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Michael Katz

Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, Haas School of Business
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Professor, Department of Economics
Director, Center for Telecommunications and Digital Convergence
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Academic Status: On leave
Office Hours: By Appointment only, F679
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Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

AB, summa cum laude, economics, Harvard University
D.Phil., economics, Oxford University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1987
2003 - present Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, Haas School of Business, and Economics Department, UC Berkeley
2003 - 2004 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Haas School
2001 - 2003 Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
1995 - 2003 Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business, and Economics Department, UC Berkeley
1994 - 1996 Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
1989 - 1995 Professor, Haas School of Business, and Economics Department, UC Berkeley
1987 - 1989 Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, and Economics Department, UC Berkeley
1981 - 1987 Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, coeditor.
Information Economics and Policy, editorial board member.
California Management Review, editorial board member.
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The National Academies, member.
Committee on Wireless Technology Prospect and Policy Options, The National Academies, member.

Current Research and Interests

Economics of networks industries
Intellectual property licensing
Telecommunications policy
Cooperative research and development

Selected Papers and Publications

“Health and Taxes:The Economic Report of the President on Improving Incentives for Health Care Spending,” Journal of Economic Literature, in press.
“Observable Contracts as Commitments: Interdependent Contracts and Moral Hazard,” Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, in press.
“Your Network or Mine? The Economics of Routing Rules,” co-authored with Benjamin E. Hermalin, RAND Journal of Economics, in press.
“Should Good Patents Come in Small Packages? A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Bundling,” co-authored with Richard Gilbert, International Journal of Industrial Organization, in press.
“Privacy, Property Rights & Efficiency: The Economics of Privacy as Secrecy,” co-authored with Benjamin E. Hermalin, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, in press.
“Competition or Predation? Consumer Coordination, Strategic Pricing, and Price Floors in Network Markets“, co-authored with Joseph Farrell, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. LIII, No. 2 (June 2005).
“Sender or Receiver: Who Should Pay to Exchange an Electronic Message?”, co-authored with Benjamin Hermalin, RAND Journal of Economics, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Autumn 2004).
“An Economist’s Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft”, co-authored with Richard Gilbert, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol.15, No. 2 (Spring 2001).
“Innovation, Rent Extraction, and Integration in Systems Markets,” co-authored with Joseph Farrell, Journal of Industrial Economics, Vo1. XLVIII, No. 4 (December 2000).

Work in Progress

"Customer or Complementor? Intercarrier Compensation with Two-Sided Benefits," co-authored with Benjamin E. Hermalin, unpublished draft, July 2005.
“Intercarrier Compensation with All-You-Can-Eat Retail Pricing,” co-authored with Benjamin Hermalin, March 2006.
"Mergers and Innovation," co-authored with Howard A. Shelanski, unpublished draft, March 2006.

Teaching

E217, Competition and Corporate Strategy in Network Markets

Honors and Awards

Chairman's Special Achievement Award, Federal Communications Commission, 1996.
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (MBA Program), 1989 and 1993. Honorable Mention, 2000 and 1997.
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1985-88.
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1978-81.
John H. Williams Prize (awarded to the Harvard College economics graduate with the best overall record), 1978.
National Merit Scholar, 1975-76.

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