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Joseph Farrell

Affiliated Professor
Economic Analysis & Policy Group
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Academic Status: Off duty
Office Hours: By appointment only
Personal Homepage: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/farrell
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/eap/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Adobe Acrobat needed)

Education

D.Phil., Economics, Oxford University, 1981
M.Sc., Mathematics, Oxford University, 1976
B.A., Mathematics, Oxford University , 1975

Positions Held
At Haas since 1994
1994-present Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley
1994-present Chair of the Competition Policy Center
1991-present Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
2000-2001 Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
1996-1997 Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
1989-1991 Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1988-1989 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
1986-1988 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
1985-1986 Principal Member, Technical Staff, GTE Laboratories
1984-1985 Senior Member, Technical Staff, GTE Laboratories
1980-1984 Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1979-1980 Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978 Visitor, Bell Laboratories
1983 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

External Service and Assignments

Since 2002 Fellow, Econometric Society
2001-present Board Member, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academy of Sciences
2001 Vice-Chair, Economics Committee, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association

Current Research and Interests

Financial Reporting and Capital Market Efficiency
Accounting Information for Internal Control and Managerial Compensation

"Modularity, Vertical Integration, and Open Access Policies: Towards a Convergence of Antitrust and Regulation in the Internet Age," with Philip Weiser, revised 2003; Harvard Journal on Law and Technology, forthcoming (2004)
"Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and R&D Diversity," co-authored with Richard Gilbert and Michael L. Katz, Richard. Arnott et al., editors, forthcoming in Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz, MIT Press (2003)
"Negotiation and Merger Remedies: Some Problems," forthcoming in Merger Remedies in Competition Policy, F. Leveque and H. Shelanski, editors (2003)
"The American Airlines Case: A Chance to Clarify Predation Policy," co-authored with Aaron Edlin, J. Kwoka and L. White, editors, The Antitrust Revolution, 4th edition, Oxford University Press (2003)
"Integration and Independent Innovation on a Network," American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings (May 2003)
"Renegotiation in the Repeated Amnesty Dilemma, with Economic Applications," co-authored with Georg Weizsäcker, in Business Applications of Game Theory, K. Chatterjee and W. Samuelson, Kluwer, editors (2001)
"Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects," forthcoming in M. Armstrong and R. Porter, eds., Handbook of Industrial Organization, vol. 3, with Paul Klemperer (draft 2001)

Honors and Awards

2001-2002 Gordon Cain Senior Fellow, SIEPR
1998-2000 Sloan Foundation/NBER grant (with S. Borenstein), "Why Do Firms Cut Costs?"
1990-1991 Hewlett Fund grant, Institute of International Studies, Berkeley
1989-1991 Co-Principal Investigator (with C. Shapiro), NSF grant, "The Evolution of Network Industries"
1988-1989 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
"Highly Cited Researcher," Economics/Business, ISI

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