CARL SHAPIRO
Last Modified: May 2012
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 at the Haas School of Business, and Professor of Economics in
the Economics Department, at the
Professor Shapiro recently returned to
Berkeley after serving as a Member of the President’s Council of Economic
Advisers during 2011-12. The Council of Economic Advisers, an agency within
the Executive Office of the President, consists of a Chair and two
Members. The CEA is charged with
offering the President objective economic advice on the formulation of domestic
and international economic policy. The CEA bases its recommendations and
analysis on economic research and empirical evidence, using the best data
available to support the President in setting economic policy.
From 2009 to 2011 Shapiro was the Deputy
Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the U.S.
Department of Justice. He played a
central role in revising the Horizontal
Merger Guidelines issued by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade
Commission.
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 in 1999 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.
He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at M.I.T. in
1981, taught at
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
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Vitae in HTML Format
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Recent Writings, Speeches and Testimony
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
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.