faculty member

Currently I am the Rector of the College as well as a professor at the department of economics and management.

I finished my1st and 2nd degree in the Hebrew university and Ph.D. at the university of Minnesota.

I served as the dean of the faculty of social sciences and humanities between 2013 - 2018.
Besides teaching and doing research, I am also involved in public consultation on my research issues.

My main field of research is environmental economics. Within this field I am doing Cost-Benefit-Analysis of nature conservation based on non-market valuation. Topics such as the economics of endangered species, open spaces and ecological services are in the focus of my current research. Besides that, I deal also with water resources economics and recently (2013) edited a book (Springer publishing) on Water Policy in Israel. On January 2020 I published (with Chanoch Friedman) the first book on environmental economics in Hebrew (Pardes pblishing).

Managerial Economics

Operation Research

International Trade

Cost Benefit Analysis

Environmental Economics

  See CV and Google scholar citation index below https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6jVm1j8AAAAJ&hl=iw  

Selected publication (for a full list look at my CV of Google Scholar): Becker, N. (1995). Value of moving from central planning to a market system: lessons from the Israeli water sector. Agricultural Economics, 12(1), 11-21. Becker, N. Naomi Zeitouni & Mordechai Shechter(1996). Reallocating water resources in the Middle East through market mechanisms. International journal of water resources development, 12(1), 17-32. Becker, N., & Easter, K. W. (1999). Conflict and cooperation in managing international water resources such as the Great Lakes. Land Economics, 233-245. Becker, N., & Freeman, S. (2009). The economic value of old growth trees in Israel. Forest Policy and Economics, 11(8), 608-615. Abramson, A., Becker, N., Garb, Y., & Lazarovitch, N. (2011). Willingness to pay, borrow, and work for rural water service improvements in developing countries. Water Resources Research, 47(11). Friedman, C., Becker, N., & Erell, E. (2014). Energy retrofit of residential building envelopes in Israel: A cost-benefit analysis. Energy, 77, 183-193.    

About 90 min. discussion with Lee Reshef about nature conservation and economics. https://www.google.com/search?q=nir+becker&rlz=1C1GCEA_enIL886IL886&sxsrf=ALeKk02LxNJzVS7QwETfCaHDsKN1SbXX1g:1606817860886&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMhMT-xqztAhWioVwKHWoMCjkQ_AUoA3oECAQQBQ&biw=1280&bih=610  

Explaining the reasons for the 2009 Nobel prize in economics (for 2009): watch here  

Speaking about aquaculture and economics: watch here