Eric San Miguel

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Penn State, specializing in industrial organization, health economics, and applied microeconomics. My research applies structural demand estimation, merger simulation, and bargaining models to problems in health care and antitrust.

In my job market paper, I study how population aging affects hospital quality. I develop a structural model of hospital quality decisions with bargaining between hospitals and insurers, and use it to quantify the welfare effects of counterfactual Medicare rate and eligibility changes.

In other work, I study a wave of mergers that followed price deregulation in the Mexico City retail gasoline market and show that post-merger price increases can reflect cost and quality changes rather than market power. I also have ongoing work on the political selection of criminal candidates in Indian elections.