New Working Papers:

"Deal or No Deal? Licensing Negotiations in Standard-Setting Organizations" Richard Gilbert (2011)

"Freedom to Trade and the Competitive Process" Aaron Edlin; Richard Jennings, Joseph Farrell (February, 2011)

"Revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Lessons from the US and EU" Richard Gilbert and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (February 2010)

"A World Without Intellectual Property? Boldrin and Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly" Richard Gilbert (February 2010)

"The Rising Tide of Patent Damages" Richard Gilbert (February 2010)

"Openness, Open Source, and the Veil of Ignorance" Suzanne Scotchmer (January 2010)

"Ties that Bind: Policies to Promote (Good) Patent Pools" Richard Gilbert (November 2009)

"Essentiality Test of Profits for Patent Pools" Richard Gilbert (September 2009)

"Efficient Division of Profits from Complementary Innovations" Richard J. Gilbert ad Michael L. Katz (June 2007, revised June 2009)

"Scarcity of Ideas and R&D Options: Use it, Lose it, or Bank it" Nisvan Erkal and Suzanne Scotchmer (April 2009, revised from December 2007)

"Risk-Taking and Gender in Hierarchies (revised, published)" Suzanne Scotchmer (September 2008)

"Antitrust Evaluation of Horizontal Mergers: An Economic Alternative to Market Definition" Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro (November 25, 2008)

News & Events

Pedro Gardete Named 2012 CPC Dissertation Prize Winner
The recipient of the 2012 Competition Policy Center Dissertation Prize is Pedro Gardete, Haas School of Business, for his dissertation "The Value of Market Information in the Dynamics of Capital-Intensive Industry: The Case of DRAM Manufacturing". <Download> a complete list of Dissertation Prize winners from 2002-2012.

Koichiro Ito Named 2011 CPC Dissertation Prize Winner
The recipient of the 2011 Competition Policy Center Dissertation Prize is Koichiro Ito, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, for his dissertation "Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing". <Download> a complete list of Dissertation Prize winners from 2002-2011.

Rob Seamans Named 2010 CPC Dissertation Prize Winner
The 2010 CPC Dissertation Prize goes to Rob Seamans for his paper "Fighting City Hall: Entry Deterrence and New Technology Upgrades in Local Cable TV Markets." Rob is now an assistant professor at NYU's Stern School of Business. Rob's research suggests that "incumbent cable systems are more likely to upgrade when located in a market with a potential government-owned entrant. However, the same systems are then less likely to offer new products enabled by the upgrade. Understanding the extent to which managers of incumbent private firms respond to potential entry from government firms is especially important in light of recent US government entry into several industries."

2009 Federal Trade Commission Hearings at UC Berkeley
The Federal Trade Commission held its final two days of hearings in a series exploring the evolving market for intellectual property on May 4-5, 2009, in cooperation with the Competition Policy Center and the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.  The hearings explored how markets for patents and technology operate in different industries, whether those markets operate efficiently, and how patent policy might be adjusted to better promote innovation and competition.  The hearings were part of an ongoing series examining changes in patent law, patent-related business models, and new learning about the patent system since the October 2003 FTC report, “To Promote Innovation:  The Proper Balance of Competition and Patent Law and Policy.”

Download the agenda. More information about the hearings is available at the project website.

Ryan Kellogg Named 2009 CPC Dissertation Prize Winner
The 2009 CPC Dissertation Prize goes to Ryan Kellogg for his paper "Learning by Drilling: Inter-Firm Learning and Relationship Persistence in the Texas Oilpatch." Ryan graduated from Agriculture and Resource Economics in the spring of 2008. He is now an assistant professor in the Economics Department at the University of Michigan. Ryan's research bridges industrial organization, energy economics, and environmental policy-projects range from analyses of the behavior of oil and gas firms to evaluations of U.S. pollution abatement programs. Ryan teaches undergraduate and graduate industrial organization.
<Download> a complete list of Dissertation Prize winners from 2002-2009.

"Antitrust and Intellectual Property in a Changing Political Climate"
The Antitrust and Intellectual Property in a Changing Political Climate conference, held at UC Berkeley on February 5 and 6, 2009, was co-sponsored by the Competition Policy Center (CPC) and the Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law sections of the American Bar Association. The event covered challenging economic and legal issues in patent pooling and patent litigation settlements, intellectual property licensing, market definition and market power in technology markets and standard setting. <details>