【12月11日】Why Do Americans Spend So Much More

报告题目：Why Do Americans Spend So Much More in Medical Care than Europeans
 
时间：2012年12月11日上午10：00-11：30
 
地点：北京大学经济学院302会议室
 
主讲人：何晖 （上海财经大学经济学院）
 
文章摘要：
Empirical evidence suggests that both leisure time and medical care are important inputs in health production. We present a general equilibrium model in which taxation is a key determinant of the composition of these two inputs in the endogenous accumulation of health capital. In the model, higher taxes lead to using relatively more leisure time and relatively less medical care in producing health. We find that the difference in taxation can explain a large fraction of the difference in health expenditure-GDP ratio and virtually all of the difference in time input in health production between the US and Europe.
 
何晖博士简介：
何晖，上海财经大学经济学院副教授，明尼苏达大学博士，北京大学经济学院本科、硕士。研究领域主要是宏观经济学，劳动经济学，健康经济学，计算经济学。在European Economic Review，Review of Economic Dynamics发表论文多篇。