Seminars: Health Economics
| Seminar in Health Economics |
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| Term: Spring 2026 |
| Location: Locations at BU/MIT/HMS/HKS |
| Meeting Time: Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM |
Description: Focuses on theory, econometric models, and public policy of health care. Frontier work in health economics presented and discussed by instructors and outside speakers. May be taken for credit only by dissertation students writing a research paper. Offered jointly with the Kennedy School as SUP-951. |
List Serve/Announcements: To be added to the seminar email list, please email Nicole Levitsky at nel@bu.edu. For further information, please email Steve Walker at steven_walker@hks.harvard.edu. Please visit the HKS Health Economics Seminar website for each speaker's paper that will be presented. |
| DATE | SEMINAR LOCATION | SPEAKER | AFFILIATION | TITLE |
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01/29 | BU Questrom, HAR 324 | Kai Shen Lim | Harvard University | "Competing Complements in Public-Private Hospital Markets" |
02/05 | BU Questrom, HAR 324 | Jessica Banthin | Urban Institute | "The Future of the Affordable Care Act Marketplace: Projections for 2026 based on a Microsimulation Model" |
02/12 | BU Questrom, HAR 324 | Jon Gruber | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | "Spending to Save: The Subscription Model for Eradicating Hepatitis C in Louisiana" |
02/19 | No Seminar | |||
02/26 Canceled due to weather | Victoria Marone | Yale University | "The Risk Protection of Moral Hazard" | |
03/05 | Keith Ericson | Boston University | "Moral Hazard under Liquidity Constraints" | |
03/12 | Tom Wollmann | Boston University | "Painful Bargaining: Evidence from Anesthesia Rollups" | |
03/19 | No Seminar | |||
03/26 | HMS, HCP, 180A Longwood Ave., Rm 224E | Anna Russo | Harvard University | "Waiting or Paying for Healthcare: Evidence from the Veterans Health Administration" |
04/02 | HMS, HCP, 180A Longwood Ave., Rm 224E | Anran Li | University of Minnesota | "Going for Broker? Intermediation in Health Insurance Markets" |
04/09 | HMS, HCP, 180A Longwood Ave., Rm 224E | Chris Whaley | Brown University | "Stress Testing Markets for Cardiac Care" |
04/16 | Amitabh Chandra | Harvard University | "Living Large or Long? Preference Estimates from Completed-Life Stories" | |
04/23 | Johnny Hyunh | Dartmouth College | "The Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Pollution on Health" | |
04/30 | Luca Maini | Harvard Medical School | "Insurance Design and the Passthrough of Nominal Drug Prices" |