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Liran Einav is a professor of economics at Stanford University. His research focuses on industrial organization and applied microeconomics, with particular focus on insurance markets and the consequences of adverse selection and moral hazard. He has been an NBER affiliate since 2005.

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 Asset Transfers and End-of-Life Management of Oil and Gas Wells figure
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The US has an estimated 2.1 million abandoned and unplugged oil and gas wells, as well as nearly 1 million still-producing wells. At the end of their...
Long Run Evolution of the Size Distribution of Businesses
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 In Business Concentration Around the World: 1900–2020 (NBER Working Paper 34711), Yueran Ma, Mengdi Zhang, and Kaspar Zimmermann analyze data...
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 The widespread adoption of mobile web and smartphone apps was expected to dramatically reduce consumer search costs and intensify price competition,...
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