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Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor, Applied Economics

About

Academic Groups

Applied Economics

Academic Area

Economics, Finance and Accounting

Benjamin Vatter is the Class of 1943 Career Development Assistant Professor and an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

His research focuses on market competition and its regulation, with an emphasis on healthcare markets.

Vatter completed his PhD in economics at Northwestern University in 2021 and a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University in 2022.

Publications

"Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage."

Vatter, Benjamin, Working Paper. September 2024.

"Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Healthcare Markets."

Ignacio Cuesta, José, Carlos Noton, and Benjamin Vatter, Working Paper. August 2024.

"Mergers with Intermediation: The Price Effect of Distant Hospital Mergers."

Vatter, Benjamin and David Dranove, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7073-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, 2023.