Peer-Reviewed Publications

1) Papanastasiou, Anastasios, Bradley J. Ruffle and Angela Lynn Zheng (forthcoming) “Compliance with Social Distancing: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Ontario during COVID-19”, Canadian Journal of Economics.

2) Maaz, Muhammad and Anastasios Papanastasiou "Matching with compatibility constraints: The case of the Canadian Medical Residency Match" Journal of Mechanism and Institution Design, 5:1, 99-117

3) Maaz, Muhammad and Anastasios Papanastasiou (2020) “Determining the optimal capacity and occupancy rate in a hospital: a theoretical model using queuing theory and marginal cost analysis”, Managerial and Decision Economics, 41:7, 1305-1311.

Working Papers

  • Papanastasiou, Anastasios (2017) “Moral Hazard and Horizontal Information”

  • Ferguson, Brian and Anastasios Papanastasiou (2015) “Drug Pricing and the Generics Paradox in the Context of Intertemporal Profit Maximization”

  • Papanastasiou, Anastasios (2014) “Patent Expiration and Competition: A Dynamic Limit Price Model”, Canadian Centre for Health Economics Working Paper No: 2014-10

Student Supervision (Undergraduate)

1. Daley Thomsen; USRA Research Project: “Orphan Drugs in Canada: The Effect of Patent Expiration on Prices”, McMaster Undergraduate Student Research Award 2018 Recipient (2017-2018).

2. Muhammad Maaz; HTSCI 3H06 - Inquiry Project: “Are Ontario obstetrics wards under-occupied or under-equipped?: An analysis of their capacity”; Best student presentation award at the Atlantic Canada Economics Association annual conference (2019).

3. Shahed Salehi; ECON 4M06 – Directed Research I. Project title: “Effects of Demographic Changes on Health Care Expenditure in Canada” (2019).

4. Kosta Karolidis; ISCI 4A12 – Integrated Science IV: “Evaluating Health Policies on Addictive Substances Across Countries” (2019).

5. Muhammad Maaz; HTHSCI 4A15S - Senior Thesis: “Matching theory in the Context of the Canadian Medical Residency Market: The effect of Language Constraints” (2019-2020).

6. Sophie Leslie; ARTSCI 4C06 – Thesis: “The Psychosocial Effects of COVID-19 Policies on Students” (2021-2022)

7. Linnea Wrazej; ARTSCI 4C06 – Thesis: “Environmental Impacts of Cryptocurrency” (2021-)

8. William Pereira; HTHSCI 3H06 – Inquiry Project: “A Comparison of Gale-Shapley and Boston Mechanisms in School Choice” (2021-)

9. Omar Eid; USRA Research Project: “Canadian Pharmacare: Examining Equity Discrepancies of Provincia/Territorial Drug Assistance Programs” (2021-), McMaster Undergraduate Student Research Award 2021 Recipient.

Other

  • Measuring the Potential Economic Impacts of the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act (with Paul Smetanin, David Stiff and Sener Salci), September 2017