Liran Einav

Economist working on industrial organization and empirical economics more broadly, he contributed to several subfields of economics. These include: the study of insurance markets, including his well-known paper jointly written with Alma Cohen Estimating Risk Preferences from the Deductible Choices published in the American Economic Review, as well as his more recent work on this topic focusing on estimation of welfare costs of asymmetric information from United Kingdom annuity markets (in particular his joint work with Amy Finkelstein and Paul Schrimpf in Econometrica) and his work on moral hazard in health insurance markets; the study of subprime loan markets, especially in the context of consumer credit for automobiles, on which he worked jointly with Mark Jenkins and Jonathan Levin; and his work on online markets, again jointly with Jonathan Levin and others.