Keith Ericson

Keith Marzilli Ericson is a TPRI Faculty Fellow and an Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics and the American Journal of Health Economics. He is also the Faculty Director of the Undergraduate Business Analytics Program at the Questrom School of Business. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Professor Ericson’s research seeks to identify how to make health care markets work better. He has shown how pricing regulation interacts with imperfect competition, the dynamic pricing strategies used by health insurers, the ways hospital negotiate prices with insurers, and the impact of organizational boundaries on healthcare utilization. Professor Ericson has also explored the foundations of economic decision making (behavioral economics), running experiments on limited memory, the endowment effect and expectations about the future, intertemporal choice, and the effect of privacy on truthful disclosure of sexual orientation.

His work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Management Science, among others. Various media outlets have featured his research, including Slate, The Atlantic, Freakonomics Radio, Time, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.