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Aidan Hollis
Job Title:
- Professor
- Fellow, Institute for Advanced Policy Research
Phone:
- +1 (403) 220-5861
Office:
- SS 426
Email:
Degrees:
- M.A. - Cambridge University
- M.A. - University of Toronto
- Ph.D. - University of Toronto
Curriculum Vitae:
Profile::
- Aidan Hollis was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Toronto, where he obtained a PhD in Economics. His research is broadly in the area of industrial organization, and is particularly focused on competition and innovation issues in pharmaceutical markets.
He is Vice-President and a Director of Incentives for Global Health, a non-profit whose chief objective is the promotion and development of the Health Impact Fund.
Prof. Hollis has also published on electricity market restructuring, international aspects of competition policy, and the economics of a historical microcredit institution. For the academic year 2003-4 he was appointed TD MacDonald Chair of Industrial Economics at the Competition Bureau, Industry Canada.
Current Research::
- Incentive Mechanisms for Innovation
Pricing and Procurement for Generic Drugs
Doubly Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets (with Jason Strauss)
Research Interests:
Teaching:
Past Courses:
- ECON301 - Interm Econ Theory-Microecon I
- ECON357 - Microeconomics II
- ECON477 - Regulatory Economics
- ECON635 - Regulatory Economics
Working papers:
- 2009-01 - An Economic Justification for Open Access to Essential Medicine Patents in Developing Countries
Sean Flynn, Aidan Hollis and Mike Palmedo - 2007-18 - Insurance Markets When Firms Are Asymmetrically Informed: A Note
Jason Strauss and Aidan Hollis
Representative Publications:
| Banerjee, Amitava, Hollis, Aidan and Pogge, Thomas. "The Health Impact Fund: incentives for improving access to medicines" The Lancet (to appear) |
| Hollis, Aidan and Pogge, Thomas. The Health Impact Fund: Making New Medicines Accessible for All Incentives for Global Health (2008) |
| Hollis, Aidan and Sweetman, Arthur. "The Role of Local Depositors in Controlling Expenses in Small-Scale Financial Intermediation; An Empirical Analysis " Economica 74 (2007): 713–735 |
| Hollis, Aidan and Boyce, John. "Preliminary injunctions and damage rules in patent law" Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 16.2 (2007): 385-405 |
| Hollis, Aidan and Ibbott, Peter. "How Parallel Trade Affects Drug Policies and Prices in Canada and the United States " American Journal of Law & Medicine 32.2&3 (2006): 193 - 218 |
| Hollis, Aidan. "How do Brand's "Own Generics" Affect Pharmaceutical Prices?" Review of Industrial Organization 27.4 (2005): 329-350 |
| Yuan, Lasheng and Hollis, Aidan. "Competition Policy in Open Economies" International Economic Journal 18.2 (2004): 179-194 |
| Hollis, Aidan. "The Anti-Competitive Effects of Brand-Controlled 'Pseudo-Generics' in the Canadian Pharmaceutical Market " Canadian Public Policy 29.1 (2003): 21-31 |
| Hollis, Aidan. "The Importance of Being First: Evidence from Canadian Generic Pharmaceuticals " Health Economics 11 (2002): 723-734 |
| Hollis, Aidan and Sweetman, Arthur. "The Life-Cycle of a Microfinance Institution: An Economic Analysis of the Irish Loan Funds " Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 46.3 (2001): 291-311 |
| Hollis, Aidan and Gallini, Nancy T. "A Contractual Approach to the Gray Market" International Review of Law and Economics 19.1 (1999): 1-21 |
| Hollis, Aidan and Sweetman, Arthur. "Microcredit: What Can We Learn From the Past?" World Development 26.10 (1998): 1875-1891 |
Upcoming Seminars
- Eugene ChooTBA11/25/2009 - 14:00
- Gregor SmithMacroeconomic lessons from professional forecast surveys11/27/2009 - 14:00
- Ana FerrerTBA12/02/2009 - 14:00
- Kelly BedardTBA-Bedard02/05/2010 - 14:00