The Static Effect of Chain Affiliation and their Subsequent Acquisitions on Price and Firm Markups
Structural demand estimation and ownership counterfactuals in Pennsylvania nursing-home markets.
DOCTORAL RESEARCHER · ECONOMICS
Abdullah
Alolayan.
I study how competition and ownership shape prices, quality, and welfare in health-care markets.
Industrial organizationHealth economicsApplied microeconometrics
THE RESEARCHER01 / PROFILE
01 / RESEARCH
Competition, with
real consequences.
Understanding the decisions of firms
and what they mean for consumers.
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The Static Effect of Market Concentration on Price and Quality Decisions
Examining concentration, private-room prices, and staffing quality using panel data and alternative market definitions.
02 / ABOUT
A closer look
at markets.
My research sits at the intersection of industrial organization, health economics, and applied microeconometrics.
I combine empirical analysis and structural models to understand how market concentration, chain ownership, and consolidation affect nursing-home markets.
My work examines prices, staffing quality, firm markups, and consumer welfare, with an emphasis on how different ownership structures change market outcomes.
- Academic home
- Economics, Concordia University
- Approach
- Structural models · Counterfactual analysis · Panel data
- Research tools
- Stata · Mata · Python · LaTeX
03 / TEACHING
Making economics
make sense.
Connecting economic intuition with analytical methods.
At Concordia University, I supported intermediate and advanced courses in microeconomics and macroeconomics as a teaching assistant.
Teaching assistant · 2019–2022Concordia University
04 / CONTACT
Let’s start
a conversation.
For research discussions, academic opportunities,
and teaching enquiries.