CARL SHAPIRO
Last Modified: December 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
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 Charles River Associates, 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-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
Microsoft:
Remedial Failure, Antitrust Law Journal, forthcoming, 2008
Injunctions,
Hold-Up, and Patent Royalties,
August 2006 (new version coming soon)
Coming Soon
Cannibalization,
Pass-Through, and Market Definition, with Joseph Farrell, 2008
Publications,
Speeches and Testimony
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