Dr. Ian McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Emory University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University in 2008 and joined Emory University in 2014. Before coming to Emory, Ian was a director in the Economic Consulting practice of FTI Consulting in Dallas, TX and the director of health economics for the Baylor Health Care System (now Baylor Scott & White Health).

Ian’s research interests are in the fields of health economics, industrial organization, and econometrics. His primary research focuses on the effects of institutions, policies, and competition on health care delivery, where his most recent work specifically examines the effects of the physician-hospital integration on hospital pricing, productive efficiency, and physician behaviors. Ian has extensive experience working with health care data, including health insurance claims, and he has competed successfully for external funding from several sources, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institute for Health Care Management.