NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETING

Martin Gaynor, Organizer

October 22, 2004

NBER Offices,

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22:



8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.



8:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.



8:45 AM Continental Breakfast



9:15 AM LEEMORE DAFNY, Northwestern University and NBER

Estimation and Indentification of Merger Effects:

An Application to Hospital Mergers

10:15 AM Break



10:30 AM MARK DUGGAN, University of Maryland and NBER

FIONA SCOTT-MORTON, Yale University and NBER

The Effect of Medicaid Regulations on Drug Product Introductions and Pharmaceutical Prices



11:30 AM DANA GOLDMAN, Rand and NBER

NICOLE MAESTAS, Rand

Medical Expenditure Risk and Household Portfolio Choice



12:30 PM Lunch

1:00 PM KATHERINE HO, Harvard University

Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market



2:00 PM ROBERT TOWN, University of Minnesota and NBER

LAWTON R. BURNS, University of Pennsylvania

ROGER FELDMAN and DOUG WHOLEY, University of Minnesota Did the HMO Revolution Cause Hospital Consolidation?



3:00 PM Adjourn



10/21/04