Yaniv Dover

I am an Assistant Professor at the Jerusalem Business School and a member of the Federmann Center for the Study of Rationality, both at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. I finished my PhD at the Hebrew university in Jerusalem and went on to a two-years post doc. at Yale university. After the post doc. I spent three years as tenure-track faculty at Tuck Business School, Dartmouth College in NH, USA and then moved back to Israel.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Social Networks, Social Dynamics, Social Media, Word of Mouth, Diffusion, Processes over Networks, Group Dynamics, Digital Marketing.

Honors And Awards

• Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Fellowship, 2010–12
• Finalist for the Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010–11
• Finalist for the Bikura Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2010–11
• The Whitebox Grant for Behavioral Sciences, 2010–11
• GIACS Scholarship for interdisciplinary PhD students, 2008–10
• The Jerusalem Business School Fellowship, 2009–10
• ISF Grant based on dissertation project, 2010–12
• Racah Institute of Physics Fellowship, 2004–09
• The Center for Complexity Science Scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. student, 2008–10

Publications

• With D. Mayzlin and J. Chevalier, "Promotional Reviews: An Empirical Investigation of Online Review Manipulation," forthcoming in the American Economic Review, 2013
• With J. Goldenberg and D. Shapira, "Network Traces on Penetration: Uncovering Degree Distribution from Adoption Data, "Marketing Science,31(4), 2012
• With I. Balberg, E. Savir, and P. von Huth, "Basic Physics of Phototransport as Manifested in Thin Films of In-Doped CdTe, Physical Review B,82, 2010
• With S. Moulet, S. Solomon, and G. Yaari, "Do All Economies Grow Equally Fast?" Risk and Decision Analysis, 1(3), 2009
• With I. Balberg, E. Savir, O. Portillo Moreno, R. Lozada-Morales, and O. Zelaya- Angel, "Meyer-Neldel-Like Manifestation of the Quantum Confinement Effect in Solid Ensembles of Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Physical Review B,75, 2007