Gautam Gowrisankaran

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

Email: gautam_gowrisankaran@nber.org

Vitae (Current October 2011): [Download]

Research statement from November 2005: [Download]

Slides on "The Economics of Accountable Care Organizations," from UC Berkeley conference, November 11, 2011: [Download]

Teaching

Estimation of Durable Goods Models for Differentiated Products Fall 2010 (Lectures given at the Bureau of Economic Analysis)

Economics 696F (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)

• "Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy," (with Stanley Reynolds and Mario Samano) December 2011 [Download paper] [Download slides]
• "Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Goods," (with Marc Rysman) October 2011 [Download paper]
• "Causality, Learning and Forgetting in Surgery," (with Vivian Ho and Robert J. Town) January 2006 [Download paper]

Published/forthcoming papers (in PDF format)

• "Entry and Pricing in a Differentiated Products Industry: Evidence from the ATM Market," (with John Krainer) (RAND Journal of Economics, 42, 1-22, 2011) [Download paper]
• "The Impact of the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program on Patient Choice," (with Claudio Lucarelli, Philipp Schmidt-Dengler and Robert Town) (International Journal of Industrial Organization 29, 342-344, 2011) [Download paper]
• "Managed Care, Drug Benefits and Mortality: An Analysis of the Elderly," (with Robert J. Town and Eric Barrette) (The B.E. Journal of Economics Analysis and Policy 11: Issue 2 (Advances) Article 3, 2011) [Download from website] [Download from journal]
• "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]

My Ph.D. Dissertation from 1995 contains a proof of existence of equilibrium for Ericson-Pakes type models

• "Evaluating the Impact of a Hospital Merger Using the Difference-in-Difference of Prices." (Comment on article by Steven Tenn.) (Forthcoming, International Journal of the Economics of Business) [Download paper]
• "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]