Sir Henry d'Avigdor Goldsmid Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics

Research Focus: Institutional change in agriculture in former socialist countries in Europe and Central Asia, including land reform, farm restructuring and the creation of service cooperatives

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zvi_Lerman 
Academia.edu: https://huji.academia.edu/ZviLerman/

1st Choice Prediction Competition: Decisions from Experience and from Description

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2nd Choice Prediction competition: Market Entry Games

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3rd Choice Prediction Competition: Social Preferences in Extensive Form Games

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4th Choice Prediction Competition: Decisions under Risk and Ambiguity

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What are Choice Prediction Competitions?

Choice prediction competitions aim to promote the development of models that may predict, rather than merely describe, behavior in the social sciences. Each competition focuses of a different area of interest in behavioral decision/economic research.

Journal Publications:

• Fleischer, A., Ert, E., and Bar-Nahum, Z. (2022). The role of trust Indicators in a digital platform: A differentiated good approach in an Airbnb market. Journal of Travel Research. 61:1173-1186;

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Education:

2005-2008 Ph.D., Technion, Israel (Behavioral and Management Sciences)

2003-2005 M.Sc., Technion, Israel (Behavioral and Management Sciences), Cum-Laude

2000-2003 B.A., University of Haifa, Israel (Economics and Psychology, Double Major)

Research Overview:

Refereed Journals

Education:

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, 1983.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Assessment of ecosystem services
• Economic impact of global climate change
• Economics of tourism
• Rural tourism
• The sharing economy

EMPLOYMENT:

Resource Economics (71183)

The course provides knowledge in management of renewable natural resources and unrenewable resources. We use Dynamic models in problems of exploitation of natural resources over time. We will discuss the problems of market failures, considerations of social interest vr private interest  intergenerational allocation of natural resources.

   Political Corruption and Term Limits: An Empirical Investigation

The Economics of Water Resources: A Comprehensive Approach (with Ariel Dinar). 2021. Cambridge University Press.