Suzanne Scotchmer

Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Fields: Economic theory, industrial organization

Research interests: Intellectual property; immigration rules; decentralized sharing of information; Law & Economics; club theory; rules of evidence; evolutionary game theory; cooperative game theory

Suzanne Scotchmer joined the Berkeley faculty in 1986 as associate professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy, where she was promoted to full professor in 1989. In 1995 she was appointed professor in the Economics Department. She taught at the Harvard University Economics Department from 1981 through 1986. She has held visiting appointments at University of Auckland, University of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris), Tel Aviv University, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Boalt School of Law, the University of Toronto, University of Southern California, University of Melbourne, Yale University, Stanford University, New School of Economics (Moscow), and Stockholm School of Economics.

Professor Scotchmer has served on the editorial boards of American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives. Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and she also has served on committees of the National Research Council (National Academies of Sciences). She is currently a member of the Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division has used her as a consultant on antitrust matters, and she has been a scholar in residence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She received her PhD in Economics in 1980 and her M.A. in statistics in 1979, both at Berkeley.