Daniel F. Spulber

About

Daniel F. Spulber is a Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, holding the title of Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and a Courtesy Professor of Law. He has served as the Research Director of the Searle Center for Law, Regulation and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law. His research focuses on the intersection of law, economics, and management strategy, with particular emphasis on the theory of the firm, innovation, and international trade in technology. Spulber has contributed to the understanding of microeconomics, telecommunications networks, and corporate law through his scholarly publications. His work explores the economic analysis of legal and business issues, emphasizing the role of firms, markets, and organizations in various sectors.

Research topics

• Economics
• Political Science
• Industrial organization
• Microeconomics
• Law
• Market economy
• Business
• Econometrics

Selected publications

• Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations: Introduction to the Searle Center Database

  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy · 2018-07-31 · 114 citations

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  Abstract This paper describes the Searle Center Database on Technology Standards and Standard Setting Organizations (SSOs). This database combines comprehensive information on technology standards, SSO membership, and SSO characteristics in a format designed for economic research. In particular, the database includes data on quantifiable characteristics of 797,711 standard documents issued by 615 SSOs, institutional membership in a sample of 191 Standards Organizations, and the rules of 36 SSOs…

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• The economics of markets and platforms

  Journal of Economics & Management Strategy · 2018-11-02 · 85 citations

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  Abstract Advances in the study of both markets and platforms contribute to economics. Platforms are typically digital markets, although platforms can designate markets generally. So, the economics of markets and the economics of platforms are one and the same. Platforms show the critical role of intermediaries in endogenous price adjustment and market clearing. The platform model remedies problems with general equilibrium analysis by combining and extending the basic Walrasian and Marshalian mar…

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• Standard Setting Organisations and Standard Essential Patents: Voting and Markets

  The Economic Journal · 2018-03-06 · 58 citations

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  The analysis provides conditions under which standard setting organisations (SSOs) choose efficient technology standards. I introduce a two-stage game with both voting and market competition. In equilibrium, standards and market outcomes are efficient even with market power from scarce capacity and standard essential patents (SEPs). I show that a drastic innovation with SEPs generates greater social welfare than a less efficient standard without SEPs. A key finding is that voting power and marke…

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• Measuring the Private and Social Returns to R&D: Unintended Spillovers versus Technology Markets

  Journal of Political Economy · 2022 · 31 citations

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  The canonical approach to measuring private and social returns to R&D assumes diffusion through spillovers. We develop a general framework that allows R&D to diffuse through both spillovers and voluntary technology transfers. To operationalize the framework, we create a data set of interactions in the market for technology between publicly held US firms. We use changes in tax incentives for R&D to identify causal effects. Taking market channels into account decreases the observed difference betw…

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• Antitrust and Innovation Competition

  Journal of Antitrust Enforcement · 2022 · 22 citations

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  Abstract Innovation competition presents challenges for antitrust law and enforcement policy. Innovation has generated changes in the nature of competition as firms introduce new transaction techniques, product designs, and production processes. Innovation competition is driving the ‘Business Revolution’ in retail, wholesale, manufacturing, services, and financial technology. Transaction innovation in online platforms and multi-sided markets has raised antitrust concerns about anticompetitive co…

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Frequent coauthors

• Richard A. Epstein

  Northwestern University

  92 shared

• F. Scott Kieff

  George Washington University

  84 shared

• J. Gregory Sidak

  United States Patent and Trademark Office

  50 shared

• Christopher S. Yoo

  37 shared

• Andrew Caplin

  20 shared

• David Besanko

  Northwestern University

  10 shared

• Herbert Hovenkamp

  University of Pennsylvania

  9 shared

• Pere Arqué‐Castells

  University of Groningen

  8 shared

Awards & honors

• Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Busine…

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