Office: 428 RBC Phone: 610-758-4951 Fax: 610-758-4677 Email: med4@lehigh.edu Applied Microeconomic Analysis Competitor and Market Analysis Business and Government Mathematical Economics

Mary E. Deily, Ph.D.

Director, M.S. Health and BioPharmaceutical Economics Program (HBPE)

Department of Economics: Professor

Education
-  University of Maryland, B.A.
-  Harvard University, M.A., Ph.D.

Mary E. Deily does most of her work in the area of empirical industrial organization, specializing in the study of industries undergoing shakeout or decline. She has written several papers on the integrated steel industry, including studies of steel firms' disinvestment and plant-closing decisions, their compliance with pollution regulation, and their wage decisions. She has also done work on the diamond industry and most recently the hospital industry.

Professor Deily teaches applied microeconomic analysis, competitor and market analysis, regulation of industry, and mathematics for graduate students in economics. She has taught at Texas A&M University, was a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and served at the National Science Foundation as a Director of the Economics Program.

Research Interests

• Steel firm strategy
• Hospital efficiency

Selected Publications

• "Cost Inefficiency and Hospital Health Outcomes," with Niccie L. McKay. Health Economics 17(7), July 2008: 833-848.
• Agency Structure and Firm Culture: OSHA, EPA, and the Steel Industry," with Wayne B. Gray. The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 23 (October 2007, 3): 685-709.
• "A Cartel's Response to Cheating: An Empirical Investigation of the DeBeers Diamond Empire," with Donna J. Bergenstock and Larry W. Taylor. Southern Economic Journal 73(1): 173-189, July 2006.
• "Cost Inefficiency and Mortality Rates in Florida Hospitals," with Niccie L. McKay. Health Economics 15(4): 419-431. April 2006.
• "Ownership and Changes in Hospital Efficiency, 1986-1991," with Niccie L. McKay and Fred H. Dorner. Inquiry 39(4): 388-399. Winter 2002/2003.
• "Exit and Inefficiency: The Effects of Ownership Type," with Niccie L. McKay and Fred H. Dorner. Journal of Human Resources 35(4): 734-747. Fall 2000.
• "Wages in the Steel Industry: Take the Money and Run?" Industrial Relations 37(2): 153-177. April 1998.
• "Compliance and Enforcement Behavior: Air Pollution Regulation in the U.S. Steel Industry," with Wayne B. Gray. Journal of Environmental Economics and management 31: 96-111. 1996.
• "Enforcement of Pollution Regulations in a Declining Industry," with Wayne B. Gray. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 21: 260-274. 1991.
• "Exit Strategies and Plant-Closing Decisions: The Case of Steel." The Rand Journal of Economics 22(2): 250-263. 1991.
• "Investment Activity and the Exit Decision." The Review of Economics and Statistics 70(4): 595-602. November 1988.

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