Glenn David Ellison (born 1965)[2] is an American economist who is the Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an Elected Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Ellison's research interests include game theory, industrial organization, education, finance, economic geography, and academia.
Ellison is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and has received several awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and a fellowship from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.
He has served on the National Science Foundation Economics Panel and as a council member for the Econometric Society.
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