Influenza vaccination has been shown to be cost effective in reducing morbidity and mortality and in decreasing work absenteeism and use of health-care resources. The purpose of this study was to identify predictors and beliefs regarding people's vaccination decision against the influenza. It...

Influenza vaccination has been shown to be cost effective in reducing morbidity and mortality and in decreasing work absenteeism and use of health-care resources. The purpose of this study was to identify predictors and beliefs regarding people’s vaccination decision against the influenza. It...

Corporate bond markets may suffer from investors' lack of competence in screening out low-quality issuers. We use data from the Israeli capital market in 1999-2009 to investigate the quality of corporate bond issuers and the role of the institutional investors in the screening process in the...

This study proposes models that can be used as shorthand analysis tools for CDS spreads and CDS spread changes. For this purpose, we examine the determinants of CDS spreads and spread changes on a broad database of 718 US firms during the period from early 2002 to early 2013. Contrary to...

Mean and variance of daily type-A and B stock returns in Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges are studied before and after these stocks were subject to a -10% daily return limit, and when investors' clientele were segmented, vs. merged. We find that imposing the -10% return limit significantly...

Using data for about 50,000 actual household investment accounts, we document that financial advice reduced investors’ tendency to leave the stock market during the market crash of 2008 and had a positive correlation with their decisions to return to the market. In addition, we provide a...

This paper compares the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) 25 Index (TA25) to the Samp;P 500 Index with respect to the extent that the Technical Analysis method of moving average can beat the buy-and-hold policy. Previous research on the Samp;P 500 Index is inconclusive, while TA25 has never been...

This paper estimates the degree of the exponential-function misvaluation, its variation with given product price level, and its expected growth rate. The paper examines whether other mathematical functions, such as linear, quadratic and cubic functions, conform to the discounting and compounding...