Michael Kuhn
Info
Research Group: Population economics
Job Title: Senior Scientist
Phone: +43 1 515 81 7742
Fax: +43 1 515 81 7730
E-mail: michael.kuhn@oeaw.ac.at
Education
- Dr.rer.pol. (PhD) in Economics, University of Rostock, Germany (2001)
- Diplom-Volkswirt in Economics, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (1994)
Professional Career
- Since 2008: Senior Researcher at VID
- 2005-2008: Juniorprofessor at Max-Planck-Institute of Demographic Research and University of Rostock, Germany
- 1999-2004: Lecturer at Centre for Health Economics and Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York, UK
- 1994-1999: Teaching and Research Assistant at University of Rostock, Germany
Research Interests
- Population Economics
- Health Economics
- Applied Industrial Organization Theory
- Applied Contract Theory
- Life-Cycle Modelling
Committee Activity
- Co-Organiser of the 1st – 5th European Workshop on Labour Markets and Demographic Change 2006- 2011 (joint with Carsten Ochsen, University of Rostock)
- Young Economists’ Spring Meeting: programme committee for Oxford, 2000, and Leuven, 2003
Affiliations and Memberships
- Gesundheitsökonomischer Ausschuss des Vereins für Socialpolitik (Committee on Health Economics of the German Economic Association)
- Rostock Center for Demographic Change: research fellow
- Health Economics Study Group, International Health Economics Association, Verein für Socialpolitik
Selected Publications
- Externalities in a Life Cycle Model with Endogenous Survival, Journal of Mathematical Economics, in press (with S. Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger).
- Optimal Public Provision of Nursing Homes and the Role of Information, Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming (with R. Nuscheler).
- The Reproductive Value as Part of the Shadow Price of Population, Demographic Research 24, 709-718, 2011 (with G. Feichtinger, A. Prskawetz and S. Wrzaczek).
- The Reproductive Value in Distributed Optimal Control Models, Theoretical Population Biology, 77, 164-170, 2010 (with S. Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz and G. Feichtinger).
- Recognizing Progeny in the Value of Life, Economics Letters 107, 17-21, 2010 (with S. Wraczeck and J. Oeppen).
- Performance Indicators for Quality with Costly Falsification, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 18, 1137-1154, 2009 (with L. Siciliani).
- Labour Markets and Demographic Change, Wiesbaden: VS Research, 2009 (with C. Ochsen)
- Minimum Quality Standards and Market Dominance in Vertically Differentiated Duopoly, International Journal of Industrial Organization 25, 275-290, 2007.
- Direct to Consumer Advertising in Pharmaceutical Markets, Journal of Health Economics 25, 102-130, 2006. (with K.R. Brekke).
Recent Working Papers
- Optimal Choice of Health and Retirement in a Life-Cycle Model, LEPAS Conference Proceedings 2011-18, 2011 (with S. Wrzaczek, A. Prskawetz, and G. Feichtinger).
- Savings and Health Investments under Risk Aversion Towards Length of Life – LEPAS Conference Proceedins 2010-15 , 2010 (with H. Holler and A. Prskawetz).
- On the Competitive Effect of Advertising, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration: NHH Discussion Paper 16-09, 2009 (with K.R. Brekke).
- Demographic and Geographic Determinants of Regional Physician Supply, University of Rostock: Thünen-Series of Applied Economic Theory Discussionpaper 105, 2009 (with C. Ochsen).
- Upcoding and Optimal Auditing in Health Care (or: the Economics of DRG Creep), CEPR Discussion Paper 6689, 2008 (with L. Siciliani).