Time: March 6, 2026, 9:00-10:20

Venue: Online

Title: Behavioral Responses in Physician Decision-Making: Evidence from Payment and Litigation Policies

Seminar 1: Optimal Payment Levels for Reference-Dependent Physicians

Speaker: Wei Yan

Speaker profile: Dr. Wei Yan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Finance, Renmin University of China. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the National University of Singapore. Her research in health economics studies the interactions among healthcare providers, patients, and insurers, with a focus on understanding how differing incentive structures and information asymmetries between these key players affect their decisions and generate inefficiencies in health-care markets.

Seminar 2: Fear and Risk Perception: Understanding Physicians' Dynamic Responses to Malpractice Lawsuits

Speaker: Jia Xiang

Speaker profile: Dr. Jia Xiang is Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Penn State in 2020. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard School of Public Health from 2020 to 2021. Her areas of expertise include Industrial Organization, Health Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. Her work has been published in The Rand Journal of Economics.

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Source: PKU Institute for Global Health and Development (WeChat)