Avner Greif

Avner Greif
Born1955
Tel Aviv
NationalityIsrael and U.S.
Academic career
FieldEconomic history
InstitutionStanford University
School or
tradition		New institutional economics
Alma materNorthwestern University
Tel Aviv University
Doctoral
advisor		Joel Mokyr[1]
John C. Panzar[1]
William Rogerson[1]

Avner Greif (/ɡraɪf/; born 1955) is an economics professor at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He holds a chaired professorship as Bowman Family Professor in the Humanities and Sciences.

Greif received his PhD in Economics at Northwestern University, where Joel Mokyr acted as his supervisor,[2] in 1989 and started his career at Stanford University in 1989 until he received tenure in 1994. In 1998 he received a 'genius grant'[3] from the MacArthur Foundation. His works deal with economic history and role of institutions in economic development, including analysis of trade in medieval Europe and Levant.

  1. ^ a b c Greif, Avner (1991). "The Organization of Long-Distance Trade: Reputation and Coalitions in the Geniza Documents and Genoa During the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries". The Journal of Economic History. 51 (2): 459. doi:10.1017/s0022050700039097. S2CID 154791174.
  2. ^ "Avner Greif's Homepage at Stanford Department of Economics". Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
  3. ^ "1998 MacArthur Foundation Awards".