Research Interests

• Health Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Microeconomics
• Game Theory

Publications

• Jacob Glazer and Albert Ma, "Efficient Allocation of a Prize King Solomon's Dilemma", Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1989, 222 233.
• Sudipto Bhattacharya, Jacob Glazer and David Sappington, "Sharing Productive Knowledge in Internally Financed R&D Contests", Journal of Industrial Economics, September 1990, 118-128.
• Raquel Fernandez and Jacob Glazer, "The Scope for Collusive Behavior Among Debtor Countries", Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 32, 1990, 297 313. Appeared also in Spanish in El Trimestre Economico, Mexico, 1990.
• Jacob Glazer and Ronen Israel, "Managerial Incentives and Financial Signaling in Product Market Competition", International Journal of Industrial Organization , Vol. 8, 1990, 271 280.
• Jacob Glazer and Andrew Weiss, "Pricing and Coordination: Strategically Stable Equilibria", Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1990, 118-128.
• Raquel Fernandez and Jacob Glazer, "Striking for a Bargain Between Two Completely Informed Agents", American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 1, March 1991, 240-252.
• Sudipto Bhattacharya, Jacob Glazer and David Sappington, "Licensing and the Sharing of Knowledge in Research Joint Ventures", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 56, No. 1, February 1992, 43 69.
• Jacob Glazer and Robert Rosenthal, "A Note on Abreu-Matsushima Mechanisms", Econometrica, Vol. 60, No. 6, 1992.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Should Physicians Be Permitted to `Balance Bill' Patients?", Journal of Health Economics, 11, 1993, 239-258.
• Jacob Glazer, "The Strategic Effects of Long Term in Debt in Imperfect Competition", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 62, No. 2, April 1994, 428-443.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Payer Competition and Cost Shifting in Health in Health Care", Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 1994, 71-92.
• Jacob Glazer and Amir Shmueli, "The Physician's Behavior and Equity under a Fundholding Contract", European Economic Review, 39, 1995, 781-785.
• Jacob Glazer and Motty Perry, "Virtual Implementation in Backwards Induction", Games and Economic Behavior, 15,1996, 27-32.
• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, "An Extensive Game as a Guide for Solving a Normal Game", Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 70, No. 1, July 1996, 32-42.
• Jacob Glazer and Amir Shmueli, "L'equite dans le cadre de contrats de budget limite", in S. Jacobsone (ed), Economie de la sante, trajectories du future, INSEE methods No. 64-65, Economica, 1997 .
• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, "Motives and Implementation: on the Design of Mechanisms to Elicit Opinions", the Journal of Economic Theory, 79, 1998, 157-173.
• Amir Shmueli and Jacob Glazer, "Addressing the Inequity of Capitation by Variable Soft Contracts", Health Economics Journal, Vol. 8 No. 4, June 1999.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Optimal Risk Adjustment of Health Insurance Premiums", The American Economic Review, Vol. 90 No. 4, October 2000, pp. 1055-1071.
• Richard G. Frank, Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Measuring Adverse Selection in Managed Health Care", the Journal of Health Economics, 19(6), November 2000, pp. 829-854.
• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, "Debates and Decisions: On a Rationale of Argumentation Rules", Games and Economic Behavior, 36 (2001), pp. 158-173.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Private Employers Don't Need Formal Risk Adjustment", Inquiry, Vol. 38 No. 3, Fall 2001, pp. 260-269.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Setting Health Plan Premiums to Ensure Efficient Quality in Health Care: Minimum Variance Optimal Risk Adjustment", Journal of Public Economics, 84 (2002) 153-173.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Multiple Payers, Commonality and Free-riding in Health Care: Medicare and Private Payers", the Journal of Health Economics, 21, 2002, pp. 1049-1069
• Jacob Glazer and Andrew Weiss, "Conflicting Preferences and Voluntary Restrictions on Choice", Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays In Honor of Joseph Stiglitz, MIT Press, 2003.
• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, "On Optimal Rules of Persuasion", Econometrica, Vol. 72, No. 6, November 2004, pp 1715-1736.
• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, "A Game Theoretic Approach to the Pragmatics of Debates: An Expository Note", Games and Pragmatics, Palgrave MacMillan, publishers, Anton Benz, Gerhard Jaeger, and Robert van Rooij, editors, 2005.
• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, "A Study in the Pragmatics of Persuasion: A Game Theoretical Approach", Theoretical Economics, 1 (2006), 395-410. (Reprinted in New Perspectives on Games and Interaction, K.EApt and R.van Rooij (eds.) Amsterdam Univeristy Press, 2008).
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Optimal Risk Adjustment" Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Andrew Jones Editor, 2006.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Optimal Quality Reporting in Markets for Health Plans," the Journal of Health Economics, 25(2), 295-310, 2006.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Contending with Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets in Germany", Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolintik, (Special Issue) 75-91, 2006.
• Jacob Glazer, "Contending with Risk Selection in Health Insurance Markets in Germany" A Conference Volume on Economics, Institutions and Behavioral Economics, Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen (eds), Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation 50th Anniversary, 2007.
• Jacob Glazer and Andrew Weiss, "A Model of Dysfunctional Urges and Addiction with an Application to Cigarette Smoking," the B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis Policy, January 2007.
• Jacob Glazer, Thomas G. McGuire and Joseph P. Newhouse, "Using Performance Measures to Motivate 'Report Averse' and 'Report Loving' Agents," the Journal of Health Economics, 26(6), 1170-1189, 2007
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Inducing Quality from Health Care providers in the presence of Adverse Selection," in "Financing Health Care- New Ideas for a Changing Society" Lu, M. and Jonsson, E. (eds.), Ch. 9, 223-244, 2008.
• Jacob Glazer, Thomas G. McGuire and Sharon-Lise T. Normand, "Mitigating the Problem of Unmeasured Outcomes in Quality Reports", the B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis Policy, 8( 2-Contributions) Article 7, 2008.
• Jacob Glazer, Thomas G. McGuire, Zhun Cao and Alan Zaslavsky, "Using Global Ratings of Health Plans to Improve the Quality of Health Care," the Journal of Health Economics, 27(5), 1182-1195, 2008.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Gold and Silver Health Plans: Accommodating Demand Heterogeneity in Managed Competition" the Journal of Health Economics, 30 (2011), 1011- 1019.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "A Welfare Measure of 'offset Effects' in Health Insurance," the Journal of Public Economics, 96 (2012) 520-523.
• Jacob Glazer, Haiden A. Huskamp and Thomas G. McGuire, "A Prescription for Drug Formulary Evaluation," the B.E. Journals Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2012.
• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, "A Model of Persuasion with a Boundedly Rational Agent " the Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 120, No. 6, December 2012, pp. 1057-1082.
• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, "Making Medicare Advantage a Middle-Class Program" the Journal of Health Economics, 32, 2013, 463– 473.
• Thomas G. McGuire, Jacob Glazer, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sharon-Lise Normand, Julie Shi, Anna D. Sinaiko, and Samuel Zuvekas, “Integrating Risk Adjustment and Enrollee Premiums in Health Plan Payment,” the Journal of Health Economics, (32) 2013.

• Jacob Glazer and Ariel Rubinstein, “Complex Questionnaires,” Econometrica, 82, 1529-1541, 2014.

• Jacob Glazer and Thomas G. McGuire, “Risk Adjustment as Mechanism Design,” Antony J. Culyer (ed) Encyclopaedia of Health Economics, Vol. 3. San Diego: Elsevier, 2014. Pp. 267-271.

Work in Progress