Hanming Fang Named Inaugural Norman C. Grosman Professor of Economics
Hanming Fang has been named the inaugural Norman C. Grosman Professor of Economics. Fang, who joined the Penn community in 2009, served as the Class of 1965 Term Professor and Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of Economics before being appointed to the Grosman Professorship. He has also served as Chair of the Department of Economics.
An applied microeconomist who integrates rigorous modeling with data analysis, Fang’s research within the field of public economics focuses on health insurance and healthcare markets. In 2008, Fang was awarded the 17th Kenneth Arrow Prize by the International Health Economics Association for his research on the sources of advantageous selection in the Medigap insurance market. His current work involves the interaction between health insurance reform and the labor market, as well as various aspects of the Chinese economy. In his research on discrimination, he examines the role of prejudice in racial disparities in search rates during highway stops, emergency room treatments, and parole releases.
Author of more than 100 working papers, peer-reviewed journal articles, and other publications, Fang is also co-editor of the forthcoming book The Arc of the Chinese Government, to be published by Cambridge University Press in fall 2025.
Fang currently serves as a research associate of Penn’s Population Studies Center and Population Aging Research Center. He is also a senior fellow at Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Fang’s academic service includes membership on the executive committee for Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Professionally, he was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2018 and currently serves on the Society’s executive committee.
The late Norman C. Grosman, W’52, WG’53, generously established the Norman C. Grosman Professorship through a gift from his estate in 2024.
