Zach Y. Brown
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan

Research

• Why Do Index Funds Have Market Power? Quantifying Frictions in the Index Fund Market

with Mark Egan, Jihye Jeon, Chuqing Jin, & Alex Wu
Work in Progress

• Information and Disparities in Health Care Quality: Evidence from GP Choice in England

with Chris Hansman, Jordan Keener, & Andre Veiga
Media: VoxEU

• Broadband Internet Access and Health Outcomes: Patient and Provider Responses in Medicare

with Jessica Van Parys

• Endogenous Information and Simplifying Insurance Choice

with Jihye Jeon
Conditionally Accepted, Econometrica

• Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments

with Eduardo Montero, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla, & Maria Micaela Sviatschi
Accepted, Review of Economic Studies
Media: The Guardian, ProMarket, El Diario de Hoy

• An Empirical Model of Price Transparency and Markups in Health Care

Revise & resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

• Competition in Pricing Algorithms

with Alexander MacKay
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2023, 15(2): 109-56.
Media: Brookings, NPR, Financial Times, HBS, Unite.AI

• Product Proliferation under Rational Inattention: Application to Health Insurance

with Jihye Jeon
AEA Papers and Proceedings, May 2021, 111: 554-59.

• Equilibrium Effects of Health Care Price Information

Review of Economics and Statistics, October 2019, 101(4): 699–712.
Media: The Conversation, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal

Teaching

Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023

Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023