Publications

by members of

Decision Making and Economic Psychology Center (DMEP)
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel

Working papers

2007

1. Azar, Ofer H., 2007. "The effect of relative thinking on firm strategy and market outcomes: A location differentiation model with endogenous transportation costs," MPRA Paper 4455, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Azar, Ofer H. & Brock, David M., 2007. "A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals," MPRA Paper 7066, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Azar, Ofer H., 2006. "Tipping, firm strategy, and industrial organization," MPRA Paper 4485, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Azar, Ofer H. & Tobol, Yossi, 2006. "Tipping as a strategic investment in service quality: An optimal-control analysis of repeated interactions in the service industry," MPRA Paper 4393, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2007. [Downloadable!]
3. Azar, Ofer H., 2006. "Behavioral economics and socio-economics journals: A citation-based ranking," MPRA Paper 4377, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
4. Azar, Ofer H., 2006. "Behavioral industrial organization, firm strategy, and consumer economics," MPRA Paper 4484, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "Who Do We Tip and Why? An Empirical Investigation," Labor and Demography 0502005, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
2. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "The Academic Review Process: How Can We Make it More Efficient?," General Economics and Teaching 0502069, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
3. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "Why pay extra? Tipping and the importance of social norms and feelings in economic theory," Microeconomics 0503005, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
4. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "The Review Process in Economics: Is it Too Fast?," General Economics and Teaching 0503013, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
5. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "The Social Norm of Tipping: Does it Improve Social Welfare?," Others 0503013, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
6. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "Relative Thinking Theory," Microeconomics 0504002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
7. Azar, Ofer H., 2005. "Citing reprinted material," MPRA Paper 4483, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
8. Azar, Ofer H., 2005. "Incentives and Service Quality in the Restaurant Industry: The Tipping – Service Puzzle," MPRA Paper 4457, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2006. [Downloadable!]
9. Bar-Eli, Michael & Azar, Ofer H. & Ritov, Ilana & Keidar-Levin, Yael & Schein, Galit, 2005. "Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks," MPRA Paper 4477, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2003

1. Ofer H. Azar, 2003. "The History of Tipping - From Sixteenth-Century England to United States in the 1910s," Economic History 0309001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
2. Ofer Azar, 2003. "Rejections and the Importance of First Response Times (Or: How Many Rejections Do Others Receive?)," General Economics and Teaching 0309002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
3. Ofer H. Azar, 2003. "Optimal Monitoring with External Incentives: The Case of Tipping," Industrial Organization 0312004, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
4. Ofer H. Azar, 2003. "Tipping: The Economics of a Social Norm," Labor and Demography 0309002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
5. Ofer H. Azar, 2003. "What sustains social norms and how they evolve? The case of tipping," Others 0309001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
6. Ofer H. Azar, 2003. "The implications of tipping for economics and management," Others 0309002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
7. Ofer H. Azar, 2003. "The Social Norm of Tipping: A Review," Others 0309006, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
8. Azar, Ofer H., 2003. "The Effect of External Incentives on Profits and Firm-Provided Incentives Strategy," MPRA Paper 4456, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2007. [Downloadable!]

2002

1. Azar, Ofer H., 2002. "The slowdown in first-response times of economics journals: Can it be beneficial?," MPRA Paper 4478, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Azar, Ofer H., 2002. "Evolution of social norms with heterogeneous preferences: A general model and an application to the academic review process," MPRA Paper 4482, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
3. Azar, Ofer H., 2002. "Can Price Discrimination be Bad for Firms and Good for All Consumers? A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-Market Price Constraints with Entry and Product Differentiation," MPRA Paper 4575, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2009

1. Ofer Azar, 2009. "Incentives and service quality in the restaurant industry: the tipping-service puzzle," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 41(15), pages 1917-1927. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2008

