Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

Michael Katz

Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership
Director, Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization
Professor, Department of Economics
Director, Center for Telecommunications and Digital Convergence
Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group
Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization
510-643-0661
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment, F679
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

AB, Summa Cum Laude, Economics, Harvard University
PhD, Economics, Oxford University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1987
2009 - present, Director, Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization, Haas School of Business
2003 - present, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, Haas School of Business
2003 - 2004, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Haas School of Business
2001 - 2003, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
1995 - 2003, Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Business Administration, Haas School of Business
1994 - 1996, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
1989 - 1995, Professor, Haas School of Business, and Economics Department, UC Berkeley
1987 - 1989, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, and Economics Department, UC Berkeley
1981 - 1987, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

Co-editor, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
Editorial board member, Information Economics and Policy, California Management Review
Member, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, The National Academies, Committee on Wireless Technology Prospect and Policy Options, The National Academies

Current Research and Interests

Economics of networks industries
Intellectual property licensing
Telecommunications policy
Cooperative research and development

Selected Papers and Publications

"Health and Taxes:The Economic Report of the President on Improving Incentives for Health Care Spending." Journal of Economic Literature.
"Observable Contracts as Commitments: Interdependent Contracts and Moral Hazard." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.
"Your Network or Mine? The Economics of Routing Rules," with Benjamin E. Hermalin. RAND Journal of Economics.
"Should Good Patents Come in Small Packages? A Welfare Analysis of Intellectual Property Bundling," with Richard Gilbert. International Journal of Industrial Organization.
"Privacy, Property Rights & Efficiency: The Economics of Privacy as Secrecy," with Benjamin E. Hermalin. Quantitative Marketing and Economics.
"Competition or Predation? Consumer Coordination, Strategic Pricing, and Price Floors in Network Markets," with Joseph Farrell. Journal of Industrial Economics 53, No. 2 (June 2005).
"Sender or Receiver: Who Should Pay to Exchange an Electronic Message?" with Benjamin Hermalin. RAND Journal of Economics 35, no. 3 (Autumn 2004).
"An Economist's Guide to US v. Microsoft," with Richard Gilbert. Journal of Economic Perspectives15, no. 2 (Spring 2001).
"Innovation, Rent Extraction, and Integration in Systems Markets," with Joseph Farrell. Journal of Industrial Economics 48, no. 4 (December 2000).

Teaching

Competition and Corporate Strategy in Network Markets, E217

Honors and Awards

Chairman's Special Achievement Award, Federal Communications Commission, 1996
Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Full-Time MBA Program, 1989, 1993. Honorable Mention, 1997, 2000
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 1985-1988
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 1978-1981
John H. Williams Prize (awarded to the Harvard College economics graduate with the best overall record), 1978
National Merit Scholar, 1975-1976

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