2nd ANNUAL CARIBBEAN HEALTH ECONOMICS SYMPOSIUM

Bitter End Yacht Club

Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands

Agenda – As of December 9, 2016

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Welcome reception, 7:00pm, BEYC, Winward Mark Bar

Town & Gown Exchange, 8:00pm, BEYC Winward Mark Bar, Whose Price Is It Anyway: Dissonance Between Technology Value and Reimbursement? Panel discussion featuring Andrew Briggs, University of Glasgow (UK) and Adrian Levy, Dalhousie University (Canada)

Monday, December 12, 2016

· Breakfast at BEYC 7:15 to 8:30

BEYC Conference Center

· Paper - 8:45 to 9:30: Experts and Financial Ties: Evidence from FDA Advisory Committees

Fanny Camara, University of Frankfurt

Margaret Kyle, MINES ParisTech (CERNA) (Presentation)

· Paper - 9:30 to 10:15: Testing for Defensive Medicine Using Legal Immunity of Military Physicians

Michael Frakes, Duke University School of Law

Jonathan Gruber, MIT (Presentation embargoed)

· Coffee and electronic catch-up 10:15 to 10:30

· Paper - 10:30 to 11:15: Discretion and Guidelines: Evidence from Warfarin Administration

Jason Abaluck, Yale University

Leila Agha, Dartmouth College (Presentation)

David Chan, Stanford University

· Paper - 11:15 to 12:00: Understanding the Improvement in Disability Free Life Expectancy in the U.S. Elderly Population

Michael Chernew, Harvard University

David M. Cutler, Harvard University (Presentation)

Kaushik Ghosh, Harvard University

Mary Beth Landrum, Harvard University

· Afternoon choices and preferences

o Afternoon Activities arranged independently by BEYC staff

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o Sail excursion to The Baths on Virgin Gorda (with a possible race back)

· Town & Gown Exchange (with drinks and heavy appetizers), 6:30-8:30pm, BEYC Conference Center: “Panel: Insurance Markets Post‐Trump”: Leemore Dafny (Harvard Business School), Steve Parente (University of Minnesota), Roger Feldman (University of Minnesota) and Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona). Informal forum between policy makers, academics and industry.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

· Breakfast at BEYC 7:15 to 8:30

BEYC Conference Center

· Paper - 8:45 to 9:30: Formulary Design-for-Selection in the ACA Marketplaces

Michael Geruso, University of Texas at Austin (Presentation)

Timothy Layton, Harvard Medical School

Daniel Prinz, Harvard University

· Paper - 9:30 to 10:15: Incremental Innovation and Pharmaceutical Productivity

Kristopher J. Hult, University of Chicago (Presentation)

· Coffee and electronic catch-up 10:15 to 10:30

· Paper - 10:30 to 11:15: Do Individuals Respond to Cost-Sharing Subsidies in their Selections of Marketplace Health Insurance Plans? Appendix

Thomas DeLeire, Georgetown University (Presentation)