
Alrov Working Paper Series
2023
Individual differences and the Repayment of High- and Low- Consequences Debt: Replication and extension
We replicate the results of our previous study about the effect of intelligence and financial resources on the repayment on High- and Low- Consequence Debts (abbreviated as HCD and LCD, respectively), and extend the scope of the individual differences that are examined to include personality characteristics, and particularly the big-five personality dimensions.
Yoav Ganzach
2022
“'Up and out”: the social impact of Israel's policy response to the housing crisis
The paper examines the consequences of drastic top-down policy interventions aimed at resolving a severe housing price crisis in Israel. The government's main effort was to increase the housing supply, using two main tools: "umbrella agreements" and "buyer's price", which were often implemented together. What impact have these (drastic) policy measures had on housing prices and location?
Sharon Eshel, Professor Talia Margalit, professor Oren Yiftachel
2021
Public Information and Sequential Learning in a Bilateral Market
The research studies the effects of improved public information on equilibrium welfare and price dispersion, providing sufficient conditions for negative and positive effects. Public information affects welfare by reducing excessive (though rational) pessimism induced by sequential learning. Reduced pessimism results in fewer agents withdrawing from the market prematurely (compared with the full information benchmark), which increases own ex-post utility in expectation but may also cause a congestion externality.
Nikita Kotsenko
2021
Attempted Regularization of Accessory Dwelling Units in Israel Economic feasibility analysis from the owners’ perspective
In this report, we focus on advanced-economy countries only, and on one specific
type of irregular housing which is recently drawing much attention.
Eyal Salinger, Tal Modai-Snir, Rachelle Alterman and Yifat Holzman-Gazit
2021
The Effect of Political Belief on Covid-19 Virus Transmission, Vaccine Resistance, And Response to National Closure: Evidence from Israel
We employ comprehensive Israeli data to study how political belief affects COVID-19 virus risk, vaccine uptake, and response to closure policy. We identify households that hold divergent political beliefs based on votes in Israel’s 2020 national election. Results indicate substantial variation in outcomes across belief clusters.
Danny Ben-Shahar, Roni Golan and Stuart Gabriel
2021
Viewshed Effects and House Prices: Estimating A Spatial Hedonic Model
We use GIS techniques to create variables for measuring the visibility value of coast, green areas and open space viewsheds in a spatial hedonic model of house prices. Data come from repeated house sales for the Haifa metropolitan area (Israel) for 1998-2016.
Daniel Felsenstein, Xieer Dai, and A. Yair Grinberger
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Attempted Regularization of Accessory Dwelling Units in Israel
Substantial anecdotal evidence suggests the salience of household worldview and political belief to COVID-19 virus transmission, vaccine resistance, and efficacy of crisis policy interventions.
Viewshed Effects and House Prices: Estimating A Spatial Hedonic Model
Substantial anecdotal evidence suggests the salience of household worldview and political belief to COVID-19 virus transmission, vaccine resistance, and efficacy of crisis policy interventions.
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Substantial anecdotal evidence suggests the salience of household worldview and political belief to COVID-19 virus transmission, vaccine resistance, and efficacy of crisis policy interventions.