CHIARA CANTA
NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Hellevein 30
5045 Bergen,
NORWAY
Tel: +47 55 95 96 86
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: www.chiaracanta.wordpress.com
Employment
Aug. 2013 – present
Sep. 2010 – Jul. 2013
Assistant Professor, Norwegian School of Economics.
Post-doctoral Fellow, CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain.
Research and teaching fields
Health Economics, Regulation, Industrial Organization, Public Economics
Education
Nov. 2010
Jul. 2006
Mar. 2005
Ph.D. in Economics, Toulouse School of Economics
Supervisors: Helmuth Cremer and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
Thesis Title: “Three essays in health economics”
Committee: David Bardey, Helmuth Cremer, Bruno Jullien, Jean-Marie
Lozachemeur, Erik Schokkaert, Luigi Siciliani
Master in Economic Theory and Econometrics high honors, Toulouse School of
Economics
Degree in Economics summa cum laude, University of Torino
Teaching Experience
Fall 2013-2015
Spring 2014-2016
Fall 2006-Spring 2010 2007
Firm strategy and competition, NHH (undergraduate)
Competitive strategy, NHH (master)
TA (Health Economics, Public Economics, Graduate Microeconomics,
Introductory Microeconomics, Introductory Macroeconomics) University of
Toulouse 1
Research Experience and Other Employment
Jan.2015 – present
Member of the research team, project “Competition on Hospital Markets”,
funded by the Norwegian Competition Authority (1.5M NOK)
Fall 2012
Visiting Scholar, Boston University
Spring 2005
Research assistant, CERIS-CNR (Institute for Economic Research on
Firms and Growth - Italian National Research Council), Torino
Publications
Reference pricing with endogenous generic entry, 2016, Journal of Health Economics, forthcoming (with K.
Brekke and O. R. Straume).
Long term care and capital accumulation: the impact of the State, the market and the family, 2016,
Economic Theory, 61, 755-785 (with P. Pestieau and E. Thibault).
Public and private hospitals, congestion, and redistribution, 2016, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 18,
42-66 (with M-L. Leroux).
Smoking within the household: parents behavior and health effects on children, 2015, The B.E. Journal of
Economic Analysis and Policy (Topics), 15, 1939-1973 (with P. Dubois).
Long term care insurance and family norms, 2013, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
(Advances), 14, 401-428 (with P. Pestieau).
The regulation of health care providers’ payments when horizontal and vertical differentiation matter, 2012,
Journal of Health Economics, 31, 691-704 (with D. Bardey and J-M. Lozachmeur).
Other Publications
Riforme del Servizio Sanitario Nazionale e dinamica dell’efficienza ospedaliera in Piemonte (NHS reforms
and hospital efficiency dynamics in Piedmont), 2006, Politica Economica, 2, 157-192 (with M. Piacenza
and G. Turati).
Working Papers
Does reference pricing drive out generic competition in pharmaceutical markets? Evidence from a policy
reform, NHH Working Paper 11-2015 (with K. Brekke and O. R. Straume).
Efficiency, access, and the mixed delivery of health care services CORE Discussion Paper 46/2011.
Maybe “honor thy father and thy mother”: uncertain family aid and the design of social long term care
insurance, TSE discussion paper 16-685, (with Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari)
Welfare state, immigration policy, and political parties’ formation (with S. Grassi)
Work in Progress
Competition in hospital markets: evidence from Norway (with K. Brekke, T.H. Holmås, O.R. Straume and
L.Siciliani)
Mixed oligopolies: public and private firms’ incentives (with Helmuth Cremer)
Public long term care insurance with non-linear strategic bequests (with Helmuth Cremer)
On the Optimality of Financial Education and Contributive Pension Schemes as a Way to Correct for
Individual's Myopia (with Marie-Louise Leroux)
Other qualifications:
Mar. 2013
Qualification as Lecturer in French Universities (Qualification aux fonctions
de maître de conference)
Referee Experience
Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public
Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, German Economic Review, Economic Bulletin, B.E. Journal
of Economic Analysis and Policy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economica, Journal of
Health Economics and Management, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Economics
of the Household, International Economic Review.
Honors and Fellowships
April 2011 to present
Fall 2010-Summer 2013
2009 -2010
2006-2009
2006-2009
2005-2006
CESifo Affiliate
Post Doctoral Fellowship, Université catholique de Louvain
Teaching and research fellowship (ATER), University of Toulouse
Teaching fellowship, (Moniteur), University of Toulouse
Ph.D. scholarship of the French Ministry of Education
Graduate scholarship of the “Fondazione Luigi Einaudi” of Torino
Presentations in Seminars
Université catholique de Louvain (CORE), Uppsala University, Innsbruck University, Stockholm School of
Economics (2010); Liège University, Namur University (2011); Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, IRESUniversité catholique de Louvain, Boston University, UQAM (2012), Université Laval, HEC Montreal,
University of Alicante, University of Aberdeen, Bristol University, NHH Bergen, University of Southern
Denmark, Bank of Italy, University of Groningen, University of Bergen (2013), HEC Lausanne, UQAM (2014),
DIW Berlin (2016)
Conferences
- European Economic Association conference, Geneva, 2016 (scheduled)
- Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, 2016, Aix-en-Provence
- Workshop on the economics of Long-Term Care, Montreal, 2016
- CORE@50, Louvain-la-Neuve, 2016
- European Health Economics Workshop, Hamburg, 2016
- Peder Sather Conference on Industrial Organization and Health Economics, Bergen, 2016
- BECCLE Conference, Bergen, 2016
- Royal Economc Society, Brighton, 2016
- European Health Economics Workshop, Toulouse, 2015
- Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Lugano, 2014
- European Health Economics Workshop, Lausanne, 2014
- 8th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics, Munich, 2013
- Contracts and Organizations, Bergen, 2013
- Canadian Public Economics Group Conference, Montreal, 2012
- Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Dresden, 2012
- CESifo Summer Institute Workshop on The Economics of Long-Term Care, Venice, 2012
- Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Marseille, 2012
- European Health Economics Workshop, Sevilla, 2012
- CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, Munich, 2012
- Congress of the European Economic Association, Oslo, 2011
- IHEA Conference, Toronto, 2011
- Journées Louis-André Gérard-Varet, Marseille, 2011
- CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, Munich, 2011
- Congress of the Italian Health Economics Association, Torino, 2010
- Congress of European Economic Association, Glasgow, 2010
- ASHE Conference, Ithaca, NY, 2010
- Workshop “Epidemiological Health Economics”, Toulouse, 2009
- Congress of the European Economic Association , Barcelona, 2009
- Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, Maastricht, 2008
Administrative activities
2014-2016
Organizer of the IO and Law and Economics Seminar Series, NHH
2009-2010
Elected student member of laboratory (GREMAQ) board. University of Toulouse 1
Computer Skills
Latex, Mathematica, Stata.
Languages
Italian (native), English and French (fluent), German and Norwegian (basic)