Current Position:

Professor, Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York

Research Interests: 

Health Economics                                      

Key research areas:

- waiting times and waiting lists

- hospital competition and quality

- pay for performance

- optimal design of incentive schemes

- public-private mix in healthcare provision

- long term care 

Short bio

Luigi Siciliani is a Professor of Health Economics at the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York, where he directs the MSc in Health Economics. He is currently an Editor of the Journal of Health Economics. He was chair (2020-22) and co-chair (2017-19) of the Kenneth Arrow Award Committee for best paper in field of health economics .

He is affiliated with the Centre for Health Economics and the Economics of Health and Social Care Research Unit. He has specialised in the economics of hospitals and has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include waiting times for non-emergency treatment, hospital quality competition, contracting theory applied to health care, pay for performance and coordination between health and social care.

He is a Senior Expert Adviser for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.  He was a member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health in 2017-2022.  Prior to joining the University of York in 2003, he worked at the OECD in Paris for two years to conduct an international project on policies to reduce waiting times in healthcare.

contact:   luigi.siciliani [at] york.ac.uk