Dr. Tal Shavit

Updated: August 2007

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Personal

Telephone Tel: 972-9-778-1928
Fax Fax: 972-9-778-0668
Email E-mail: talsha@openu.ac.il

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Education

1992-1996 B.Sc., Economics and Management, The Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
1998-2000 M.Sc., Economics, The Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 
2002-2005 Ph.D., Economics Department, Ben-Gurion University. Thesis: Investment in Risky Assets - A Behavioral Finance Approach; Advisor: Prof Uri Benzion

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Research Fields

  • Decision-Making
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Behavioral Finance
  • Experimental Economics

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Teaching Experience

1998-2000 Research Assistant, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 
2002-2007 Course coordinator, The Open University of Israel
2002-2007 Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University

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Professional Experience

1996-1998 Budget Manager, Israel Defense Force
2000-2002 Operations Controller, Ceragon Network Ltd.

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Publications

Shavit, T., Sonsino, D., and Benzion, U. (2001). A comparative study of lotteries - Evaluation in class and on the web, Journal of Economic Psychology, 22, 483-491.
Shavit, T., Sonsino, D., and Benzion, U. (2001). On the evaluation of lotteries and options - An experimental study, Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets, 168-181.
Benzion, U., Haruvy, E., and Shavit, T. (2004). Adaptive portfolio allocation with options, Journal of Behavioral Finance, 5, 43-56.
Shavit, T., Shahrabani, S., and Benzion, U. (2006). WTP- WTA disparity among competitive and non-competitive subjects – An experimental study, Applied Financial Economics Letters, 2, 333-336.
Shavit, T., Benzion, U., and Haruvy, E. (forthcoming). Avoiding dominated strategies in financial markets - An experimental study, Journal of Economics and Business.

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Under Review

Shavit, T., Shahrabani, S., and Benzion, U. (2006). Effect of price-quoting on financial assets price - An Experimental Analysis.
Shavit, T., Shahrabani, S., and Benzion, U. (2005). The effect of competition on the evaluation of lotteries.
Shahrabani, S., Shavit, T., and Benzion, U. (2006). Short-selling and the WTA-WTP gap.
Benzion, U., Cohen., Y., Peled, R., and Shavit, T. (2005). Behavioral effects and the newsvendor problem: An experimental study.
Adam, A. and Shavit, T. (2006). How could the method of rating base for corporate social responsibility (CSR) offer an incentive for firms excluded from these indices to invest on CSR?
Mahajna, A., Benzion, U., Bogaire, R., and Shavit, T. 2006. Subjective discount rates among Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews.
Shafran, S., Benzion, U., and Shavit, T. (2006). Investors’ decisions to trade stocks – An experimental study.
Benzion, U., Krahnen, J.P., and Shavit, T. Subjective evaluation of delayedrisky outcomes: An experimental approach.

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Work in Process

Shavit, T., Benzion, U., Erev, I., and Haruvy, E., Risk aversion, under-diversification, and the role of recency and probability-matching.
Shavit, T. and Adam, A., Corporation theory and risk management.
Benzion, U., Shahrabani, S., and Shavit, T., Emotions and perceived risks after the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.
Shani, Y. and Shavit, T., Evaluating the importance of probability - Theory and experimental findings.
Cohen, C. and Shavit, T., Manipulations in auctions - An experimental study.
Shavit, T., Shahrabani, S., and Benzion, U., The endowment effect in different auctions for mugs.
Sonsino, D. and Shavit, T., Strategy and behavior in a speculative coordination game.
Rosenboim, M., Luski, I., and Shavit, T., Preference between project incentives – The behavioral approach.
Gidron, Y.Y., Shani, Y., and Shavit, T., Emotions and terror.
Mor, T., Spiegel, U., Benzion, U., and Shavit, T., Consumer preferences in different sales - An experimental study.

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Active Participation in Conferences

1. Shavit, T., Sonsino, D., and Benzion, U., On the evaluation of lotteries and options - An experimental study. The Annual Meeting of The European Financial and Management Association, 2000.
2. Shavit, T., Shahrabani, S., and Benzion, U., Risk attitude, win loving and the evaluation of lotteries - An experimental study, The Society for Judgment and Decision-Making, Vancouver, November 2003.
3. Shavit, T., Shahrabani, S., and Benzion, U., Risk attitude, win loving and the evaluation of lotteries - An experimental study, The Nineteenth Annual Congress of The European Economic Association, Madrid, 2004. 
4. Shavit, T., Shahrabani, S., and Benzion, U., WTP-WTA disparity among competitive and non-competitive subjects - An experimental study, Twentieth Biennial Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision-Making (SPUDM), 22-24 August, 2005, Stockholm.
5. Shavit, T., Benzion, U., Erev, I., and Haruvy, E., Risk-aversion, under-diversification, and the role of recency and probability matching, European Financial and Management Association, Behavioral Finance Annual Meeting 2005.
6. Benzion, U., Krahnen, J.P., and Shavit, T., Subjective evaluation of delayedrisky outcomes: An experimental approach, Conference on Affect, Motivation and Decision-Making, The Decision-Making and Economic Psychology Center, Ben-Gurion University and the Interdisciplinary Group in Behavioral Decision Making, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Ein Boqeq, The Dead Sea, 2006.

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