Joseph Farrell

Affiliated Professor at Haas School of Business

Biography

Haas School of Business

Education
PhD, Economics, Oxford University
MSc, Mathematics, Oxford University
BA, Mathematics, Oxford University
Positions Held
At Haas since 1994
1994 – present, Affiliated Professor, Haas School of Business
1994 – present, Chair of the Competition Policy Center
1991 – present, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
2000 – 2001, Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief Economist, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice
1996 – 1997, Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission
1989 – 1991, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
1988 – 1989, National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
1986 – 1988, Visiting Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
1985 – 1986, Principal Member, Technical Staff, GTE Laboratories
1984 – 1985, Senior Member, Technical Staff, GTE Laboratories
1983, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
1980 – 1984, Assistant Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1979 – 1980, Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978, Visitor, Bell Laboratories
External Service and Assignments
- Fellow, Econometric Society - Board Member, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academy of Sciences

Current Research and Interests
- “Financial Reporting and Capital Market Efficiency.” - “Accounting Information for Internal Control and Managerial Compensation.” - “Modularity, Vertical Integration, and Open Access Policies: Towards a Convergence of Antitrust and Regulation in the Internet Age,” with Philip Weiser. revised 2003; Harvard Journal on Law and Technology (2004). - “Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and R&D Diversity,” with Richard Gilbert and Michael L. Katz. Arnott et al., editors, Economics for an Imperfect World: Essays in Honor of Joseph Stiglitz, MIT Press, 2003. - “Negotiation and Merger Remedies: Some Problems.” F. Leveque and H. Shelanski, editors, Merger Remedies in Competition Policy, 2003. - “The American Airlines Case: A Chance to Clarify Predation Policy,” with Aaron Edlin, J. Kwoka and L. White, editors. The Antitrust Revolution, 4th edition, Oxford University Press, 2003. - “Integration and Independent Innovation on a Network.” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings (May 2003). - “Renegotiation in the Repeated Amnesty Dilemma, with Economic Applications,” with Georg Weizsäcker. Business Applications of Game Theory, K. Chatterjee and W. Samuelson, Kluwer, editors, 2001. - “Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects.” M. Armstrong and R. Porter, eds., Handbook of Industrial Organization, vol. 3, with Paul Klemperer (draft 2001).

Honors and Awards
- 2001-2002 Gordon Cain Senior Fellow, SIEPR - 1998-2000 Sloan Foundation/NBER grant (with S. Borenstein), “Why Do Firms Cut Costs?” - 1990-1991 Hewlett Fund grant, Institute of International Studies, Berkeley - 1989-1991 Co-Principal Investigator (with C. Shapiro), NSF grant, “The Evolution of Network Industries” - 1988-1989 National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University - “Highly Cited Researcher,” Economics/Business, ISI

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