CEPA Lecture: Dan Ariely
About The Speaker
Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, and the author of New York Times Bestsellers Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality.
Behavior and Innovation in Health Markets Conference
This one-day conference brought leading health policy experts to Tulane to present work on behavior and innovation in healthcare markets.
Presenters:
Shin Yi Chou, Lehigh University, “The Benefits of Prenatal Care: Evidence from the SARS Epidemic in Taiwan”
Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California, “Price Shopping for Healthcare”
Michael Darden, Tulane University, “The Star Treatment: Estimating the Impact of Star Ratings on Medicare Advantage Enrollments”
Health Policy Working Group: Keith Finlay
About The Speaker
Dr. Finlay received his PhD from University of California, Irvine in 2007. His research fields are labor economics and applied econometrics, and his research interests include external effects of incarceration and crime and human capital in cities. Recently, Dr. Finlay has been looking at the effect of prescription requirements for pseudoephedrine on methamphetamine labs and use of methamphetamine.
Health Policy Working Group: Nina Yin
About The Speaker
Dr. Yin is one of the postdoc teaching fellows in the Murphy Institute and Department of Economics at Tulane University from 2013-2015. She obtained her PhD degree from Toulouse School of Economics, France in 2013. Before that, she obtained an M.A. from the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University. Her research interests involve health economics, empirical industrial organization and the economics of innovation and intellectual property.
Health Policy Working Group: Mark Diana
About The Speaker
Dr. Diana received his PhD in Health Services Organization and Research from Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests include vertical integration and de-integration of IT services in health care delivery systems, across systems and geographic boundaries; transaction cost economics and strategic management theory; IS/IT management, outsourcing, and organization.
Econ Seminar: Jianjing Lin
About The Speaker
Dr. Lin received her PhD from the University of Arizona. Her research interests include topics in Industrial Organization, Health Economics, and Applied Econometrics. Her current research focuses on hospitals’ adoption of Health Information Technology (HIT). In her studies, she applies structural modeling to evaluate which IT systems hospitals use. She is also interested in how the adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) impacts hospitals’ billing practices.
Health Policy Working Group: Gultekin Gollu
About The Speaker
Dr. Gollu received his PhD in Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He finished his BA and MA in Economics in Turkey. His main research interest is on economic and health outcomes of public health policies. His recent research focuses on labor supply effects of several policy changes under the Affordable Care Act. He is also interested in other public health topics; one of his studies is on the internet’s effect on patients’ mental health.
Health Policy Working Group: Briggs Depew
About The Speaker
Research
Health Economics, Labor Economics, US Economic History
Education
PhD University of Arizona, 2013
MA University of Arizona, 2010
BS Brigham Young University, Idaho, 2008
Publications
Health Policy Working Group: Gultekin Gollu
About The Speaker
Dr. Gollu received his PhD in Economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He finished his BA and MA in Economics in Turkey. His main research interest is on economic and health outcomes of public health policies. His recent research focuses on labor supply effects of several policy changes under the Affordable Care Act. He is also interested in other public health topics; one of his studies is on the internet’s effect on patients’ mental health.
Public Policy Working Group: Xian Liu
About The Speaker
Dr. Liu received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. His research interests are in environmental economics, economics of regulation, and political economics. His current research focuses on market-based environmental regulation, and the impact of transparency policies on the behavior of firms. He is also interested in using theories from behavioral economics to explain environmental behavior of firms and individuals.
