demand-side disruptions in the first phases of the conflict, and whether process and marketing innovation moderate those relationships.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2026-sme-resilience-wartime-innovation/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-004",
      "slug": "2026-informal-economy-sweden-spatial",
      "title": "Tell Me Who Your Neighbors Are and I Will Tell You Your Informal Economy Size: The Case of Sweden",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Einav Peretz-Andersson"
      ],
      "year": 2026,
      "venue": "Computational Economics",
      "volume": "",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "online-first",
      "date_online": "2026-02-19",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1007/s10614-025-11276-6",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10614-025-11276-6",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "non-observed"
      ],
      "summary": "Brings geography into informal-economy estimation. Using data for Sweden's 21 regions from 2006 to 2023, the study compares models ranging from linear regression to graph neural networks for predicting the size of each region's informal economy under different spatio-temporal settings.",
      "featured": true,
      "page_url": "publications/2026-informal-economy-sweden-spatial/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-005",
      "slug": "2026-two-period-screening-probationary-employment",
      "title": "Beyond the First Impression: A Two-Period Screening Model under Probationary Employment",
      "authors": [
        "Dan Lederman",
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2026,
      "venue": "SSRN working paper",
      "volume": "",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "",
      "type": "preprint",
      "status": "preprint",
      "date_online": "2026-01-05",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.2139/ssrn.6022246",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6022246",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "political-economy"
      ],
      "summary": "A two-period model of probationary employment in which workers can either build genuine skill or improve the metrics an employer observes. It examines how pay brackets and evaluation windows shape effort, and includes an application to professional basketball (NBA) contracts.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2026-two-period-screening-probationary-employment/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-006",
      "slug": "2025-special-interest-groups-utility",
      "title": "Got much, got nothing: analyzing the impact of increased special interest groups’ influence on utility",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Teddy Lazebnik"
      ],
      "year": 2025,
      "venue": "Eurasian Economic Review",
      "volume": "15",
      "issue": "4",
      "pages": "1021–1044",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2025-04-20",
      "date_issue": "2025-12",
      "doi": "10.1007/s40822-025-00316-z",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-025-00316-z",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "political-economy"
      ],
      "summary": "Models the long-run effects of raising transfer payments to members of an interest group who stay out of the labour market, focusing on Israel's ultra-Orthodox community. In the differential-equation model, allowances beyond a critical level shrink the working population that funds public goods, eventually eroding the group's own benefits as well.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2025-special-interest-groups-utility/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-007",
      "slug": "2025-non-bank-credit-competition",
      "title": "Elusive competition: impact of non-bank credit providers’ financing on credit market competition",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2025,
      "venue": "Journal of Banking Regulation",
      "volume": "26",
      "issue": "2",
      "pages": "288–303",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2024-10-05",
      "date_issue": "2025-06",
      "doi": "10.1057/s41261-024-00259-6",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1057/s41261-024-00259-6",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "money-credit"
      ],
      "summary": "Models what happens when newly established non-bank lenders that depend on bank financing enter a credit market. Because borrowers' insolvency risk plays a central role, more credit providers can raise rather than lower average credit prices, which argues for equal conditions for new entrants.",
      "featured": true,
      "page_url": "publications/2025-non-bank-credit-competition/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-008",
      "slug": "2025-business-environment-sme-satisfaction-local-revenue",
      "title": "Twice as effective: business environment, SME owners’ satisfaction, and local government revenue performance",
      "authors": [
        "Israel Rachevski",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2025,
      "venue": "Local Government Studies",
      "volume": "51",
      "issue": "3",
      "pages": "524–546",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2024-07-10",
      "date_issue": "2025",
      "doi": "10.1080/03003930.2024.2378965",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2024.2378965",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local"
      ],
      "summary": "Links the local business environment created by municipalities to SME owners' satisfaction and to local economic outcomes. Factor analysis and structural equation modelling on a survey of 513 SME owners show that higher satisfaction is associated with more local employment and higher municipal tax revenue from SMEs.",
      "featured": true,
      "page_url": "publications/2025-business-environment-sme-satisfaction-local-revenue/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-009",
      "slug": "2025-tax-evasion-llm-agent-simulation",
      "title": "Investigating Tax Evasion Emergence Using Dual Large Language Model and Deep Reinforcement Learning Powered Agent-based Simulation",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2025,
      "venue": "arXiv",
      "volume": "",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "",
      "type": "preprint",
      "status": "preprint",
      "date_online": "2025-01-30",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.48550/arXiv.2501.18177",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18177",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "non-observed"
      ],
      "summary": "Asks how tax evasion emerges in a population in the first place, rather than taking it as given. The study uses an agent-based simulation whose agents are driven by a large language model and deep reinforcement learning.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2025-tax-evasion-llm-agent-simulation/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-010",
