Professor Danny Ben-Shahar is a faculty member at the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University and serves as the Director of the Alrov Institute for Real Estate Research. Ben-Shahar’s research focuses on the analysis of rational and irrational decision-making in the real estate market and socio-economic aspects of the housing market. Ben-Shahar’s publications appear in leading real estate and management journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of Urban Economics, Economica, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Journal of Housing Economics. Ben-Shahar is a Weimer School Fellow at the Homer Hoyt Institute in Florida, USA and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals. He also serves as a board member in several corporate entities in Israel. Ben-Shahar holds a B.A. in economics from Tel Aviv University and an MBA and a Ph.D. in finance and real estate from the University of California at Berkeley.
Prof. Danny Ben-Shahar
Short Biography
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Fields of Research
Real Estaele and Urban Economics, Housind affordability, Rational and Irational behavior in Real Esate markets
Publications
On the optimality of the hybrid tenure mode, Journal of Housing Economics, 7 (1998) pp. 69-92.
A study of the optimal brokerage cost allocation in a rental housing market with asymmetric information, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 23 (2001) pp. 77-94.
The value of the rent control option (with D. Feldman, and D. Greenberg). The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 24 (2002) pp. 89-101.
Reprinted in New Directions in Real Estate Finance and Investment (Eichholtz and Patel, Eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002).
Signaling-screening equilibrium in the mortgage market (with D. Feldman), The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 26 (2003) pp. 157-178.
Productive signaling equilibria and over-maintenance: An application to real estate markets, The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 28 (2004) pp. 255-271.
Selective enforcement of copyrights as an optimal monopolistic behavior (with A. Jacob), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 3 (2004) Article 18.
Can co-owners agree to disagree? A theoretical examination of voting rules in co-ownerships (with E. Sulganik), The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 31:2 (2005) pp. 207-223.
Partial ordering of unpredictable mobility with welfare implications (with E. Sulganik), Economica, 75 (2008) pp. 592-614.
Property appraisal in high-rises: A cooperative game theory approach (with Y. Deng and E. Sulganik), Journal of Housing Economics, 18 (2009) pp. 25-33.
Mean reversion and momentum: Another look at the price-volume correlation in the real estate market (with Y. Arbel and E. Sulganik), The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 39:3 (2009) pp. 316-335.
The local cost of terror: Effect of the Second Palestinian Intifada on Jerusalem house prices (with Y. Arbel, Y., S. Gabriel, and Y. Tobol), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40 (2010) pp. 415-426.
Real estate and personality (with R. Golan), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 53 (2014) pp. 111-119.
Reviewed in the The Wall Street Journal, October 31, 2014.
Anchoring and housing choice: Results of a natural policy experiment (with Y. Arbel and S. Gabriel), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 49 (2014) pp. 68-83.
Inequality in housing affordability: Measurement and estimation (with J. Warszawski), Urban Studies, 53 (2016) pp. 1178-1202.
Are the disabled less loss averse? New evidence from the housing market (with Y. Arbel and S. Gabriel), Economic Inquiry, 54:1 (2016) pp. 1291-1318.
Anchoring under currency substitution: A ratchet price mechanism in the housing market (with R. Golan), Real Estate Economics, 45:4 (2017) pp. 861-897.
Housing affordability and inequality: A consumption-adjusted approach (with S. Gabriel and R. Golan), Journal of Housing Economics, 45 (2019).
Improved information shock and price dispersion: A natural experiment in the housing market (with R. Golan), Journal of Urban Economics, 112 (2019) pp. 70-84.
Can’t get there from here: Affordability distance to a superstar city (with S. Gabriel and R. Golan), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 80(C) (2020).
Price dispersion and time-on-market in the housing market (with R. Golan), Journal of Housing Economics, 58 (2022).
The role of political belief in COVID-19 vaccine resistance, virus transmission, and closure policy response (with S. Gabriel and R. Golan), Vaccines, 11(6) (2023).
Power and dominant coalitions in family business (with A. Carmeli, E. Sulganik, and D. Weiss), Academy of Management Review, 48(3) (2023) pp. 530-555.