1. Azar, Ofer H., 2008. "The effect of external incentives on profits and firm-provided incentives strategy," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 149-156, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Azar, Ofer H., 2008. "Evolution of social norms with heterogeneous preferences: A general model and an application to the academic review process," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 65(3-4), pages 420-435, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Ofer H. Azar & David M. Brock, 2008. "A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 17(3), pages 781-802, 09. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Azar, Ofer H., 2008. "The impact of economics on management," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 68(3-4), pages 667-675, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Leiser, David & Azar, Ofer H. & Hadar, Liat, 2008. "Psychological construal of economic behavior," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 29(5), pages 762-776, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Ofer H. Azar & Yossi Tobol, 2008. "Tipping as a Strategic Investment in Service Quality: An Optimal-Control Analysis of Repeated Interactions in the Service Industry," Southern Economic Journal, Southern Economic Association, vol. 75(1), pages 246-260, July.
7. Azar, Ofer H., 2008. "The effect of relative thinking on firm strategy and market outcomes: A location differentiation model with endogenous transportation costs," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 29(5), pages 684-697, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
8. Leiser, David & Azar, Ofer H., 2008. "Behavioral economics and decision making: Applying insights from psychology to understand how people make economic decisions," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 29(5), pages 613-618, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
9. Ofer H. Azar, 2008. "Strategic Behavior and Social Norms in Tipped Service Industries," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 8(1). [Downloadable!]
10. David Leiser & Dov-Ron Schatzberg, 2008. "On the complexity of traffic judges' decisions," Judgment and Decision Making, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, vol. 3(8), pages 667-678, December. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Azar, Ofer H., 2007. "Why pay extra? Tipping and the importance of social norms and feelings in economic theory," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(2), pages 250-265, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Azar, Ofer H., 2007. "Relative thinking theory," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(1), pages 1-14, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Azar, Ofer H., 2007. "Behavioral economics and socio-economics journals: A citation-based ranking," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(3), pages 451-462, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Ofer H. Azar, 2007. "The Slowdown In First-Response Times Of Economics Journals: Can It Be Beneficial?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 45(1), pages 179-187, 01. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Ofer H. Azar, 2007. "Do people tip strategically, to improve future service? Theory and evidence," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 40(2), pages 515-527, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Bar-Eli, Michael & Azar, Ofer H. & Ritov, Ilana & Keidar-Levin, Yael & Schein, Galit, 2007. "Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 606-621, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Azar, Ofer H., 2006. "Gordon R. Foxall, Understanding Consumer Choice, Palgrave Macmillan, New York (2005) pp. xvi+262, ISBN 1-4039-1492-3 (hbk), $95," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 27(4), pages 600-602, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Azar, Ofer H., 2006. "Robert Winston, Human instinct: How our primeval impulses shape our modern lives, Bantam Press (2003) ISBN 0553814923 416, pp. (pbk), [UK pound] 8.99," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 27(6), pages 813-815, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Leiser, David & Beth Halachmi, Reut, 2006. "Children's understanding of market forces," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 6-19, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Antonides, Gerrit & Read, Daniel & Chapman, Gretchen & Gneezy, Uri & Hardman, David & Hogarth, Robin & Humphrey, Steve & Kirchler, Erich & Leiser, David & Lunt, Peter & Ortmann, Andreas, 2006. "Editorial," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 27(3), pages 321-323, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2005

1. Ofer Azar, 2005. "The Social Norm of Tipping: Does it Improve Social Welfare?," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 85(2), pages 141-173, 08. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Azar, Ofer H., 2005. "Daniel Friedman and Alessandra Cassar, Economics Lab: An Intensive Course in Experimental Economics, Routledge, London and New York (2004) pp. 248, £75.00, 0-415-32402-5 (pbk), £27.99, ISBN 0-415-32," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 26(5), pages 785-787, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "Who do we tip and why? An empirical investigation," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 37(16), pages 1871-1879, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Ofer H. Azar, 2005. "The Review Process in Economics: Is It Too Fast?," Southern Economic Journal, Southern Economic Association, vol. 72(2), pages 482–491, October.
5. Leiser, David & Drori, Shelly, 2005. "NaIve understanding of inflation," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 34(2), pages 179-198, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Allen, Michael W. & Ng, Sik Hung & Leiser, David, 2005. "Adult economic model and values survey: Cross-national differences in economic beliefs," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 26(2), pages 159-185, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Azar, Ofer H., 2004. "What sustains social norms and how they evolve?: The case of tipping," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 54(1), pages 49-64, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Azar, Ofer H., 2004. "The history of tipping--from sixteenth-century England to United States in the 1910s," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 33(6), pages 745-764, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Ofer H. Azar, 2004. "Optimal Monitoring with External Incentives: The Case of Tipping," Southern Economic Journal, Southern Economic Association, vol. 71(1), pages 170-181, July.
4. Bastounis, Marina & Leiser, David & Roland-Levy, Christine, 2004. "Psychosocial variables involved in the construction of lay thinking about the economy: Results of a cross-national survey," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 25(2), pages 263-278, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Ofer H. Azar, 2003. "Can Price Discrimination be Bad for Firms and Good for All Consumers? A Theoretical Analysis of Cross-Market Price Constraints with Entry and Product Differentiation," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 0(1). [Downloadable!]

1990

1. Leiser, David & Sevon, Guje & Levy, Daphna, 1990. "Children's economic socialization: Summarizing the cross-cultural comparison of ten countries," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 11(4), pages 591-614, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Leiser, Davis & Roland-Levy, Christine & Sevon, Guje, 1990. "Introduction," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 11(4), pages 467-468, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Leiser, David & Zaltsman, Judith, 1990. "Economic socialization in the kibbutz and the town in Israel," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 11(4), pages 557-565, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1987

1. Leiser, David & Izak, Gilad, 1987. "The money size illusion as a barometer of confidence? The case of high inflation in Israel," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 347-356, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1983

1. Leiser, David, 1983. "Children's conceptions of economics -- The constitution of a cognitive domain," Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 297-317, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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