      "slug": "2024-coffee-leaf-rust-economic-epidemiology",
      "title": "Economical–epidemiological analysis of the coffee trees rust pandemic",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Ariel Rosenfeld",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science",
      "volume": "34",
      "issue": "11",
      "pages": "113112",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2024-11-06",
      "date_issue": "2024-11",
      "doi": "10.1063/5.0221945",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0221945",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
      "versions": [
        {
          "label": "Preprint (arXiv:2304.14515)",
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14515"
        }
      ],
      "themes": [
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "Builds a high-resolution spatio-temporal economic-epidemiological model of how coffee leaf rust spreads across farms and what it costs. Simulations for Colombia indicate that sustaining profits is impractical without directly tackling the disease.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-coffee-leaf-rust-economic-epidemiology/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-011",
      "slug": "2024-technological-incubators-periphery",
      "title": "The technological incubators program as a growth generator of peripheral areas in Israel",
      "authors": [
        "Gil Cohen",
        "Limor Yehuda",
        "Sagit Barel-Shaked",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Arie Herscovici",
        "Osnat Akirav"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business",
      "volume": "51",
      "issue": "1",
      "pages": "120–136",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1504/IJESB.2024.135224",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2024.135224",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local"
      ],
      "summary": "Examines Israel's technological incubator programme in peripheral regions through a value-chain lens. The main challenge it identifies is building a local ecosystem, with mentoring partners and access to university or hospital facilities, that supports ventures during and after incubation.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-technological-incubators-periphery/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-012",
      "slug": "2024-multi-layered-entrepreneurship-women-mayors",
      "title": "Multi-layered entrepreneurship: perspectives of women candidates for mayor",
      "authors": [
        "Osnat Akirav",
        "Arie Hershkovici",
        "Limor Yehuda",
        "Sagit Barel-Shaked",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Gil Cohen"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business",
      "volume": "51",
      "issue": "2",
      "pages": "218–237",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1504/IJESB.2024.135707",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2024.135707",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local"
      ],
      "summary": "Combines research on women's entrepreneurship, political ambition and gender mainstreaming into the concept of “multi-layered entrepreneurship”, explored through in-depth interviews with women who ran for mayor.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-multi-layered-entrepreneurship-women-mayors/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-013",
      "slug": "2024-social-entrepreneurship-core-domains",
      "title": "The circular, step by step - three core domains, social entrepreneurship model",
      "authors": [
        "Limor Yehuda",
        "Sagit Barel-Shaked",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Gil Cohen",
        "Osnat Akirav",
        "Arie Herscovici"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business",
      "volume": "51",
      "issue": "4",
      "pages": "433–452",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1504/IJESB.2024.136942",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2024.136942",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local"
      ],
      "summary": "Uses a case study of an organisation working to reduce agricultural crime to identify the core domains of social enterprises and to formulate a working model of social entrepreneurship.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-social-entrepreneurship-core-domains/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-014",
      "slug": "2024-farmers-typology-policy-reform",
      "title": "Farmers' typology in an environment of policy reform",
      "authors": [
        "Sagit Barel-Shaked",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Arie Herscovici",
        "Osnat Akirav",
        "Gil Cohen",
        "Limor Yehuda"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business",
      "volume": "52",
      "issue": "1",
      "pages": "116–130",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1504/IJESB.2024.137753",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2024.137753",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local"
      ],
      "summary": "Builds a typology of the strategies Israeli egg farmers adopt as a policy reform threatens their economic viability, identifying contrasting farmer identities, including farmers driven mainly by non-economic goals.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-farmers-typology-policy-reform/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-015",
      "slug": "2024-informal-self-employment-israel",
      "title": "Informal self-employment within the non-observed economy of Israel",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Gil Cohen",
        "Osnat Akirav",
        "Arie Herscovici",
        "Limor Yehuda",
        "Sagit Barel-Shaked"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business",
      "volume": "52",
      "issue": "2",
      "pages": "159–180",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1504/IJESB.2024.138271",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2024.138271",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "non-observed"
      ],
      "summary": "Adapts a currency-demand approach to the Israeli economy to estimate the size of the non-observed economy and the share that comes from informal activity by the self-employed, finding a downward trend over the preceding decade.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-informal-self-employment-israel/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-016",
      "slug": "2024-lean-startup-smart-city-tel-aviv",
      "title": "Lean startup as a model for smart city projects: the case of Tel Aviv-Yafo",
      "authors": [
        "Arie Herscovici",
        "Osnat Akirav",
        "Gil Cohen",
        "Limor Yehuda",
        "Sagit Barel-Shaked",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business",
      "volume": "53",
      "issue": "2",
      "pages": "245–257",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1504/IJESB.2024.140931",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1504/IJESB.2024.140931",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "smes-local"
