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Prof. Moshe Levy (shiki).

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THE JERUSALEM SCHOOL OF
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

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Selected publications list:

Dissertation: The Effects of Microscopic Diversity in Complex Economic Systems. 1997. Advisors: Professor Oded Galor, Department of Economics, Hebrew University and Brown University; Professor Sorin Solomon, Department of Physics, Hebrew University.

Book:

Levy, M., H. Levy, and S. Solomon, Microscopic Simulation of Financial Markets: From Investor Behavior to Market Phenomena, Academic Press, 2000.

Papers:

Publications

Duchin, R. and M. Levy, “Disagreement, Portfolio Optimization and Excess Volatility”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.

Levy, M., “Loss Aversion and the Price of Risk”, Quantitative Finance, forthcoming.

Levy, H. and M. Levy, “The Safety First Expected Utility Model: Experimental Evidence and Economic Implications”, Journal of Banking and Finance, 33, 2009, 1494-1506.

Levy, M., “Almost Stochastic Dominance and Stocks for the Long Run”,
European Journal of Operational Research, 194, 2009, 250-257.

Levy, M. and G. Benita, “Are Equally Likely Outcomes Perceived as Equally Likely?”, Journal of Behavioral Finance, forthcoming.

Levy, M., “Gibrat’s Law for Almost All Cities” , American Economic Review, forthcoming.

Levy, M., “Stock Market Crashes as Social Phase Transitions”, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 32, 2008, 137-155.

Levy, M., “Conditions for a CAPM Equilibrium with Positive Prices”, Journal of Economic Theory, 137, 2007, 404-415.

Klass, O., Biham, O., Levy, M., Malcai, O., and Solomon, S., “The Forbes 400, the Pareto Power Law, and Efficient Markets”, European Physical Journal B, 55, 2007, 143-147.

Levy, M. and G. Benita, “Market Efficiency and the U-Shape Pattern of Return Autocorrelations”, in Economic Theory Research Trends, F. Columbus (Ed.), forthcoming.

Levy, M., G. Benita and H. Levy, “Financial Disclosure and Regulation: A Portfolio Approach”, Journal of Portfolio Management, 2006.

Levy, M., “Agent Based Computational Economics”, in The Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, forthcoming.

Klass, O., Biham, O., Levy, M., Malcai, O., and Solomon, S., “The Forbes 400 and the Pareto Wealth Distribution”, Economics Letters, 90, 2, 2006. 0.34; 23/165. (2)

Levy, M., H. Levy and G. Benita, “Capital Asset Prices with Heterogeneous Beliefs”, Journal of Business, 32, 2006, 107-115. 1.13;.

Levy, M., “Mutual Fund Ranking and the Investment Horizon”, Finance Letters, forthcoming (16 typed pg.).

Levy, M., “Social Phase Transitions”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 57, 2005. 71-87. 0.57; 33/169.

Levy, M., “Is Risk-Aversion Hereditary?”, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 41, 1, 2005, 157-168. 0.37; 63/169. (1).

Levy, H., M. Levy and N. Alisof, “’Homemade Leverage’: Theory versus Experimental Evidence”, Journal of Portfolio Management, 31, 2004, 84-93. 0.46; 21/36.

Levy H., and M. Levy, “Prospect Theory and Mean-Variance Analysis”, Review of Financial Studies, 17, 4, 2004, 1015-1041. 2.20; 4/36.

Levy, M., “Are Rich People Smarter?”, Journal of Economic Theory, 110, 1, 2003, 42-64. 0.816; 10/165. (4).

Levy, M., “Market Efficiency, the Pareto Wealth Distribution, and the L?vy Distribution of Stock Returns”, in The Economy as an Evolving Complex System III, S. Durlauf and L. Blume (Eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005.

Levy, M. and H. Levy, “Investment Talent and the Pareto Wealth Distribution: Theoretical and experimental Analysis”, Review of Economics and Statistics, 85, 3, 2003, 709-725. 1.27. 3/165.

Levy, H., M. Levy and A. Edry, “A Negative Equilibrium Interest Rate”, Financial Analyst Journal, April 2003, 97-109. 0.67; 16/36.

Solomon, S. and M. Levy, “Pioneers on a New Continent: Physics and Economics”, Quantitative Finance, 3, 1, 2003, 12-16.

Levy, M. and H. Levy, “Prospect Theory: Much Ado About Nothing?”, Management Science, 48, 10, 2002, 1334-1349. 1.5; 1/61. (19).

Levy, H. and M. Levy, ”Experimental Test of the Prospect Theory Value Function”, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 89, 2002, 1058-1081. 1.27; 4/43. (6).

Levy, H. and M. Levy, “Arrow-Pratt Risk Aversion, Risk Premium, and Decision Weights”, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 25,3, 2002, 265-290. 1.4; 21/165. (4).

Levy, M. and H. Levy, “Testing for Risk Aversion: A Stochastic Dominance Approach”, Economics Letters 71, 2, 2001, 233-240. 0.34; 23/165. (2)

Biham, O., O. Malcai, M. Levy and S. Solomon, “Generic Emergence of Power Law Distributions and L?vy-stable Intermittent Fluctuations in Discrete Logistic Systems”, Physical Review E 58, 1998, 1352-1358. 2.24; 1/29. (28).

Levy, M., and S. Solomon, "New Evidence for the Power-Law Distribution of Wealth", Physica A, 242, 1997, 90-94. 1.29; 6/67. (65).

Levy, M., and H. Levy, "The Danger of Assuming Homogeneous Expectations", The Financial Analyst Journal, May 1996, 65-70. 0.67; 16/36.

Levy, M., Persky, N., and S. Solomon, " The Complex Dynamics of a Simple Stock Market Model", International Journal of High Speed Computing, 8, 1996, 93-113. (8).

Levy, M., and S. Solomon, "Dynamical Explanation for the Emergence of Power Law in a Stock Market Model", International Journal of Modern Physics C , 7, 1, 1996, 65-72. 0.75. (37).

Levy, M., and S. Solomon, "Power Laws are Logarithmic Boltzmann Laws", International Journal of Modern Physics C , 7, 4, 1996, 595-601. 0.75. (73).

Solomon, S. and M. Levy, "Spontaneous Scaling Emergence in Generic Stochastic Systems", International Journal of Modern Physics C , 7, 5, 1996, 745-751. 0.75. (42).

Levy, M., H. Levy and S. Solomon, "Simulation of the Stock Market: The Effects of Microscopic Diversity", Journal de Physique I, 5, 1995, 1087-1107. 0.32. (63).

Levy, M., H. Levy and S. Solomon, "A Microscopic Model of the Stock Market: Cycles, Booms, and Crashes", Economics Letters, 45, 1994, 103-111. 0.34; 23/165. (55).



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Research Interest:

· Microscopic simulation of stock markets: the effects of heterogeneity and bounded rationality.

· Econophysics: power-law distributions in economics and finance. the Le¢ vy distribution of stock returns and the Pareto wealth distribution.

· The distribution of wealth and its origins: talent or luck?.

· “Phase transitions” in social systems.

· Decision-making under uncertainty.

· Portfolio Optimization with many assets.

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