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Industries in Depth
Igal Hendel is Ida C. Cook Professor of Economics and co-director of the Center for the Study of Industrial Organization at Northwestern University. Igal served as co-editor of the Rand Journal of Economics and in the editorial board of The American Economic Review, and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. He is currently the Chair of the Department of Economics at Northwestern.