      ],
      "summary": "Argues that cities adopting information and communication technology also adopt management methods from the technology industry, illustrated by the lean-startup approach in Tel Aviv-Yafo's smart city project.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-lean-startup-smart-city-tel-aviv/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-017",
      "slug": "2024-machine-learning-non-observed-economy",
      "title": "Implementing Machine Learning Methods in Estimating the Size of the Non-observed Economy",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Teddy Lazebnik"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "Computational Economics",
      "volume": "63",
      "issue": "4",
      "pages": "1459–1476",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2023-02-17",
      "date_issue": "2024-04",
      "doi": "10.1007/s10614-023-10369-4",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-023-10369-4",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "non-observed"
      ],
      "summary": "Shows that machine-learning methods, notably a random forest, estimate currency demand more accurately than the standard currency-demand regressions, improving estimates of the size of unregistered economic activity.",
      "featured": true,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-machine-learning-non-observed-economy/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-018",
      "slug": "2024-microfounded-tax-revenue-forecast",
      "title": "Microfounded Tax Revenue Forecast Model with Heterogeneous Population and Genetic Algorithm Approach",
      "authors": [
        "Ariel Alexi",
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2024,
      "venue": "Computational Economics",
      "volume": "63",
      "issue": "5",
      "pages": "1705–1734",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2023-04-21",
      "date_issue": "2024-05",
      "doi": "10.1007/s10614-023-10379-2",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10614-023-10379-2",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "non-observed"
      ],
      "summary": "An agent-based model of consumers and businesses with heterogeneous attributes, whose decisions evolve through a genetic algorithm, used to forecast local tax revenues and evaluate taxation policies. It is tested against a small village's recorded tax data.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2024-microfounded-tax-revenue-forecast/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-019",
      "slug": "2023-academic-co-authorship-risky-game",
      "title": "Academic co-authorship is a risky game",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Stephan Beck",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2023,
      "venue": "Scientometrics",
      "volume": "128",
      "issue": "12",
      "pages": "6495–6507",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2023-10-25",
      "date_issue": "2023-12",
      "doi": "10.1007/s11192-023-04843-x",
      "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04843-x",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "versions": [
        {
          "label": "Preprint (arXiv:2207.13170)",
          "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.13170"
        }
      ],
      "themes": [
        "political-economy"
      ],
      "summary": "A game-theoretic model of co-authored research in which an author can issue an ultimatum, blocking publication unless given more credit. It explores how contributions, project duration and stage, and team size affect the incentive to do so.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2023-academic-co-authorship-risky-game/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-020",
      "slug": "2023-optimal-border-closure-pandemic",
      "title": "A hybrid mathematical model for an optimal border closure policy during a pandemic",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky"
      ],
      "year": 2023,
      "venue": "International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science",
      "volume": "33",
      "issue": "4",
      "pages": "",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.34768/amcs-2023-0042",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.34768/amcs-2023-0042",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "Open access (journal licence not recorded in Crossref)",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "A hybrid epidemiological and economic model, with an artificial-intelligence component, to help decision-makers choose border-closure policies during a health crisis that limit an outbreak while protecting tourism revenue.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2023-optimal-border-closure-pandemic/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-021",
      "slug": "2023-financing-epidemiological-economic-crises",
      "title": "Financing and managing epidemiological-economic crises: Are we ready for another outbreak?",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Teddy Lazebnik"
      ],
      "year": 2023,
      "venue": "Journal of Policy Modeling",
      "volume": "45",
      "issue": "1",
      "pages": "74–89",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "2023-01",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.jpolmod.2023.02.003",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2023.02.003",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "Outlines economic readiness for a future epidemiological-economic crisis: a dedicated, income-tax-financed budget for crisis spending and a reserve programme for workers in essential sectors, both designed to reduce social and economic costs.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2023-financing-epidemiological-economic-crises/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-022",
      "slug": "2023-pandemic-interventions-input-output-networks",
      "title": "Intervention policy influence on the effect of epidemiological crisis on industry-level production through input–output networks",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky"
      ],
      "year": 2023,
      "venue": "Socio-Economic Planning Sciences",
      "volume": "87",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "101553",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2023-02-24",
      "date_issue": "2023-06",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.seps.2023.101553",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2023.101553",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "Combines epidemiological, social and economic sub-models to measure how pandemic interventions (work capsules, working from home, vaccination and industry closures) affect output across industries linked by input–output networks. Working from home reduces output losses considerably more than work capsules.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2023-pandemic-interventions-input-output-networks/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-023",
