Professor of health economics

GENERAL INFORMATION

In September 2008 I joined the Economics Department at the University of Augsburg to assume a position as professor of health economics (with tenure). There are close ties to the Economics Department of the University of Waterloo where I worked as an assistant professor before I returned to Germany. As co-investigator I am also affiliated with McMaster University and its Economics Department where I work on the project "Financing and funding health care: Exploring equity and efficiency using experimental economic methods" (principal investigator: Jerry Hurley) funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Most of my research is on incentives, competition and regulation in health care systems using theoretical as well as empirical methods. My research interests include Health Economics, Public Economics, Political Economy, Industrial Organization, and applied Microeconometrics.