Academic Positions:

August 2011 – present: Julian Simon Faculty Fellow in the College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

June 2009 – present: Professor of Finance, Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

June 2009 – present: Research Associate, Center for Business and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Oct. 2009 – present: Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research Program on Health Care (2009). Program on Environmental and Energy Economics (2010).

July 2004 – June 2009: Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

July 1999 – June 2004: Assistant Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

2001 – present: Faculty Associate, Center for International Development, Harvard University.

2002 – present: Faculty Associate, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University.

Education:

1999: Ph.D., Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Dissertation Title: “Moral Hazard: Partnerships, Insurance, and Health Care.” Principal Advisor: Daniel Spulber.

1994: B.S. Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Summa Cum Laude.

1994: B.A. Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences, Universityof Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Summa Cum Laude,

Published and Forthcoming Papers:

1. “Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?” (2010) with Robert Jensen. The Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2011, 93(4): 1205-1223. NBER Working Paper W16102.

2. “Demanding Consumers: Consumerist Patients and Quality of Care,” with Hai Fang, John Rizzo and Richard Zeckhauser. The B.E. Press Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 11(1), Article 59.

3. “Giffen Behavior and Subsistence Consumption,” with Robert Jensen (2008). American Economic Review, 98(4), 1553-1577.

4. “The Impact of Food Price Increases on Caloric Intake in China,” with Robert Jensen (2008). Agricultural Economics, 39(S1), 465-476.

5. “Advertising Budgets in Competitive Environments,” with Amit Pazgal (2007). Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 5(2), 131–161.

6. “Mechanism Design with Multidimensional, Continuous Types and Interdependent Valuations,” with Scott Johnson, John Pratt, and Richard Zeckhauser (2007), Journal of Economic Theory 136(1), 476-496.

7. “Provider Choice of Quality and Surplus,” with Karen Eggleston and Richard Zeckhauser (2006). International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 6, 103-117.

8. “Insurer-Provider Integration, Credible Commitment, and Managed Care Backlash” (2006). Journal of Health Economics, 25(5), 861-876.

9. “Possibly-Final Offers,” with Nikita Piankov and Richard Zeckhauser (2006). Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 15(3), Fall 2006, 789-819.

10. “Budget or Target: The Choice Between Input and Output Strategies,” with Amit Pazgal (2006). RAND Journal of Economics, 37(2), Summer 2006, 391-415.

11. “Screening Budgets,” with Alex Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser (2006). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61(3), 351-374.

12. “Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer Prediction Method,” with Paul Resnick and Richard Zeckhauser (2005). Management Science, 51(9), September 2005, 1359-1373. Reprinted in Computing with Social Trust and Reputation, Jennifer Golbeck (Ed.), Springer (2008).

13. “Pricing Health Benefits: A Cost Minimization Approach,” (2005). Journal of Health Economics, 24(5), 2005, 931-949.

14. “Strategic Trade and Delegated Competition,” with Amit Pazgal. Journal of International Economics, 66(1), 2005, 215-231.

15. “The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing,” American Economic Review, 93(2), May 2003 (Papers and Proceedings), 431-435, with Lori D. Snyder and Robert N. Stavins.

16. “Relative Performance as a Strategic Commitment Mechanism,” Managerial and Decision Economics, 23(2), March 2002, 51-68, with Amit Pazgal.

17. “The Equivalence of Price and Quantity Competition with Delegation,” RAND Journal of Economics, 32(2), Summer 2001, 284-301, with Amit Pazgal.

18. “Efficiency in Partnerships with Joint Monitoring,” Journal of Economic Theory, 77 (2), December 1997, 285-299.

Working Papers

18. “A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition,” with Robert Jensen (2010). NBER working paper w16555.

19. “What Does Health Reform Mean for the Healthcare Industry? Evidence from the Massachusetts Special Senate Election,” with Mohamad Al-Ississ (2010). Revise and Resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. NBER working paper w16193.

20. “Solomonic Separation: Gauging Preference Intensity Through Risk Taking,” with Alex Wagner and Richard Zeckhauser (2011).

21. “Outcome Commitments in Third-Party Commitment: Theory and Application to U.S. Policy in Iraq.” (2009) KSG Working Paper 08-041.

22. “Keepin’ Em Down on the Farm: Strategic Underinvestment in Education,” with Robert Jensen.

