Aviv Nevo

Aviv Nevo
  • George A. Weiss and Lydia Bravo Weiss University Professor
  • Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
  • Professor of Economics
  • Professor of Marketing

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    335 Vance Hall
    3733 Spruce Street
    University of Pennsylvania
    Philadelphia, PA 19104-6340

Overview

Aviv Nevo is the seventeenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, with appointments in the Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, the Department of Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Marketing in the Wharton School.

Nevo is a leading scholar in the fields of industrial organization, econometrics, marketing, and antitrust. Nevo draws from his experience across academic, governmental, and corporate sectors to address pressing real-world issues, opening pathways for a broader understanding of national and global economies. His past research includes topics in the areas of health economics, health care, telecommunications, and real estate brokerages, as well as questions involving the demand for packaged goods and its implications for mergers and market power.

Nevo served as chief economist in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, advising attorneys on merger, civil, and criminal investigations in addition to leading the division’s Economic Analysis Group. He has been retained as an expert by the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and private firms in cases related to antitrust and competition, among other matters. Nevo’s expertise is routinely relied upon to help adjucate some of the most complex investigations, commercial litigations, and regulatory proceedings in countries around the world.

A Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.

Professor Nevo earned a Ph.D. in 1997 and AM in 1994 in economics from Harvard University and a BSc with Special Honors in mathematics and economics from Tel Aviv University in 1991.

 

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Research

  • Amandeep Singh, Kartik Hosanagar, Aviv Nevo (Working), Network Externalities and Cross-Platform App Development in Mobile Platforms.

Teaching

All Courses

  • ECON4999 - Independent Study

    Individual study and research under the direction of a member of the Economics Department faculty. At a minimum, the student must write a major paper summarizing, unifying, and interpreting the results of the study. This is a one semester, one c.u. course.

  • ECON8400 - Topics in Adv Empirical Micro

    Topics in Advanced Economic Theory and Mathematical Economics

  • ECON8450 - Emp. Methods Indust Org.

    The goal of the course is to explore links between theory and data in order to identify and test implications of economic models. Reduced form and structural approaches will be used to study a variety of topics that include: Estimation of multiproduct cost functions; detection of collusion, multimarket contact, and network externalities; asymmetric information: auctions and nonlinear pricing; price competition and product differentiation; and complementarities: innovation and organizational design.

  • ECON9450 - Industrial Organization

    Workshop

  • MKTG7540 - Pricing Policy

    The course provides a systematic presentation of the factors to be considered when setting price, and shows how pricing alternatives are developed. Analytical methods are developed and new approaches are explored for solving pricing decisions.

  • MKTG9950 - Dissertation

  • MKTG9990 - Independent Study

    Requires written permission of instructor and the department graduate adviser.

Activity

Latest Research

Amandeep Singh, Kartik Hosanagar, Aviv Nevo (Working), Network Externalities and Cross-Platform App Development in Mobile Platforms.
All Research