NBER profile: Glenn Ellison.

Glenn Ellison is a Research Associate in the NBER's Industrial Organization Program and the Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at MIT. Ellison received an A.B. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1987, an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge University in 1988, and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1992.

He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at Harvard University. He returned to MIT in 1994 as the Ford Career Development Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1997. He has also served as Editor of Econometrica and has held visiting positions at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.

Ellison's primary specialties are game theory and industrial organization. His recent work has focused on electronic commerce and...