LDI/Wharton Penn Risk Insurance Program Research Seminar with Amy Finkelstein, PhD
“Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity, Competition and Resource Allocation in the U.S. Health Care Sector”
Dr. Amy Finkelstein is a Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also the co-Director of the Public Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where she is a Research Associate. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics.
Dr. Finkelstein’s research is in the areas of public finance and health economics. Her two primary research interests are market failures and government intervention in insurance markets, and the impact of public policy on the health care sector.
Dr. Finkelstein received her AB summa cum laude in Government from Harvard University in 1995, and an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University in 1997, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She received her PhD in Economics from MIT in 2001. Prior to joining the MIT faculty in 2005, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
Sponsored by the Leonard Davis Institute and the Wharton Penn Risk Insurance Program.