Mika Kortelainen
Professor, Research Professor (THL), Vice-head of Department of Economics
mika.kortelainen@utu.fi +358 29 450 4818 +358 50 308 2642 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7868-9651 |
Health economics, health care financing, effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, social and health care reform
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Mika Kortelainen is a professor of health economics at the University of Turku and a research professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Previously, he has worked as a chief researcher at the VATT Institute for Economic Research and as a lecturer at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also a docent of economics at the University of Helsinki.
Mika Kortelainen's research fields include health economics, economics of education and applied microeconometrics. His ongoing research projects concern the effectiveness of information and digital technologies in healthcare and the impacts of the healthcare and pharmaceutical market reforms and interventions.
Health economics, pharmaceutical markets, causal inference
- Helsinkiläisten lapsiperheiden kouluvalinnat asuntomarkkinoilla (2015) Oskari Harjunen, Mika Kortelainen, Tuukka Saarimaa
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - The Environmental Kuznets Curve at Different Levels of Economic Development: A Counterfactual Quantile Regression Analysis for CO2 Emissions. (2015)
- Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Kouluvalintojen vaikutukset Suomessa epäselviä (2014) Mika Kortelainen, Isa Kuosmanen
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Lukioiden väliset erot ja paremmuusjärjestys (2014) Mika Kortelainen, Heikki Pursiainen, Jenni Pääkkönen
(D4 Published development or research report or study ) - Estimating Mortality and Economic Costs of Particulate Air Pollution in Developing Countries: The Case of Nigeria (2013)
- Environmental and Resource Economics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Public and Private Capital Productivity in Russia - A Nonparametric Investigation (2013)
- Empirical Economics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Trade-off Analysis of Ecosystem Services in Eastern Europe (2013)
- Ecosystem Services
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Trade-Offs in Ecosystem Services in Central and Eastern Europe. Science for Environment Policy (2013) Arjan Ruijs, Ada Wossink, Mika Kortelainen, Nynje Schulp, Rob Alkemade
(E1 Popularised article) - What Explains Performance of Students in a Heterogeneous Environment? Conditional Efficiency Estimation with Continuous and Discrete Environmental Variables (2013)
- Applied Economics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Stochastic Non-Smooth Envelopment of Data: Semiparametric Frontier Estimation subject to Shape Constraints (2012)
- Journal of Productivity Analysis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



