Carl Shapiro, Senior Consultant, is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. He is also the director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University. Professor Shapiro has published extensively in the areas of industrial organization, competition policy, the economics of innovation, and competitive strategy. His current research interests include antitrust economics, intellectual property and licensing, 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 from 1995-1996. 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, and he testifies on occasion as an expert witness in the area of antitrust economics. |