Ben Sprung-Keyser

Ben Sprung-Keyser
  • Assistant Professor of Business, Economics, and Public Policy

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    316 Dinan Hall (formerly Vance Hall)
    3733 Spruce Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Links: Personal Website, CV

Overview

Ben Sprung-Keyser is assistant professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy (BEPP) group at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His research is in the fields of public economics and labor economics.

He is a co-director at Policy Impacts. He received a PhD in Economics from Harvard in 2023.

For more information, visit his personal website. 

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Research

For more information, please visit my personal website.

Teaching

  • BEPP6110 – Microeconomics for Managers

    This course covers the economic foundations of business strategy and decision-making in market environments with other strategic actors and less than full information, as well as advanced pricing strategies. Topics include oligopoly models of market competition, creation, and protection, sophisticated pricing strategies for consumers with different valuations or consumers who buy multiple units (e.g. price discrimination, bundling, two-part tariffs), strategies for managing risk and making decisions under uncertainty, asymmetric information and its consequences for markets, and finally moral hazard and principle-agent theory with application to incentive contacts.

Past Courses

  • BEPP6110 - Microeconomics for Managers

    This course covers microeconomic foundations for understanding business decision-making. The first unit, “Operating a Firm,” covers demand estimation, cost minimization, and pricing with market power. Unit two, “Markets and Equilibrium,” covers supply and demand, market equilibrium, taxes and tax incidence, and externalities. Unit three presents an introduction to game theory, including simultaneous-move and sequential games. Students are expected to have mastered these materials before enrolling in the second-quarter course, Microeconomics for Managers: Advanced Applications.

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