David Salant

Evolving Technologies and Standards Regulation (2008)

Cabral, Luis, Salant, David

Spectrum regulation necessarily involves some regulation of the technology that licensees can use. One commonly stated assertion is that a mandated single standard, the solution followed by the EU...

Evolving Technologies and Standards Regulation (2008)

Cabral, Luis, Salant, David

Spectrum regulation necessarily involves some regulation of the technology that licensees can use. One commonly stated assertion is that a mandated single standard, the solution followed by the EU...

Lysophosphatidic acid and renal fibrosis. (2008)

Pradère, Jean-Philippe, Gonzalez, Julien, Klein, Julie, Valet, Philippe, Grès, Sandra, Salant, David, ...

The development of fibrosis involves a multitude of events and molecules. Until now the majority of these molecules were found to be proteins or peptides. But recent data show significant involvement...

Lysophosphatidic acid and renal fibrosis. (2008)

Pradère, Jean-Philippe, Gonzalez, Julien, Klein, Julie, Valet, Philippe, Grès, Sandra, Salant, David, ...

The development of fibrosis involves a multitude of events and molecules. Until now the majority of these molecules were found to be proteins or peptides. But recent data show significant involvement...

Lysophosphatidic acid and renal fibrosis. (2008)

Pradère, Jean-Philippe, Gonzalez, Julien, Klein, Julie, Valet, Philippe, Grès, Sandra, Salant, David, ...

The development of fibrosis involves a multitude of events and molecules. Until now the majority of these molecules were found to be proteins or peptides. But recent data show significant involvement...

Abuse of Dominance and Licensing of Intellectual Property (2008)

Rey, Patrick, Salant, David

Patent thickets, layers of licenses a firm needs to be able to offer products that embody technologies owned by multiple firms, and licensing policies have drawn increasing scrutiny from policy...

Standardization versus Coverage in Wireless Telephone Networks (2001)

Gandal, Neil, Salant, David, Waverman, Leonard

The issue of market-based versus mandated standards has been addressed in many settings. In most settings in which network effects are present, compatibility across platforms has been a key...

Cost-allocation principles for pipeline capacity and usage (1996)

Salant, David, Watkins, G.C.

This paper applies principles f rom game theory to the problem o f allocating the cost o f a shared facility, such as a pipeline. The theory o f cooperative games s t r ongl y suggest s t hat no...

Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market (1995)

Neil Gandal, Shane Greenstein, David Salant

In this paper we develop a model with (1) differentiated consumers, (2) endogenous adoption times, (3) technical uncertainty, and (4) alternative technologies sponsored by competing vendors. We...

Forthcoming, in the special issue of The European Journal of Political Economy on The Economics of Standardization Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter * (1995)

Nicholas Economides, Bob Dansby, Rob Masson, Dennis Mueller, Joe Farrell, ...

We discuss the incentive of an exclusive holder of a technology to share it with competitors in a market with network externalities. We assume that high expected sales increase the willingness to pay...

On the role of monetary policy announcements (1990)

McTaggart, Douglas, Salant, David

Monetary targeting, adopted on a widespread basis around 1975, is apparently a policy on the decline. Certainly in the U.S. less emphasis is now placed on the public announcements made by the Fed....

On the role of monetary policy announcements (1990)

McTaggart, Douglas, Salant, David

Monetary targeting, adopted on a widespread basis around 1975, is apparently a policy on the decline. Certainly in the U.S. less emphasis is now placed on the public announcements made by the Fed....

On the role of monetary policy announcements (1990)

McTaggart, Douglas, Salant, David

Monetary targeting, adopted on a widespread basis around 1975, is apparently a policy on the decline. Certainly in the U.S. less emphasis is now placed on the public announcements made by the Fed....

On the role of monetary policy announcements (1990)

McTaggart, Douglas, Salant, David

Monetary targeting, adopted on a widespread basis around 1975, is apparently a policy on the decline. Certainly in the U.S. less emphasis is now placed on the public announcements made by the Fed....

Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market

Neil Gandal, Shane GreenStein, David Salant

In this paper we examine the development of the micro-computer market in the early 1980's. CP/M, a widely adopted operating system, was orphaned by the user and development communities. A new...

Auctions and Regulation: Reengineering of Regulatory Mechanisms.

Salant, David

The FCC auctions, beginning in July 1994, were a watershed event in what may be best called reengineering regulation. It was the first time a new market mechanism, in the form of an auction, had been...

Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market.

Gandal, Neil, Greenstein, Shane, Salant, David

In this paper, the authors examine the development of the microcomputer market in the early 1980s. CP/M, a widely-adopted operating system, was orphaned by the user and the development communities. A...

Monopoly Pricing With Network Externalities

Luis Cabral, David Salant, Glenn Woroch

How should a monopolist price a durable good or a new technology that is subject to network externalities? In particular, should the monopolist set a low "introductory price" to attract a "critical...

Adoptions and Orphans in the Early Microcomputer Market

Neil Gandal, Shane Greenstein, David Salant

In this paper we develop a model with (1) differentiated consumers, (2) endogenous adoption times, (3) technical uncertainty, and (4) alternative technologies sponsored by competing vendors. We...

Default Service Auctions

Colin Loxley, David Salant

In February 2002, New Jersey completed a market process whereby the utilities were able to purchase one-year forward contracts to ensure energy needs for their default service customers for a...

Abuse of Dominance and Licensing of Intellectual Property

Rey, Patrick, Salant, David

Patent thickets, layers of licenses a firm needs to be able to offer products that embody technologies owned by multiple firms, and licensing policies have drawn increasing scrutiny from policy...

Cost-allocation principles for pipeline capacity and usage

Salant, David, Watkins, G.C.

This paper applies principles f rom game theory to the problem o f allocating the cost o f a shared facility, such as a pipeline. The theory o f cooperative games s t r ongl y suggest s t hat no...