Mark Satterthwaite - Faculty - Kellogg School of Management

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Mark Satterthwaite

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A.C. Buehler Professor in Hospital & Health Services Management
Professor of Strategic Management & Managerial Economics

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Mark Satterthwaite is the A.C. Buehler Professor in Hospital and Heath Services Management at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. He received his B.S. degree in 1967 from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He joined Kellogg directly out of graduate school in 1972 as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor in 1978.

Satterthwaite is a microeconomic theorist who has a keen applied interest in how health care markets work. His theoretical work focuses on how market mechanisms, when the number of participants is large, induce individuals to reveal their valuations almost accurately and select almost optimal allocations. He has published his work in leading journals including Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Economic Theory, and the Rand Journal of Economics. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, a founding member of the Game Theory Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Tenth Annual Research Award from the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation. The National Science Foundation has awarded him several research grants.

Within Kellogg Satterthwaite teaches the MBA course, “Microeconomic Analysis.” He has served both as associate dean for academic affairs and, at different times, as chair of the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department and of the Management and Strategy Department.

Areas of Expertise

Competition in Healthcare
Game Theory
Healthcare Management
Industrial Organization Economics

Recent Media Coverage

The Guardian (UK): A formula for fair voting

New York Times: The Pitfalls of Linking Doctors’ Pay to Performance

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Education

PhD, 1973, Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

MS, 1969, University of Wisconsin, Madison

BS, 1967, California Institute of Technology

Academic Positions

A.C. Buehler Professor in Hospital and Health Service Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2003-present

Professor of Strategic Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1985-present

Professor of Economics (by courtesy), Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 1983-present

Professor of Managerial Economics, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1978-present

Earl Dean Howard Professor of Managerial Economics, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1983-2003

Visiting Professor, California Institute of Technology, 1989-1989

Herman Smith Professor of Hospital and Health Services Management, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1981-1983

IBM Research Professor of Managerial Economics, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1979-1981

Assistant Professor, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1972-1978

Editorial Positions

Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics, 2005-Present

Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Theory, 1987-2009

Research Interests

Trading under asymmetric information, dynamics of competition within oligopolies, competition among health care providers

Articles

Satterthwaite, Mark, David Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski and Yaroslav Kryukov. 2010. Learning-By-Doing, Organizational Forgetting and Industry Dynamics. Econometrica. 78: 453-508.

Satterthwaite, Mark, David Besanko, Ulrich Doraszelski and Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu. 2010. Lumpy Capacity Investment and Disinvestment Dynamics. Operations Research. 58: 1178-93.

Doraszelski, Ulrich and Mark Satterthwaite. 2010. Computable Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics: Existence, Purification, and Multiplicity. RAND Journal of Economics. 41: 215-43.

Besanko, David, Mark Satterthwaite, Ulrich Doraszelski and Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu. 2010. On the Role of Demand and Strategic Uncertainty in Capacity Investment and Disinvestment Dynamics. International Journal of Industrial Organization. 28(4): 383-389.

Satterthwaite, Mark and Artyom Shneyerov. 2008. Convergence to Perfect Competition of a Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Market with Two-sided Incomplete Information and Exogenous Exit Rate. Games and Economic Behavior. 63(2): 435-467.

Satterthwaite, Mark and Artyom Shneyerov. 2007. Dynamic Matching, Two-sided Incomplete Information, and Participation Costs: Existence and Convergence to Perfect Competition. Econometrica. 75(1): 155-200.

Capps, Cory, David Dranove and Mark Satterthwaite. 2003. Competition and Market Power in Option Demand Markets. RAND Journal of Economics. 34(4): 737-763.

Dranove, David, Daniel Kessler, Mark McClellan and Mark Satterthwaite. 2003. Is More Information Better? The Effects of Report Cards on Health Care Providers. Journal of Political Economy. 111(3): 555-588.

Capps, Cory, David Dranove, Shane Greenstein and Mark Satterthwaite. 2002. Antitrust Policy and Hospital Mergers: Recommendations for a New Approach. Antitrust Bulletin. 47(4): 677-704.

Satterthwaite, Mark and Steven R. Williams. 2002. The Optimality of a Simple Market Mechanism. Econometrica. 70(5): 1841-1863.

Satterthwaite, Mark. 2001. Strategy-proofness and Markets. Social Choice and Welfare. 18(1): 37-58.

Rustichini, Aldo, Mark Satterthwaite and Steven R. Williams. 1994. Convergence to Efficiency in a Simple Market with Incomplete Information. Econometrica. 62(5): 1041-1063.

Dranove, David and Mark Satterthwaite. 1992. Monopolistic Competition when Price and Quality are not Perfectly Observable. RAND Journal of Economics. 23(4): 518-534.

O'hUallachain, Breandan and Mark Satterthwaite. 1992. Sectoral growth patterns at the metropolitan level: An evaluation of economic development incentives. Journal of Urban Economics. 31(1): 25-58.

Satterthwaite, Mark and Steven R. Williams. 1989. The Rate of Convergence to Efficiency in the Buyers' Bid Double Auction as the Market Becomes Large. Review of Economic Studies. 56(4): 477-498.

Satterthwaite, Mark and Steven R. Williams. 1989. Bilateral trade with the sealed bid k-double auction: Existence and efficiency. Journal of Economic Theory. 48(1): 107-133.

