Research

DAVID RECENT RESEARCH 2006-2009

Publications

Guy David, “Trends in Hospital Ownership Type and Capacity: A Decomposition Analysis.” Forthcoming in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Linda Dynan, Rebecca Stein, Guy David, Laura Kenny, Amy Short and Mark Eckman, “Hospitalist Efficiency Decomposed:  A Qualitative and Quantitative Study.” Forthcoming in Medical Care Research and Review

Guy David, “The Convergence between Nonprofit and For-Profit Hospitals in the United States.” Forthcoming in International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics

Guy David and Tanguy Brachet, “Retention, Learning by Doing, and Performance in Emergency Medical Services.” Health Services Research, Vol. 44(3), pp 902-925, June 2009

Guy David and Arthur Chiang, “The Determinants of Public versus Private Provision of Emergency Medical Services.” International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 27(2), pp 312-319, March 2009

Guy David, Lorens Helmchen and Robert Henderson, ”Does Advanced Medical Technology Encourage Hospitalist Use and Their Direct Employment by Hospitals?” Health Economics, Vol. 18(2), pp 237-247, February 2009

Brendan Carr, Tanguy Brachet, Guy David, Reena Duseja and Charlie Branas, “The Time Cost of Prehospital Intubation and Intravenous Access in Trauma Patients.” Prehospital Emergency Care, Vol. 12 (3), pp. 327-332, July 2008

Anup Malani and Guy David, “Forget Quality: Do Non-Profit even Signal their Status?” Journal of Legal Studies Vol. 36 (2), June 2007

Guy David and Lorens Helmchen, ”On the Economic Foundations of Medical Care Productivity and Specialization: The Case of Hospitalists.” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 73 (3), pp 604-622, January 2007

Guy David and Lorens Helmchen, “An Uncertain Prescription: Are Tax Exemptions for Nonprofit Hospitals an Efficient Way to Fund Indigent Care?” Regulation, Vol. 29 (2), pp 14-16, June 2006

Arthur Chiang, Guy David and Michael Housman, “The Determinants of Urban Emergency Medical Services Privatization” Critical Planning, Vol. 13, pp 5-22, June 2006

Working Papers

Guy David and Scott Harrington, ”Population Density and Racial Differences in the Performance of Emergency Medical Services.” (Under Revision)

Tanguy Brachet and Guy David, “The Determinants of Organizational Forgetting” (Under Revision)

Guy David, Sara Markowitz and Seth Richards, “The Effects of Pharmaceutical Marketing and Promotion on Adverse Drug Events and Regulation.” (Under Revision)

Amol Navathe and Guy David “The Formation of Peer Reputation among Physicians and its Effect on Technology Adoption” (Under Revision)

Guy David and Lorens Helmchen, ”Specialization along the Medical Care Continuum.” (Under Review)
                                      
Tanguy Brachet, Guy David and Reena Duseja “The Effect of Shift Structure on Performance: The Role of Fatigue for Paramedics”

Cory Capps, Dennis Carlton and Guy David, “Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?”

Rob Burns, Guy David and Lorens Helmchen, “Just How Disruptive are Disruptive Innovations? Hospital Executives’ Views of Specialty Hospitals, Retail Clinics, and Ambulatory Surgery Centers” (Under Review)

Guy David, Margo Lederhandler and Victoria Perez, “Ownership Mix of Addiction Treatment Centers in the U.S.” (Under Review)

“Does Entry by Single-Specialty Competitors Affect the Provision of Uncontested Services? Evidence from Arizona and Florida” (with Lorens Helmchen and Rich Lindrooth)

“The Effect of Emergency Medical Services Privatization on Human Capital Accumulation.” (with Tanguy Brachet and Scott Harrington)

“Vertical Integration between Hospitals and Home Health Agencies.” (with Dan Polsky and Evan Rawley)

“Physicians’ Risk Taking Behavior in Ambulatory Surgery Centers.” (with Mark Neuman)

“Social Networks and Physician Learning: Evidence from Pediatrician’s Referrals.” (with Jonathan Kolstad and Jeff Marrazzo)

Lorens Helmchen and Guy David, “Hospitalists” Encyclopedia of Health Services Research, edited by Ross M. Mullner. SAGE Publications, 2009, Vol. 1, pp 331-333.

Guy David and Tanguy Brachet, “Economies of Scale” Encyclopedia of Health Services Research, edited by Ross M. Mullner. SAGE Publications, 2009, Vol. 1, pp 614-618.

Anup Malani, Tomas Philipson and Guy David, “Theories of Firm Behavior in the Non-Profit Sector: A Synthesis and Empirical Evaluation” in The Governance of Not-for-Profit Firms, Edward L. Glaeser, Editor, NBER 2003, pp 181–216. 

2009-2010 “Determinants and Consequences of Emergency Medical Services Privatization”, funded by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation.

2008-2011 “Market Competition and the Quality of Home Health Services”, funded by NIH/NIA/NHLBI.

2007-2008 "The Organization of Emergency Medical Services for Improved Public Health", funded by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

2007-2008 "Assessment of Retail Medical Clinics and Their Impact on Physician-Hospital Relations", funded by the Center for Health Management Research.

2006 – 2007 "The Economics of Specialization in Hospital Medicine." funded by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation.