Teaching

Information Economics

This 20 hour, 10 session MBA elective course applies game theory and information theory to business and policy settings. Topics include asymmetric information, information search, information cascades, auctions and market design.

Microeconomics

This 25 session MBA core course introduces the principles of microeconomics and their applications, assuming students have no prior knowledge of economics.

Organizational Economics

This 20 session course is taught as an elective to PhD students from economics and other management disciplines. The course introduces the principal-agent framework and design of incentives (explicit and implicit) to increase the productivity of workers in organizations. Both theoretical and empirical literature is discussed, with a focus on open questions that students could explore as they begin dissertation writing. Prior training in PhD-level microeconomics and econometrics is assumed.

Healthcare Management

I co-chair this five day course at IIM Ahmedabad for industry executives. The course covers the latest topics in management, aimed at the healthcare sector.

Health Economics

This 15 session MBA elective uses economics lens to examine the healthcare sector, including topics such as public health, primary and tertiary care, public versus private provision of healthcare, productivity of personnel and operations, and third-party financing of healthcare provision.

Managerial Economics

This 20 hour, 10 session MBA core course introduces the principles of economics and their applications, assuming students have no prior knowledge of economics.

Economic Data and Program Analysis

This 10 hour, 5 session course is targeted at graduate public policy students, and introduces basic data collection and statistical analysis. Topics include primary data collection, sampling, summarizing data, and designing evaluations of public programs.

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