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Overview

Ofer H. Azar is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research primarily spans the domain of Social Sciences, with a focus on Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and Sports Analytics and Performance. Azar's work also engages with topics related to the Psychology of Social Influence, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Sociology and Cultural Identity Studies, and Sports Performance and Training.

Azar has contributed extensively to several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, General Decision Sciences, Safety Research, Economics and Econometrics, and Applied Psychology. The main publication venues for their work include the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Judgment and Decision Making, Behavioral Sciences, The RAND Journal of Economics, and The Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Among recent notable papers authored by Azar is "The Economics of Tipping" (2020) published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives. Coauthors frequently working with Azar include Alisa Voslinsky, Michael Bar-Eli, Elia Morgulev, A. Adachi, and Ron Adner, indicating collaborative research endeavors in related areas.

  • The Economics of Tipping (2020) in The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Incentives in experimental economics (2021) in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Fifty years of the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics: A bibliometric review (2021) in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • The role of initial success in competition: An analysis of early lead effects in NBA overtimes (2020) in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • The Right-Oriented Bias in Soccer Penalty Shootouts (2020) in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

  • Alisa Voslinsky
  • Michael Bar-Eli
  • Elia Morgulev
  • A. Adachi
  • Ron Adner

  • Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • The RAND Journal of Economics
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives

  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Psychology of Social Influence
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Sociology and Cultural Identity Studies
  • Sports Performance and Training

The overall scope of Ofer H. Azar's work integrates behavioral economics with empirical studies on social influence and human performance in competitive environments. Their research is positioned at the intersection of theory and application, aiming to examine how incentives, biases, and social factors affect decision-making in economic and social contexts.

Best Publications

  • Action bias among elite soccer goalkeepers: The case of penalty kicks

    Michael Bar-Eli;Michael Bar-Eli;Ofer H. Azar;Ilana Ritov;Yael Keidar-Levin

  • What sustains social norms and how they evolve? The case of tipping

    Ofer H Azar

  • The Social Norm of Tipping: A Review

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Penalty kicks in soccer: an empirical analysis of shooting strategies and goalkeepers’ preferences

    Michael Bar‐Eli;Ofer H. Azar

  • The history of tipping - from sixteenth-century England to United States in the 1910s

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Why pay extra? Tipping and the importance of social norms and feelings in economic theory

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Business strategy and the social norm of tipping

    Ofer H. Azar

  • The implications of tipping for economics and management

    Ofer Azar

  • Do customers return excessive change in a restaurant?: A field experiment on dishonesty☆

    Ofer H. Azar;Shira Yosef;Michael Bar-Eli

  • Relative thinking theory

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Who do we tip and why? An empirical investigation

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Tipping Motivations and Behavior in the U.S. and Israel

    Ofer H. Azar

  • The Economics of Tipping

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Incentives and service quality in the restaurant industry: the tipping–service puzzle

    Ofer H. Azar

  • How Werner Güth's ultimatum game shaped our understanding of social behavior☆

    Eric E. van Damme;Ken K.G. Binmore;A.E. A.E. Roth;Larry L. Samuelson

  • Rejections and the importance of first response times

    Ofer H. Azar

  • The Social Norm of Tipping: Does it Improve Social Welfare?

    Ofer Azar

  • A Citation-Based Ranking of Strategic Management Journals

    Ofer H. Azar;David M. Brock

  • THE SLOWDOWN IN FIRST-RESPONSE TIMES OF ECONOMICS JOURNALS: CAN IT BE BENEFICIAL?

    Ofer H. Azar

  • The Review Process in Economics: Is It Too Fast?

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Do people tip strategically, to improve future service? Theory and evidence

    Ofer H. Azar

  • Optimal Monitoring with External Incentives: The Case of Tipping

    Ofer H. Azar

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Bar-Eli
Michael Bar-Eli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Ronnie Lidor
Ronnie Lidor Wingate Institute
Ilana Ritov
Ilana Ritov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alan G. Sanfey
Alan G. Sanfey Radboud University
Detlef Fetchenhauer
Detlef Fetchenhauer University of Cologne
Eyal Winter
Eyal Winter Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eric van Damme
Eric van Damme Tilburg University
Gary E. Bolton
Gary E. Bolton The University of Texas at Dallas
Stephen E. G. Lea
Stephen E. G. Lea University of Exeter
Dirk P. Kroese
Dirk P. Kroese University of Queensland

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