Neil Gandal

 

1. The Microeconomics of Cryptocurrencies (with Hanna Halaburda, Guillaume Haeringer, and Joshua S. Gans,)NBER Working Paper No. 27477Issued in July 2020, available at  https://www.nber.org/papers/w27477. Forthcoming Journal of Economic Literature, 2021

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2.  Out of Sight: Patents that Have Never Been Cited (with Michal Shur-Ofry, Michael Crystal, and Royee Shilony,) 2019, Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3420061. Forthcoming Scientometrics, 2021.

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3. An examination of the cryptocurrency pump and dump ecosystem, (with JT Hamrick, Farhang Rouhi, Arghya Mukherjee, Amir Feder, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek,) 2019, available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3303365.  Information Processing and Management.

 

4. The rise and fall of cryptocurrency coins and tokens,” (with JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, and Marie Vasek,) Forthcoming Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2021.

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5. Network-Mediated Knowledge Spillovers in ICT/Information Security (with Nadav Kunievsky, and Lee Branstetter,) forthcoming 2020, Review of Network Economics, available at

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/1d4d58_34756f36dbb24ceab5a2f61d6fe0fe78.pdf

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6. Price Manipulation in the Bitcoin Ecosystem, forthcoming 2018, (with JT Hamrick, Tyler Moore, and Tali Oberman,) Journal of Monetary Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2017.12.004

 

7. Ain’t it Suite? Bundling in the PC Office Software Market", 2018, (with Sarit Markovich and Michael Riordan,) Strategic Management Journal.

 

8. The impact of DDoS and other security shocks on Bitcoin currency exchanges: Evidence from Mt. Gox”, 2017, (with Amir Feder, JT Hamrick, and Tyler Moore,) Journal of Cybersecurity. 

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9. Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations, 2016, (with Uriel Stettner,) International Journal of Industrial Organization, 48: 270-290.

 

10. "Can We Predict the Winner in a Market with Network Effects? Competition in Cryptocurrency Market", 2016 (with Hanna Halaburda,) Games.

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11. "Migration to the Cloud Ecosystem: Ushering in a New Generation of Platform Competition", (with Chaim Fershtman), Communications & Strategies, 85: 1st quarter 2012.

 

12. “Direct and Indirect Knowledge Spillovers: the “Social Network” of Open-Source Projects”, 2011 (with Chaim Fershtman), RAND Journal of Economics, 42:70-91

 

13. “Network Security: Vulnerabilities and Disclosure Policy”, 2010, (with Jay Pil Choi and Chaim Fershtman), Journal of Industrial Economics, 58:868-894

 

14. "Obesity and Price Sensitivity at the Supermarket", 2010 (with Anastasia Shabelansky), forthcoming Forum for Health Economics & Policy, Bepress, volume 13, issue 2, Article 9

 

15. “The Social Network within a Management Recruiting Firm: Network Structure and Output”, 2009, (with Charles King III and Marshall Van Alstyne), Review of Network Economics, vol. 8, no. 4, Article 2

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16. “A Consistent Weighted Ranking Scheme with an Application to NCAA College Football Rankings”, 2009, (with Itay Fainmesser and Chaim Fershtman), Journal of Sports Economics, 10: 582-600.

 

17. “Indirect Network Effects and Adoption Externalities”, 2008, (with Jeffrey Church and David Krause) Review of Network Economics 7: 325-346.

 

18. “Open Source Software: Motivation and Restrictive Licensing”, 2007, (with Chaim Fershtman) International Economics and Economic Policy, 4: 209-225.

 

19. “The Effect of Native Language on Internet Use”, 2006, The International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 182:25-40.

 

20. “Personal Value Priorities of Economists”, 2006, (with Sonia Roccas, Lilach Sagiv, Amy Wrzesniewski, Human Relations, 58: 1227-1252.

 

21. “Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel”, 2004, (with Gordon Hanson and Matt Slaughter) European Economic Review, 48: 403-428.

 

22. “The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Network Effects and Preannouncement Effects”, 2003, (with David Dranove), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 12: 363-386.

 

23. “Standards in Wireless Telephone Networks”, 2003, (with David Salant and Leonard Waverman), Telecommunications Policy, 27: 325-332.

 

24. “New Horizons: Telecommunications Policy in Israel in the 21st Century”, 2003, Israel Economic Review, 1:2, 101-111

 

25. “Compatibility, Standardization, & Network Effects: Some Policy Implications”, 2002, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 18: 80-91.

 

26. “The Dynamics of Competition in the Internet Search Engine Market”, 2001, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 19: 1103-1117.

 

27. “Standardization Policy and International Trade”, (with Oz Shy), 2001, Journal of International Economics, 53: 363-383.

 

28. “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.

 

29. “Systems Competition, Vertical Merger, and Foreclosure”, 2000, (with Jeffrey Church), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 9:25-51.

 

30. “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.

 

31. “Deregulation and Reform in the Israeli Domestic Telecommunications Market”, 1999, The Economic Quarterly (in Hebrew: An English version is available at my web site), 3: 439-455.

 

32. “Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market”, 1999 (with Shane Greenstein and David Salant), The Journal of Industrial Economics, XLVII: 87-106.

 

33. “The Effect of the Arab Boycott on Israel: The Automobile Market”, 1998, (with Chaim Fershtman), The RAND Journal of Economics, 29: 193-214.

 

34. “Tickling the Tolerance: Currency Reputation and Opportunism in Medieval France”, (with Nathan Sussman), 1997, The Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking:29(4).

