CARL
SHAPIRO
Last Modified: April 2008
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
---- Director, Institute of Business and
Economic Research, University of
California at Berkeley
---- Research Associate, National Bureau of
Economic Research
Biography
Professor 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 antitrust economics, intellectual property and licensing,
patent policy, product standards and compatibility, and the economics of
networks and interconnection.
Professor Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant
Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department
of Justice during 1995-1996. He founded the Tilden Group, and is now a Senior
Consultant with CRA International, an economic consulting company. He has
consulted extensively for a wide range of private clients as well as for the
U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.
Professor 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@haas.berkeley.edu
Home Page: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro
Haas School of Business
phone: 510-642-5905
fax: 510-642-4700
Shapiro Curriculum Vitae
My Curriculum
Vitae in HTML Format
My Curriculum
Vitae in PDF Format
Recent Writings
Coming
Soon
Cannibalization, Pass-Through, and Market
Definition, with
Joseph Farrell, 2008
Mergers with Unilateral Effects: A
Simpler and More Accurate Alternative to Market Definition, with Joseph Farrell, 2008
Current Working
Papers
Microsoft:
Remedial Failure, December 2007
2008
Improving
Critical Loss, with
Joseph Farrell, Antitrust
Source, 2008.
Reinvigorating
Horizontal Merger Enforcement, with Jonathan Baker,
Oxford University
How Strong Are Weak
Patents?, with Joseph Farrell,
American Economics Review,
forthcoming
2007
Standard Setting,
Patents, and Hold-Up, with
Joseph Farrell, John Hayes and Theresa Sullivan, Antitrust Law
Journal, 2007
Patent Reform:
Aligning Reward and Contribution,
Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2007
Antitrust, with Louis Kaplow, Chapter 15, in Handbook
of Law and Economics, Volume 2, 2007
Patent Hold-Up and
Royalty Stacking, with
Mark A. Lemley, Texas
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, 2007
2006
Injunctions,
Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties,
August 2006
Prior User Rights,
American Economic Review Papers &
Proceedings, May 2006
2005
Antitrust and
Innovation, Testimony Before the
Antitrust Modernization Commission, November 2005
Exclusionary
Conduct, Testimony Before the
Antitrust Modernization Commission, September 2005
Probabilistic
Patents, with Mark A.
Lemley, Journal of Economics
Perspectives, Spring 2005
2004
Patent System Reform:
Economic Analysis and Critique, Berkeley
Further Thoughts
on Critical Loss, with Michael L. Katz, Antitrust Source, 2004
Unilateral Effects Calculations