Health Economics

This is a health economics course for the Master and Ph.D. level. The purpose of this course is to teach students to analyze the health market using the economic tools. The class will begin with some backgrounds on U.S. and Taiwan institutions, then move to the topics such as moral hazard and adverse selection in the insurance market, benefits of medical care, physician-patient interaction, and payment systems for providers. Each topic covers several selected papers, including both theoretical and empirical ones.