Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

Michael Katz Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership Professor, Department of Economics Director, Center for Telecommunications and Digital Convergence Institute for Business Innovation 510-643-0661 Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On duty Office Hours: by appointment, F679 Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

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

Positions Held

At Haas since 1987

2003 – present, 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 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

Faculty Directory: Alphabetical Listing
Faculty Directory: Listing by Department

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