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CHING-TO ALBERT MA
Ph.D., London School of Economics (1988)
Professor of Economics

Research interests: Incentives, Industrial Organization, Health Economics

Associate Chair, Economics Department

Director, Industry Studies Program

CV: Curriculum Vitae
 

Published Papers in PDF files: papers

The famous hawks at the Economics Department (some years ago)

A number-slot game

Other papers:

“Public Report, Price, and Quality,” September 2011

“Health Insurance, Treatment Plan, and Delegation to Altruistic Physician,” October 2011 

"Experience Benefits and Firm Organization," March 2011

"Immigrants' Acculturation and Changes in Body Mass Index," forthcoming in Economics and Human Biology (with Tor Iversen and Haakon Meyer"

Public Sector Rationing and Private Sector Selection," forthcoming in Journal of Public Economic Theory (with Simona Grassi)

"Optimal Public Rationing and Price Response," Journal of Health Economics Vol. 30, 1197-1206, 2011 (with Simona Grassi)

"Market Conditions and General Practitioners' Referrals," International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, Vol. 11, 245-265, 2011 (with Tor Iversen)

“Optimal Health Care Contracts under Physician Agency,” Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, Number 101/102, January/June, 229-256, 2011 (with Philippe Chone)

“Health Insurance, Cost Expectations, and Adverse Job Turnovers,” Health Economics, Vol. 20, 27-44, 2011 (with Randall P. Ellis)

“Subsidy Design: Wealth versus Benefit,” Journal of Economics, Vol. 101, 49-72, 2010 (with Simona Grassi)

“Progress and Compliance in Alcohol Abuse Treatment,” Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 29, 213-225, 2010 (with Hsien-ming Lien, Mingshan Lu, and Thomas G. McGuire).

Lectures:

"Health Economics in the Small, Medium and Large"
A lecture at the 9th European Health Economics Workshop in Bergen, May 2008

"Beautiful Mind"
A lecture to graduate students of the joint Economics Ph.D. program of the Department of Economics,
University of Bergen, and the Norwegian School of Economics, August 2007

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