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Bodil Olai Hansen

Associate professor , Ph.D.
Bodil Olai Hansen

Department of Economics

Porcelænshaven 16A, 1.86,
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 2587
Fax:+45 3815 2576
E-mail: boh.eco@cbs.dk



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The market for health care is characterized by asymmetric information. One of my projects analyses welfare implications of financing health care by taxes, private insurance or a combination. In private insurance moral hazard and overconsumption is counteracted by excess and sharing of expenses among insurance companies, in public health care free of charge waiting lists emerge instead. Public health care with rationing is compared to private health care with user charges and private insurance.
Another project relates to television broadcasting; market structure, financing and programming. A model of advertiser-financed television with public and private channels analyses effects on program diversity and advertising revenues of privatisation of publicly owned channels.
A new project in international economics and financing focuses on financial integration of economically less well-off countries with more developed economies. Welfare effects of a gradual integration based on regions are considered.

Primary research areas

  • Microeconomics.
  • Mathematical Economics.
  • Health Economics.
  • TV Economics

Administrative functions

Member of the Study Board of the Business Adminstration and Management Science Study Program, Member of the General Consultation Committee.


Selected publications

How Likely is Factor Price Equalization? Joint with H. Keiding, Discussion Paper 10-2008, Økonomisk Institut, Købenavns Universitet, pp 1-13
Competition in Soccer Leagues (2007). Joint with Mich Tvede, WP 10-2007, Department of Economics, CBS, pp. 1-12 and Discussion Paper No. 07-31, Department of Economics, University of Denmark
Accounting for Moral Hazard in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (2007). Joint with H. Keiding, WP 05-2007, Department of Economics, CBS, pp. 1-16.
"On the possibility of a bridge between CBA and CEA: Comments on a paper by Dolan and Edlin", with Jens Leth Hougaard, Hans Keiding and Lars P. Østergård, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 23, issue 5,, p. 863-1082, 2004.
Mikroøkonomi – Allokering og Optimalitet, 3. udgave. Joint with H.Keiding. Akademisk Forlag 2003.
"Alternative Health Insurance Schemes: A Welfare Comparison", with Hans Keiding, 2002, Journal of Health Economics 21, p. 739-756.


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