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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1995                         (202) 616-2771
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          ANTITRUST DIVISION NAMES NEW DEPUTY ASSISTANT
              ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS   

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of Justice's Antitrust
Division announced today the appointment of northern Californian,
Carl Shapiro, 40, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for
economic analysis.
     Anne K. Bingaman, Assistant Attorney General in charge of
the Antitrust Division, said that Shapiro will be responsible for
supervising all economic analysis within the Division and
directing the Division's Economic Analysis Group.  Shapiro will
provide advice to Bingaman on both merger and civil non-merger
investigations.
     "Professor Shapiro is a leading scholar in antitrust
economics who has written extensively on issues of central
importance to the Division, including intellectual property,
innovation, 'increasing-returns' markets, and horizontal mergers. 
He also brings extensive experience as an economic expert to the
Division.  We are extremely fortunate to have him join us," said
Bingaman.
     Shapiro is taking a leave of absence from the University of
California at Berkeley, where he is Transamerica Professor of
Business Strategy in the Haas School of Business and a professor
of economics.  Shapiro is stepping down as editor of the Journal
of Economic Perspectives, a leading economics journal published
by the American Economic Association.
     Shapiro received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1981.  He also earned B.S. degrees in
mathematics and economics from that same university as well as an
M.A. in mathematics from Berkeley.  
     He taught at the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of
Economics at Princeton University for 10 years, and has been at
Berkeley since 1990.
     Shapiro and his wife, Dawn, are moving from Lafayette,
California, to Chevy Chase, Maryland, with their nine-year old
daughter, Eva, and their six-year old son, Benjamin.
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