Oren Ziv (Hebrew: אורן זיב; born in 1985) is an Israeli journalist, political commentator, and photographer. He reports for Local Call and +972 Magazine and is a freelance photographer for Haaretz, Agence-France Presse, and Getty Images. [1]

Oren studies the effects of spatial frictions on domestic and international markets. His research focuses on housing markets, firm location decisions, productivity differences between cities, and the emergence of hubs in international trade and finance.

I am an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Economics. My research is on international economics and urban economics. I focus on measuring the causes and consequences of spatial frictions on local, regional, national, and international economies.

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Oren Ziv is a staff reporter and photographer at Local Call and +972 Magazine. He is also the co-founder of the Activestills Collective. Ziv has been documenting...

2025年3月21日 · Oren Ziv is a photojournalist, reporter for Local Call, and a founding member of the Activestills photography collective. The Palestinian filmmaker describes being brutally beaten in front of his home in Susiya before experiencing further abuse in Israeli military detention.

I am an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University’s Department of Economics. My research is on international economics and urban economics. I focus on measuring the causes and consequences of spatial frictions on local, regional, national, and international economies.

Land Ownership and Monopoly Power Working paper (with C. Luke Watson) A Test for pricing Power in Urban Housing Markets (with C. Luke Watson) Conditionally Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics. Banking Complexity in the Global Economy (with Raoul Minetti and Giacomo Romanini) Journal of International Economics (2025): 104055.

Assistant Professor of Economics, Michigan State University. International Economics Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2016.

Oren is a long-time photojournalist and founder of the award-winning photojournalist collective, Activestills, which has created the compelling, visual language of Local Call throughout the years. Since 2003, he has been documenting social and political issues in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.