PROF. CHRISTINE DURRANCE

Dr. Christine Durrance is an economist and professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She holds the Curt and Sue Culver Professorship in Public Policy Education, and has experience teaching courses in economics, policy analysis, health policy, and antitrust and competition policy.

As an applied microeconomist, she her research areas are focused in health economics and policy, including antitrust and competition in health care markets; maternal, infant, and reproductive health; risky behavior including substance use, the opioid crisis, violence, and child maltreatment. Much of her work focuses on vulnerable populations and utilizes secondary-data and robust econometric methods to identify causal effects with important policy implications. Her research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Child Abuse & Neglect, JAMA Paediatrics, and others.

She is a co-author on Antitrust Policy in Health Care Markets (Cambridge); a co-author on a new edition of Antitrust Economics (Oxford); and a contributor to the antitrust damages sections of Antitrust Law, the leading antitrust law treatise. Her antitrust work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews on topics ranging from occupational licensing, collusion, no poaching agreements, and monopsony to economic damages, umbrella pricing, group purchasing organizations, and class actions. She also has experience working on antitrust and other litigation involving allegations of monopolization, wage suppression, horizontal collusive agreements, challenges in the pharmaceutical industry, and more general business disputes.