CARL SHAPIRO
Last Modified: May 2009
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
Professor Shapiro is currently on leave,
serving as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust
Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he supervises more than fifty
Ph.D. economists in the Antitrust Division’s Economic Analysis Group
(EAG). EAG is widely recognized as one
of the most experienced and sophisticated organizations in the world in the
application of economics to competition policy.
Shapiro had the honor of serving previously as Deputy Assistant Attorney
General for Economics in the Antitrust Division, during 1995-1996. He is hopeful that experience will prove
valuable during his current tour of duty.
Shapiro 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 and
the OECD.
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. 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
fax: 510-642-4700
Shapiro Curriculum Vitae
My Curriculum
Vitae in HTML Format
My Curriculum
Vitae in PDF Format
Recent Writings
Working Papers
Antitrust
Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition,
with
Joseph Farrell, December 2008
Injunctions,
Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties,
August 2006
Coming Soon
Cannibalization,
Pass-Through, and Market Definition, with Joseph Farrell, 2008
Publications,
Speeches and Testimony
2009
Microsoft: A
Remedial Failure, Antitrust Law Journal, 2009
2008
Detecting and
Reversing the Decline in Horizontal Merger Enforcement, with Jonathan Baker, Antitrust, 2008.
Merger to Monopoly to Serve a Single Buyer: Comment, with Jonathan Baker and Joseph Farrell, Antitrust Law Journal, 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, 2008
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
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