Economics Seminar Series with Ginger Jin

Ginger Zhe Jin is currently Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She served as the Director of the FTC Bureau of Economics from January 2016 to July 2017, and Amazon Scholar and Senior Principal Economist at Amazon.com from January 2019 to May 2020.

Most of her research focuses on information asymmetry among economic agents and how to provide information to overcome the information problem. The applications she has studied include retail food safety, health insurance,  prescription drugs, e-commerce, regulatory inspection, scientific innovation, air quality, blood donation, vaccination, intrafamilial interaction, data regulation, and consumer protection.  Dr. Jin will be presenting:"Diffusing Innovations Under Market Competition: Evidence from Drug-Eluting Stents", a paper joint with Professor Hsienming Lien and Professor Xuezhen Tao.