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ECON 465: Health Economics

Semester: Summer 2025

Institution: University of Maryland

Class Type: Undergraduate

Syllabus

An examination of the structure, conduct, and performance of the health care market, including a study of physician services, the pharmaceutical industry, the hospital market and health insurance.  Students will analyze markets for health care and related products by examining the incentives and constraints for various participants, including individuals, family units, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and insurance providers. Analysis will combine both theoretical models and empirical tools.

ECON 626: Empirical Microeconomics

Semester: Fall 2025

Institution: University of Maryland

Class Type: PhD

To provide students with the opportunity to use empirical techniques that are particularly valuable in the analysis of microeconomic data. Topics include panel data, nonlinear optimization, limited dependent variables, truncated, censored, selected samples, the analysis of natural experiments, and quantile regressions. This course will emphasize hands-on practical experience.

ECON 465: Health Economics

Semester: Spring 2025

Institution: University of Maryland

Class Type: Undergraduate

An examination of the structure, conduct, and performance of the health care market, including a study of physician services, the pharmaceutical industry, the hospital market and health insurance.  Students will analyze markets for health care and related products by examining the incentives and constraints for various participants, including individuals, family units, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and insurance providers. Analysis will combine both theoretical models and empirical tools.

ECON 311: American Economic History Before the Civil War

Semester: Fall 2024

Institution: University of Maryland

Class Type: Undergraduate

Economic concepts are used to analyze various aspects of the founding and early history of the U.S., including the British settlement of the North American colonies, the economics of the American Revolutionary war, the writing of the Constitution, the development of financial markets, policies on public lands and the spread of western agriculture, slavery, banking, and early industrialization.

ECON 200: Principles of Microeconomics

Semesters: Fall 2023, Spring 2024

Institution: University of Maryland

Class Type: Undergraduate

Introduces economic models used to analyze economic behavior by individuals and firms and consequent market outcomes. Applies conceptual analysis to several policy issues and surveys a variety of specific topics within the broad scope of microeconomics.