Itzhak (Zahi) Ben-David

Assistant Professor of Finance

Email: bendavid@fisher.osu.edu

Curriculum Vita

 

WORKING PAPERS

Manipulation of Collateral Values by Borrowers and Intermediaries, 2008

- Featured in Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, Pay-back Time, Freakonomics column, New York Times Magazine, 10 June 2007

- Winner of BSI Gamma Foundation, Real Estate, 2008

Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies, with John Graham and Cam Harvey, 2007

Why Do Small Acquirers Underperform in the Long Term?, with Darren Roulstone, 2007

Idiosyncratic Risk and Corporate Transactions, with Darren Roulstone, 2007

Is the Disposition Effect Caused by Investor Loss Aversion?, with John Doukas and David Hirshleifer, 2007 (being revised)

- Winner of BSI Gamma Foundation, Behavioral Finance, 2006

Economic Optimization of Project Risk Management Efforts, with Gadi Rabinowitz and Tzvi Raz, 2002

 

PUBLICATIONS

The Response to Customer Default: Captive Versus Non-captive Lessors, with Jim Schallheim, Journal of Equipment Lease Financing, 2007, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1-6

- Awarded Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation research grant, 2006

Company Performance and Leased Assets in Sale-and-Leaseback Transactions, Journal of Equipment Lease Financing, 2005, Vol. 23, No.2, 1-8

- Awarded Equipment Leasing and Finance Foundation research grant, 2005

An Integrated Approach for Risk Response Development in Project Planning, with Tzvi Raz, Journal of Operational Research Society, 2001, Vol. 52, 14-25

 

MEDIA CLIPS                                                 

Alan Rappeport, Half Full, and Then Some, CFO.com, 1 May 2008

Stephen Dubner, A Look Back at the Subprime Mess, Freakonomics blog, 7 April 2008

Matthew Bandyk, Experts? Not in the Stock Market, U.S. News & World Report, 6 February 2008

Alan Rappeport, Feeling Confident, CFO.com, 31 January 2008

Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, Pay-back Time, Freakonomics column, New York Times Magazine, 10 June 2007

- Reprinted at the TheMarker Financial Magazine (Hebrew), July 2007

Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, Real-Estate Sleight of Hand, Freakonomics blog, 9 June 2007

ARTICLES

The New Education System, with Yoad Shefi, 10 November 2004, Globes (Hebrew)

A Pyrrhic Victory - An Economic Analysis of the Corruption in the Likud Party, with Guy David, 1 January 2003, Globes (Hebrew)