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Plamen Nikolov, PhD (IP)
OTA ID#: 104982

Education Experience: BA, Mathematics, Business Economics, Ohio Wesleyan University, 2000
MA, International Economics and International Finance, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced Intl Studies, 2004
PhD (IP), Health Economics, , 2009
Focus of Study: Health and Development Economics
Publications: "Economic Costs of Diabetes in the US" Diabetes Care, March 2003
Work Experience: The Lewin Group: health and welfare economics consulting.
The World Bank: development economics
Skills & Achievements: I have a wealth of work experience related to international development, social protection, welfare issues and econometric analysis. I worked on a variety of projects including: evaluation of state economic and demographic factors affecting recipiency of child support payments in the U.S., a cost-benefit analysis of Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans utilizing an econometric model; class action suits for the EEOC on litigation cases involving race and gender promotion and compensation discrimination; effects of the Welfare reform act on rural skill labor wage rate and unemployment rates and determinants of state social welfare spending in the U.S. During the summer of 1999, I worked as a research assistant conducting a market survey for Treacy & Company in Boston, Massachusetts assessing the Internet impact on healthcare delivery systems. His work with The Lewin Group and The World Bank in Washington, DC includes economic analysis, statistical programming with SAS, STATA and Shazam with large data sets such as the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the World Bank LSMS survey. I have several publications including some in peer-review journals, such as "The Economic Costs of Diabetes in the United States in 2003" for the Journal of Diabetes Care and "The Determinants of State Social Welfare Spending" for the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC.
Career Interests: Health and Development Economics; Applied Game Theory
Outside Interests: Tennis, Running, Marathons, Wine, Arabic, Travelling,
Message to Students
and/or Parents:		 I approach my sessions the way I wished the teaching assistants would have taught/helped me in my graduate and undergraduate classes. I approach a problem from a general angle and think what's the overall significance of a question before I get bogged down in details:

1. What's the problem about?
2. Why is it important?
3. What are the critical assumptions?
4. What if I relax some of the assumptions?
5. What math do I need to solve the problem?
6. Solve it.
7. What did I learn and go back to 1.

When conducting seminars I know that in some questions there are different areas of the problem that each student may have difficulty with. My charge, as an effective instructor, is to recognize those difficulties and build upon student's enthusiasm by clearly conveying the material in interesting and relevant ways, and by encouraging the student in getting involved in solving a problem.
Postings Answered: 32
Cumulative OTA Rating: 5/5  What is OTA Rating?
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  1. International Trade Relation - As an international economist you have been asked to prepare a short speech which answers the following questions: How does the Heckscher-Ohlin theory differ from Ricardian theory in explaining in ...
  2. Microeconomics and macroeconomic - What are the main differences between microeconomics and macroeconomics? Provide an example of a microeconomic and macroeconomic phenomenon. Would you give an example of a microeconomic decision y ...
  3. Basic distinction between Microeconomics and Macroeconomics - (1) What are the main differences between microeconomics and macroeconomics? Provide an example of a microeconomic and macroeconomic phenomenon. (2) Would you give an example of a microeconomic deci ...
  4. International Trade Theory Overview - Contrast several trade theories: Ricardian Model, Heckscher-Ohlin Model, Leontief paradox and the Linden model. How does each challenge the other and improve on previous work?
  5. Introduction to economics - As a manager of a financial planning business you have two financial planners.In an hour a person can produce 1 statement or answer 10 calls while another can produce 3 statemnets or answer 12 calls. ...
  6. Game Theory - When a worker announces that he plans to quit, say next month, the "threat" of being fired has no bite. The worker may find it in his interest to shirk. What can the manager do to overcome this prob ...
  7. Demand Curves and Shifts - The demand for new motor homes in the United States is highly cyclical and sensitive to diesel fuel prices and interest rates. Given these characteristics, describe the effect of each of the followin ...
  8. Fixed Cost Problem - A firm fixed cost are 0 outputs and its aveage total cost producing different output levels are summarized in the table below..... Complete the table to find the fixed cost, variable cost, total cost ...
  9. Supply/Demand Graphs - Draw out multiple supply/demand graphs and identify (in color) where you have: 1) Consumer Surplus, 2) Producer Surplus, 3) Consumer Deadweight Loss, and 4) Producer Deadweight Loss.
  10. This is a simple problem illustrating the difference among Perfect Competition, Monopoly and Cournot Duopoly - This is a simple problem illustrating the difference among Perfect Competition, Monopoly and Cournot Duopoly. The question is at an intermediate undergraduate level. (possibly high intermediate for so ...
  11. Intl Trade Question - Describes a simple Ricardian problem about comparative advantage
  12. Is there a link between public health and international development? - Explain the mechanisms through which improvements in population health can lead to improvements in income levels. Is their evidence that supports the idea that the effects of these mechanisms are larg ...
  13. Driving forces of demographic transition and links to economic development - What are the driving forces behind the demographic transition? Are the transitions currently underway in the developing world different from those we saw in the developed world?
  14. Practice Questions for Introductory Economics Monopoly Material - The document contains a sample practice exam on concepts related to monopoly, monopsony, and oligopoly. I have included the answers but you should try to take the sample test before looking at the ans ...
  15. Population Growth models and Economic Growth - Explain why population growth has such a negative impact on economic growth in the Malthusian and Neoclassical growth models. Explain why population growth can have positive effects on economic growth ...
  16. Current account balance - Review the attached table - how much is the current account balance? Explain your answer.
  17. Market demand for fortune cookies - 1. Market demand for fortune cookies is given by P = 500 - Q, where Q is tons of cookies. There are two firms producing cookies at zero cost. a. Find each firm's fortune if the two collude. b. F ...
  18. Notes on how to skim a book - The guide describes how to skim a book or an article. It is particularly useful for Political Science, International Relations and the general social sciences.
  19. Classical Utilitarianism compared to Cost Effectiveness Analysis - Contrast CEA with utilitarianism. Do its differences, as you characterize them, make it a better or worse account of what policies we should follow in resource allocation for health?
  20. Demand Functions - I need some help checking my work on the following problems. I essentially worked out to where I took both of the partials and wrote in terms of L, but I need some help with the algebra to get throug ...
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