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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC

 

HEALTH CARE PROGRAM MEETING

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

 

March 12, 2010

 

NBER  Offices,

3rd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MARCH 11:

 

 

6:30 pm

Dinner

 

Legal Sea Foods

 

Kendall Square

 

5 Cambridge Center

 

Cambridge, MA

 

 

FRIDAY, MARCH 12:

 

 

8:15 am

Shuttle Van Departs the Royal Sonesta for NBER

 

 

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:00 am

ERIC HELLAND, McKenna College

 

DARIUS N. LAKDAWALLA, University of Southern California and NBER

 

ANUP MALANI, University of Chicago and NBER

 

SETH SEABURY, Rand Corporation

 

Tort Liability and the Market for Prescription Drugs

 

 

9:50 am

CORY CAPPS, Bates White LLC.

 

DENNIS W. CARLTON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

GUY DAVID, University of Pennsylvania

 

Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?

 

 

10:40 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

JACOB GLAZER, Tel Aviv/Boston University

 

THOMAS G. MCGUIRE, Harvard University

 

Gold and Silver Health Plans: Accommodating Demand Heterogeneity in Managed Competition

 

 

 

 

11:50 am

Lunch

 

 

12:30 pm

LOUISE SHEINER, Federal Reserve Board

 

Geographic Variation in Health Spending: Is Medicare a Good Proxy?

 

 

1:20 pm

ANIRBAN BASU and TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

The Impact of Comparative Effectiveness Research on Health and Health Care Spending

 

and

TOMAS PHILIPSON, University of Chicago and NBER

SETH SEABURY, Rand Corporation

Lee Lockwood, University of Chicago

Dana Goldman, University of Southern California

DARIUS N. LAKDAWALLA, University of Southern California and NBER

Regional Variations in Health Care: The Role of Private Markets

2:10 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

DAVID CHAN, MIT

 

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

Charging Low Income Families for Health Insurance: How Does It Impact Choices?

 

 

3:20 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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