Faculty

Michael Gort

Director of the M.A. Program
Professor of Economics
Office: 451 Fronczak Hall
Phone: (716) 645-2121
E-mail: gort@buffalo.edu

Fall 2007 office hours: M (2:00-4:00)

Education

  • Ph.D. Columbia University
  • M.A. Columbia University
  • B.A. Brooklyn College

Research Interests

  • Industrial organization
  • Regulatory economics
  • Economics of technical change

Selected Publications

  • Diversification and Integration in American Industry, Princeton University Press (1962);
  • "An Economic Disturbance Theory of Mergers," Quarterly Journal of Economics (1969)
  • "A Model of Diffusion in the Production of an Innovation" (with A. Konakayama), American Economic Review (1982)
  • "Time Paths in the Diffusion of Product Innovations," (with S. Klepper), Economic Journal (1982);
  • "The Evolution of Technologies and Investment in Innovation," (with R. Wall), Economic Journal (1987);
  • "Foresight and Public Utility Regulation," (with R. Wall), Journal of Political Economy (1988)
  • "Decomposing Learning-By-Doing," Journal of Political Economy (1993)
  • "The Evolution of Markets and Entry, Exit and Survival of Firms" (with R. Agarwal), Review of Economics and Statistics (1996)
  • "Personality Attributes and Optimal Hierarchical Compensation Gradients" (with S. H. Chiang), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (1998)
  • "Obsolescence, Input Augmentation and Growth Accounting" (with R. Wall), European Economic Review (1998)
  • "Measuring the Rate of Technological Change in Structures" (with J. Greenwood and P. Rupert), Review of Economic Dynamics (1999)
  • "First Mover Advantage and the Speed of Competitive Entry, 1887-1986" (with R. Agarwal) Journal of Law and Economics (2001)
  • "Economies of Scale and Natural Monopoly in the U.S. Telephone Industry" (with N. Sung), Review of Economics and Statistics (2001)
  • "Firm and Product Life Cycles and Firm Survival" (with R. Agarwal), American Economic Review (2002)

Other Contributions and Distinctions

  • Former member of the Senior Research Staff of the National Bureau of Economic Research.