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907: DOES RELATIVE THINKING EXIST IN REAL-WORLD SITUATIONS? A FIELD EXPERIMENT WITH BAGELS AND CREAM CHEESE

Ofer Azar

906: Dividends and Weighted Values in Games with Externalities

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

905: Continuity of the value and optimal strategies when common priors change

Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko and Biligbaatar Tumendemberel

904: Advertising Versus Sales In Demand Creation

Gal Hochman and Oded Hochman

903: EFFICIENT AGGLOMERATION OF SPATIAL CLUBS

Oded Hochman

902: A re-examination of value-creation through strategic alliances

Uri Ben-Zion, Koresh Galil, Mosi Rosenboim and Hadas Shabtay

901: BEST-OF-THREE ALL-PAY AUCTIONS

Aner Sela

814: Scale-Invariant Measures of Segregation

David Frankel and Oscar Volij

813: How Does Beta Explain Stochastic Dominance Efficiency?

Haim Shalit and Shlomo Yitzhaki

812: HOW DO FIRING COSTS AFFECT INNOVATION AND GROWTH WHEN WORKERS’ ABILITY IS UNKNOWN – EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION AS A BURDEN ON A FIRM’S SCREENING PROCESS

Binyamin Berdugo and Sharon Hadad

811: FINANCIAL INTEGRATION AND CYCLICALITY OF MONETARY POLICY IN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES

Yossi Yakhin

810: SELECTING CANDIDATES FOR ADMISSION TO AN ECONOMICS DEGREE PROGRAM

Danny Cohen-Zada and Yaakov Gilboa

809: ON THE DYNAMICS OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB ARMS RACE

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

808: RELIGIOSITY AND PAROCHIAL SCHOOL CHOICE: CAUSE OR EFFECT?

William Sander and Danny Cohen-Zada

807: Rising UI Benefits over Time

Tomer Blumkin and Efraim Sadka

806: The Role of Stigma in the Design of Welfare Programs

Tomer Blumkin, Efraim Sadka and Yoram Margalioth

805: SAMUEL BAILEY AND THE QUESTION OF HIS “INFLUENCE”: A SKEPTICAL VIEW

Samuel Hollander

804: Effective Political Contests

Todd Kaplan and Aner Sela

803: Sequential Two-Prize Contests

Aner Sela

802: Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests

Benny Modovanu, Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi

801: Are Income and Consumption Taxes Ever Really Equivalent? Evidence from a Real-Effort Experiment with Real Goods

Tomer Blumkin, Bradley Ruffle and Yosef Ganun

715: On the Existence of Bayesian Cournot Equilibrium

Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko, Diego Moreno and Benyamin Shitovitz

714: THE EARLY ROUND OF THE BULLIONIST DEBATE 1800-1802: BOYD, BARING AND THORNTON’S INNOVATIVE IDEAS

Arie Arnon

713: ISRAELI POLICY TOWARDS THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION 1967-2007

Arie Arnon

712: The Impact Of GATT On International Trade: Evidence From Structural Break Analysis

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu Qarn

711: Decision-Making and the Newsvendor Problem – An Experimental Study

Uri Ben-Zion, Yuval Cohen, Ruth Peled and Tal Shavit

710: SUBJECTIVE DISCOUNT RATES AMONG ISRAELI ARABS AND ISRAELI JEWS

Uri Ben-Zion, Ahmad Mahajna, Ravid Bogaire and Tal Shavit

709: SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF DELAYED RISKY OUTCOMES: AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH

Uri Ben-Zion, Jan Krahnen and Tal Shavit

708: INVESTORS’ DECISION TO TRADE STOCKS – AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

