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My CV (pdf)

My published papers sometimes have working paper versions in IDEAS or SSRN.

 

Personal pictures:

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Email: azar "at" som.bgu.ac.il

Address:
Ofer H. Azar

Department of Business Administration
Guilford Glazer School of Business and Management
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
P.O. Box 653
Beer Sheva 84105
Israel

Office: building 15, room 120

Phone: 054-7491909

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Selected publications*

* For a full list of publications see my CV. My published papers sometimes have working paper versions in IDEAS or SSRN or you can e-mail me and let me know which paper you want

 

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 and Organization, 65(3-4), 420-435.

Azar, Ofer H. and David M. Brock (in press), "A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.

Azar, Ofer H. (in press), "The Impact of Economics on Management," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Azar, Ofer H. and Yossi Tobol (in press), "Tipping as a Strategic Investment in Service Quality: An Optimal-Control Analysis of Repeated Interactions in the Service Industry," Southern Economic Journal.

Azar, Ofer H. (2007), "The Slowdown in First-Response Times of Economics Journals: Can it Be Beneficial?" Economic Inquiry, 45(1), 179-187.

Azar, Ofer H. (in press), "The Effect of Relative Thinking on Firm Strategy and Market Outcomes: A Location Differentiation Model with Endogenous Transportation Costs," Journal of Economic Psychology.

Bar-Eli, Michael, Ofer H. Azar, Ilana Ritov, Yael Keidar-Levin, and Galit Schein (2007), "Action Bias among Elite Soccer Goalkeepers: The Case of Penalty Kicks," Journal of Economic Psychology, 28(5), 606-621.

Azar, Ofer H. (2005), "The Review Process in Economics: Is It Too Fast?" Southern Economic Journal, 72(2), 482-491.

Azar, Ofer H. (2004), "Optimal Monitoring with External Incentives: The Case of Tipping," Southern Economic Journal, 71(1), 170-181.

Azar, Ofer H. (2004), "What Sustains Social Norms and How They Evolve? The Case of Tipping," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 54(1), 49-64.

 

 

Rankings of downloads / abstract views of academic articles / working papers

 

Top 5% authors in IDEAS/REPEC (downloads, weighted by number of authors)

Top 5% authors in IDEAS/REPEC (abstract views, weighted by number of authors)

SSRN top authors

SSRN top business authors

 

Behavioral, social, and experimental economics journals

Behavioral Economics and Socio-Economics Journals: A Citation-Based Ranking (published in the Journal of Socio-Economics, 36(3), 451-462)

 

Experimental Economics
International Journal of Social Economics
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Journal of Economic Psychology
Journal of Socio-Economics
SSRN Journals in Behavioral & Experimental Economics

 

Behavioral, social, and experimental economics links

Recent Developments in Behavioral Economics (edited by S. Maital) – Table of Contents

 

Economic Science Association
IAREP: International Association for Research in Economic Psychology
SABE: The Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics
Al Roth game theory and experimental economics page
John List Field Experiments Bibliography


Industrial organization journals

 

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

The RAND Journal of Economics

Review of Industrial Organization



Economists who do research on various aspects of academia

Ted Bergstrom
David Colander
Tom Coupe
Glenn Ellison
Joao Ricardo Faria
Joshua Gans
Daniel Hamermesh
David Laband
John Siegfried
Wendy Stock


Other links on academia and economics

Andreas Ortmann and Peter Todd's "Academic Journals Feedback Project"
Joao Ricardo Faria page on refereeing
Ted Bergstrom's journal pricing page
Tom Coupe ranking-page


Tipping links

Michael Lynn’s website: tipping bibliography and more.
The Original Tipping Page: polls, discussions, customs and more.

 

 

Some media coverage of my research

On restaurant tipping

Ha'aretz, August 28, 2007 (in Hebrew)

 

On soccer goalkeepers and the action bias

Psychology Today, May-June 2007 (the top-left piece on goalkeepers)

The Marker Magazine, July 2007 (in Hebrew)

The New York Times, March 1, 2008

The Washington Post, March 31, 2008

 

On the consumer bias of relative thinking

Ha'aretz (The Marker supplement), March 18, 2005 (in Hebrew)
Academia (Ha'aretz quarterly magazine), March 2005 (in Hebrew)

Ben-Gurion University Magazine, May 2005 (in Hebrew)
Maariv, May 27, 2005 (in Hebrew)

 


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