Publications

by members of

School of Management
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!]
5. Y. Kahiri & A. Shmilovici & S. Hauser, 2006. "Measuring the Efficiency of the Intraday Forex Market with a Universal Data Compression Algorithm," Computing in Economics and Finance 2006 256, Society for Computational Economics.

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!]
4. Yael Alon- Brimer & Armin Shmilovici & Shmuel Hauser, 2002. "Using a Stochastic Complexity Measure to Check the Efficient Market Hypothesis," Computing in Economics and Finance 2002 272, Society for Computational Economics.

2000

1. Shmuel Hauser & Beni Lauterbach, 2000. "The Value of Voting Rights to Majority Shareholders: Evidence from Dual Class Stock Unifications," University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management 1055, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA. [Downloadable!]

1999

1. Menachem Brenner & Rafi Eldor & Shmuel Hauser, 1999. "The Price of Options Illiquidity," New York University, Leonard N. Stern School Finance Department Working Paper Seires 99-086, New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business-. [Downloadable!]

1996

1. Ben-Zion, Uri & Hauser, Shmuel & Lieberman, Offer, 1996. "Characterization of the Price Behaviour of International Dual Stocks: An Error Correction Approach," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo GmbH.

Journal articles

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)

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. Hauser, Shmuel & Yaari, Uzi & Tanchuma, Yael & Baker, Harold, 2006. "Initial Public Offering Discount and Competition," Journal of Law & Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 49(1), pages 331-51, April.
4. Eldor, Rafi & Hauser, Shmuel & Pilo, Batia & Shurki, Itzik, 2006. "The contribution of market makers to liquidity and efficiency of options trading in electronic markets," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 30(7), pages 2025-2040, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Rafi Eldor & Shmuel Hauser & Michael Kahn & Avraham Kamara, 2006. "The Nontradability Premium of Derivatives Contracts," Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 79(4), pages 2067-2098, July. [Downloadable!]

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)

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. Shmuel Hauser, 2004. "The Value of Voting Rights to Majority Shareholders: Evidence from Dual-Class Stock Unifications," Review of Financial Studies, Oxford University Press for Society for Financial Studies, vol. 17(4), pages 1167-1184. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Ofer 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," Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, vol. 3(1), pages 1176-1176. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Amihud, Yakov & Hauser, Shmuel & Kirsh, Amir, 2003. "Allocations, adverse selection, and cascades in IPOs: Evidence from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(1), pages 137-158, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Hauser, Shmuel & Kraizberg, Elli & Dahan, Ruth, 2003. "Price behavior and insider trading around seasoned equity offerings: the case of majority-owned firms," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 9(2), pages 183-199, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Armin Shmilovici & Yael Alon-Brimer & Shmuel Hauser, 2003. "Using a Stochastic Complexity Measure to Check the Efficient Market Hypothesis," Computational Economics, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 273-284, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2001

1. Shmuel Hauser, Azriel Levy, Uzi Yaari, 2001. "Trading frequency and the efficiency of price discovery in a non-dealer market," European Journal of Finance, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 7(3), pages 187-197, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Menachem Brenner, 2001. "The Price of Options Illiquidity," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 56(2), pages 789-805, 04. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. Elyasiani, Elyas & Hauser, Shmuel & Lauterbach, Beni, 2000. "Market Response to Liquidity Improvements: Evidence from Exchange Listings," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 35(1), pages 1-14, February.

1999

1. Jay Choi, Jongmoo & Hauser, Shmuel & Kopecky, Kenneth J., 1999. "Does the stock market predict real activity? Time series evidence from the G-7 countries," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 23(12), pages 1771-1792, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Lieberman, Offer & Ben-Zion, Uri & Hauser, Shmuel, 1999. "A characterization of the price behavior of international dual stocks: an error correction approach," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 289-304, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Hauser, Shmuel & Lauterbach, Beni, 1996. "Empirical tests of the Longstaff extendible warrant model," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 3(1), pages 1-14, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Hauser, Shmuel & Levy, Azriel, 1996. " Return and Risk in Initial Public Offerings of Both Shares and Warrants," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 7(1), pages 29-43, July.
3. Hauser, Schmuel & Levy, Azriel, 1996. "Pricing of foreign exchange options with transaction costs: The choice of trading interval," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 5(2), pages 145-160. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1995

1. Hauser, Shmuel & Levy, Azriel & Yaari, Uzi, 1995. "Hedging Strategies of Financial Intermediaries: Pricing Options with a Bid-Ask Spread," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 30(4), pages 809-22, November.

1992

1. Hauser, Shmuel & Galai, Dan & Bagley, Charles, 1992. "Predicting the value of foreign currency call options with the Constant Elasticity of Variance diffusion process," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 1(3), pages 225-236. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1991

1. Hauser, Shmuel & Levy, Azriel, 1991. "Effect of exchange rate and interest rate risk on international fixed-income portfolios," Journal of Economics and Business, Elsevier, vol. 43(4), pages 375-388, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1990

1. Choi, Jongmoo Jay & Hauser, Shmuel, 1990. "The effects of domestic and foreign yield curves on the value of currency American call options," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 14(1), pages 41-53, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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