Avigail Kifer

Principal at Cornerstone Research

Speaker

Avigail Kifer specializes in merger review, antitrust and competition, and technology and artificial intelligence (AI) matters. She has expertise in empirical industrial organization and quantitative marketing, and draws on academic and market research to develop robust, holistic analyses. Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) has named Dr. Kifer a Future Leader among economists in the global competition field. Women@ has recognized her as an “up-and-coming” woman professional in the competition space.

Dr. Kifer’s industry experience includes digital goods, financial services, healthcare, heavy manufacturing, information technology, internet advertising, life sciences, retail, and transportation. She has experience conducting statistical analysis of proprietary big data.

Dr. Kifer assesses class certification, liability, and damages claims arising in a variety of competition matters. She has addressed issues involving bundling and tying, horizontal price fixing, vertical exclusionary practices, and attempted monopolization. In healthcare, she has analyzed relevant markets and evaluated allegations of market power, competitive effects, and exclusionary conduct.

Dr. Kifer speaks, consults, and publishes on mergers and competition issues related to tech, big data, ecommerce, and healthcare, and has received multiple awards for her work. In 2025, she won a Concurrences Antitrust Writing Award for her article, “Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, and Antitrust: An Overview.” Concurrences also recognized her 2022 coauthored article, “Free Can Make Cents: How to Think About ‘Free’ in Competitive Markets,” with an Antitrust Writing Award.

Dr. Kifer has served as a guest lecturer in classes at Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School.