Events & Seminars
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September 19, 2024 2:30pm4:00pm
Bureaucrat Incentives Reduce Crop Burning and Child Mortality in South Asia
Gemma Dipoppa (Brown University) -
September 19, 2024 4:00pm5:20pm
How Do Digital Advertising Auctions Impact Product Prices?
Alessandro Banatti (MIT/Sloan)
Harvard Littauer 301, Hansen-Mason Lounge
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September 19, 2024 4:00pm5:00pm
Hypothesis Testing with Information Asymmetry | Stephen Bates (MIT)
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September 23, 2024 2:30pm4:00pm
Relational Frictions Along the Supply Chain: Evidence from Senegalese Traders (with Deivy Houeix) | Edward Wiles (MIT) (joint with Development)
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September 23, 2024 4:00pm5:30pm
Kelsey Moran
Title: Costs of Technological Frictions: Evidence from EHR (Non)-Interoperability
Abstract: Interoperability - the ability of different systems to work together - is an increasingly vital component of product markets, particularly that for Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. While adoption of EHR systems in US healthcare organizations is high, interoperability remains low particularly across systems built by different EHR vendors. We examine whether this technological friction has an influence on patient flows between providers and patient outcomes. Using event studies, we find that hospitals share 8% more inpatient transfers and 9-10% more referrals after switching to the same EHR vendor. We then show that interoperability affects patient outcomes through two channels: (1) the reallocation across hospitals, and (2) the more direct benefits of improved health information exchange. Allocatively, patients have better health outcomes when their sending hospital switches to a vendor used by better quality hospitals in the market; they have worse outcomes when the opposite occurs. Directly, patient costs, tests, images, and readmission rates decrease when sending and receiving hospitals share the same vendor. Finally, we estimate a demand model of patient flows to quantify the trade-offs between interoperability and other characteristics of receiving hospitals. We show that eliminating all interoperability frictions would result in 4% of patients being sent to different hospitals and would increase joint hospital-patient welfare by the equivalent of a 60-kilometer reduction in travel distance. -
September 23, 2024 4:00pm5:20pm
Martin Beraja (MIT)
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September 24, 2024 2:30pm4:00pm
"Conformity Concerns: A Dynamic Perspective" | Roi Orzach (MIT)
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September 24, 2024 4:00pm5:30pm
“Endogenous Technological Transitions and the Role of the Firm” | Todd Lensman (MIT)
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September 25, 2024 11:30am12:45pm
Lars Hansen (University of Chicago)
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September 25, 2024 4:00pm5:20pm
"Hedging in the College Application Problem"
Ran Shorrer (UPenn)
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September 26, 2024 4:00pm5:00pm
Andriy Norets (Brown)
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September 30, 2024 2:30pm4:00pm
Job Market Talk | Eitan Sapiro-Gheiler
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September 30, 2024 4:30pm5:45pm
Job Market Talk | Sarah Gertler (MIT)
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September 30, 2024 4:00pm5:30pm
Advik Shreehumar
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September 30, 2024 4:00pm5:30pm
Karl Aspelund (MIT)
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October 01, 2024 2:30pm4:00pm
"The Inner Beauty of Firms" | Jacob Kohlhepp (UNC Chapel Hill)
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October 01, 2024 4:00pm5:30pm
The Impact of Factoring on Trade Credit, Labor Demand, and Firms' Performance | Henry Zhang (MIT)
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October 01, 2024 4:00pm5:15pm
"Decisions Under Risk are Decisions Under Complexity" | Ryan Oprea (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Contact: dgarrity@mit.edu