Teaching

IO Boot Camp

Graduate mini-course · Summers 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026

• Lecture notes(PDF)

HLTHPOL 3070 — Graduate Reading Course: Economics

Graduate · 2025–2026

• Reading list, 2026(PDF)

ECON 445 — Introduction to Industrial Organization

Undergraduate

This course covers the causes and consequences of firms’ strategic behavior, focusing on situations in which the assumptions behind perfect competition do not hold. We use analytical tools from microeconomic theory and basic econometrics to study topics such as price competition, product design, collusion and cartels, firm-to-firm supply relationships, mergers, and antitrust policy.

• Syllabus, Fall 2021(PDF)

ECON 590 / ECON 890 — The Economics of Health Care Markets and Policy

Undergraduate (590) and graduate (890)

This course covers the economics of health care markets and firms. We examine how the strategic choices of supply-side actors (e.g. insurance companies, health care providers, drug manufacturers) affect the welfare of patients and discuss the role government regulation plays in shaping market outcomes.

• Syllabus, Spring 2021, undergraduate(PDF)
• Syllabus, Spring 2021, graduate(PDF)

Lecture notes

• Adverse Selection and Cost Functions in Insurance Markets(PDF)
• Bargaining in Vertical Markets(PDF)
• Pay for Performance Contracts in Healthcare Markets(PDF)
• Bargaining and Restricted Networks(PDF)
• Consolidation and Competition in Healthcare Markets(PDF)
• Economics of the Pharmaceutical Market(PDF)