Uri Ben-Zion, Sharon Shafran and Tal Shavit

707: UNDER-DIVERSIFICATION AND THE ROLE OF BEST REPLY TO PATTERN

Uri Ben-Zion, Ido Erev, Ernan Haruvy and Tal Shavit

706: Short-selling and the WTA-WTP gap

Uri Ben-Zion, Shosh Shahrabani and Tal Shavit

705: An Alternative Instrument for Private School Competition

Danny Cohen Zada

704: STRUCTURAL BREAKS IN MILITARY EXPENDITURES: EVIDENCE FOR EGYPT, ISRAEL,JORDAN AND SYRIA

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

703: MEASURING SEGREGATION

David Frankel and Oscar Volij

702: On the Existence of Bayesian Cournot Equilibrium

Ezra Einy, Ori Haimanko, Diego Moreno and Benyamin Shitovitz

701: Getting Income Shares Right: A Panel Data Investigation for OECD Countries

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

613: TRADE LIBERALIZATION OR OIL SHOCKS: WHICH EXPLAINS STRUCTURAL BREAKS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE RATIOS?

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

612: What It Takes to Be a Leader: Leadership and Charisma in a Citizen-Candidate Model

Binyamin Berdugo

611: ON THE OPTIMALITY OF A GCC MONETARY UNION: STRUCTURAL VAR, COMMON TRENDS AND COMMON CYCLES EVIDENCE

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

610: Estimating Stock Market Volatility Using Asymmetric GARCH Models

Dima Alberg, Haim Shalit and Rami Yosef

609: Financial Development and Economic Growth Nexus:Time Series Evidence from Middle Eastern and North African Countries

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

606: AN OPTIMAL METHOD OF BINARY INFORMATION TRANSFER (BIT) BETWEEN SURVEYS OF AN IDENTICAL POPULATION

Daniel Gottlieb and Leonid Kushnir

604: CONTESTS FOR STATUS

Benny Moldovanu, Aner Sela and Xianwen Shi

602: Evolution of Social Norms with Heterogeneous Preferences: A General Model and an Application to the Academic Review Process

Ofer Azar

601: PRIVATE SCHOOL CHOICE: THE EFFECTS OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOSITY

Danny Cohen-Zada and William Sander

522: Capital Market Equilibrium: The Mean-Gini Approach

Haim Shalit and Shlomo Yitzhaki

521: A Case for Taxing Education

Tomer Blumkin and Efraim Sadka

520: Affirmative Action and Economic Justice

Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth and Efraim Sadka

518: Prizes versus Wages with Envy and Pride

Ori Haimanko, Pradeep Dubey and John Geanakoplos

517: FIRM PRODUCTIVITY DISPERSION AND THE MATCHING ROLE OF UI POLICY

Tomer Blumkin, Yossi Hadar and Eran Yashiv

516: CHOOSING BETWEEN CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES

Naomi Feldman

515: Estimating Tax Noncompliance with Evidence from Unaudited

Naomi Feldman and Joel Slemrod

514: FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: TIME SERIES EVIDENCE FROM EGYPT

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

513: A VERSUS K REVISITED:EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED MENA COUNTRIES

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

512: Buyer Countervailing Power: A Survey of Experimental Evidence

Bradley Ruffle

511: CONTESTS WITH TIES

Chen Cohen and Aner Sela

510: OPTIMAL PRICING IN NON-HOMOGENEOUS MARKET WITH NETWORK EXTERNALITIES

Uriel Spiegel, Uri Ben-Zion and Tchai Tavor

509: PROFIT MAXIMIZATION AND SOCIAL OPTIMUM WITH NETWORK EXTERNALITY

Uriel Spiegel, Uri Ben-Zion and Tchai Tavor

508: The Stability Threshold and Two Facets of Polarization

Ori Haimanko, Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber

507: ON THE CHOICE OF A POLICYORIENTED POVERTY MEASURE The Case of Israel: 1997-2002 (in Hebrew)

Daniel Gottlieb and Roy Manor

506: ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF RACIAL PROFILING RULES

Tomer Blumkin and Yoram Margalioth

505: Ratings as Predictors of Default in the Long Term:an Empirical Investigation

Koresh Galil

503: Allocation of Prizes in Asymmetric All-Pay Auctions

Chen Cohen and Aner Sela

502: An Ordinal Shapley Value for Economic Environments (Revised Version)

David Perez-Castrillo and David Wettstein

501: The Optimal Rewards in Contests

Chen Cohen, Todd Kaplan and Aner Sela