Neil Gandal
Department: Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Colleges / Universities: Tel Aviv University
Contact
Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Email: gandal@post.tau.ac.il
Website: Tel Aviv University faculty profile
Neil Gandal is a Professor of Economics and the Chair of the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University. His current research focuses on industrial organization, specifically on the economics of compatibility and standardization, the economics of the Internet, open source, and social networks.
Professor Gandal’s work has been published in many respected journals, including Communications & Strategies, the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the Review of Network Economics, where he is also currently a member of the editorial board. He has held editorial positions at Economic Policy, the Journal of Industrial Economics, and the International Journal of Industrial Organization, where, in 2013, he was appointed as honorary editor, the only honorary editor in the history of the journal.
In addition to his work at the university, Professor Gandal has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) since 1999. Prior to his current position, he was the head of the School of Government and Policy at Tel Aviv University from 2007 to 2012. He also has been a visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Texas-Austin.
Degrees
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1989
M.A. University of Wisconsin, 1981
B.S. Miami University, 1979
B.A. Miami University, 1979
Recent Academic Article Summaries
A Brief Survey of the Economics of Open Source Software
This paper reviews some key economic aspects of Open Source Software (OSS).
OSS now represents a non-trivial part of software development and follows a different development model than traditional proprietary software.
Network Security: Vulnerabilities and Disclosure Policy
This paper asks if software firms should be required to tell customers about security flaws (“mandatory disclosure”).
The authors show that requiring firms to disclose security bugs is sometimes helpful to consumers, but not always. A "bug bounty" program is always helpful.
An Introduction to Key Themes in the Economics of Cyber-security
This paper looks at how computer security problems like viruses are solved.
Markets are responding to develop solutions to computer security problems.
An Introduction to the Economics Literature on Standard Setting Organizations
This article summarizes new economic studies of standards setting organizations.
Economic theories of standard setting organizations are underdeveloped and standards policy should be implemented delicately.
Software Patent Citations: A Consistent Weighted Ranking
This paper looks at how to measure the quality of software patents.
Many observers believe that weak software patents are blocking innovation. Measuring how valuable software patents are encourages an understanding of whether patents do more harm than good.
Blog Posts
Quotes in the News
Gandal, N. (2018, January 15). TechCrunch.“As mainstream finance invests in cryptocurrency assets and as countries take steps toward legalizing bitcoin as a payment system (as Japan did in April 2017), it is important to understand how susceptible cryptocurrency markets are to manipulation.”
Neil Gandal
Eitan Berglas School of Economics
Tel Aviv University
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