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Shoshana Vasserman is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research applies industrial organization and applied microeconomics to policy analysis, focusing on information revelation, risk sharing, and commitment mechanisms in contexts such as public procurement, pharmaceutical pricing, and auto insurance.
She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2019, an AM in Economics from Harvard (2016), and a BS in Mathematics and Economics from MIT (2013). Prior to joining Stanford, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
Vasserman's work often combines theoretical modeling with empirical analysis to study auction design, privacy policies, and market efficiency. Her publications appear in leading journals including Econometrica and PNAS.
Honors include:
- Rosenberg Faculty Scholar (2023–24)
- Lacob Family Faculty Scholar (2021–22)
- Padma Desai Dissertation Prize (2019)
She teaches courses in data-driven decision making (OIT 274) and mentors students through the Research Fellows Practicum (GSBGEN 697). Current projects explore congestion pricing, bargaining in pharmaceutical markets, and robustness measures for welfare analysis.
