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GALINA BESSTREMYANNAYA
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579 Serra Mall, Ralph Landau building, Stanford, CA 94305
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http://www.stanford.edu/gbesstre/ , http://siepr.stanford.edu/peopleprofile/3579
Current position
2014-2015 Visiting scholar
Stanford University, Department of Economics
Education
2007-2011 PhD in Economics
Keio University (Tokyo)
2002-2005 Candidate of Sciences, Math Methods in Economics Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
1999-2001 MA in Economics
New Economic School (Moscow)
Research interests: industrial organization, econometrics, health economics, productivity analysis
Publications
 Differential effects of declining rates in a per diem payment system. Health Economics 2014
doi:10.1002/hec.3128
 The impact of Japanese hospital financing reform on hospital efficiency: a difference-in-different approach.
Japanese Economic Review 2013: 64(3): 337-362.
 Heterogeneous effect of a per diem prospective payment system on hospital’s volume and quality. Lancet 2013:
381: S14 (with D.Shapiro).
 Managerial performance and cost efficiency of Japanese local public hospitals : a latent class stochastic frontier
model. Health Economics 2011: 20(S1):19-34.
Software
 ‘rDEA’ (2014) An R package for robust estimation of efficiency and returns to scale (with Jaak Simm)
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Papers
 Heterogeneous effect of coinsurance rate on healthcare costs: generalized finite mixtures and matching estimators
(2014) Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Paper, No.14-014.
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The adverse effects of value-based purchasing in health care: dynamic quantile regression with endogeneity
(2014) Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Discussion Paper, No.14-006.
Other working papers
 The efficiency of labor matching and remuneration reforms (2014) RePEc CEFIR/NES Working Papers, No.206.
 Urban inequity in the performance of social health insurance system: evidence from Russian regions (2014)
RePEc CEFIR/NES Working Papers, No.204.
 Multi-payer health insurance system in Central and Eastern Europe: evidence from the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
and Russia (2014) RePEc CEFIR/NES Working Papers, No.203 (with Jaak Simm)
 Heterogeneous hospital response to per diem prospective payment system (2013), RePEc CEFIR/NES Working
Papers, No.193.
 The impact of private health insurers on the quality of regional health care systems in Russia (2012) RePEc
CEFIR/NES Working Papers, No.177 (with Jaak Simm) Global Development Network’s research paper on
Commonwealth of Independent States.
 Estimating income equity in social health insurance system (2012) RePEc CEFIR/NES Working Papers, No.172.
Global Development Network’s research paper on South East Asia.
 Heterogeneous effect of coinsurance rate on the demand for health care: a finite mixture approach (2012) RePEc
CEFIR/NES Working Papers, No.163.
Books, analytical reports etc.:

Budget Process as an Instrument for Effective Management, Textbook. G.Besstremyannaya, Editor. Authors:
S.Strom, E.Leontyeva. The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Lenand, 2013.
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Managed Competition in Health Insurance Systems in Central and Eastern Europe, Forum for Research on
Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies, Policy Brief Series, October, 2013
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System of Good Laboratory Practice: the OECD Requirements (with O.Bondarenko, M.Ananyev and
M.Kartseva), Center of Economic and Financial Research at New Economic School, Analytical report #38, 2013.
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Calibrating the model for long-term economic development, Report for the Ministry of Economy of the Russian
Federation, April 6, 2011
Main publications in Russian refereed journals:
 Fiscal and institutional reforms in health care. Management 2014. No.2.
 Development of the mandatory health insurance system in the Russian Federation. Federalism 2013. No.3.
 Research of corporate governance practices in Russia (with R.Enikolopov, S.Guriev and O.Lobanov). Russian
Journal of Management 2011. Vol.9, No.1.
 Shadow sector and unified social tax reform. Voprosi Ekonomiki 2006. No.6.
Professional services
Reviewer: Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Health Economics, European Journal of Health Economics,
Health Care Management Science, Journal of Health Organization and Management
Scientific Committees: 10th World Congress of The International Health Economics Association (2014), 5 th World
Congress on Social Simulation (2014), 5 th Biennial Conference of The American Society of Health Economists (2014),
8 th International Workshop on Agent-based Approach in Economic and Social Complex Systems (2013), 9 th World
Congress of The International Health Economics Association (2013, organized sessions), 9 th European Conference on
Health Economics (2012), 8 th World Congress of The International Health Economics Association (2011), Vladimir
Potatin Foundation (2010-2011)
Chair: The 2013 Australasian Meeting of Econometric Society (2013), 4th Biennial Conference of The American Society
of Health Economists (2012)
Member: American Economic Association, Econometric Society, International Health Economics Association, American
Society of Health Economists, European Economic Association
Grants and honors
2010
Honor by Keio University, Graduate School of Economics
2007-2011
Ministry of Science and Education of Japan fellowship for Ph.D. study
2005
Ford Foundation fellowship “On Rethinking Development Economics”
2001
Master’s thesis at New Economic School published in the Best Student Paper series
2000-2001
Ford Foundation graduate student scholarship
Presentations at conferences: 29th Annual Congress of The European Economic Association (2014), 5th Biennial
Conference of The American Society of Health Economists (2014) , 28th Annual Congress of The European Economic
Association (2013), The 2013 Australasian Meeting of Econometric Society, 9th World Congress of The International
Health Economics Association (2013), 2nd Global Health Metrics and Evaluation Conference (2013), 9th European
Conference on Health Economics (2012), 4th Biennial Conference of The American Society of Health Economists (2012) ,
8th World Congress of The International Health Economics Association (2011) , 1st Australasian Workshop on
Econometrics and Health Economics (2010)
Invited talks: Stanford University, Market design (forthcoming), NES/HSE Political economy (2014), Keio University,
Graduate School of Economics (2012), Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University (2012), Belk College of
Business, University of North Carolina (2012), Keio University, Graduate School of Economics (2011), Institute of
Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University (2011)
Teaching (as Visiting Professor at National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
 Graduate Health Econometrics, Master level, Fall 2011 and 2012;
 Graduate Public finance, Master level, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014.
Supervision of Master’s theses:
 Boris Kozhiev (2011/2012)
 Valeria Verbitskaya (2012/2013)
Econometrics/programming languages: R, Matlab, SQL, Stata, Limdep, Eviews, SPSS, LaTex, Python, php, html
Languages: English, Japanese (日本語能力試験１級合格), Hebrew, French
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