Liran Einav is new director of industrial organization program.

• Position: NBER News - Brief article

Liran Einav is a professor of economics at Stanford, where he has taught since 2002. He received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from Harvard.

An NBER research associate since 2008, he has been a co-director of the Bureau's Working Group on Insurance Economics since 2012.

Einav has made important contributions to a range of topics in industrial organization and applied microeconomics more generally, including the role of competition and imperfect information in consumer credit and health insurance markets. He has developed empirical models of both insurance demand and insurance pricing, and explored the...