Cagatay Koc
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
The University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19479, Arlington, TX 76019
Office: COBA 317
Office Hours: Tue-Th 3:30 - 5:00pm
Phone: (817)-272-3383
Fax: (817)-272-3145
E-mail: ckoc@uta.edu
Research Interests: Health Economics, Applied Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics
Positions
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Economics, June 2005 - present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Department of Economics, January 2005 - June 2005
Consulting Economist, National Economic Research Associates, September 2000 - May 2005
PUBLICATIONS
Health Insurance
"Health Care, Insurance and the Contract Choice Effect," Economic Inquiry, 44(1), 121-127, [2006] (with R. Dusansky)
"Health-Specific Moral Hazard Effects," Southern Economic Journal, 72(1), 98-118, [2005]
Winner of the Georgescu-Roegen Prize for 2006 awarded by the Southern Economic Association to the author of the best academic article
published in Volume 72 of the Southern Economic Journal
"The Effects of Uncertainty on the Demand for Health Insurance", Journal of Risk and Insurance, 71(1), 42-61, [2004]
Health Production
"Environmental Quality, Medical Care Demand and Environmental Tax Interactions," Environmental and Resource Economics, 37(2), 431-443, [2007]
"A Theoretical Rationale for an Inelastic Demand for Health Care," Economics Letters, 82(1), 9-14, [2004]
"The Productivity of Health Care and Health Production Functions," Health Economics, 13(8), 739-747, [2004]
Financial Asset Demand Under Uncertainty
"The Demand for Cash Balances in a Cashless Economy," International Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming (with R. Dusansky)
"The Capital Gains Effect in the Demand for Housing," Journal of Urban Economics, 61(2), 287-298, [2007] (with R. Dusansky)