CARL SHAPIRO
Last Modified: April 2013
Positions
·
Transamerica
Professor of Business Strategy, Walter
A. Haas School of Business,
University of California at Berkeley
·
Professor of
Economics, Department of
Economics, University of California at
Berkeley
Biography
Carl Shapiro is the Transamerica Professor of
Business Strategy in the Haas School of Business at the University of
California at Berkeley.
Shapiro had the honor of serving as a Member
of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during 2011-12. For the two
years immediately prior to that, he was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General
for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; he
also held that position during 1995-96. From 1998 to 2008, Shapiro served as
Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at UC Berkeley. He has been
Editor and Co-Editor of the Journal of
Economic Perspectives and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, among other honors. Shapiro earned his Ph.D. in Economics
at M.I.T. in 1981, taught at Princeton University during the 1980s, and has
been on the Berkeley faculty since 1990.
Shapiro has published extensively in the
areas of industrial organization, competition policy, patents, the economics of
innovation, and competitive strategy. His current research interests include
competition policy, the economics of innovation, the design and use of patents,
housing finance, and energy and environmental economics.
Shapiro is the co-author, with Hal R. Varian, of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the
Network Economy, published by the Harvard Business School Press. Information
Rules has received critical acclaim for its application of economic
principles to the Information Economy and has been widely read by managers and
adopted for classroom use.
Contact Information
E-mail:
shapiro-at-Haas-dot-Berkeley-dot-edu
Home Page: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro
Haas School of Business
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
phone: 510-642-5905
Shapiro Curriculum Vitae
Shapiro Curriculum
Vitae in HTML Format
Shapiro Curriculum
Vitae in PDF Format
Recent Writings, Speeches and Testimony
2013
A Simple Approach to
Setting Reasonable Royalties for Standard-Essential Patents, with Mark Lemley, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, forthcoming.
2012
Competition and
Innovation: Did Arrow Hit the Bull’s Eye?, in The Rate & Direction of
Economic Activity Revisited, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, eds.
2010
The 2010
Horizontal Merger Guidelines: From Hedgehog to Fox in Forty Years,
Antitrust Law Journal.
Unilateral Effects Calculations
The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division: 2009-2010, with Ken Heyer, Review of Industrial Organization.
Injunctions,
Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties, American Law and Economics Review.
Recapture, Pass-Through, and Market Definition, with Joseph Farrell, Antitrust Law Journal.
Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition, with Joseph Farrell, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Policies and Perspectives.
Upward Pricing Pressure in Horizontal Merger Analysis: Reply to Epstein and Rubinfeld, with Joseph Farrell, B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Policies and Perspectives.
Upward Pricing Pressure and Critical Loss Analysis, with Joseph Farrell, Competition
Policy International Antitrust Journal.
In Honor of
Oliver Williamson: Antitrust Economics, California
2009
The Year in Review: Economics at the Antitrust Division: 2008-2009, with Ken Heyer and Jeffrey Wilder, Review of Industrial Organization.
Updating the
Merger Guidelines, ABA Antitrust
Section, Fall Forum.
Competition
Policy in Distressed Industries,
ABA Symposium, Competition as Public Policy.
Microsoft: A Remedial
Failure, Antitrust Law Journal.
2008
Detecting and
Reversing the Decline in Horizontal Merger Enforcement, with Jonathan Baker, Antitrust.
Merger to Monopoly to Serve a Single Buyer: Comment, with Jonathan Baker and Joseph Farrell, Antitrust Law Journal.
Improving
Critical Loss, with Joseph
Farrell, Antitrust Source.
Reinvigorating
Horizontal Merger Enforcement,
with Jonathan Baker, Oxford University Press.
How Strong Are Weak
Patents?, with Joseph Farrell, American
Economics Review.
2007
Standard Setting,
Patents, and Hold-Up, with Joseph
Farrell, John Hayes and Theresa Sullivan, Antitrust
Law Journal.
Patent Reform:
Aligning Reward and Contribution,
Innovation Policy and the Economy.
Antitrust, with Louis Kaplow, Chapter 15, in Handbook of Law and Economics, Volume 2.
Patent Hold-Up and
Royalty Stacking, with Mark A.
Lemley, Texas Law Review.
The Design and Use
of Patents, IESE-BBVA Prize
Lecture, Madrid, Spain.
Market Definition in Crude Oil: Estimating the
Effects of the BP/Arco Merger, with John
Hayes and Robert Town, Antitrust Bulletin.