Antitrust, Innovation, and Intellectual Property Testimony Before the Antitrust Modernization Commission
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چکیده
Thank you for the opportunity to appear here today. I am Carl Shapiro, the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy in the Haas School of Business, and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, at the University of California at Berkeley, where I have taught since 1990. I also am Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research, an Organized Research Unit at U.C. Berkeley. I have served as the Editor and Co-Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, a leading economics journal published by the American Economic Association. I also am a Senior Consultant and Member of the Board of Directors at CRA International, an economic consulting firm.
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