She joined the department in January 2003 after finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2011 and 2007, she was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Nisvan’s research interests are in the areas of industrial organization and public economics. In the area of industrial organization, her research mainly focuses on the law and economics of innovation, and competition policy. In the area of public economics, she has worked on cultural integration, charitable giving, and cross-cultural variation in corruption attitudes.