Michael Salinger

Jacqueline and Arthur Bahr Professor in Markets, Public Policy & Law
    Education
  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
  • BA, Yale University, 1978
    Publications
  • Salinger, M. (In Press). "A Simultaneous Moves Approach to the Simple Complicated Economics of Vertical Mergers", Review of Industrial Organization
  • Salinger, M. (In Press). "Self-Preferencing", SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Salinger, M. (2023). "Self-Preferencing", Direito Público, 20 (107)
  • Salinger, M. (2023). "Product Offering Complexity: Implications for Tying Doctrine", SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Salinger, M. (2021). "The New Vertical Merger Guidelines: Muddying the Waters", Review of Industrial Organization
  • Salinger, M. (2020). "Price Gouging and the COVID-19 Crisis – This Time Is (a Little) Different", Anti-Trust Chronicle
  • Frey, N., Matin, S., Stanley, H., Salinger, M. (2019). "Universal Fluctuations in Growth Dynamics of Economic Systems", Scientific Reports, 9
  • Salinger, M. (2018). "Net Innovation Pressure in Merger Analysis",
  • Gouri, G., Salinger, M. (2018). "Protecting Competition vs. Protecting Competitors: Assessing the Antitrust Complaints against Google", The Criterion Journal on Innovation, 2 531-558
  • Buldyrev, S., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. (2016). "A statistical physics implementation of Coase?s theory of the firm", Research in Economics, 70 (4), 536-557
  • Layne-Farrar, A., Salinger, M. (2016). "Bundling of RAND-committed patents", Research Policy, 45 (6), 1155-1164
  • Salinger, M., Levinson, R. (2015). "Economics and the FTC's Google Investigation", Review of Industrial Organization, 46 (1), 25-57
  • Salinger, M. (2014). Vertical Mergers."The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics", Oxford University Press, USA
  • Levinson, R., Salinger, M. (2014). "Economic Considerations Raised by the Federal Trade Commission's Investigation of Google's Search Practices", Competition Policy International, 10 (2), 103-117
  • Salinger, M. (2014). "Panel Discussion|The Insights of Joseph Brodley’s Scholarship for the Current Debates over the Antitrust Treatment of Single-Firm Conduct", Boston University Law Review [00068047], 90 (4)
  • Salinger, M., Ampudia, M. (2012). Inventories and Stock-out Costs in the Price-Setting Newsvendor: An Economic Interpretation."Handbook of Newsvendor Problems: Models, Extensions and Applications", Springer Science & Business Media 163-175
  • Salinger, M., Ampudia, M. (2011). "Simple Economics of the Price-Setting Newsvendor Problem", Management Science, 57 (11), 1996-1998
  • Salinger, M. (2011). "The 2010 Revised Merger Guidelines and Modern Industrial Economics", Review of Industrial Organization, 39 (1-2), 159-168
  • Salinger, M. (2011). "Discussion of Papers by Bruce Owen and Christopher Yoo", Review of Industrial Organization, 38 (4), 435-440
  • Salinger, M. (2010). "The Insights of Joseph Brodley's Scholarship for the Current Debates Over the Antitrust Treatment of Single-Firm Conduct", Boston University Law Review, 90 (4), 1543-1554
  • Salinger, M. (2010). "Behavioral Economics, Consumer Protection, and Antitrust", Competition Policy International, 6 (1), 65-86
  • Salinger, M. (2008). Business Justification Defenses in Tying Cases."Issues in Competition Law and Policy", ABA Antitrust Section 1911-1928
  • Anderson, K., Durbin, E., Salinger, M. (2008). "Identity Theft", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 22 (2), 171-192
  • (2008). "Introduction to chapters VII and IX of Augustin Cournot, Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth", Competition Policy International, 4 (1), 275-282
  • Evans, D., Salinger, M. (2008). "The Role of Cost in Determining When Firms Offer Bundles", Journal of Industrial Economics, 56 (1), 143-168
  • Salinger, M., Ippolito, P., Schrag, J. (2007). "Economics at the FTC: Pharmaceutical Patent Dispute Settlements and Behavioral Economics", Review of Industrial Organization, 31 (2), 85-105
  • Baumol, W., Blaydon, C., Cicchetti, C., Stulz, R., Dubin, J., Fisher, F., Hahn, R., Hausman, J., Hogan, W., Kalt, J., Kleindorfer, P., Michaels, R., Owen, B., Pirrong, C., Salinger, M., Shavell, S., Smith, V., Sweeney, J., Willig, R., Wolfram, C. (2007). "Supreme Court Amicus Brief Regarding Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. v. Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington", AEI-Brookings Joint Center Brief (07)
  • Salinger, M. (2007). "The Legacy of Matsushita", The Loyola University Chicago International Law Review, 38 (3), 475-490
  • Salinger, M., Anderson, K., Garmon, C., Schmidt, D., Yun, J. (2006). "Economics at the FTC: Data Intensive Mergers and Policy R&D", Review of Industrial Organization, 29 (4), 327-348
  • Fu, D., Buldyrev, S., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. (2006). "Percolation Model for Growth Rates of Aggregates and its Application for Business Firm Growth", Physical Review E, 74 (3)
  • Evans, D., Padilla, J., Salinger, M. (2006). A Pragmatic Approach to Identifying and Analyzing Legitimate Tying Cases."European Competition Law Annual 2003: What is an Abuse of a Dominant Position?", Hart Publishing
  • Salinger, M., Evans, D. (2005). Curing Sinus Headaches and Tying Law: An Empirical Analysis of Bundling Decongestants and Pain Relievers."Recent Developments in Antitrust: Theory and Evidence", MIT Press
  • Stanley, H., Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Gopikrishnan, P., Plerou, V., Salinger, M. (2002). "Self-organized complexity in economics and finance", PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 99 2561-2565
  • Hylton, K., Salinger, M. (2002). "Reply to Grimes: Illusory distinctions and schisms in tying law", ANTITRUST LAW JOURNAL, 70 (1), 231-246
  • Hylton, K., Salinger, M. (2001). "Tying law and policy: A decision-theoretic approach", Antitrust Law Journal, 69 (2), 469-526
  • Salinger, M. (1998). "Regulating prices to equal forward-looking costs: Cost-based prices or price-based costs?", JOURNAL OF REGULATORY ECONOMICS, 14 (2), 149-163
  • Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. (1998). "Power law scaling for a system of interacting units with complex internal structure", PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 80 (7), 1385-1388
  • Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H., Stanley, M. (1997). "Scaling behavior in economics: The problem of quantifying company growth", PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, 244 (1-4), 1-24
  • Buldyrev, S., Amaral, L., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H., Stanley, M. (1997). "Scaling behavior in economics .2. Modeling of company growth", JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I, 7 (4), 635-650
  • Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H., Stanley, M. (1997). "Scaling behavior in economics .1. Empirical results for company growth", JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I, 7 (4), 621-633
  • Buldyrev, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Stanley, H., Stanley, M., Amaral, L., Havlin, S., Salinger, M. (1997). "Scaling behavior in economics: empirical results and modeling of company growth", PHYSICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS, 134 145-174
  • Stanley, M., Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. (1996). "Scaling behaviour in the growth of companies", NATURE, 379 (6568), 804-806
  • Salinger, M."Comments on the DOJ and FTC Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines",