James B. Rebitzer, PhD
Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business
Titles and Affiliations:
- Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business
James B. Rebitzer is the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, where he was the founding chair of the Department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law. He was previously the Mannix Professor of Healthcare Finance and Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University. Before that, he was an associate professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, where he taught classes on human resource problems in professional labor markets.
At BU, Rebitzer’s research and teaching focus on managerial issues in the US health sector. Much of Rebitzer’s academic research focuses on the economics of financial and non-financial incentives for physicians. He has also published papers on the causes and consequences of fragmentation in healthcare delivery systems and insurance markets. In the past year, he published a book on technological and organizational innovation in the health sector, Why Not Better and Cheaper? (Oxford University Press, 2023). He teaches an MBA class on the economics of managerial decision-making and strategy. He also teaches a course in Questrom’s Health Sector Management Program: Strategy, Economics, and Policy in the Health Sector.
Rebitzer’s research has received the Health Care Research Award from the National Institute of Health Care Management and the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association. He is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