Work in Progress

“Is Health-Care Quality Capitalized into Housing Prices? Evidence from the UK,” with Sebastian Bauhoff.

“Improving the Design of Medicare Advantage,” with Tom McGuire and Jacob Glazer.

“The Role of Information Framing in Environmental Health Policy: Field and Laboratory Experiments,” with Lori Bennear (Duke University).

“Giffen Goods, Status Goods, and the Law of Demand,” (2008). With Daniel Hojman.

“Sales Force Allocation: Theory and Experimental Evidence,” with Amit Pazgal.

Applied Microeconomic Theory (textbook), with Chris Avery.

Older Working Papers

“Report Cards, Incentives, and Quality Competition in Health Care.” (2006)

“Giffen Behavior in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey” (2007)

“Health Benefits and Wages: Minimizing Total Compensation Cost,” (2004). (An extended version of “Pricing Health Benefits” listed above.)

“Expenditure switching as consumption insurance,” with Robert Jensen (2004).

“Moral Hazard with Persistent Actions and Learning” (1999).

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

2009 – 2011: Investigator, “Improving the Design of Medicare Advantage,” National Institute of Health, with Tom McGuire and Jacob Glazer.

2009: Manuel C. Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

2007: Investigator, “The Role of Information in Environmental Health Policy.” Funding from Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, The Harvard University Center for the Environment, and the Harvard Kennedy School Dean’s Research Fund.

2005 – 2006: Investigator, “Consumption, Nutrition, and Health among the Ultra-Poor.” Funding from William H. Milton Fund, Harvard Medical School, the Hefner China Fund, the Harvard Center for International Development, and the Harvard Kennedy School Dean’s Research Fund.

2002 – 2005: Investigator, “Regulating Pollution Through Information Disclosure: Facility Response to the Toxics Release Inventory,” with Lori Snyder and Rob Stavins (Principal Investigator), Environmental Protection Agency, 2002 – 2005.

2003 – 2004: Investigator, “Ownership and Contracting for Quality Health Care,” with Richard Zeckhauser (Principal Investigator) and Karen Eggleston, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

1998: State Farm Companies Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award in Insurance, 1998.

1994 – 1997: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

1994: Honorary Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies.

1997 – 1998: University Fellowship, Kellogg Fellowship, Northwestern University.

1994: Rose Undergraduate Research Award, University of Pennsylvania,

1994: Beta Gamma Sigma.

1993: Phi Beta Kappa, Junior Selectee.

Other Professional Activities

January 2009 – present: Editor, Berkeley Electronic Journal in Economic Analysis and Policy.

March 2008 – present: Associate Editor, Berkeley Electronic Journals in Theoretical Economics.

June 2008 – present: Associate Editor, Review of Economics and Statistics.

Member: American Economic Association, Society for the Promotion of Economic Theory, Econometric Society, American Society of Health Economists.

Referee: The American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Berkeley Electronic Journals (Theoretical Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy), Economic Inquiry, Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Education, The Journal of Economic Theory, The Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, The Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Managerial and Decision Economics, Management Science, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The RAND Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Review of Economic Studies, more.

Teaching Experience

Financial Economics (M.S. Finance program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Microeconomic Theory I/II (Kennedy School/Economics Department/Harvard Business School, Harvard University).

Advanced Microeconomic Analysis (MPA/ID, Kennedy School, Harvard University).

Game Theory and Strategy (KSG Executive Programs).

Managerial Economics (MBA program, Kellogg School, Northwestern University).

Math review (Executive MBA program, Kellogg School, Northwestern University).

Teaching Materials

Notes on Microeconomic Theory. A 250 page manuscript on advanced microeconomics intended to make doctoral-level microeconomic theory accessible to students with interests in applied fields of microeconomics (such as public policy, development, business fields, health policy, etc.). Available for download at: http://www.buisiness.illinois.edu/nmiller/notes.

Applied Microeconomic Theory. The notes above form the first half of a textbook that Chris Avery and I are currently writing. The goal of the text is to provide a text for students of advanced microeconomics who are not going to be economic theorists. This would include students in economics departments who are going to study empirical labor or public finance, as well as students in related graduate programs such as public policy, health policy, business, or political science. The text aims at being mathematically rigorous while at the same time emphasizing intuition and application rather than theoretical generality for its own sake. Drafts of all chapters have been written, and we are in the process of signing a book contract with Harvard University Press.