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D-Index
71
Citations
66041
World Ranking
428
National Ranking
288

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1985 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Carl Shapiro is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields such as Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Business, Management and Accounting. Within these broader categories, their work is concentrated in subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Marketing.

The topics covered in Shapiro's research include:

  • Merger and Competition Analysis
  • Digital Platforms and Economics
  • Global trade and economics
  • Intellectual Property and Patents
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Corporate Governance and Law
  • Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing

Recent papers authored by Shapiro demonstrate a focus on competition policy, merger analysis, and antitrust economics. These works include:

  • The Role of Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Judicial Response to the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines, 2021, Review of Industrial Organization
  • Vertical Mergers and Input Foreclosure Lessons from the AT&T/Time Warner Case, 2021, Review of Industrial Organization
  • Evolution of the Merger Guidelines: Is This Fox Too Clever by Half?, 2024, Review of Industrial Organization

Shapiro has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Howard Shelanski, Jonathan B. Baker, Nancy L. Rose, Martin Gaynor, and Richard J. Gilbert. These collaborations tend to focus on topics related to antitrust, mergers, and regulatory economics.

Their publications have appeared most often in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Industrial Organization
  • Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
  • The Journal of Economic Perspectives
  • Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics

Among recognized distinctions, Shapiro was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020 and became a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

    Carl Shapiro;Hal R. Varian

  • Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market: Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device

    Carl Shapiro;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Systems Competition and Network Effects

    Michael L. Katz;Carl Shapiro

  • Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities

    Michael L. Katz;Carl Shapiro

  • Premiums for High Quality Products as Returns to Reputations

    Carl Shapiro

  • Horizontal Mergers: An Equilibrium Analysis

    Joseph Farrell;Carl Shapiro

  • Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting

    Carl Shapiro

  • Patent Holdup and Royalty Stacking

    Mark A. Lemley;Carl Shapiro

  • Consumer information, product quality, and seller reputation

    Carl Shapiro

  • Optimal Patent Length and Breadth

    Richard J. Gilbert;Carl Shapiro

  • Product Introduction with Network Externalities.

    Michael L Katz;Carl Shapiro

  • Informative Advertising with Differentiated Products

    Gene M. Grossman;Carl Shapiro

  • Foreign Counterfeiting of Status Goods

    Gene M. Grossman;Carl Shapiro

  • Theories of oligopoly behavior

    Carl Shapiro

  • On the licensing of innovations

    Michael L. Katz;Carl Shapiro

  • The Art of Standards Wars

    Carl Shapiro;Hal R. Varian

  • The theory of business strategy.

    Carl Shapiro

  • Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking

    William E. Kovacic;Carl Shapiro

  • How to License Intangible Property

    Michael L. Katz;Carl Shapiro

  • Economic Rationales for the Scope of Privatization

    Carl Shapiro;Robert D. Willig

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Farrell
Joseph Farrell University of California, Berkeley
Gene M. Grossman
Gene M. Grossman Princeton University
Hal R. Varian
Hal R. Varian Google (United States)
Herbert J. Hovenkamp
Herbert J. Hovenkamp University of Pennsylvania
Mark A. Lemley
Mark A. Lemley Stanford University
Michael L. Katz
Michael L. Katz University of California, Berkeley
Richard J. Gilbert
Richard J. Gilbert University of California, Berkeley
Robert E. Litan
Robert E. Litan Brookings Institution
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Neil Gandal
Neil Gandal Tel Aviv University

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