Ashley T. Swanson
Assistant Professor
Economics
Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012; A.B., Economics and A.B., Statistics, University of Chicago, 2005
Joined CBS in 2019
Office:
621
Uris
E-mail:
[email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Ashley Swanson, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her AB in Economics and Statistics from the University of Chicago, and her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. Professor Swanson’s research interests include industrial organization and health economics.
Professor Swanson’s research focuses on the effects of market structure, incentives, and information in health care markets on choices, spending, and health outcomes. Her recent work has used a range of econometric tools to analyze the pricing and use of medical technologies, competition in the Medicare Part D and ACA health insurance exchange markets, physician-hospital integration, and payments from pharmaceutical and medical device firms to physicians. This work sheds light on important recent policy issues, such as price transparency requirements, regulation of physician-industry relationships, health care antitrust enforcement, and regulation of health insurance markets.