 

35. “Sequential Auctions of Interdependent Objects: Israeli Cable Television Licenses”, 1997, The Journal of Industrial Economics, XLV: 227-244.

 

36. “Strategic Entry Deterrence:  Complementary Products as an Installed Base”, (with Jeffrey Church), 1996, European Journal of Political Economy (Symposium on Standardization), 12:331-354.

 

37. “Compatibility Standards and Complementary Network Externalities in the PC Software Market”, 1995, Review of Economics and Statistics, 77: 599-608, 1995.

 

38. “Hollygopoly: Oligopolistic Competition for (Hollywood) Movies”, (with David Salant), 1995.

 

39. The Antitrust Bulletin, 40: 699-712.

 

40. “A Selective Survey of the Literature on Indirect Network Externalities”, 1995, Research in Law and Economics, 17: 23-31.

 

41. “Licensing a Sequence of Innovations, (with Katharine Rockett)”, 1995, Economics Letters, 47:101-107.

 

42. “Hedonic Price Indexes for Spreadsheets and an Empirical Test for Network Externalities”, 1994, The RAND Journal of Economics, 25: 160-170.

 

43. “Disadvantageous Semicollusion”, (with Chaim Fershtman), 1994, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 12: 141-296, reprinted in Cartels, S. Salant and M. Lowenstein eds., Elgar Publishing 2005.

 

44. “Experimentation and Learning with Network Externalities”, (with Arthur Fishman), 1994, Economics Letters, 44: 103-108.

 

45. “The Development of the Cable Television Industry in Israel, 1994”, Telecommunications Policy, 18: 342-347.

 

46. “Planned Obsolescence as an Engine of Technological Progress”, (with Arthur Fishman and Oz Shy), 1993, Journal of Industrial Economics, XLI: 361-370.

 

47. “Complementary Network Externalities and Technological Adoption”, (with Jeffrey Church), 1993, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 11: 239-260.

 

48. “Coordinating Research Through Research Joint Ventures”, (with Suzanne Scotchmer), 1993, Journal of Public Economics, 51: 173-193.

 

49. “Integration, Complementary Products and Variety”, (with Jeffrey Church), 1992, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 1: 651-675.

 

50. “Network Effects, Software Provision, and Standardization”, (with Jeffrey Church), 1992, Journal of Industrial Economics (Symposium on Compatibility), XL 1: 85-104.

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Chapters in Books

1. The High-Tech Sector in Israel (with Stefania Roccas Gandal, and Nadav Kunievsky), in “The Israeli Economy, 1995–2017 Light and Shadow in a Market Economy” (Chapter 17), 2021 Cambridge University Press, edited by Avi Ben-Bassat, Reuben Gronau, and Asaf Zussman.

2. “More (or Less) Economic Limits of the Blockchain,” (with Joshua Gans,) NBER Working paper 2019, available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3494434. Forthcoming, 2021, Handbook of Technological Finance.

3. "SSOs: Current Policy Issues and Empirical Evidence", (with Pierre Régibeau), forthcoming 2015 in Edited Volume on International Standardization, Panagiotis Delimatsis, Cambridge University Press

4. “An Introduction to the Economics Literature on Standard Setting Organizations”, in “The Standards Edge: Unifier, or Divider”, 2007, pps. 109-11, Sheridan Books

5. “Intellectual Property and Standardization Committee Participation in the U.S. Modem Industry", (with Nataly Gantman and David Genesove) 2007, pps. 208-230 in Standards and Public Policy, Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango editors,  Cambridge University Press.

6.  “Software Patents”, (with Chaim Fershtman), 2006, pps. 11-29 (first chapter) in Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy, Gerhard Illing and Martin Peitz editors, MIT Press.

7. “Platform Competition in Telecommunications”, 2005, (with Jeffrey Church) pps. 117-153, in The Handbook of Telecommunications Volume 2, M. Cave, S. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsang editors, Elsevier.

8. “Surviving a Standards War: Lessons Learned from The Life and Death of DIVX, (with David Dranove)” 2005, pps. 1-14 (first chapter) in Advances in the Economics of Information Systems, Kerem Tomak editor, Idea Group Inc.

9. “Network Effects, Standardization, and the Internet: What have we learned from the DVD vs. DIVX Battle? (with David Dranove),” pps. 461-477, in The Commodification of Information, Niva Elkin-Koren and Neil Netanel editors, 2002, Kluwer Law International.

10. “Quantifying the Trade Impact of Compatibility Standards and Barriers:  An Industrial Organization Perspective,” pps. 137-153, in Quantifying the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade, Keith Maskus and John Wilson editors, 2001, University of Michigan Press.

11. “Sorting Out the Search Engine Market,” pps. 351-367, in Communications Policy in Transition, The Internet and Beyond, Ben Compaine and Shane Greenstein editors, 2001, M.I.T. Press.

 

Other

1. Fershtman, C., and N. Gandal, "A Brief Survey of the Economics of Open Source Software", The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan” 2011, London UK.

2. “An Introduction to Key Themes in the Economics of Cyber-security”, forthcoming 2007 Encyclopedia of Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism, Idea Group Inc.

3. Review of “The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction”, by Hal R. Varian, Joseph Farrell, and Carl Shapiro, 2006, Journal of Economic Literature XLIV, 2:459-461.

4.  “Network Effects (Empirical Studies)”, 2006, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, S. Durlauf and L. Blume editors, Palgrave Macmillan, London UK. 

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