Bernard Salanié

Bernard Salanié is the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2005. He served as Department Vice-chair (2013-15) and Chair (2016-19). He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and served as its Executive Vice-President from 2014 to 2018. He is also an elected Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics. Pr Salanié received his PhD in Economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 1992. Before moving to New York, he served in a variety of

positions at Insee in Paris, from business surveys and forecasting to macroeconomic policy studies to teaching and research. He was also a Professor at Ecole Polytechnique. He has held visiting positions at the Toulouse School of Economics, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University. He was a Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies between 2003 and 2007. 

He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Annals in Economics and Statistics. Salanié is the author of three graduate textbooks and more than 60 papers. His research interests range from microeconomic theory to econometric methods. His best-known contributions investigate asymmetric information, as well as behavior under risk. He has also worked in several areas of applied microeconomics: labor economics, public finance, or the economics of the family. He is currently teaching advanced microeconomics, econometrics, and a seminar on the economics of climate change. 

His current research projects relate to the econometric methods used in applied microeconomics; the economics of matching markets; and insurance. Salanié also published an equation-free book in France: L’économie sans tabou and contributed to various French newspapers: Le Figaro, Les Echos, and La Tribune.