Michael L. Katz
Director, Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization
Professor of Economics
Department: Haas School of Business
Colleges / Universities: University of California, Berkeley
Contact
2220 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, California 94720-1900
Email: katz@haas.berkeley.edu
Website: UC Berkeley faculty profile
Michael Katz has taught at Berkeley since 1987. He holds the Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership and professorships in both the Economics Department and the Haas School of Business, where he is a member of the Economic Analysis and Policy Group.
Professor Katz has served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice; Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission, where he received the Chairman's Special Achievement Award; and Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is a two-time recipient of the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching and was an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University.
Degrees
A.B. Economics, Harvard University
Ph.D. Economics, Oxford University
Recent Academic Article Summaries
Insurance, Consumer Choice, and the Equilibrium Price and Quality of Hospital Care
This paper looks at how competition between hospitals and insurance affects the price and quality of hospital care.
Applications Barrier to Entry and Its Implications for the Microsoft Remedies, The: Comment on Iansiti and Richards
This paper asks if software competition has fundamentally changed since 2002.
Microsoft still dominates the software business in many ways, and although competition has grown there has been little fundamental change.
Efficient Division of Profits from Complementary Innovations
This paper considers how patents affect competition and prices of complicated products.
There is no easy way to design patent rules or choose prices from the top down to ensure that firms cooperate to produce complicated technologies for consumers.
Mergers and Innovation
This paper asks how competition policy should adapt to innovation.
Antitrust law should adapt to innovation, or it will hinder it. To adapt, policymakers should try to predict how business acts will affect consumers in the future.
Privacy, Property Rights & Efficiency: The Economics of Privacy as Secrecy
This paper looks at whether consumers are harmed or helped when information about them is kept private.
Sometimes, consumers or workers might be helped by rules protecting privacy. But whether such rules would harm or help consumers depends on complex factors.
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