Itai Ater
Associate Professor
Business Economics & Strategy Area
Coller School of Management
Tel Aviv University, Israel
E-mail: ater@post.tau.ac.il
Working papers/work in progress
Price Saliency and Fairness? Evidence from Regulatory Shaming (with O. Avishay Rizi, submitted)
Real Estate Investors, House Prices and Rent: Evidence from Capital-Gains Tax Changes (with E. Hoffman and Y. Elster), featured in Globes (16.8.21, Hebrew)
Can Usage-Based Pricing Reduce Traffic Congestion? (with A. Shany and S. Vasserman, E. Turkel, and B. Ross)
The Impact of Multinational Firms on Entrepreneurship (with N. Gruber, and S. Weisburd)
Job Mobility and the Gender Wage Gap (with N. Barnir, N. Gruber, A. Kovo, and S. Weisburd)
The Differential Response of Public and Private Firms to Policy Interventions (with O. Avishay Rizi)
Unchain my Chain: The Impact of Founding Couples on Family Businesses (with O. Rigbi)
Retention by Leniency: Evidence from Mandatory Car Inspections? (with Ity Shurtz and Michal Hodor)
Published/forthcoming papers
Internalization of Congestion at US Hub Airports, Journal of Urban Economics, 2012 72: 196-209
Do Customers Learn from Experience? Evidence from Retail Banking, Management Science, 2013 59(9): 2019-2035. With V. Landsman, featured in TheMarker (17.03.14, Hebrew), TheMarker (26.03.14, Hebrew), Calcalist (02.08.13, Hebrew)
Price Control and Advertising in Franchised Chains, Strategic Management Journal, 2015, 36, 148-158, with O. Rigbi
Organizational Structure, Police Activity and Crime, Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115(1), 62-71), with O. Rigbi and Y. Givati, featured in Ha'aretz (05.06.2013, Hebrew), US News & World Report (24.04.14)
The Economics of Rights: Can the Right to Counsel Increase Crime?, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 9(2) 1-27, (lead article), with Y. Givati and O. Rigbi
Round Prices and Price Rigidity: Evidence from Outlawing Non-Zero Digit Price Endings, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 144 (2017), 188-203, with O. Gerlitz
Sellers’ Willingness to Compromise on Price – A Novel Index to Identify Pricing Trends in The Housing Market, Israeli Economic Review, 2018, 16(2), 63-96. with I. Popliker
Testing Alternative Learning Theories: Evidence from Subscription Contracts, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2018, 66(4): 763-815 (lead article), with V. Landsman
The Impact of Environmental Fraud on the Used Car Market: Evidence from Dieselgate, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2022, 70(2), 463-491, with N. Yoseph
Must Agreements Be Kept? Residential Leases during Covid-19 The Economic Journal, 133(649), January 2023, 477-492, with Y. Elster, D. Genesove, and E. Hoffmann, featured in Calcalist (13.5.20, Hebrew)
Price Transparency, Media and Informative Advertising (with O. Rigbi), forthcoming at AEJ-Micro, featured in Calcalist (26.2.17, Hebrew), NYTimes, (24.06.19)
Exercising Market Power without Using Prices? Service Time in Online Grocery (with A. Shany, selected the best paper for young scholars at the CRESSE 2022 annual conference), accepted at Management Science
The Economic Consequences of Democratic Backsliding: Israel's Judicial Overhaul, Israel Economic Review 21(2) (2023), 77-138 (with I. Raz and Y. Spitzer)
Root Colonial Causes: A Comment on the Moral Standards of BMJ, BMJ Global Health, 8(10), published on 25 October, 2023.
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We (joint with Yair Antler and Adi Shany) organize an annual workshop on Industrial Organization, Regulation and competition Policy.
The last workshop was held on December 22-23, 2022 at Tel Aviv University. Click here for the programme!