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Mika
Kortelainen
Professor, Economics
InFLAMES Flagship
Professor, Research Professor (THL), Vice-head of Department of Economics
InFLAMES Flagship

Contact

+358 29 450 4818
+358 50 308 2642

Areas of expertise

Health economics
health care financing
effectiveness
cost-effectiveness
social and health care reform

Biography

Mika Kortelainen is a professor of health economics at the University of Turku and a research professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Previously, he has worked as a chief researcher at the VATT Institute for Economic Research and as a lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also a docent of economics at the University of Helsinki. 

Teaching

Health economics, pharmaceutical markets, causal inference

Research

Mika Kortelainen's research fields include health economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics. His ongoing research projects concern the effectiveness of information and digital technologies in healthcare and the impacts of the healthcare and pharmaceutical market reforms and interventions.

Publications

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The Long-Run Effects of Cesarean Sections (2022)

Journal of Human Resources
Ana María Costa-Ramón, Mika Kortelainen, Ana Rodríguez-González, Lauri Sääksvuori
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )