Neil Gandal: Recent Research

Last updated: October 7, 2012

From this page you can obtain copies of some of my recent papers. The papers are available in PDF format and require Adobe Acrobat. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat reader, it can be obtained for free from the Adobe web page. 

My recent research can be clustered into a few areas:

1. The Economics of Networks and Software

2. The Economics of Compatibility & Standardization

3. Health Economics

4. International Trade

5. Intellectual Property

6. Interdisciplinary Research

The Economics of Networks and Software:

• NEW à “Ain’t it “Suite”? Bundling in the PC Office Software Market,” (with Sarit Markovich and Mike Riordan,) CEPR working Paper, October 2012.
• “Migration to the Cloud Ecosystem: Ushering in a New Generation of Platform Competition,” forthcoming 2012 (with Chaim Fershtman), Communications and Strategies.
• “Direct and Indirect Knowledge Spillovers: The 'Social Network' of Open Source Software,” forthcoming 2011 (with Chaim Fershtman), RAND Journal of Economics.
• “A Brief Survey of the Economics of Open Source Software,” 2011, In Blume, L., and S. Durlauf eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan.
• “Network Security: Vulnerabilities and Disclosure Policy,” 2010 (with Jay Pil Choi and Chaim Fershtman), Journal of Industrial Economics, 58: 868-894.
• “The Social Network within a Management Recruiting Firm: Network Structure and Output,” forthcoming 2009 (with Charles King and Marshall Van Alstyne), Review of Network Economics, vol. 8, no. 4, Article 2.
• “Open Source Software: Motivation and Restrictive Licensing,” 2007, (with Chaim Fershtman) Journal of International Economics and Economic Policy, 4: 209-225.
• “An Introduction to Key Themes in the Economics of Cyber-Security,” in "Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare and CyberTerrorism," edited by Lech J. Janczewski & Andrew M. Colarik, copyright 2006, Idea Group Inc., www.idea-group.com. Posted by permission of the publisher.
• “The Dynamics of Competition in the Internet Search Engine Market,” 2001, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 19:1103-1117.
• “Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market,” 1999 (with Shane Greenstein and David Salant), Journal of Industrial Economics, XLVII: 87-106.

The Economics of Compatibility & Standardization:

• “Direct and Indirect Network Effects are Equivalent: A Comment on ‘Direct and Indirect Network Effects: Are They Equivalent?’ ”, forthcoming 2012, (with Jeffrey Church), International Journal of Industrial Organization
• “Indirect Network Effects and Adoption Externalities,” 2008, (with Jeffrey Church and David Krause), Review of Network Economics, 7: 325-346
• “The Effect of Native Language on Internet Usage,” 2006, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 182:25-40.
• “Network Effects -- Empirical Studies,” 2006, In Blume, L., and S. Durlauf eds., The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2^nd edition, Palgrave Macmillan.
• “Platform Competition in Telecommunications,” (with Jeffrey Church), 2005, pps. 117-153, in The Handbook of Telecommunications Volume 2 edited by M. Cave, S. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsang.
• “Surviving a Standards War: Lessons Learned from The Life and Death of DIVX” 2004, pps. 1-14 in Advances in the Economics of Information Systems, Kerem Tomak editor, Idea Group Inc.
• “The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Network Effects and Empirical Evidence of Preannouncement Effects,” 2003 (with David Dranove), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 12: 363-386.
• “Standards in Wireless Telephone Networks”, 2003 (with David Salant and Leonard Waverman), Telecommunications Policy” 27:325-332.
• “Compatibility, Standardization, & Network Effects: Some Policy Implications,” 2002, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 18:80-91.
• “The Dynamics of Technological Adoption in Hardware/Software Systems: The Case of Compact Disc Players,” 2000, (with Michael Kende and Rafael Rob), RAND Journal of Economics, 31: 43-61.
• "Systems Competition, Vertical Merger, and Foreclosure," 2000, (with Jeffrey Church), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 9:25-51.

Health Economics:

• “Obesity and Price Sensitivity at the Supermarket,” (with Anastasia Shabelansky) forthcoming 2010, Forum for Health Economics & Policy.

International Trade:

• “Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel,” 2004, (with Gordon Hanson & Matt Slaughter), European Economic Review, 48: 403-428
• “Standardization Policy and International Trade,” 2001, (with Oz Sy), Journal of International Economics, 53: 363-383.
• “Quantifying the Trade Impact of Compatibility Standards and Barriers: An Industrial Organization Perspective,” 2001, in Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade (pps. 137-153), Keith Maskus and John Wilson editors, The University of Michigan Press.
• “Estimating the Effect of Tax Reform in Differentiated Product Oligopolistic Markets,” 1999, (with Chaim Fershtman and Sarit Markovich), Journal of Public Economics, 74:151-170.
• “The Effect of the Arab Boycott on Israel: The Automobile Market,” 1998, (with Chaim Fershtman), the RAND Journal of Economics, 29: 193-214.

Intellectual Property:

• “Intellectual Property and Standardization Committee Participation in the U.S. Modem Industry,” 2006, (with Nataly Gantman and David Genesove), pps. 208-230 in "Standards and Public Policy," Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango editors, Cambridge University Press.
• “Software Patent Citations: A Consistent Weighted Ranking,” 2006 (with Chaim Fershtman), pps. 11-29 in "Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy," Gerhard Illing and Martin Peitz editors, MIT Press.

Interdisciplinary Research:

• “A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings,” (with Itay Fainmesser and Chaim Fershtman), forthcoming 2009, Journal of Sports Economics.
• “Personal Value Priorities of Economists,” 2006, (with Sonia Roccas, Lilach Sagiv, and Amy Wrzesniewski), Human Relations, 58: 1227-1252

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