About
Neil Gandal, Ph.D., received his B.A. and B.S. degrees from Miami University (Ohio) in 1979, his M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1981, and his Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1989.
Gandal has published numerous papers about industrial organization, the economics of information technology, the economics of the software & internet industries, and the economics of cybersecurity and cryptocurrencies. His papers have received more than 8500 citations at Google Scholar.
He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR.)
Gandal was a managing editor at the International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO) from 2005 to 2012. In this capacity, he edited many empirical papers using a wide range of econometric techniques.
Following his editorship at the IJIO, he was named “Honorary Editor” of the journal. He is the only honorary editor in the history of the IJIO.
Awards and Honors
- Gave keynote lecture at Workshop on Industrial Organization: Theory, Empirics and Experiments, University of Salento, Otranto, Italy, 2011
- Gave keynote lecture at 7th ZEW Conference on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2009
- Named as a Fellow of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1997
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, The University of California Berkeley, 1989
- M.A., Statistics, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1981
- B.A., Economics, Miami University of Ohio, 1979
- B.S., Mathematics, Miami University of Ohio, 1979
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Cybersecurity
- Social networks
- Software and internet industries
- Cryptocurrencies
- Open source