Dan Peled (University of Haifa ) – Social Science

Prof. Dan Peled, Department of Economics, Univ. of Haifa. Ph.D.: Univ. of Minnesota, 1980. Fields of Interest: technological innovation, economics of R&D, economic growth, defense economics. Current position: Senior Advisor, Research Authority, University of Haifa. Senior Research Associate, Samuel Neaman Institute (SNI) at the Technion, past founder and director of the program on Economics of National Security, (ENS), and Academic coordinator – Science Technology and the Economy (STE) at SNI.

Interested in emergency and defense resources and responsibility allocations, including the study of external effects and complementarities between jurisdictions, levels of government and individual agents, and designing incentives for implementing the desirable distribution of preventive, detection and emergency treatment efforts.