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48
Citations
12399
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1495
National Ranking
906

Overview

Daniel F. Spulber is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on topics related to Innovation Policy and R&D, Firm Innovation and Growth, and Economic Growth and Productivity.

The researcher's publication record includes contributions to several academic venues, notably:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
  • Academy of Management Proceedings

Frequent research collaborators include Pere Arqué-Castells, Gaoyang Cai, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Aparna Dixit, and R. Andrew Butters.

Recent published papers reflect a range of topics within economics and innovation:

  • "Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets" (2022), Journal of Political Economy
  • "Antitrust and Innovation Competition" (2022), Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
  • "Firm Matching in the Market for Technology: Harnessing Creative Destruction" (2020), Academy of Management Proceedings
  • "Firm Matching in the Market for Technology: Business Stealing and Business Creation*" (2023), Journal of Industrial Economics
  • "THE EXTENT OF THE MARKET AND INTEGRATION THROUGH FACTOR MARKETS: EVIDENCE FROM WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY" (2020), Economic Inquiry

Their research covers multiple subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, Management Science and Operations Research, Media Technology, and Management of Technology and Innovation. The main topics addressed in their work are:

  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management
  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • ICT Impact and Policies

Daniel F. Spulber has also contributed to the literature through authored books, including The Case for Patents, published by World Scientific in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Regulation and markets

    Daniel F. Spulber

  • Menu Costs and the Neutrality of Money

    Andrew S. Caplin;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Market Microstructure: Intermediaries and the Theory of the Firm

    Daniel F. Spulber

  • Market Microstructure and Intermediation

    Daniel F. Spulber

  • Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

    David Lucking-Reiley;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States

    J. Gregory Sidak;Daniel F. Spulber

  • First-Party Content and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets

    Andrei Hagiu;Daniel Spulber

  • Effluent regulation and long-run optimality

    Daniel F Spulber

  • Bertrand competition when rivals' costs are unknown

    Daniel F. Spulber

  • The capital structure of a regulated firm

    Yossef Spiegel;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Market Making by Price-Setting Firms

    Daniel F. Spulber

  • Managing procurement auctions

    S. Dasgupta;D. F. Spulber

  • The Theory of the Firm: Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs, Firms, Markets, and Organizations

    Daniel F. Spulber

  • The Fable of Fisher Body

    Ramon Casadesus-Masanell;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Deregulatory takings and breach of the regulatory contract

    J. Gregory Sidak;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Contested Mergers and Equilibrium Antitrust Policy

    David Besanko;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Antitrust Enforcement Under Asymmetric Information

    David Besanko;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Optimal environmental regulation under asymmetric information

    Daniel F. Spulber

  • Open Access and the Evolution of the U. S. Spot Market for Natural Gas

    Michael J. Doane;Daniel F. Spulber

  • Capacity, Output, and Sequential Entry

    Daniel F. Spulber

Frequent Co-Authors

David Besanko
David Besanko Northwestern University
Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein New York University
Andrew Caplin
Andrew Caplin New York University
Kyle Bagwell
Kyle Bagwell Stanford University
David Easley
David Easley Cornell University
Garey Ramey
Garey Ramey University of California, San Diego
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Frank H. Easterbrook
Frank H. Easterbrook University of Chicago
Randal C. Picker
Randal C. Picker University of Chicago

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