Simon Reif
Health Care Market Structure / Reimbursement Schemes / Digital Health

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
L7 1
68161 Mannheim, Germany
I am head of the Health Care Markets and Health Policy research group at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim and Professor of Economics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. I am also affiliated with M-CHEP, the Munich Center for Health Economics and Policy and serve as an Academic Editor at PLOS Digital Health. Before joining ZEW, I worked as a PostDoc at RWI Essen and as a consultant for digital health startups. I got my PhD from FAU in November 2018. Before that, I obtained my Master degree from LMU Munich in 2014 and undergratuate degrees from FAU in 2012 and the University of Hull in 2011.
My research is in the areas of health economics and applied econometrics. I am especially interested in behavioral and institutional aspects of medical service provision and how digitalization shapes health care services.
News:
Feb 6, 2025 | We have published an unbranded version of the Quarto templates we use at ZEW as the zewwwwEcon package on GitHub. |
Dec 22, 2024 | Our paper on diagnosis related payment for inpatient mental health care is finally published in Health Economics. |
Oct 2, 2024 | New policy paper (in German) on the efficiency paradox of digitization in hospitals is available here. |
Mar 12, 2024 | New policy report (in German) on how to reform the social health insurance risk adjustment scheme is available here. |
Mar 1, 2024 | I will co-organize a workshop on “Applied Economics in Digital Health” on 6th/7th June 2024 in Potsdam. You can submit abstracts / papers until 25 March 2024 following the call for papers here. |