… or Economics and Math for outstanding performance in core theory courses.  To better understand Professor Tobin’s … he was a central figure in macroeconomics, who opened my mind (and those of hundreds of his students) to a broad … major, starts bearing fruit quickly and enduringly– the ability to adroitly manipulate basic and complex …

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… complicated the economy. This gave applied economists the ability to work with much more realistic models of the … decision makers, Scarf turned to cooperative game theory and the concept of the core to explain what choices … Nash was doing his now-famous work on non-cooperative game theory. Scarf characterized the class of games for which …

Hospital takeovers of physician practices drive up health care prices, a new study by Yale economists finds … August 18, 2025 | News Hospital takeovers of physician practices drive up health care prices, a new study by Yale economists finds View the …

by Mike Cummings Yale health economist Zack Cooper has received a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support data-driven research on pharmaceutical pricing. Cooper, associate professor of public health at the Yale School of Public Health and in the …

On June 8, 2023, Tobin Center Associate Faculty Director Zack Cooper testified before the US Senate Committee on Finance, serving as a key expert for the hearing “Consolidation and Corporate Ownership in Health Care: Trends and Impacts on Access, Quality, …

Yale Associate Professor of Public Health and of Economics Zack Cooper, along with Stuart V. Craig, Martin Gaynor, and John Van Reenen are the recipients of this year’s 25th Annual National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation (NIHCM) Research …

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By Mike Cummings The Department of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale have launched a pre-doctoral research assistant program that will provide college graduates considering scholarly careers the opportunity to work alongside …