Sunday 29 April 2012

John Bates Clark Medalist

Health economist Amy Finkelstein has been named this year's winner of the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economics Association.

Her research is focused on health insurance markets. Within this area, she has had three main interrelated lines of research: (a) Tests on the presence of asymmetric information in insurance markets; (b) Structural estimation and analysis of welfare implications of models with asymmetric information; (c) Effects of public intervention in health and long-term care insurance markets.

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