Carl Shapiro

Carl Shapiro ( born March 20, 1955 in Austin, Texas) is an American economist and professor of corporate strategy at the University of California, Berkeley. His area of ​​research is the microeconomics.

Life

The economist made ​​his 1981 Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and since 1985 for the National Bureau of Economic Research working. He received in 1987 at Princeton University His first professorship. In 1990, the economist at the University of California at Berkeley and holds since 1990 a Professor of Management and Economics. A trans- American Chair of Corporate Strategy was added in 1994. The co-author of Hal Varian published, inter alia, to patent, antitrust and information economics.

Currently resting Shapiro professor after he was appointed in April 2011 in the Council of Economic Advisers, the economic advisory body to the U.S. president. He succeeds by Cecilia Rouse. In government service he was previously from 1995 to 1996 and from 2009 to 2011 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Competition Law of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Writings (selection )

• Hal Varian and Joseph Farrell: The Economics of Information Technology. Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Patent reform. Aligning Reward and Contribution. Innovation Policy and the Economy, 2007