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David Dranove

Walter McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management
Professor of Management and Strategy

Management and Strategy

BA 1977, Biology, MBA 1979, Cornell University; PhD 1983, Economics, Stanford University

 
Academic Positions Held
  Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management
Professor of Management and Strategy
Director, Health at Kellogg
Director, Center for Health Industry Market Economics
   
Selected Honors
  1993 John D. Thompson Prize in Health Services Research. The Thompson Prize, awarded by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration, recognizes outstanding contributions to health services research by an individual under the age of 40.

1993 Marriott Corporation Health Care Services Faculty Publication of the Year: "Is Hospital Competition Wasteful?" This prize is awarded by the Marriott Corporation and the American Academy of Medical Administrators.

1998 National Institute for Health Care Management Research Paper of the Year: "Medicaid Dependent Hospitals and Their Patients: How Have They Fared?

1998 Association for Health Services Research Paper of the Year: "Medicaid Dependent Hospitals and Their Patients: How Have They Fared?"

2002, 2005 Kellogg School of Management: Sidney Levy Teaching Award

2002 National Institute for Health Care Management Research Paper of the Year: “Is More Information Better: The Effects of “Report Cards” on Health Care Providers”

2005 Kellogg School of Management: Stanley Reiter Best Paper Award

   
Editorial Boards
  Journal of Health Economics
RAND Journal of Economics
Health Services Research
Journal of Medical Practice Management

(Previously) Management Science
   
Selected Publications
  "The Effect of Injecting Price Competition into the Hospital Market: The Case of Preferred Provider Organizations," (with Mark Satterthwaite and Jody Sindelar) Inquiry Vol. 23, (Winter, 1986)
"Rate Setting by Diagnosis Related Groups and Hospital Specialization," Rand Journal of Economics Vol. 18, (Autumn, 1987)
"Agency and the Organization of Health Care Delivery," (with William D. White) Inquiry Vol. 24, (Winter, 1987)
"Demand Inducement and the Physician/Patient Relationship," Economic Inquiry Vol. 26, (April, 1988)
"Pricing by Non-Profit Institutions: The Case of Hospital Cost Shifting" Journal of Health Economics Vol. 7, (Spring, 1988)
"Medicaid Drug Formulary Restrictions," Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 32, (April 1989)
"Is Hospital Competition Wasteful?" (with Mark Shanley and Carol Simon) RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 23, (Summer 1992)
"Monopolistic Competition When Price and Quality are not Perfectly Observable" (with Mark Satterthwaite) RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 23, (Winter 1992)
"Price and Concentration in Hospital Markets: The Switch from Patient-driven to Payor-driven Competition" (with Mark Shanley and William D. White) Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 36, (April 1993)
"Physician-Induced Demand for Childbirths" (with Paul Wehner) Journal of Health Economics (March 1994)
"Do Important Drugs Reach the Market Sooner?" (with David Meltzer) RAND Journal of Economics (Autumn 1994)
"The Vertical Chain of Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry" (with Michael Ward) Economic Inquiry (January 1995)
"Cost Reductions versus Reputation Enhancements as Motives for Mergers: The Logic of Multihospital Systems" (with Mark Shanley) Strategic Management Journal (January-February 1995)
"Economies of Scale in Non-revenue Producing Cost Centers: Implications for Hospital Mergers" Journal of Health Economics (January 1998)
"Medicaid-Dependent Hospitals and Their Patients: How Have They Fared?” (with Will White) Health Services Research (April 1998)
"Do Strategic Groups Exist: An Economic Framework for Analysis" (with Mark Shanley and Margaret Peteraf) Strategic Management Journal (Fall 1998)
"Competition Among Insurers Offering Health Insurance" (with Kathryn Spier and Loren Baker) Journal of Health Economics (January 2000)
"Exploiting Cost Advantages and Coping with Cost Disadvantages" (with David Besanko and Mark Shanley) Management Science (February 2001)
“Antitrust Policy and Hospital Mergers: Recommendations for a New Approach” (with Cory Capps, Shane Greenstein, and Mark Satterthwaite) Antitrust Bulletin (Winter 2002)
Is More Information Better? The Effects of Report Cards on Cardiovascular Providers and Consumers” (with M. Satterthwaite, D. Kessler, and M. McClellan) Journal of Political Economy (June 2003)
“Hospital Consolidation and Costs: Another Look at the Evidence” (with R. Lindrooth) Journal of Health Economics (November 2003)
“The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Network Effects and Preannouncement Effects” (with Neil Gandal) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, (Fall 2003)
“Competition and Market Power in Option Demand Markets” (with Cory Capps and Mark Satterthwaite) RAND Journal of Economics, (December 2003)
“Differentiation and Competition in HMO Markets” (with Anne Gron and Michael Mazzeo) Journal of Industrial Economics, (December 2003)
Hospital Consolidation and Negotiated PPO Prices” (with Cory Capps) Health Affairs (March 2004)
“Has the Malpractice Crisis in Florida Affected Access to Care?" (with Anne Gron) Health Affairs (March 2005)
“The Effect of Physician-Hospital Affiliations on Hospital Prices in California” (with Federico Ciliberto,) Journal of Health Economics (January 2006)
“Medical Bankruptcy: Myth versus Fact” (with M. Millenson) Health Affairs (Feb 2006)
“Is the Impact of Managed Care on Hospital Prices Decreasing?” (with Richard Lindrooth, William White, and Jack Zwaniger) Journal of Health Economics (March 2008)
“Hospital Vertical Integration and Patient Referrals”, (with Cory Capps and Sayaka Nakamura; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, forthcoming)
 
Current Working Papers
  “Do Report Cards Tell Consumers Anything They Don’t Already Know? The Case of Medicare HMOs” (with Leemore Dafny) NBER Working Paper 11420
“Hospital Closures and Economic Efficiency” (with Cory Capps and Richard Lindrooth)
“Start Spreading the News: A Structural Estimate of the Effects of New York Hospital Report Cards”
“Regulatory Exploitation and the Market for Corporate Control” (with Leemore Dafny) NBER Working Paper 12438
“Profiting from Gaizhi: Management Buyouts during China’s Privatization” (with Feng Susan Lu)
“Influence and Deterrence: How Obstetricians Respond to Litigation against Themselves and their Colleagues” (with Yasutora Watanabe)
“Does the Market Punish Aggressive Experts? Evidence from Caesarean Sections” (with Subramaniam Ramanarayanan)
“How Rational are Bargainers? Using the Stole/Zweibel Bargaining Model to Examine Hospital Selective Contracting” (with Mark Satterthwaite and Andrew Sfekas)
 
Books
  The Economics of Strategy (joint with David Besanko, Mark Shanley, and Scott Schaefer) Wiley (1995, 1999, 2003, 2006)
How Hospitals Survived (with Will White) American Enterprise Institute (1999)
The Economic Evolution of American Healthcare: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care, Princeton University Press (2001)
What’s Your Life Worth?, Financial Times/Prentice Hall (2003)
Kellogg on Strategy (with Sonia Marciano) Wiley Press (2005)
Code Red Princeton University Press (2008)
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