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Carl Shapiro

Carl Shapiro

 

Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Director, Institute of Business and Economics Research (IBER)
and
Professor, Department of Economics
1-510-642-5905
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By Appointment Only, F681
Personal Homepage: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro
Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/eap/
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

 

Education

BS, economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, mathematics and economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA, mathematics, UC Berkeley
Ph.D., economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Positions Held

At Haas since 1990

2006-2008 Member, University of California Committee on Academic Personnel

2004-2007 Member, Berkeley Budget and Interdepartmental Relations Committee
1998 - present Director, Institute of Business and Economics Research, UC Berkeley
1990 - present Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1995 - 96 Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
Chairman, Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1980 - 90 Professor, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Economics, Princeton University

 

External Service and Assignments

  • Vice-Chair, Economics Committee, Antitrust Section, American Bar Association, 1995-1998
  • Editor: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993-1995
  • Senior consultant: Charles River Associates
  • Consultant: a wide range of private clients, the US Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission
  • Research associate: National Bureau of Economic Research

 

Current Research and Interests

  • Design and use of patents
  • Anti-trust economics
  • Intellectual property and licensing
  • Product standards and compatibility
  • The economics of networks and interconnection
  • Game theory

 

Selected Papers and Publications

  • “Reinvigorating Horizontal Merger Enforcement,” with Jonathan Baker, Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2007.

  • “Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution,” Innovation Policy and the Economy, Adam Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, eds., National Bureau of Economic Research, forthcoming, 2007.

  • “Antitrust,” with Louis Kaplow, in Handbook of Law and Economics, A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell, eds., Elsevier, forthcoming, 2007.

  • “Patent Hold-Up and Royalty Stacking,” with Mark A. Lemley, Texas Law Review, forthcoming, 2007.

  • “Prior User Rights,” American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May 2006.

  • “Probabilistic Patents,” with Mark A. Lemley, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2005.

  • “Antitrust Analysis of Patent Settlements Between Rivals,” Antitrust Magazine, Summer 2003

  • “Critical Loss: Let’s Tell the Whole Story,” with Michael L. Katz, Antitrust Magazine, Spring 2003

 

Teaching

  • BA 201A, Economic Analysis for Business Decisions

 

Honors and Awards

  • Runner-Up, Teaching prize, MBA Program, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, 1999-2000
  • Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences



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