Topics include:

• Impact of health IT adoption on hospitals’ financial and quality performance
• Health interventions and medication adherence
• Medical devices and recalls
• Innovation in pharmaceuticals markets
• Health IT adoption and diffusion among physician clinics
• Health data analytics
• Health insurance
• Health policy related to Medicare and Medicaid
• Benefit-cost policy evaluation
• Development health economics

Faculty: Vivek Ghosal, Jason Huh, and Jianjing Lin

Topics include:

• Adoption and diffusion of new technologies
• Evolution of technologies and industry dynamics
• Disruptive technological change
• Firms’ R&D and patenting decisions
• Strategic behavior in technology adoption
• Network externalities in information technology
• Internationalization of innovation
• Evaluation of subsidy programs on the diffusion of new technology
• Innovation and competition
• Human capital and innovation
• Firm and industry productivity
• Innovation-knowledge stocks accumulation
• Product and process innovation

Faculty: Vivek Ghosal, Michael Klein, Jianjing Lin, and Kenneth L. Simons

Topics include:

• Regulatory reform
• Regulatory assessments
• Optimum regulatory standards
• Impact of regulatory mandates on firm strategy
• Benefit-cost approach to regulations
• International comparisons of regulatory standards
• Health-care regulations and policy

Faculty: Vivek Ghosal and Jason Huh

Topics include:

• Antitrust laws and enforcement
• Environmental laws and enforcement
• Valuation of financial assets and closely held businesses
• Forensic economics
• Copyright law
• Intellectual property laws and enforcement
• Health-care laws

Faculty: Vivek Ghosal, Michael Klein, and Robert Jones

Topics include:

• Structural estimation
• Cluster computation
• Time-series analysis
• Economic and financial forecasting
• Forecast accuracy
• Simulation and computational methods
• Measuring economic uncertainty
• Quantile regressions
• Dynamic panel data models
• Large factor models
• Modeling and testing for structural breaks
• Model misspecification
• Nonparametric and semiparametric methods
• Spatial analysis
• Big data analytics

Faculty: Rui Fan, Jason Huh, Jianjing Lin, Huaming Peng, and Kenneth L. Simons

Topics include:

• Industry shakeouts
• Industry dynamics
• Firm entry and exit
• Product variety and differentiation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Competition
• Market structure and market power
• Antitrust

Faculty: Vivek Ghosal, Jianjing Lin, and Kenneth L. Simons

Topics include:

• Foreign direct investment
• Organization of multinational firms
• Dynamics of comparative advantage
• Technological spillovers
• Product space connectedness
• Optimal trade and industrial policy

Faculty: Michael Klein

Topics include:

• Optoelectronics technology and innovation
• LED lighting
• Solar photovoltaics

Faculty: Kenneth L. Simons