Dr.  Yuval  Arbel

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. YUVAL ARBEL, Ph.D.

Personal Details:

Date of Birth:December 18, 1965

Marital Status:Married+1

Occupation:Economics Lecturer and CPA (Israel)

Contact Details:

Address:6 Elkharizy Street, Netanya, ISRAEL

Mail Address:P.O. Box 75, Netanya, ISRAEL

Cell Phone:+972-54-8175270

Email:[email protected]

[email protected]

Academic Degrees:

September 2006

Ph.D. Dissertation in Urban Economics has been formally approved

by Bar-Ilan's Ph.D. Committee

November 2001

Masters in Business and Economics, Bar – Ilan University

May 1995

Certificate from the Institute for Certified Public Accountants

February 1995

License from the Council of Certified Public Accountants in the

Israeli Justice Department

February 1999

B.A. in Economics and Accounting, Tel Aviv University

Academic Status:

Since October 2011

Full Lecturer in Accounting and Economics, School of Business,

Carmel Academic Center, 4 Shaar Palmer Street, Haifa 33031, Israel

October 2007-Sept. 2011

Post-Doc Researcher in the Faculty of Architecture and Town

Planning, Technion, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel

Recently completed the Post-Doc research paper in Real Estate and

Behavioral Economics, which was submitted for publication:

Anchoring and Housing Choice: Results of A Natural

Policy Experiment (Co-Authors: Danny Ben Shahar and Stuart Gabriel)

Sept. 2000Sept. 2006

Full time Ph.D. student in Urban Economics on a Bar Ilan

University President's grant.

Ph.D. dissertation on: “The Housing Market in the United States:

A Further Look at Empirical Issues Associated with the Competitive

Market Approach”.

Experience:

Since October 2005

Lecturer in Econometrics, Price Theory, Introduction to

Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Urban Economics

Financial Accounting, Analysis of Financial Statements,

Consolidated Financial Statements, Tax Structure in Israel

At: Bar Ilan University, Carmel Academic Center, Haifa University,

Hebrew University (Faculty of Agricultural Economics at Rehovot),

Ramat Gan College, The College of Management,

the Technion– Israel Institute of Technology and Zefat College.

Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2005

Teaching Assistant in the following courses:

(1) Introduction to Microeconomics

(2) Introduction to Macroeconomics

(3) Introduction to Econometrics

Nov. 1997 – Aug. 2000

Budget Department of Bank Hapoalim Worked on the budget of

management and general expenses as part of a team responsible for

the Budget of the biggest Bank in Israel.

Aug. 1993 -Oct. 1997

Auditor in a CPA office (Adiv – Bonen) Worked as an auditor and

gained much experience with a variety of companies

July 1992 – July 1993

Auditor in a CPA office (Lioboshits – Cassirer) Worked as an intern

as a part of a team auditing major corporates (Sunfrost, The Vegetable

Council, Massad Bank).

Public Activities:

Since October 2007

Department of Justice, Council of Appraisers Developed a syllabus

for the Urban Economics Test. Former Head of the Committee who

Supervises on the Urban Economics Exam for Appraisers.

August-Sept. 2004

Bar Ilan University, Department of Economics Developed and

coordinated the applied project for Introductory Econometrics courses

Research Interests:

Urban Economics, Housing Markets, Real Estate Finance, Behavioral

Finance and Behavioral Economics, Public Policy in Housing Markets,

Tenure Choice Decisions, Immigration, Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,

Green Housing, Education and Human Capital, Experimental Economics,

Empirical Economics and Econometrics

Accepted for Publication:

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen; Siniver, Erez and Yossef Tobol: Role A Die and Tell A Lie: What Affects Honesty?, Journal of Behavioral Economics and Organization, forthcoming (2014): 1-44

Journal 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.543, ranked as the best journal in the

field of Behavioral Economics

Arbel, Yuval; Ben-Shahar, Danny; and Stuart Gabriel: Anchoring and

Housing Choice: Results of A Natural Policy Experiment,

Regional Science and Urban Economics, forthcoming (2014): 1-16.

