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BP Centennial Professor - Visitor
Expertise: health economics, industrial organization, public economics, applied microeconomics
12 July 2022
Leonardo Bursztyn, Jonathan Kolstad, Aakaash Rao, Pietro Tebaldi and Noam Yuchtman
We study how the politicization of policies designed to correct market failures can undermine their effectiveness. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was among the most politically divisive expansions o... Read more...
02 October 2020
Benjamin Handel, Jonathan Kolstad, Thomas Minten and Johannes Spinnewijn
Market provision of impure public goods such as insurance, retirement savings and education is common and growing as policy makers seek to offer more choice and gain efficiencies. This approach induces an important trade... Read more...
09 May 2018
Jonathan Kolstad (UC Berkeley)
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23 November 2015
Benjamin Handel, Jonathan T. Kolstad and Johannes Spinnewijn
This paper develops and implements a general framework to study insurance market equilibrium and evaluate policy interventions in the presence of choice frictions. Friction-reducing policies can increase welfare by facil... Read more...
07 May 2015
