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Uri Benzion

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Discount rates inferred from decisions: An experimental study

U Benzion, A Rapoport, J Yagil - Management science, 1989 - pubsonline.informs.org
Two hundred and four students of economics and finance participated in an intertemporal
choice experiment which manipulated three dimensions in a 4 × 4 × 4 factorial design: …

Decision-making and the newsvendor problem: an experimental study

U Benzion, Y Cohen, R Peled, T Shavit - Journal of the Operational …, 2008 - Springer
This paper investigates repetitive purchase decisions of perishable items in the face of
uncertain demand (the newsvendor problem). The experimental design includes: high, or low …

Factors affecting nurses' decision to get the flu vaccine

S Shahrabani, U Benzion, G Yom Din - The European Journal of Health …, 2009 - Springer
The objective of this study was to identify factors that influence the decision whether or not
to get the influenza (flu) vaccine among nurses in Israel by using the health belief model (HBM…

[HTML][HTML] Factors affecting intention among students to be vaccinated against A/H1N1 influenza: a health belief model approach

…, S Shahrabani, U Benzion - Advances in preventive …, 2011 - hindawi.com
… part of the questionnaire was based on the Blue and Valley [21] tested and retested
questionnaire and its Hebrew version, which was validated in the study by Shahrabani and Benzion […

The complexity effects on choice with uncertainty–Experimental evidence

D Sonsino, U Benzion, G Mador - The Economic Journal, 2002 - academic.oup.com
We present experimental evidence suggesting that human subjects dislike complexity in
choice with uncertainty. Our results suggest that the probability of choosing a given alternative …

[HTML][HTML] Workplace vaccination and other factors impacting influenza vaccination decision among employees in Israel

S Shahrabani, U Benzion - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2010 - mdpi.com
The study examined the factors affecting the decision to be vaccinated against influenza
among employees in Israel. The research, conducted in 2007/2008, included 616 employees …

How experience shapes health beliefs: the case of influenza vaccination

S Shahrabani, U Benzion - Health education & behavior, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the impact of past experience with influenza and the influenza vaccine
on four categories of the Health Belief Model: beliefs about susceptibility to contracting …

Size, leverage, and dividend record as determinants of equity risk

U Ben-Zion, SS Shalit - The Journal of Finance, 1975 - JSTOR
… The source for the calculations of Beta was the price relative tape of the University of Chicago
… SS Shalit and U. Ben-Zion. "The Expected Impact of the Wage-Price Freeze on Relative …

Economic and behavioral factors in an individual's decision to take the influenza vaccination in Japan

Y Tsutsui, U Benzion, S Shahrabani - The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
… a 5 C O S T i + a 6 θ i + a 7 α i + u i where the subscript i stands for the individual i, a 1 , a 2
… O S T i + a 6 θ i + a 8 α i D A M A G E + a 9 α i C O S T i + u i where it is demonstrated that a 8 …

A policy to promote influenza vaccination: a behavioral economic approach

Y Tsutsui, U Benzion, S Shahrabani, GY Din - Health policy, 2010 - Elsevier
The aims of this study were to identify the predictors of people's willingness to be vaccinated
against influenza and to determine how to improve the inoculation rate. The study was …