Gresik, Thomas A. and Mark Satterthwaite. 1989. The Rate at which a Simple Market Becomes Efficient as the Number of Traders Increases: An Asymptotic Result for Optimal Trading Mechanisms. Journal of Economic Theory. 48

Linhart, Peter, Roy Radner and Mark Satterthwaite. 1989. Introduction: Symposium on Noncooperative Bargaining. Journal of Economic Theory. 48(1): 1-17.

Dranove, David, Mark Satterthwaite and Jody Sindelar. 1986. Preferred Provider Organization: Injecting Price Competition into the Hospital Market. Inquiry. 23(4): 419-431.

Kumar, K. Ravi and Mark Satterthwaite. 1985. Monopolistic Competition, Aggregation of Competitive Information, and the Amount of Product Differentiation. Journal of Economic Theory. 37(1): 32-54.

Myerson, Roger B. and Mark Satterthwaite. 1983. Efficient Mechanisms for Bilateral Trading. Journal of Economic Theory. 29(2): 265-281.

Satterthwaite, Mark and Hugo Sonnenschein. 1981. Strategy-proof Allocation Mechanisms at Differentiable Points. Review of Economic Studies. 48(4): 587-597.

Pauly, Mark V. and Mark Satterthwaite. 1981. The Pricing of Primary Care Physicians Services: A Test of the Role of Consumer Information. Bell Journal of Economics. 12(2): 488-506.

Satterthwaite, Mark. 1981. On the Scope of Stockholder Unanimity Theorems. International Economic Review. 22(1): 119-133.

Satterthwaite, Mark. 1979. Consumer Information, Equilibrium Industry Price, and the Number of Sellers. Bell Journal of Economics. 10(2): 483-502.

Kalai, Ehud, Eitan Muller and Mark Satterthwaite. 1979. Social Welfare Functions when Preferences are Convex and Continuous: Impossibility Results. Public Choice. 34(1): 87-98.

Blin, Jean-Marie and Mark Satterthwaite. 1978. Individual Decisions and Group Decisions: The Fundamental Differences. Journal of Public Economics. 10(2): 247-267.

Muller, Eitan and Mark Satterthwaite. 1977. The Equivalence of Strong Positive Association and Strategy-Proofness. Journal of Economic Theory. 14(2): 412-418.

Blin, Jean Marie and Mark Satterthwaite. 1977. On Preferences, Beliefs, and Manipulation within Voting Situations. Econometrica. 45(4): 881-888.

Blin, Jean Marie and Mark Satterthwaite. 1976. Strategy-proofness and Single-peakedness. Public Choice. 26: 51-59.

Satterthwaite, Mark. 1975. Strategy-Proofness and Arrow's Conditions: Existence and Correspondence Theorems for Voting Procedures and Social Welfare Functions. Journal of Economic Theory. 10(2): 187-217.

Working Papers

Dranove, David, Mark Satterthwaite and Andrew Sfekas. Bargaining and Leverage in Option Demand Markets.

Book Chapters

Satterthwaite, Mark. 2008. "Strategy-Proof Allocation Mechanisms." In New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by Lawrence Blume and Steven N. Durlauf, London, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2nd edition.

Dranove, David and Mark Satterthwaite. 2000. "The Industrial Organization of Health Care Markets." In Handbook of Health Economics, edited by A.J. Culyer, J.P. Newhouse, vol. 1B, 1093-1140. Elsevier.

Kalai, Ehud and Mark Satterthwaite. 1994. "The Kinked Demand Curve, Facilitating Practices, and Oligopolistic Coordination." In Imperfections and Behavior in Economic Organizations, edited by R. P. Gilles and P. H. M. Ruys, 15-38. Kluwer.

Satterthwaite, Mark. 1992. "High-Growth Industries and Uneven Metropolitan Growth." In Sources of Metropolitan Growth, edited by E. Mills and J. McDonald, 39-50. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.

Satterthwaite, Mark and Steven R. Williams. 1992. "The Bayesian Theory of the k-Double Auction." In The Double Auction Market: Institutions, Theories, and Evidence, edited by D. Friedman and J. Rust, vol. 14, 99-124. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Dranove, David and Mark Satterthwaite. 1991. "The Implications of Resource-Based Relative Value scales for Physicians' Fees, Incomes, and Specialty Choices." In Regulating Doctors' Fees: Competition, Benefits, and Controls Under Medicare, edited by H. E. Frech, American Enterprise Institute.

Satterthwaite, Mark. 1985. "Competition and Equilibrium as a Driving Force in the Health Services Sector." In Managing the Service Economy: Prospects and Problems, edited by R. Inman, 239-67. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Muller, Eitan and Mark Satterthwaite. 1985. "Strategy-proofness: The Existence of Dominant Strategy Mechanisms." In Social Goals and Social Organization, edited by L. Hurwicz, D. Schmeidler, and H. Sonnenschein, 131-72. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Other

Capps, Cory, David Dranove, Shane Greenstein and Mark Satterthwaite. "Geographic Market Definition in Hospital Merger Cases." Testimony for the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Hearings on Health Care and Competition Law and Policy, April.

Cases

Satterthwaite, Mark and John-Lindell Pfeffer. 2004. Nintendo, Inc.. Case 5-204-262 (KEL087).

Teaching Interests

Competitive strategy, microeconomics

Full-Time / Part-Time MBA

Microeconomic Analysis (MECN-430-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Managerial Economics.

Among the topics this core course addresses are economic analysis and optimal decisions, consumer choice and the demand for products, production functions and cost curves, market structures and strategic interactions, and pricing and non-price concepts. Cases and problems are used to understand economic tools and their potential for solving real-world problems.

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FAX: 847-467-1777

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