Itzhak (Zahi) Ben-David

Assistant Professor of Finance

Email: bendavid@fisher.osu.edu

Curriculum Vita

 

WORKING PAPERS

The Effects of Mandated Financial Counseling on Household Mortgage Decisions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, with Sumit Agarwal, Gene Amromin, Souphala Chomsisengphet, and Douglas D. Evanoff

- Grant award from FDIC

- Paolo Baffi Fellowship from Bocconi University

Manipulation of Collateral Values by Borrowers and Intermediaries

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

- Award Winner of BSI Gamma Foundation, Real Estate, 2008

- First Prize Winner of CQA Academic Competition, 2008

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

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

Idiosyncratic Risk and Corporate Transactions, with Darren Roulstone

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

- Award 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

Zubin Jelveh, Should We Give Financial Advice for the Poor?, New Republic, 22 April 2009

Steve Wartenberg, President's plan will save homes, advocates say, Columbus Dispatch, 6 March 2009

Phil Kadner, Southwest Side had early solution to housing crisis, Chicago Sun-Times, 10 January 2009

Melanie McIntyre, Mortgage Industry More Cautious, But Not Totally Backing Away From ARMs, The Daily Reporter, 29 August 2008

James Surowiecki, That Uncertain Feeling, The New Yorker, 1 September 2008

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)