Overview
Gautam Gowrisankaran is an economist specializing in health economics and industrial organization. He was at the University of Rochester Simon School at the time of the Geweke-Gowrisankaran-Town (2003) collaboration and subsequently moved to the University of Arizona. His research focuses on hospital competition, health care markets, and empirical industrial organization.
Key Contributions
- Geweke-Gowrisankaran-Town (2003): Bayesian simultaneous-equation selection model for hospital quality estimation from Medicare pneumonia mortality data; 114 Los Angeles County hospitals, 1989–1992; distance-based instruments; MCMC with data augmentation; selection component 8× larger than independent component. See Geweke-Gowrisankaran-Town (2003).
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