Cagatay Koc

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Arlington, June 2005 – present

Past Positions

Visiting Academic Scholar, Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics, August 2008 – August 2010

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, Columbia University, January 2005 - June 2005

Consulting Economist, NERA Economic Consulting, August 2000 - May 2005

Education

University of Texas at Austin

Ph.D. in Economics, August 2000

M.S. in Economics, May 1997

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

B.A. in Economics, July 1995

RESEARCH

Research Fields: Health Care Finance, Housing Markets

Refereed Publications

11. Disease-Specific Moral Hazard and Optimal Health Insurance Design for Physician Services

Journal of Risk and Insurance, forthcoming

10. Household Housing Demand: Empirical Analysis and Theoretical Reconciliation (with R. Dusansky and I. Onur)

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, forthcoming

9. Implications of the Interaction Between Insurance Choice and Medical Care Demand (with R. Dusansky)

Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2010, 77(1), 129-144

8. Demand for Cash Balances in a Cashless Economy (with R. Dusansky)

International Journal of Economic Theory, 2009, 5(3), 301-313

7. The Capital Gains Effect in the Demand for Housing (with R. Dusansky)

Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, 61(2), 287-298

6. Environmental Quality, Medical Care Demand and Environmental Tax Interactions

Environmental and Resource Economics, 2007, 37(2), 431-443

5. Health Care, Insurance and the Contract Choice Effect (with R. Dusansky)

Economic Inquiry, 2006, 44(1), 121-127 

4. Health-Specific Moral Hazard Effects

Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 72(1), 98-118   

Winner of the 2006 Georgescu-Roegen Prize (Best Article Award) of the Southern Economic Association

3. The Effects of Uncertainty on the Demand for Health Insurance

Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2004, 71(1), 42-61   

2. A Theoretical Rationale for an Inelastic Demand for Health Care

Economics Letters, 2004, 82(1), 9-14

1. The Productivity of Health Care and Health Production Functions

Health Economics, 2004, 13(8), 739-747

Refereed Policy Publications

2. Endogenous Switching of Insurance Regime and the Demand for Health Care Services among the Insured and Uninsured (with S. A. Koc)

Journal of Knowledge Economy and Knowledge Management, 2008, 3(Fall), 77-93

1. Vice President Al Gore’s Health Care Agenda and the Utilization of Medical Services: An Empirical Analysis (with B. M. Craig)

Medscape General Medicine, 2000, 2(4), E33