BEN  HANDEL

Assistant Professor

Mailing Address:
University of California
Department of Economics
508-1 Evans Hall #3880
Berkeley, CA 94720

Office Location: 521 Evans Hall
Tel No. (510) 643-0708
Fax No. (510) 642-6615

E-mail: handel@berkeley.edu

Fields of Specialization:

• Industrial Organization
• Health Economics
• Economics of Information / Economics of Contracts
• Applied Microeconomics

Publications & Forthcoming Papers

• Adverse Selection and Inertia in Health Insurance Markets: When Nudging Hurts
  Online Appendix
  This version: March 2013
  Forthcoming, American Economic Review
• Robust Firm Pricing with Panel Data
  Joint work with Kanishka Misra and James Roberts
  Journal of Econometrics, vol. 174 (2), 2013, 165-185

Selected Working Papers

• Equilibria in Health Exchanges: Adverse Selection vs. Re-Classification Risk
  Joint work with Igal Hendel and Michael D. Whinston
  Work in progress
  
• Health Insurance for Humans: Information Frictions, Plan Choice, and Consumer Welfare
  Joint work with Jonathan T. Kolstad
  Work in progress
  
• Information Frictions and the Welfare Consequences of Adverse Selection
  Joint work with Jonathan T. Kolstad
  Work in progress
  
• Better Off Without You?: Hassle Costs and Foregone Benefits in Flexible Spending Accounts
  Joint work with Igal Hendel and Michael D. Whinston
  Work in progress
  
• Market Power and Market Ignorance
  This version: October 2009

Courses

• Economics 220A, Graduate Industrial Organization
  Spring 2013
  Economics 220A, Graduate Industrial Organization
  Spring 2012
• Economics 221, Industrial Organization Seminar, 2010-present