Episode 87: Ambar La Forgia on Chain Ownership and Fertility Clinic Performance

Ambar La Forgia is an Assistant Professor in the Management of Organizations Group at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business

The paper discussed in this episode is “Getting Down to Business: Chain Ownership and Fertility Clinic Performance” by Ambar La Forgia and Julia Bodner.

Papers mentioned in this episode include:

Gupta, A., Howell, S. T., Yannelis, C., & Gupta, A. (2021). Does private equity investment in healthcare benefit patients? Evidence from nursing homes. Evidence from Nursing Homes (February 13, 2021). University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper, (2021-20).

Eliason, P. J., Heebsh, B., McDevitt, R. C., & Roberts, J. W. (2020). How acquisitions affect firm behavior and performance: Evidence from the dialysis industry. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 135(1), 221-267.