Teresa D. Harrison
Associate Professor of Economics
LeBow College of Business
Drexel University
Matheson 503-B
Philadelphia, PA 19104
E-mail: tharrison<at>drexel.edu
Office Phone: 215-895-0556
Fax: 215-895-6975

Curriculum Vitae (Current October 2009)

Research

My research areas are empirical industrial organization, applied microeconomics, and applied microeconometrics. I particularly focus on the dynamic behavior of nonprofit organizations and hospital mergers and acquisitions.

NP Dynamic Data

Data on nonprofit incumbents, births and deaths between 1989 and 2000 is here.

Refereed Publications

• "Do Mergers Really Reduce Costs? Evidence from Hospitals.", Economic Inquiry, forthcoming.
• "Entry and Exit in the Nonprofit Sector," (with Christopher A. Laincz), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 22, July 2008.
• "Do Economics Journal Archives Promote Replicable Research?," (with Bruce D. McCullough and Kerry Anne McGeary), Canadian Journal of Economics, 41(4) November 2008.
• "Taxes and Agglomeration Economies: How Are They Related to Nonprofit Firm Location?," Southern Economic Journal, 75(2) October 2008.
• "Consolidations and Closures: An Empirical Analysis of Exits from the Hospital Industry," Health Economics, 16(5) May 2007.
• "Lessons from the JMCB Archive," (with Bruce D. McCullough and Kerry Anne McGeary), Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 38(4) June 2006.
• "Hospital Mergers: Who Merges With Whom?," Applied Economics, 38(6) April 2006.
• "The Effect of the Nonprofit Motive on Hospital Competitive Behavior," (with Kristina M. Lybecker), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Vol. 4 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), June 2005.
• "Successful Replication of Thornton's (2000) JMCB Article," Indian Journal of Economics and Business, 2(2) December 2003.

Other Published Papers

• "Review of np Software for R," Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.

Working Papers

• "Nonprofits, Crowd-Out, and Credit Constraints," (with Christopher A. Laincz).
• "Board influence, excess compensation, and shared power: Evidence from nonprofit firms," (with Jacqueline Garner).
• "Does Gibrat's Law Apply to Nonprofits?," (with Christopher A. Laincz).
• "The Reduction in Bias for an Endogenous Interaction Coefficient."
• "On 2SLS Estimation of an Interaction Coefficient in a Multivariate Setting."

Works in Progress

• "A Nonparametric Analysis of the Relation Between Firm Growth, Size, and Age."
• "Measuring the Degree of Competition Between Nonprofits and For-Profits: The Case of Fitness Centers," (with Katja Seim).
• "Nonparametric Tests of Cost Differences among US Hospitals," (with Paul W. Wilson).
  
  

Teaching

For Summer and Fall 2009, I am not teaching. Below are courses that I will or have taught at Drexel (U-Undergraduate; G-Ph.D.; M-MBA).

• Introduction to Microeconomics (U)
• Applied Econometrics (U)
• Econometrics I (G)
• Managerial Economics (M)
• Industry Management Perspectives-Healthcare Industry (M)