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!]

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!]

2001

1. Dov Chernichovsky & Sara Markowitz, 2001. "Toward a Framework for Improving Health Care Financing for an Aging Population: The Case of Israel," NBER Working Papers 8415, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Dov Chernichovsky, 2001. "A Fuzzy Logic Approach Toward Solving the Analytic Maze of Health System Financing," NBER Working Papers 8470, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2000

1. Dov Chernichovsky, 2000. "The Public-Private Mix in the Modern Health Care System - Concepts, Issues, and Policy Options Revisited," NBER Working Papers 7881, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1991

1. Chernichovsky, Dov & Pardoko, Henry & De Leeuw, David & Rahardjo, Pudjo & Lerman, Charles, 1991. "The Indonesian family planning program : an economic perspective," Policy Research Working Paper Series 628, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
2. Amadeo, Jesus & Chernichovsky, Dov & Ojeda, Gabriel, 1991. "The Profamilia Family Planning Program, Colombia : an economic perspective," Policy Research Working Paper Series 759, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

1988

1. Chernichovsky, Dov & Zangwill, Linda, 1988. "Microeconomic theory of the household and nutrition programs," Policy Research Working Paper Series 82, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]

1980

1. Dov Chernichovsky & Douglas Coate, 1980. "The Choice of Diet for Young Children and Its Relation to Children's Growth," NBER Working Papers 0219, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1979

1. Dov Chernichovsky & Douglas Coate, 1979. "An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States," NBER Working Papers 0416, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Journal articles

2009

1. Miki Malul & Yossi Hadad & Avner Ben-Yair, 2009. "Measuring and ranking of economic, environmental and social efficiency of countries," International Journal of Social Economics, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 36(8), pages 832-843, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Malul, Miki, 2009. "Older workers' employment in dynamic technology changes," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 809-813, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. 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. Raphael Bar-El & Miki Malul, 2008. "The role of external partners in regional cooperation projects in the Middle East," Economics of Peace and Security Journal, Economists for Peace and Security (UK), vol. 3(1), pages 73-78, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Miki Malul & Amir Shoham, 2008. "A global analysis of culture and imperfect competition in banking systems," International Journal of Financial Services Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 3(2), pages 124-135, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. 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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. 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)
8. 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.
9. 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)
10. 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)
11. 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!]

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)

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. Chernichovsky, Dov & Anson, Jon, 2005. "The Jewish-Arab divide in life expectancy in Israel," Economics and Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 3(1), pages 123-137, March. [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. Dov Chernichovsky & Sara Markowitz, 2004. "Aging and aggregate costs of medical care: conceptual and policy issues," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 13(6), pages 543-562. [Downloadable!]

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!]
2. van de Ven, Wynand P. M. M. & Beck, Konstantin & Buchner, Florian & Chernichovsky, Dov & Gardiol, Lucien & Holly, Alberto & Lamers, Leida M. & Schokkaert, Erik & Shmueli, Amir & Spycher, Stephan & Van, 2003. "Risk adjustment and risk selection on the sickness fund insurance market in five European countries," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 75-98, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Shmueli, Amir & Chernichovsky, Dov & Zmora, Irit, 2003. "Risk adjustment and risk sharing: the Israeli experience," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 37-48, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Chernichovsky, Dov & van de Ven, Wynand P. M. M., 2003. "Risk adjustment in Europe," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 65(1), pages 1-3, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1995

1. Chernichovsky, Dov, 1995. "What can developing economies learn from health system reforms of developed economies?," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 32(1-3), pages 79-91. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1986

1. Chernichovsky, Dov & Zmora, Irit, 1986. "A hedonic prices approach to hospitalization costs : The case of Israel," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(2), pages 179-191, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1985

1. Chernichovsky, Dov, 1985. "Socioeconomic and Demographic Aspects of School Enrollment and Attendance in Rural Botswana," Economic Development and Cultural Change, University of Chicago Press, vol. 33(2), pages 319-32, January.

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