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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Organizational Economics Group Meeting

The Organization and Productivity of Healthcare Delivery

 

Organized by R. Gibbons (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and

E. Martinez (MGH)

 

November 18, 2011

 

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – Second Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

 

PROGRAM

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:00 am

Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

Ian Larkin, Harvard University

Matthew Chao, CalTech

 

How (and How Much) Do Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Influence Physician Prescribing Behavior? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment

 

 

 

Discussant:  Erin Johnson, MIT

 

 

9:45 am

Break

 

 

10:00 am

Joseph Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

John Graves, Vanderbilt University

Jonathan Gruber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Samuel Kleiner, Cornell University and NBER

 

Do More Expensive Hospitals Deliver Better Care? Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns (not available for download)

 

 

 

Discussant:  Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Kate Kellogg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Operating Room: Relational Spaces and Microinstitutional Change in Surgery

 

 

 

Discussant: TBA

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Timothy Ferris, Massachusetts General Hospital

 

Provider Tactics for Improving Value in Healthcare

 

 

 

Discussant:  TBA

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Anna Levine Taub, Northeastern University

Anton Kolotilin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Robert Gibbons and Ernst Berndt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

The Heterogeneity of Concentrated Prescribing Behavior: An Application to Antipsychotics

 

 

 

Discussant: Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

Break

 

 

3:30 pm

Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University and NBER

Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Expertise, Underuse, and Overuse in Healthcare

 

 

 

Discussant: Heidi Williams, MIT and NBER

 

 

4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

4:45 pm

Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for The Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)