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:
595
Kravis
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.
Teaching
Summer 2021
Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Services
(MBA)
Fall 2021
Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Services
(MBA)
Understanding and Transforming the US Healthcare System
(EMBA)
Spring 2020
Understanding and Transforming the US Healthcare System
(EMBA)
Summer 2020
Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Services
(MBA)
Fall 2020
Understanding and Transforming the US Healthcare System
(EMBA)
Transforming the Delivery of Healthcare Services
(MBA)
Research
Journal articles
Transparency and Negotiated Prices: The Value of Information in Hospital-Supplier Bargaining
In Journal of Political Economy
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Matthew Grennan, Ashley Swanson
Prescription Drug Use under Medicare Part D: A Linear Model of Nonlinear Budget Sets
In Journal of Public Economics
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Jason Abaluck, Jonathan Gruber, Ashley Swanson
Social Impact Bonds: New Product or New Package?
In The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Mark Pauly, Ashley Swanson
Early Medicaid Expansion Associated with Reduced Payday Borrowing In California
In Health Affairs
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Heidi Allen, Tal Gross, Ashley Swanson, Jialan Wang
Marketplace Plans with Narrow Physician Networks Feature Lower Monthly Premiums Than Plans with Larger Networks
In Health Affairs
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Zuleyha Cidav, Daniel Polsky, Ashley Swanson
Do Schools Matter for High Math Achievement? Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions
In American Economic Review
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Glenn Ellison, Ashley Swanson
The Closeness-Communication Bias: Increased Egocentrism among Friends Versus Strangers
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Travis Carter, Nicholas Epley, Boaz Keysar, Kenneth Savitsky, Ashley Swanson
The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions
In Journal of Economic Perspectives
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Glenn Ellison, Ashley Swanson
Working papers
Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Glenn Ellison, Ashley Swanson
Mergers and Marginal Costs: New Evidence on Hospital Buyer Power
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Stuart Craig, Matthew Grennan, Ashley Swanson
Preferred Pharmacy Networks and Drug Costs
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Amanda Starc, Ashley Swanson
Physician-Industry Interactions: Persuasion and Welfare
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Aaron Chatterji, Matthew Grennan, Kyle Myers, Ashley Swanson