Carl Shapiro

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Carl Shapiro
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Shapiro c. 2009–2011
Born (1955-03-20) March 20, 1955 (age 70)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Occupations
  • Economist
  • academic
Years active1995–present
Academic background
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, BS, PhD)
University of California, Berkeley (MA)
Doctoral advisor Richard L. Schmalensee [1]

Carl Shapiro (born March 20, 1955) is an American economist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. [2] He is the co-author, along with Hal Varian of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy , published by the Harvard Business School Press. He served on former US president Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers from 2011 to 2012. [3] [4]

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Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1995–1996). He is a Senior Consultant with Charles River Associates and 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.

Shapiro was again the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics of the Antitrust division of the Justice Department from 2009 to 2011. [5]

Shapiro holds a BS in mathematics and a BS in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Shapiro has written multiple scholarly articles on standard-essential patents (SEPs). [6] [7]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Consumer information, product quality, and seller reputation.
  2. ↑ "Professor Carl Shapiro, UC Berkeley". faculty.haas.berkeley.edu. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  3. ↑ WSJ Staff (February 23, 2011). "Nomination for Council of Economic Advisers". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved February 26, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Former Members of the Council". The White House. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Carl Shapiro". faculty.haas.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on April 24, 2019. Retrieved October 18, 2018.[ title missing ]
  6. ↑ Lemley, Mark A.; Shapiro, Carl (2013). "A Simple Approach to Setting Reasonable Royalties for Standard-Essential Patents" . SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.2243026. ISSN   1556-5068.
  7. ↑ Shapiro, Carl (2001). "Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.273550. ISSN   1556-5068.
  8. ↑ Carl Shapiro; Hal R. Varian (1998). Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy . Harvard Business School Press. ISBN   978-0-87584-863-1.


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