Dr. Ran Ben-Malka is a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College in the Department of Applied Economics. Dr. Ben-Malka earned his Ph.D. in economics in 2016 from the Department of Economics at Ben-Gurion University. Currently, his research interests are behavioral economics, tourism economics, and the Israeli economy.
Research in progress
"Compensation for Elimination: An empirical evidence from Independent house in Tel Aviv", Dr. Ran Ben-Malka and Prof. Yaniv Poria
Bar-El, R., Hadad, S., Maymoni, L., Ben-Malka, R., & Megidish, R. (2022, September). Innovation as a Challenge for Peripheral Regions: An Israeli Case. In ECIE 2022 17th European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Academic Conferences and publishing limited.
Ben-Malka, R., Hadad, S., & Megidish, R. (2023). Integration, culture, and trust: A case study of minority integration in Israeli academy. Journal of Trust Research, 1-16.
Bar-El, R., Hadad, S., Maymoni, L., Ben-Malka, R., & Megidish, R. (2024). Can the periphery survive innovation-led growth? Insights from Israel. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 11(1), 453-470.
"Extended producer responsibility in e-waste management"
2015 -Israel Economics Association number 31 – May 2015, Tel-Aviv Israel.
2015 - 11th International Conference on the Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, January 21-23, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2016 -The 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), June 22- 25, 2016, Zurich, Switzerland.
"Compensation for elimination: An innovative technique for evaluating the monetary value of heritage sites"