Microsoft Antitrust: Dueling Remedies.
April 10, 2002

Robert W. Hahn is director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a research associate at Harvard University. Previously, he served as a senior staff member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, and Yale Law Journal. Most recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective (AEI-Brookings Joint Center, 2000).

Robert E. Litan is co-director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program and Cabot Family Chair in Economics at the Brookings Institution, co-chairman of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, and co-editor of the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services and Emerging Markets Finance. Formerly, he was associate director of the Office of Management and Budget, deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and a regulatory specialist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Litan is the author or coauthor of numerous books and articles on financial institutions, international trade, and regulatory issues.

George L. Priest is the John M. Olin Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School and the director of its Center for Study in Law, Economics and Public Policy. Mr. Priest’s teachings focus on antitrust, capitalism, insurance, product liability, and economic development. During the Reagan administration he was a member of the Commission on Privatization. Mr. Priest has written broadly on antitrust, tort law, deregulation, and economic analysis topics. He has been a consultant to Microsoft.

Steven C. Salop is professor of economics and law at the Georgetown University Law Center. His research and consulting focus on microeconomics, antitrust, competition and regulation. He has written numerous articles in areas of antitrust economics and law—exclusionary conduct, mergers, joint ventures and tacit coordination. Previously, Mr. Salop served as associate director for special projects with the Bureau of Economics of the FTC, adjunct professor of economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and economist with the Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Reserve Board. He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, The International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Industrial Economics and the Review of Industrial Organization.

Richard L. Schmalensee is professor of economics and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the John C. Head III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the International Academy of Management, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Schmalensee was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association. His research focuses on industrial economics and its application to managerial and public policy issues, including antitrust, regulatory, and environmental policies. He was the economic expert for Microsoft in the liability phase of U.S. v. Microsoft.