About
Professor Neil Gandal is the Applied Distinguished Professor of Cyber Studies, School of Cyber Studies, University of Tulsa. He is the Henry Kaufman Professor in International Capital Markets in the Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.
He 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.
Professor Gandal has published numerous empirical papers in digital economics, the economics of software & Internet industries, the microeconomics of cryptocurrencies and the economics of cyber security, which currently is his primary research focus. His papers have received more than 9,000 citations at Google Scholar.
He is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR.)
Professor Gandal was a managing editor at the International Journal of Industrial Organization (IJIO) from 2005-2012. 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
- Economics of cyber security
- Microeconomics of cryptocurrencies
- Digital economics
- Economics of software and internet industries
