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1706: ALL-PAY AUCTIONS WITH ASYMMETRIC EFFORT CONSTRAINTS

Chen Cohen, Ofer Levi and Aner Sela

1705: THE SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE SCORING RULE

Muhammad Mahajne and Oscar Volij

1704: The Measurement of Income Segregation

Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Oscar Volij

1703: THE BANZHAF VALUE AND GENERAL SEMIVALUES FOR DIFFERENTIABLE MIXED GAMES

Ori Haimanko

1702: CONSENSUS AND SINGLEPEAKEDNESS

Muhammad Mahajne and Oscar Volij

1701: THE SHAPLEY VALUE DECOMPOSITION OF OPTIMAL PORTFOLIOS

Haim Shalit

1614: Information Advantage in Common-Value Classic Tullock Contests

Aner Sela, Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko, Diego Moreno, Avishay Aiche and Benyamin Shitovitz

1613: THE OPTIMAL ALLOCATION OF PUNISHMENTS IN TULLOCK CONTESTS

Aner Sela and Maya Amiad

1612: TWO STAGE CONTESTS WITH EFFORT-DEPENDENT REWARDS

Aner Sela

1611: Two-Stage Elimination Contests with Optimal Head Starts

Aner Sela, Noam Cohen and Guy Maor

1610: EMERGING ECONOMIES BUSINESS CYCLES: THE ROLE OF THE TERMS OF TRADE REVISITED

Nadav Ben-Zeev, Evi Pappa and Alejandro Vicondoa

1609: A REASSESSMENT OF THE PROXIMATE DETERMINANTS OF INCOME LEVELS AND GROWTH OF NATIONS

Aamer Abu-Qarn

1608: THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN THE SECOND INTIFADA: CAUSALITY IN NONLINEAR VECTOR AUTOGRESSIVE MODELS

Muhammad Asali, Aamer Abu-Qarn and Michael Beenstock

1607: Two-Stage Contests with Preferences over Style

David Wettstein and Todd Kaplan

1606: VALUES FOR ENVIRONMENTS WITH EXTERNALITIES – THE AVERAGE APPROACH

David Wettstein, Ines Macho-Stadler and David Perez-Castrillo

1605: THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC CYCLES ON JOB SATISFACTION IN A TWO-SECTOR ECONOMY

Ro'i Zultan, Oded Ravid and Miki Malul

1604: THE AXIOM OF EQUIVALENCE TO INDIVIDUAL POWER AND THE BANZHAF INDEX

Ori Haimanko

1603: MEAN-EXTENDED GINI PORTFOLIOS: THE ULTIMATE FRONTIER

Haim Shalit and Frank Hespeler

1602: AN ALTERNATIVE PROOF OF HARDY, LITTLEWOOD, AND P?LYA’S (1929) NECESSARY CONDITION FOR MAJORIZATION

Oscar Volij

1601: THE VALUE OF A DRAW IN QUASI-BINARY MATCHES

Oscar Volij and Casilda Lasso de la Vega

1513: Gender Streaming and Prior Achievement in High School Science and Mathematics

Naomi Friedman-Sokuler and Moshe Justman

1512: Credible Enforcement of Compulsory Schooling by Linking Welfare Payments to School Attendance: Lessons from Australia’s Northern Territory

Kyle Peyton and Moshe Justman

1511: OUT-OF-SAMPLE PREDICTIONS OF ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCHOOL VALUE-ADDED

Brendan Houng and Moshe Justman

1510: Asymmetric Sequential Search under Incomplete Information

Yizhaq Minchuk and Aner Sela

1509: FIRST-MOVER ADVANTAGE IN ROUND-ROBIN TOURNAMENTS

Alex Krumer, Reut Megidish and Aner Sela

1508: OPTIMAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT POLICY AND THE FIRM PRODUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTION

Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger and Eran Yashiv

1507: Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto

1506: Round-Robin Tournaments with a Dominant Player

Alex Krumer, Reut Megidish and Aner Sela

1505: Predicting default more accurately: to proxy or not to proxy for default?

Neta Sher and Koresh Galil

1504: Debt composition and lax screening in the Israel corporate bond market

Uri Benzion, Eyal Lahav and Koresh Galil

1503: Using Merton model: an empirical assessment of alternatives

Zvika Afik, Ohad Arad and Koresh Galil

1502: DOES ECONOMIC PROSPERITY BREED TRUST?

Markus Brueckner, Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein

1501: WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT NEWS SHOCKS FROM THE LATE 1990s AND EARLY 2000s BOOM-BUST PERIOD?

Nadav Ben Zeev

1410: Optimizing MCSD Portfolios

Gleb Gersman and Haim Shalit

1409: MEASURING RISK IN ISRAELI MUTUAL FUNDS: CONDITIONAL VALUE-AT-RISK VS. AUMANN-SERRANO RISKINESS INDEX

Haim Shalit

1408: The Value of Public Information in Common-Value Tullock Contests

Ezra Einy, Diego Moreno and Benyamin Shitovitz

1407: Discrimination in a new model of contests with two-sided asymmetric information

David Perez Castrillo and David Wettstein

1406: AUCTION MECHANISMS AND BIDDER COLLUSION: BRIBES, SIGNALS AND SELECTION

Aniol Llorente-Saguer and Ro'i Zultan

1405: Punishment and Reward Institutions with Harmed Minorities

Sagi Dekel, Sven Fischer and Ro'i Zultan

1404: AUCTIONS AND LEAKS: A THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION

Sven Fischer, Werner Guth, Todd Kaplan and Ro'i Zultan

1403: Equal Treatment of Equals in Classical Quasilinear Exchange Economies

Mridu Prabal Goswami

1402: Common-Value All-Pay Auctions with Asymmetric Information and Bid Caps

Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko, Ram Orzach and Aner Sela

1401: SEGREGATION:THEORETICAL APPROACHES

Oscar Volij

1318: THE DETERMINANTS OF CDS SPREADS

Koresh Galil, Offer Shapir, Dan Amiram and Uri Ben-Zion

1317: MARKET FORCES SHAPING HUMAN CAPITAL IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LONDON

Moshe Justman and Karine Van der Beck

1316: A COMPARISON OF TWO METHODS FOR ESTIMATING SCHOOL EFFECTS AND TRACKING STUDENT PROGRESS FROM STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES

Moshe Justman and Brendan Houng

1315: LESS EQUAL AND LESS MOBILE: EVIDENCE OF A DECLINE IN INTERGENERATIONAL INCOME MOBILITY IN THE UNITED STATESLESS EQUAL AND LESS MOBILE: EVIDENCE OF A DECLINE IN INTERGENERATIONAL INCOME MOBILITY IN THE UNITED STATES

Moshe Justman and Anna Krush

1314: WAITING TO COOPERATE?

Todd Kaplan, Bradley Ruffle and Zeev Shtudiner

1313: OPTIMAL STRATEGY OF MULTI-PRODUCT RETAILERS WITH RELATIVE THINKING AND REFERENCE PRICES

Ofer Azar

1312: SEGREGATION, INFORMATIVENESS AND LORENZ DOMINANCE

Casilda Lasso de la Vega and Oscar Volij