Meeting Time: Tuesday 12:45-2:45pm
Location: Littauer, North Yard, Room M-42
Course Description: The seminar will focus on policy issues in health economics. We will read papers on an assortment of policy options and formulate frameworks for analyzing their likely impacts on outcomes of interest. Examples include the analysis of mergers in hospital and insurance markets, the choice of capitation vs fee for service contracts and its impact on cost and quality of care, policy options for health insurance, and the re-structuring of health service providers. Where possible we will use data and do the analysis quantitatively. Some knowledge of microeconomic and statistical tools, particularly those related to industrial organization, will be helpful (a few of the needed techniques will be taught during the course).
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Ec 2612 Advanced Topics in Industrial Organization [Spring 2020 - Graduate Class]
Meeting Time: Wednesday 12:00-2:45pm
Location: Littauer, North Yard, Room M-15
Course Description: This course will cover both theoretical and econometric tools that are being used to explore more appropriate ways of analyzing market outcomes. Examples of theoretical topics may include: consumer search, advertising, dynamic models of collusion and pricing, and bargaining in vertical markets. Examples of econometric topics may include: simulation, semi-parametric, and moment inequalities in relation to problems that arise in industrial organization applications (e.g., entry, product repositioning, transition dynamics, and decision making with computational constraints).
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Ec 3109 Seminar in Industrial Organization [2019-2020 - Seminar]
Meeting Time: Monday 3:00-4:15pm
Location: Littauer, North Yard, Room M-16
Course Description: Invited scholars from other institutions present current research in the field in a seminar setting.
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Ec 3009 Graduate Student Workshop in Industrial Organization [2019-2020 - Graduate Research Meeting]
Meeting Time: Wednesday 3:00pm - 4:15pm
Location: Littauer, North Yard, Room M-16
Course Description: Participants present their own research in progress in an informal setting. Open to doctoral students in economics who have passed their general examinations and are in the early stages of their dissertations.
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Ec 2909 Graduate Student Reading Group in Industrial Organization [2019-2020 - Graduate Research Meeting]
Meeting Time: Tuesday 10:30am - 11:30am
Location: Littauer, North Yard, Room M-15