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David Dranove
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 160
Citations - 9830
David Dranove is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Competition (economics). The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 156 publications receiving 9356 citations. Previous affiliations of David Dranove include University of Chicago & Saint Petersburg State University.
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The Silent Majority Fallacy of the Elzinga-Hogarty Criteria: A Critique and New Approach to Analyzing Hospital Mergers
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the existence of traveling consumers may not limit seller market power with respect to non-traveling consumers, a phenomenon they label the silent majority fallacy.
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Influence and Deterrence: How Obstetricians Respond to Litigation Against Themselves and Their Colleagues
David Dranove,Yasutora Watanabe +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how obstetricians respond to litigation and observed very small, short-lived increases in cesarean section rates, but they did not find that the recent sharp rise in CCS rates is in direct response to litigation.
Letters to the editor: Comments on "Audibility of A CD-standard A/D/A loop inserted into high-resolution audio playback"
TL;DR: Claims both published and anecdotal are regularly made for audibly superior sound quality for two-channel audio encoded with longer word lengths and/or at higher sampling rates than the 16-bit/44.1-kHz CD standard, but a series of doubleblind tests show that the CD-quality A/D/A loop was undetectable at normal-to-loud listening levels, by any of the subjects, on either of the playback systems.
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Surviving a Standards War: Lessons Learned from the Life and Death of DIVX
David Dranove,Neil Gandal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed Circuit City's strategy to establish the dominant standard for digital video technology and identified several key principles that any firm must consider when deciding how to compete in a market with evolving standards.