Gautam Gowrisankaran

Phone: +1(520) 621-2529
Fax: +1(520) 621-8450

Email: gautam_gowrisankaran@nber.org

Vitae (Current January 2010): [Download]

Research statement from November 2005: [Download]

Teaching

Economics 696F Fall 2009 (Econometrics of Dynamic Industrial Organization Models for PhD students)

Washington University MEC 400G / 500I Fall 2005 (Economic Issues and the Management of Healthcare for BSBA/MBA students)

Washington University MEC 797 Summer 2005 (Competitive Strategy and Industry Structure for EMBA students)

Washington University MEC 592 Fall 2004 (Competitive Industry Analysis for MBA students)

Yale University Economics 601b Spring 2003 (Graduate Industrial Organization)

Harvard University Economics 2610 Fall 2002 (Graduate Industrial Organization)

University of Minnesota Economics 8205-06 Fall 2000 (Graduate Applied Econometrics)

University of Minnesota Economics 8601 Fall 2000 (Graduate Industrial Organization)

University of Minnesota Economics 8281 Fall 2000 (Graduate Topics in Econometrics)

Research

Working papers (in PDF format)

• "Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods," (with Marc Rysman) February 2009 [Download paper]
• "Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly," (with Robert J. Town) July 2006 [Download paper]
• "Causality, Learning and Forgetting in Surgery," (with Vivian Ho and Robert J. Town) January 2006 [Download paper]
• "The Welfare Consequences of ATM Surcharges: Evidence from a Structural Entry Model," (with John Krainer) April 2007 [Download paper]

Published/forthcoming papers (in PDF format)

• "Learning and the Value of Information: Evidence from Health Plan Report Cards," (with Michael Chernew and Dennis Scanlon) (Journal of Econometrics, 144, 156-74, 2008) [Download paper]
• "Electoral Design and Voter Welfare from the U.S. Senate: Evidence from a Dynamic Selection Model," (with Matthew F. Mitchell and Andrea Moro), (Review of Economic Dynamics, 11, 1-17, 2008) [Download paper]
• "Quantifying Equilibrium Network Externalities in the ACH Banking Industry," (with Daniel A. Ackerberg), (RAND Journal of Economics 37, 738-61, 2006) [Download paper]
• "Quality, Price and Employers' Choice of Health Plan," (with Michael Chernew, Catherine McLaughlin and Teresa Gibson), (Journal of Health Economics 23, 471-92, 2004) [Download paper]
• "Network Externalities and Technology Adoption: Lessons from Electronic Payments," (with Joanna Stavins), (RAND Journal of Economics 35, 260-76, 2004) [Download paper]
• "Mergers and the Evolution of Industry Concentration: Results From the Dominant Firm Model," (with Thomas J. Holmes), (RAND Journal of Economics 35, 561-82, 2004) [Download paper] [Download web notes]
• "Bayesian Inference For Hospital Quality in a Selection Model," (with John Geweke and Robert J. Town), (Econometrica 71, 1215-1238, 2003) [Download paper] [Download appendices]
• "Competition, Payers and Hospital Quality," (with Robert J. Town), (Health Services Research 38, 1403-22, 2003) [Download paper]
• "Payer Type and the Returns to Bypass Surgery: Evidence from Hospital Entry Behavior," (with Michael Chernew and A. Mark Fendrick), (Journal of Health Economics 21, 451-474, 2002) [Download paper]
• "Estimating the Quality of Care in Hospitals Using Instrumental Variables," (with Robert J. Town), (Journal of Health Economics 18, 747-67, 1999) [Download paper]
• "A Dynamic Model of Endogenous Horizontal Mergers," (RAND Journal of Economics 30, 56-83, 1999) [Download paper]
• "Efficient Representation of State Spaces for Some Dynamic Models," (Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 23, 1077-98, 1999) [Download paper]
• "Dynamic Equilibrium in the Hospital Industry," (with Robert J. Town), (Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 6, 45-74, 1997) [Download paper]

Other Publications

• "A Dynamic Analysis of Mergers" (Yale University Ph.D. Dissertation, 1995 - contains proof of existence of equilibrium for Ericson-Pakes type models) [Download]
• "Why Do Americans Still Write Checks?" (FRBSF Economic Letter 2002-27, September 2002) [Download paper]
• "Productivity in Heart Attack Treatments," (FRBSF Economic Letter 2002-20, July 2002) [Download paper]
• "Competition and Regulation in the Airline Industry," (FRBSF Economic Letter 2002-01, January 2002) [Download paper]
• "Issues and Prospects for Payment System Deregulation," January 1998 [Download paper]