Liran Einav

Liran Einav

Professor

Stanford

PhD: MIT, 2002

Empirical IO Health Economics Big Data

About

Liran Einav pioneered the use of large-scale private sector data for economics research. His collaborations with Visa and e-commerce platforms produced landmark studies. He serves as a Senior Fellow at SIEPR and co-editor of leading journals.

Key Work

2020

The Data Revolution and Economic Analysis

NBER Macro Annual

How private data is transforming economics

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2021

Consumer Spending and Economic Stimulus

QJE

Using Visa data to track spending in real-time

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Celebrating the pioneers of tech economics