I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Penn State. My current research focuses on imperfect competition in health care markets. 


Research Interests:

Industrial Organization, Health Care, and Applied Microeconomics


Contact Information:

505 Kern Building

University Park, PA 16802

conor.ryan [at] psu.edu


Working Papers

Publications

Sources of Inertia in Health Plan Choice in the Individual Health Insurance Market (with Coleman Drake and Bryan Dowd), Journal of Public Economics, 208, 2022: 10462

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The Demand for Individual Insurance: Evidence from a Private Online Marketplace (with Roger Feldman and Stephen Parente), American Journal of Health Economics, 8(2), 2022: 275-299

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​Upward Pricing Pressure as a Predictor of Merger Price Effects (with Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, and Gloria Sheu), International Journal of Industrial Organization, 52, 2017: 216-247

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​Pass-Through and the Prediction of Merger Price Effects (with Nathan Miller, Marc Remer, and Gloria Sheu), Journal of Industrial Economics, 64(4) 201, 2016: 683-709. 

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