Journal 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.542, ranked as the second best journal in

the field of Urban Economics

Arbel, Yuval; Siniver Erez; and Yossef Tobol: Social Involvement,

Level of Income and Unemployment among Immigrants: The Israeli

Experience, International Journal of Manpower, (2014), 35(6): 798-816

Arbel, Yuval; Ben-Shahar, Danny; and Yossef Tobol: The Correlation

Among Immigrant Homeownership, Objective and Subjective

Characteristics and Civic Participation: New Evidence from the

the Israeli Experience, Urban Studies, (2012) 49(11): 2479-2499

Arbel, Yuval; Ben-Shahar, Danny; Gabriel, Stuart and Yossef Tobol:

The Local Cost of Terror: Effects of the Second Palestinian Intifada on

Jerusalem House Prices, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2010)

40: 415-426.

Journal 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.542, ranked as the second best journal in

the field of Urban Economics

Arbel, Yuval; Ben-Shahar, Danny; and Eyal Sulganik: Mean Reversion

and Momentum: Another Look at the Price-Volume Correlation

In Real Estate markets, Journal of Real Estate Finance and

Economics (2009) 39: 316-335 (Journal 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.07)

Under Consideration:

Arbel, Yuval; Ben-Shahar, Danny; and Stuart Gabriel: Are Disabled Less

for Publication

Loss Averse? Evidence from A Natural Policy Experiment

(First-Time Submission)

Work in Progress

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen; Schwarz Mordechai and Yossef Tobol:

Dynamics of Voluntary Contributions to Capacity and Operation of Public

Goods: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen; and Yossef Tobol: The Effect of the Intrinsic

Value of A Public Good on the Level of Contributions and the

Contributions Path – An Experimental Analysis

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen and Yossef Tobol: The Effect of Public Finance

on Higher Education under Restricted Admission: Theory and Evidence

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen and Yossef Tobol: Determinants of

Physiological Response to Blackmail Strategy

Arbel, Yuval; Siniver, Erez and Yossef Tobol: Heuristics in Cognitive

Reasoning: A Field Experiment Among Israeli Students

Arbel, Yuval; Ben-Shahar, Danny; Gabriel, Stuart; and David Genesove:

The Impact of Setting Minimum Bids in Land Auctions: The Case of the

Israeli Land Authority (ILA)

Arbel, Yuval; Ben-Shahar, Danny; Gabriel, Stuart; and Yossef Tobol:

Willingness to Pay for Green Housing: A Comparison between

Green and Standard Multi-Family Constructions

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen and Yossef Tobol: Social Norms and the

Evolution of Cesarean Delivery Rates: Theory, Simulation and Empirical

Evidence

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen and Yossef Tobol: Cesarean and Vaginal

Births as Veblen Goods: Theory, Simulation and Empirical Evidence

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El Ronen and Yossef Tobol: "You shall meditate on it

day and night": Culture and Norms Effects on the Reservation Wage

Arbel, Yuval; Cohen, Gil and Yossef Tobol: A Box Strategy in Option

Pricing and Time Value of Money

Prizes and Awards

January, 2010

The Professor Stan Czamanski Prize for young scholar has been awarded

by the Regional Science Association International, the Israeli Section.

The prize has been awarded for an outstanding research paper in Regional Science written by a young scholar. The research paper is entitled as:

"Climatic Differences among US States and Land-to-Structure Elasticity

of Substitution: Empirical Evidence from a new FHA Sample"

May, 2009

Research grant has been awarded from the Research and Development

Foundation of the Ariel University Center. The grant has been awarded

for the working paper entitled as:

"The Price of Terror: Effects of the Second Palestinian Intifada on

Jerusalem House Prices".

Sept. 2000Sept. 2004

President's grant from Bar Ilan University has been awarded for

Ph.D. Studies in Economics

Referee of:

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Contact Persons:

Prof. Gershon Alperovich (Ph.D. Advisor)

Department of Economics

BarIlan University

52900 Ramat Gan, Israel

email: [email protected]

Dr. Danny Ben Shahar (Post-Doc Advisor and Co-Author)

Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Haifa 32000, Israel

email: [email protected]

Prof. Stuart Gabriel (Co-Author)

Director, Richard S. Ziman Center for Real Estate

Professor of Finance and Arden Realty Chair

UCLA Anderson School

110 Westwood Plaza C412

Los Angeles, California 90095

email: [email protected]