{"id":10057,"date":"2024-08-06T16:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/michael-salinger\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T19:05:12","slug":"michael-salinger","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/michael-salinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Salinger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull profile__standard-wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns profile__columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__left-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-3bd72ab2 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"profile__image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1487\" height=\"1707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/SalingerMichael.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:contain;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/SalingerMichael.jpg 1487w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/SalingerMichael-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/SalingerMichael-610x700.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1487px) 100vw, 1487px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<aside class=\"profile__contact profile__contact--api wp-block-amp-profile-contact\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n  <h5>Contact<\/h5>\n  <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n          <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--phone\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Phone\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"telephone\">\n        617-353-4408      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--email\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Email\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\">\n        <a href=\"mailto:salinger@bu.edu\" itemprop=\"email\">\n          salinger@bu.edu        <\/a>\n      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"profile__contact-buttons\">\n              <div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary-button\">\n          <a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/questromapps.bu.edu\/faculty\/uploadFiles\/cvUploadsProfile\/PL_Salinger_Michael_CV.pdf\">\n            Download CV\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--office\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n          Office\n        <\/h6>\n        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"workLocation\">\n          540        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--bu\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px\">\n            Boston University <br \/>\n            Questrom School of Business\n          <\/h6>\n                        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"address\">\n                Rafik B. Hariri Building <br \/>\n                595 Commonwealth Avenue <br \/>\n                Boston, MA 02215\n              <\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/aside><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__right-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-3bd72ab2 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7db9d80f wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h1 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Michael Salinger<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignfull wp-block-amp-profile-position\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-transform-uppercase has-p-2-font-size\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 600\">\n\t\t\tJacqueline and Arthur Bahr Professor in Markets, Public Policy &amp; Law\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-amp-profile-data profile-data\"><div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-education\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tEducation\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">BA, Yale University, 1978<\/p>\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-publications\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tPublications\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., De Stefano, M. (In Press). &#8220;The Complicated Simple Economics of Vertical Mergers&#8221;, <i>The Journal of law &#038; economics<\/i>, <i>68<\/i> (1)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., DeStefano, M. (In Press). &#8220;A Simultaneous Moves Approach to the Simple Complicated Economics of Vertical Mergers&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (In Press). &#8220;Self-Preferencing&#8221;, <i>SSRN Electronic Journal<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2024). &#8220;The 2023 Merger Guidelines and the Role of Economics&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i>, <i>65<\/i> (1),  243-253<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2023). &#8220;Self-Preferencing&#8221;, <i>Direito P\u00fablico<\/i>, <i>20<\/i> (107)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2023). &#8220;Product Offering Complexity: Implications for Tying Doctrine&#8221;, <i>SSRN Electronic Journal<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2021). &#8220;The New Vertical Merger Guidelines: Muddying the Waters&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2020). &#8220;Price Gouging and the COVID-19 Crisis \u2013 This Time Is (a Little) Different&#8221;, <i>Anti-Trust Chronicle<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Frey, N., Matin, S., Stanley, H., Salinger, M. (2019). &#8220;Universal Fluctuations in Growth Dynamics of Economic Systems&#8221;, <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, <i>9<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2018). &#8220;Net Innovation Pressure in Merger Analysis&#8221;, <\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Gouri, G., Salinger, M. (2018). &#8220;Protecting Competition vs. Protecting Competitors: Assessing the Antitrust Complaints against Google&#8221;, <i>The Criterion Journal on Innovation<\/i>, <i>2<\/i> 531-558<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Buldyrev, S., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. (2016). &#8220;A statistical physics implementation of Coase?s theory of the firm&#8221;, <i>Research in Economics<\/i>, <i>70<\/i> (4),  536-557<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Layne-Farrar, A., Salinger, M. (2016). &#8220;Bundling of RAND-committed patents&#8221;, <i>Research Policy<\/i>, <i>45<\/i> (6),  1155-1164<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., Levinson, R. (2015). &#8220;Economics and the FTC&#8217;s Google Investigation&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i>, <i>46<\/i> (1),  25-57<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2014). Vertical Mergers.