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## Research interests

Management of health care organizations; Service operations management for health service delivery; Managing complexity and variability in service systems; Worker behavior and behavioral operations; Empirical and data-driven operations; Health economics; Econometric methods.

More information can be found in my [bio](/about/) or at my Judge Business School [profile](http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/research-programmes/current-phd-students-a-z/michael-freeman/).

## Papers in peer reviewed journals

**Gatekeepers at Work: An Empirical Analysis of a Maternity Unit**, with <NAME> and <NAME>.
Accepted at *Management Science*.&nbsp; ([link](/gatekeepers-at-work))
<br>An earlier version of this paper was a finalist for the 2014 Pierskalla Award.

## Papers under review / working papers

**Economies of Scale and Scope in Hospitals**, with <NAME> and <NAME>. Under review at *Management Science*. ([link](/hospital-scale-economies))

**Fat-Tails, Hospital Costs, and the Prospective Payment System**, with <NAME> and <NAME>. In preparation.

*Please let me know if you would like a copy of any manuscripts when they become available*<commit_msg>try to underline<commit_after>---
layout: main
title: Research
cover: ops.jpg
date:   2016-05-31 12:00:00
categories: main
---

## Research interests

Management of health care organizations; Service operations management for health service delivery; Managing complexity and variability in service systems; Worker behavior and behavioral operations; Empirical and data-driven operations; Health economics; Econometric methods.

More information can be found in my [bio](/about/) or at my Judge Business School [profile](http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/programmes/research-programmes/current-phd-students-a-z/michael-freeman/).

## Papers in peer reviewed journals

__Gatekeepers at Work: An Empirical Analysis of a Maternity Unit__, with <NAME> and <NAME>.
Accepted at *Management Science*.&nbsp; ([link](/gatekeepers-at-work))
<br>An earlier version of this paper was a finalist for the 2014 Pierskalla Award.

## Papers under review / working papers

**Economies of Scale and Scope in Hospitals**, with <NAME> and <NAME>. Under review at *Management Science*. ([link](/hospital-scale-economies))

**Fat-Tails, Hospital Costs, and the Prospective Payment System**, with <NAME> and <NAME>. In preparation.

*Please let me know if you would like a copy of any manuscripts when they become available*
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