Michael Katz

Education
PhD, Economics, Oxford University
AB, Summa Cum Laude, Economics, Harvard University
Positions Held
At Haas since 1987
2018 – Senior Fellow Office of Healthcare Transformation, Singapore Ministry of Health
2003 – 2017, Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership, Haas School of Business
2009 – 2012, Director, Institute for Business Innovation, 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 Perspectives_15, 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