      "slug": "2023-pandemic-management-spatio-temporal-model",
      "title": "Pandemic management by a spatio–temporal mathematical model",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2023,
      "venue": "International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation",
      "volume": "24",
      "issue": "6",
      "pages": "2307–2324",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2021-08-09",
      "date_issue": "2023-10",
      "doi": "10.1515/ijnsns-2021-0063",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnsns-2021-0063",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "A spatio-temporal epidemic model that accounts for disease severity and for heterogeneous contacts across age and susceptibility, used to design and evaluate strategies for managing the COVID-19 pandemic in three countries.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2023-pandemic-management-spatio-temporal-model/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-024",
      "slug": "2022-new-strain-detection-economics",
      "title": "Economic aspects of the detection of new strains in a multi-strain epidemiological–mathematical model",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Teddy Lazebnik"
      ],
      "year": 2022,
      "venue": "Chaos, Solitons & Fractals",
      "volume": "165",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "112823",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "",
      "date_issue": "2022-12",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112823",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112823",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "Uses an epidemiological, genomic and economic model to study testing policies for detecting new pathogen strains. A well-designed genomic-sequencing policy can be both economically and epidemiologically efficient, while random population sampling gives sub-optimal results.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2022-new-strain-detection-economics/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-025",
      "slug": "2022-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-covid-economy",
      "title": "Spatio-Temporal influence of Non-Pharmaceutical interventions policies on pandemic dynamics and the economy: the case of COVID-19",
      "authors": [
        "Teddy Lazebnik",
        "Labib Shami",
        "Svetlana Bunimovich-Mendrazitsky"
      ],
      "year": 2022,
      "venue": "Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja",
      "volume": "35",
      "issue": "1",
      "pages": "1833–1861",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2021-05-26",
      "date_issue": "2022-12",
      "doi": "10.1080/1331677X.2021.1925573",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2021.1925573",
      "open_access": true,
      "license": "CC BY 4.0",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "crisis"
      ],
      "summary": "A graph-based spatio-temporal SIR model that jointly assesses how non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as the length of working and school days and lockdowns, affect both pandemic spread and economic losses, calibrated with Israeli data.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2022-non-pharmaceutical-interventions-covid-economy/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-026",
      "slug": "2021-political-economy-religion-labor",
      "title": "The Political Economy of Religion and Labor",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami",
        "Osnat Akirav"
      ],
      "year": 2021,
      "venue": "Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (ed. Klaus F. Zimmermann), Springer",
      "volume": "",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "1–24",
      "type": "book-chapter",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2021-10-29",
      "date_issue": "",
      "doi": "10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_227-1",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_227-1",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "political-economy"
      ],
      "summary": "Brings economics and political science together to examine how religious actors gain political influence and use it to shape labour-market policy and their followers' work behaviour, with Israel's ultra-Orthodox community as a central case.",
      "featured": false,
      "page_url": "publications/2021-political-economy-religion-labor/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-027",
      "slug": "2020-towards-a-cashless-economy",
      "title": "Towards a cashless economy: Economic and socio-political implications",
      "authors": [
        "Nissim Cohen",
        "Anna Rubinchik",
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2020,
      "venue": "European Journal of Political Economy",
      "volume": "61",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "101820",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2019-10",
      "date_issue": "2020-01",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2019.101820",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2019.101820",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "money-credit",
        "non-observed"
      ],
      "summary": "A general-equilibrium model of an economy with official and informal sectors, showing how eliminating cash can misallocate resources and reduce the gains from trade, alongside other unintended consequences of abolishing cash.",
      "featured": true,
      "page_url": "publications/2020-towards-a-cashless-economy/"
    },
    {
      "id": "labib-028",
      "slug": "2019-dynamic-monetary-equilibrium-non-observed-economy",
      "title": "Dynamic monetary equilibrium with a Non-Observed Economy and Shapley and Shubik’s price mechanism",
      "authors": [
        "Labib Shami"
      ],
      "year": 2019,
      "venue": "Journal of Macroeconomics",
      "volume": "62",
      "issue": "",
      "pages": "103018",
      "type": "journal-article",
      "status": "published",
      "date_online": "2018-04-16",
      "date_issue": "2019-12",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.jmacro.2018.04.006",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmacro.2018.04.006",
      "open_access": false,
      "license": "",
      "versions": [],
      "themes": [
        "money-credit",
        "non-observed"
      ],
      "summary": "A general-equilibrium model with inside and outside money, tax-evading households, a government and a central bank. It shows how inflation, as a monetary-policy instrument, interacts dynamically with the size of the non-observed economy, and uses Shapley and Shubik's price mechanism to establish a monetary equilibrium in which formal and informal markets coexist.",
      "featured": true,
      "page_url": "publications/2019-dynamic-monetary-equilibrium-non-observed-economy/"
    }
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