LDI Research Seminar with Pierre Thomas Leger, PhD

“Standardization Under Group Incentives”

8:00a.m. – 9:30a.m. April 27, 2012

Colonial Penn Center Auditorium, 3641 Locust Walk

Pierre Thomas Léger is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Applied Economics at HEC Montréal where he holds the Professorship in Health Economics. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Economics and Political Science from the University of Ottawa and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

Prof. Léger is a fellow of the Inter-University Centre on Risk, Economic Policies and Employment (CIRPÉE) and the Center for Inter-University Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO), and is an associate fellow of France’s Centre pour Recherche Économique et ses Applications (CEPREMAP). He also spent the 2006–2007 academic year as a Visiting Professor at the Paris School of Economics.

Prof. Léger specializes in the industrial organization of healthcare, health economics and applied econometrics, with special emphasis on physician payment mechanisms. He is currently working on the effects of profit-sharing in cardiology teams, the effect of medical errors on consumption of medical services and issues related to physician quality.


This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required

Sponsored by the Charles C. Leighton, MD Memorial Lecture Fund