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		| Joseph  Farrell | 
	
		| U C Berkeley | 
	
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		| Department of Economics 3880 | 
	
		| U C Berkeley | 
	
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		| Berkeley, California 94720-3880 | 
	
		| USA | 
	
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		| farrell@econ.berkeley.edu | 
	
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		| http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/farrell/index.html | 
	
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		| Biographical Sketch: 
 After an English education starring R.H. Whittaker, Peter Neumann, Michael Atiyah, Jim Mirrlees and Joe Stiglitz, I moved to MIT in 1979.  I had a bad years-long case of writer's block, and left the academic world for GTE Labs, but came to California in the late 1980s.  I have been a professor at Berkeley ever since, but with two stints in the government: in 1996-7 I was Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and in 2000-2001 I was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division, US Dept of Justice. | 
	
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		| Primary Research Focus: 
 Competition policy and antitrust, telecommunications, standardization, innovation | 
	
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		| JEL Areas: L0 : Industrial Organization: General
 L4 : Antitrust Issues and Policies: General
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