&#8221;The Oxford Handbook of International Antitrust Economics&#8221;, <i>Oxford University Press, USA<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Levinson, R., Salinger, M. (2014). &#8220;Economic Considerations Raised by the Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s Investigation of Google&#8217;s Search Practices&#8221;, <i>Competition Policy International<\/i>, <i>10<\/i> (2),  103-117<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2014). &#8220;Panel Discussion|The Insights of Joseph Brodley\u2019s Scholarship for the Current Debates over the Antitrust Treatment of Single-Firm Conduct&#8221;, <i>Boston University Law Review [00068047]<\/i>, <i>90<\/i> (4)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., Ampudia, M. (2012). Inventories and Stock-out Costs in the Price-Setting Newsvendor: An Economic Interpretation.&#8221;Handbook of Newsvendor Problems: Models, Extensions and Applications&#8221;, <i>Springer Science &#038; Business Media<\/i> 163-175<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., Ampudia, M. (2011). &#8220;Simple Economics of the Price-Setting Newsvendor Problem&#8221;, <i>Management Science<\/i>, <i>57<\/i> (11),  1996-1998<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2011). &#8220;The 2010 Revised Merger Guidelines and Modern Industrial Economics&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i>, <i>39<\/i> (1-2),  159-168<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2011). &#8220;Discussion of Papers by Bruce Owen and Christopher Yoo&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i>, <i>38<\/i> (4),  435-440<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2010). &#8220;The Insights of Joseph Brodley&#8217;s Scholarship for the Current Debates Over the Antitrust Treatment of Single-Firm Conduct&#8221;, <i>Boston University Law Review<\/i>, <i>90<\/i> (4),  1543-1554<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2010). &#8220;Behavioral Economics, Consumer Protection, and Antitrust&#8221;, <i>Competition Policy International<\/i>, <i>6<\/i> (1),  65-86<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2008). Business Justification Defenses in Tying Cases.&#8221;Issues in Competition Law and Policy&#8221;, <i>ABA Antitrust Section<\/i> 1911-1928<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Anderson, K., Durbin, E., Salinger, M. (2008). &#8220;Identity Theft&#8221;, <i>Journal of Economic Perspectives<\/i>, <i>22<\/i> (2),  171-192<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\"> (2008). &#8220;Introduction to chapters VII and IX of Augustin Cournot, Researches into the Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth&#8221;, <i>Competition Policy International<\/i>, <i>4<\/i> (1),  275-282<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Evans, D., Salinger, M. (2008). &#8220;The Role of Cost in Determining When Firms Offer Bundles&#8221;, <i>Journal of Industrial Economics<\/i>, <i>56<\/i> (1),  143-168<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., Ippolito, P., Schrag, J. (2007). &#8220;Economics at the FTC: Pharmaceutical Patent Dispute Settlements and Behavioral Economics&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i>, <i>31<\/i> (2),  85-105<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">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). &#8220;Supreme Court Amicus Brief Regarding Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. v. Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington&#8221;, <i>AEI-Brookings Joint Center Brief<\/i> (07)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (2007). &#8220;The Legacy of Matsushita&#8221;, <i>The Loyola University Chicago International Law Review<\/i>, <i>38<\/i> (3),  475-490<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., Anderson, K., Garmon, C., Schmidt, D., Yun, J. (2006). &#8220;Economics at the FTC: Data Intensive Mergers and Policy R&amp;D&#8221;, <i>Review of Industrial Organization<\/i>, <i>29<\/i> (4),  327-348<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Fu, D., Buldyrev, S., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. (2006). &#8220;Percolation Model for Growth Rates of Aggregates and its Application for Business Firm Growth&#8221;, <i>Physical Review E<\/i>, <i>74<\/i> (3)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Evans, D., Padilla, J., Salinger, M. (2006). A Pragmatic Approach to Identifying and Analyzing Legitimate Tying Cases.&#8221;European Competition Law Annual 2003: What is an Abuse of a Dominant Position?&#8221;, <i>Hart Publishing<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M., Evans, D. (2005). Curing Sinus Headaches and Tying Law: An Empirical Analysis of Bundling Decongestants and Pain Relievers.&#8221;Recent Developments in Antitrust: Theory and Evidence&#8221;, <i>MIT Press<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Stanley, H., Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Gopikrishnan, P., Plerou, V., Salinger, M. (2002). &#8220;Self-organized complexity in economics and finance&#8221;, <i>PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA<\/i>, <i>99<\/i> 2561-2565<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Hylton, K., Salinger, M. (2002). &#8220;Reply to Grimes: Illusory distinctions and schisms in tying law&#8221;, <i>ANTITRUST LAW JOURNAL<\/i>, <i>70<\/i> (1),  231-246<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Hylton, K., Salinger, M. (2001). &#8220;Tying law and policy: A decision-theoretic approach&#8221;, <i>Antitrust Law Journal<\/i>, <i>69<\/i> (2),  469-526<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Salinger, M. (1998). &#8220;Regulating prices to equal forward-looking costs: Cost-based prices or price-based costs?&#8221;, <i>JOURNAL OF REGULATORY ECONOMICS<\/i>, <i>14<\/i> (2),  149-163<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. (1998). &#8220;Power law scaling for a system of interacting units with complex internal structure&#8221;, <i>PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS<\/i>, <i>80<\/i> (7),  1385-1388<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H., Stanley, M. (1997). &#8220;Scaling behavior in economics: The problem of quantifying company growth&#8221;, <i>PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS<\/i>, <i>244<\/i> (1-4),  1-24<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Buldyrev, S., Amaral, L., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H., Stanley, M. (1997). &#8220;Scaling behavior in economics .2. Modeling of company growth&#8221;, <i>JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I<\/i>, <i>7<\/i> (4),  635-650<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H., Stanley, M. (1997). &#8220;Scaling behavior in economics .1. Empirical results for company growth&#8221;, <i>JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE I<\/i>, <i>7<\/i> (4),  621-633<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Buldyrev, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Stanley, H., Stanley, M., Amaral, L., Havlin, S., Salinger, M. (1997). &#8220;Scaling behavior in economics: empirical results and modeling of company growth&#8221;, <i>PHYSICS OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS<\/i>, <i>134<\/i> 145-174<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Stanley, M., Amaral, L., Buldyrev, S., Havlin, S., Leschhorn, H., Maass, P., Salinger, M., Stanley, H. 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