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Stephen W. Salant

Professor of Economics
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1973

Contact Information
University of Michigan
Department of Economics
611 Tappan
254 Lorch Hall
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Phone: 734-764-2370
Fax: 734-764-2769
Email: ssalant@umich.edu
Fields of Study
Natural Resource Economics
Experimental Economics
Industrial Organization
Microeconomic Theory

About Stephen W. Salant

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.

Homepage
http://www.umich.edu/~ssalant/

Curriculum Vitae

http://www.umich.edu/~ssalant/cv.htm

Publications

Publications can be found at the following link - Publications



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