Professor Luigi Siciliani
Professor

Profile

Biography

• BSc(Bocconi)
• MSc(LSE)
• PhD(York)

Co-editor of the Journal of Health Economics

Departmental roles

• Programme Director, MSc Health Economics
• Module Review Committee (PG Director Health Economics)
• Performance Reviewer

Research

Overview

My main research interest is in health economics, mostly microeconomic theory and microeconometrics applied to selective topics. These include waiting times for non-emergency treatment, hospital quality competition, contracting theory applied to health care, pay for performance and coordination between health and social care.

Supervision

I am willing to supervise students on theoretical and empirical microeconomic issues in health economics.

Publications

Selected publications

Full details of publications can be found at RePEc

Kurt Brekke,  Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, Competition, quality and integrated health care, Journal of Health Economics, Volume 95, May 2024, 102880.

Feng, Y., Kristensen, S., Lorgelly, P., Meacock, R., Núñez Elvira,  A., Rodes Sanchez, M., Siciliani, L., Sutton, M., Pay-for-Performance incentives for specialised services in England: a mixed methods evaluation, European Journal of Health Economics, 25, 857–876 . 

Mercader, L., Carrilero, N., García-Altés, A., López-Casasnovas, G., & Siciliani, L. 2023 Socioeconomic Inequalities in Waiting Times for Planned and Cancer Surgery: Evidence from Spain,  Health Economics, 32(5), 1181-1201. 

Ziad Ghandour,  Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2022 Investment and Quality Competition in Healthcare Markets, Journal of Health Economics, 102588.

Marina Di Giacomo Massimiliano Piacenza Luigi Siciliani Gilberto Turati, 2022 The Effect of Co-Payments on the Take-Up of Prenatal Tests, Journal of Health Economics, 81, 102553.

Giuseppe Moscelli, Hugh Gravelle, Luigi Siciliani, 2021 Hospital competition and quality for non-emergency patients in the English NHS, Rand Journal of Economics, 52(2), 382–414. 

Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Martorana, Luigi Siciliani, 2021 Does higher Institutional Quality improve the Appropriateness of Healthcare Provision?  Journal of Public Economics, 194, February, 104356.

Laurie Rachet-Jacquet Nils Gutacker Luigi Siciliani, 2021 Scale economies in the health sector: The effect of hospital volume on health gains from hip replacement surgery, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization,  190, 704-729.

Kurt Brekke,  Chiara Canta, Luigi Siciliani, Odd Rune Straume, 2021 Hospital competition in a national health service: Evidence from a patient choice reform, Journal of Health Economics, 79, 102509.

Full publications list

See personal website for full list of publications in peer-reviewed journals, and chapters.

Teaching

Postgraduate

• Economics of Health and Health Care

Other teaching

PhD:

• Health Economics for Research