Stephen W. Salant Professor, Department of Economics PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1973
Professor Salant is an applied microtheorist with specialization in the fields of industrial organization and natural resource economics. Among the subjects he has addressed in his research are: the appropriate interpretation of government statistics on the duration of unemployment, the effects of anticipated and actual government policies on the price of gold, the cause of speculative attacks on government bufferstocks, the future behavior of OPEC, the design of a self-enforcing international agreements among oil-consuming nations, the effects of treble-damage penalties on price-fixing behavior, and the economic decisions of organizations (agricultural marketing boards, cartels, international commodity organizations, prorationing boards, etc.) which select quantity restrictions by voting processes.
SELECTED PAPERS
Salant, Stephen W., "Search Theory and Duration Data: A Theory of Sorts,"
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 91(1), Feb. 1977, 39-57. Salant, Stephen W., "Market Anticipation of Government Policies and the Price of Gold,"
Journal of Political Economy, 86(4), Aug. 1978, 627-48. Bagnoli, Mark, Stephen W. Salant and Joseph E. Swierzbinski, "Durable Goods Monopoly with Discrete Demand,"
Journal of Political Economy, 97(6), December 1989, 1459-78. Gaudet, Gerard and Stephen W. Salant, "Increasing the Profits of a Subset of Frims in Oligopoly Models with Strategic Substitutes,"
American Economic Review, 81(3), June 1991, 658-65. Cave, Jonathan and Stephen W. Salant, "Cartel Quotas under Majority Rule,"
American Economic Review, 85(1), March 1995, 82-102. Reprinted in
Agricultural Markets: Mechanisms, Failures and Regulations, ed. David Martimort, North Holland: July 1996. Salant, Stephen W. and Greg Shaffer, "Unequal Treatment of Identical Agents in Cournot Equilibrium: Private and Social Advantages,"
American Economic Review, 89(3), June 1999, 585-604. Gaudet, Gerard, Michael Moreaux and Stephen W. Salant, "Intertemproal Depletion of Resource Sites by Spatially Distributed Users,"
American Economic Review, forthcoming September 2001.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environmental Economics
Experimental Economics
Industrial Organization
Microeconomic Theory
Natural Resources
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