Courses (UNC)

ECON 445 - Introduction to Industrial Organization (UG)
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 (Spring 2020), Syllabus (Fall 2021)

ECON 590 - The Economics of Health Care Markets and Policy (UG)
ECON 890 - Health Economics: Markets and Supply-Side Actors (G)
This course—offered both in an undergraduate and a graduate version—covers the economics of health care markets and firms. We examine how the strategic choices of supply-side actors in this market (e.g. insurance companies, health care providers, drug manufacturers) affect the welfare of patients, and discuss the role government regulation can play in shaping market outcomes. Topics include competition in insurance markets, physician payment and performance, provider consolidation, price regulation in the pharmaceutical market, and more.
Syllabus (Spring 2021, UG), Syllabus (Spring 2021, G)

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

Misc. lecture notes

Moment Inequalities for Empirical Research (notes targeted to a 2nd year graduate course in IO)