Philip A. Haile is the Ford Foundation Professor of Economics at Yale University. His research combines theoretical and empirical perspectives to study topics in industrial organization, with particular interest in auctions and differentiated products oligopoly markets. He received an A.B. in Economics from Duke University in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 1996.  At Yale he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in industrial organization and empirical methods.  He has been affiliated with the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics since 2003 and served as its Director from 2005 to 2011. He has served as Editor for the RAND Journal of Economics and an Associate Editor for Econometrica, the Econometrics Journal,  the American Economic Journal-Microeconomics, and the Journal of Industrial Economics. Professor Haile’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Ameritech Foundation, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He holds a secondary (courtesy) appointment in the Yale School of Management. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale; a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); a Fellow of the Econometric Society; a Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics; and an International Fellow of the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CEMMAP) at University College-London.