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Haim Kedar-Levy

Professor of Financial Economics, Ben Gurion University
Verified email at som.bgu.ac.il
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The valuation of athletes as risky investments: A theoretical model

H Kedar-Levy, M Bar-Eli - Journal of Sport …, 2008 - journals.humankinetics.com
The desire to hire the best athletes and coaches in order to maximize team performance
necessitates generous compensation contracts, which in turn increase the risk of financial …

Are individual or institutional investors the agents of bubbles?

JJ Choi, H Kedar-Levy, SS Yoo - Journal of International Money and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Behavioral bubble models typically assume that uninformed trend-chasers, presumably
individual investors, cause bubbles, while informed contrarian investors such as institutions, …

Seasonality in outliers of daily stock returns: A tail that wags the dog?

D Galai, H Kedar-Levy, BZ Schreiber - International Review of Financial …, 2008 - Elsevier
We document significant intra-year seasonality in outliers of S&P500 daily rates of return.
Controlling for outliers in dummy regressions reveals that both the January and Monday effects …

The effect of trading halts on the speed of price discovery

S Hauser, H Kedar-Levy, B Pilo, I Shurki - Journal of Financial Services …, 2006 - Springer
Trading halts are aimed at reducing information asymmetry by granting investors the opportunity
to reassess trades upon arrival of new, substantial information. This study is the first to …

Liquidity might come at cost: The role of heterogeneous preferences

S Hauser, H Kedar-Levy - Journal of Financial Markets, 2018 - Elsevier
Asset-pricing models with volume are challenged by the high turnover-rates in real stock
markets. We develop an asset-pricing framework with heterogeneous risk preferences and …

The impact of retail investor sentiment on the conditional volatility of stocks and bonds: Evidence from the Tel-Aviv stock exchange

E Hadad, H Kedar-Levy - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
We measured bond and stock conditional return volatility as a function of changes in
sentiment, proxied by six indicators of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange. We found that changes in …

Can baby-boomers' retirement increase stock prices?

H Kedar-Levy - The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2006 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel Haim Kedar-Levy a b … Solving for P t + Δ t H we have(7) P
t + Δ t H = E t ( μ ) − r δ k σ 2 Dk , t + Δ t + η k δ k r ( 1 − e r ( t − T k ) ) N k , t 1 − E t ( μ ) − r δ k σ 2 …

A deep market in Israeli corporate bonds: Macro and microeconomic analysis in light of the accounting standards

…, E Hadad, H Kedar-Levy - Israel Economic …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
… * This article is derived from a report submitted to the Israel Accounting Standards Board
by Professor Haim Kedar-Levy on the existence of a deep market in Israel, with findings …

Day‐of‐the‐Week Effect in High Moments

D Galai, H KedarLevy - Financial Markets, Institutions & …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… In the second stage we examine the m paired hypotheses, H(m), sequentially. The test starts
with P… Dan Galai acknowledges funding from the Zagagi Center, Kedar-Levy acknowledges …

The speed of stock price discovery

A Gavious, H Kedar-Levy - Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2013 - Elsevier
We develop closed-form expressions for the path and speed of stock price discovery in a
utility-based CAPM with wealth effects. Two investors with uniquely bounded risk-preferences …