Guy David Faculty Profile

Guy David
Assistant Professor of Health Care Systems

PhD, University of Chicago, 2004; MA, Tel-Aviv University, 1997; BA, Tel-Aviv University, 1995

Research Areas
Health economics; industrial organization; nonprofit organizations; applied microeconomics

Current Projects
The dynamics of mixed-ownership competition in healthcare markets; Evaluation of policies towards nonprofit providers; Regulation in the home health care industry; The economics of Emergency Medical Services; The industrial organization of the addiction treatment system; Specialization in hospital medicine; Welfare effects of specialty hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers; Direct-to-consumer advertising and drug safety.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2004-present

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
National Bureau of Economic Research Dissertation Fellowship Award 2003-04; University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Award 2006; Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Pilot Project Program Award 2007; Center for Health Management Research (NSF – funded research center) Grant 2007

Representative Publications
“The Convergence between Nonprofit and For-Profit Hospitals in the United States.”

(with A. Chiang)
”The Determinants of Public versus Private Provision of Emergency Medical Services”

(with T. Brachet)
”Retention, Learning-by-Doing and Performance in Emergency Medical Services”

(with A. Malani)
“Forget Quality: Do Non-Profit even Signal their Status?” Journal of Legal Studies (June 2007)

(with L. A. Helmchen)
”The Choice of Employment Arrangement in the Market for Hospitalist Services.” Southern Economic Journal (January 2007).