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 Buidling

University Park, PA 16801

conor.ryan [at] psu.edu


Working Papers

Works-In-Progress

The Role of Information in Pharmaceutical Advertising: Theory and Evidence (with Kelli Marquardt)

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


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


​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


​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.