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Mika
Kortelainen
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Professor, Economics
Professor, Vice-head of Department
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Contact

+358 29 450 4818
+358 50 308 2642

Areas of expertise

Health economics
health care financing
effectiveness
cost-effectiveness
social and health care reform

Biography

Mika Kortelainen is a professor of health economics at the University of Turku. He is also a chief researcher at the VATT Institute for Economic Research and a docent of economics at the University of Helsinki. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Manchester and a research fellow at the Aston Business School in Birmingham. He gained his PhD from the University of Joensuu in 2008. 

Teaching

Health economics, public economics, causal inference

Research

Mika Kortelainen's research fields include health economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics. His ongoing research projects include studying the effectiveness of health care information technologies, the impacts of the healthcare and pharmaceutical market reforms and interventions.

Publications

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